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Blockchain demonstrated for smart grid cybersecurity

Smart Energy International

Blockchain has been demonstrated to validate communication among devices on the smart grid and thereby enhance its resiliency. Such activities could trigger cascading power outages as breakers are tripped by protection devices. Cyber monitoring of the grid can involve the processing of significant volumes of data.

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Northern Ireland Water expands AI asset monitoring programme

Smart Energy International

Samotics, an asset health monitoring technology firm, has expanded deployment of its AI-driven SAM4 system across Northern Ireland Water’s submerged assets to support the delivery of a more cost efficient and sustainable service. SAM4 detected a developing fault in this submerged wastewater pump.

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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar.

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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

Smart Energy International

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Technology Trending: Cyber protection for space data, battery passport, battery for hot climates

Smart Energy International

Protecting satellite imagery from fraud, Citopia network for a global battery passport and a high performance non-flammable battery option for warm climates are on the week’s technology radar. Such climates generally have abundant sun or wind and are thus ideally suited to renewable energy production.

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Ed’s note: Smart meters – still a cornerstone of utility operations

Smart Energy International

Anyone working in the energy sector knows by now that it is undergoing an unprecedented and rapid change, requiring the introduction of many new and previously unknown technologies. But still meters – in many cases now, smart meters – remain the main ‘connection’ with customers and thus the cornerstone of a utility’s operations.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

The coronavirus pandemic "has focused investors on the vulnerability and resilience of the financial system," according to a new report from the CFA Institute , an association of investment professionals, which found 85 percent of its members consider ESG factors when making investment decisions.