Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

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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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 16, 2023

It’s the only company among the six tech giants that has set targets for its suppliers to switch to renewable energy. To be sure, a completely separate report published by a different environmental group last week casts some doubt on Apple’s recent carbon neutral claims.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

A partnership formed between thermal energy storage developer E2S Power and global engineering giant SNC-Lavalin aims to convert American fossil-fuel power stations into clean energy hubs. E2S Power offers a solution to ensure security of supply while preserving important assets and power plant jobs.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 4, 2024

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has established the Research Centre for Grid Modernisation (RCGM). The Centre aims to foster innovations and applications for modernisation of the power grid and the development of novel electric power systems. Jin-Guang Teng, PolyU President (9th from right); Prof.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Two Russian firms—software developer 4xxi and charger manufacturer L-Charge—are collaborating to create an off-grid EV charging network in London that’s scheduled to be launched this year. L-Charge’s “rapidly scalable off-grid ultra-fast chargers” use energy from locally-stored fossil fuels rather than the electrical grid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. On Monday, Siemens Energy announced a U.S. green hydrogen market landscape.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2022

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) found that substantial analysis and coordinated effort will be needed over the next 40 years to set the enabling conditions in place for China’s new energy system. And to achieve this, the country’s energy system needs to be increasingly decentralised, digitalised and electrified.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2022

T 3 transformation, which encompasses digital transformation, energy transformation and net-zero carbon transformation, is a new model for propelling today’s campuses into the future through systematic reformation and innovation. The world is consuming increasingly more energy, which causes higher carbon emissions.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2022

Vattenfall pilots data centre business Data centres as flexible grid resources get a boost. In a normal situation, the power from the batteries of the Helsinki Data Centre’s UPS equipment is used in the balancing of the power grid. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

British energy developer Balance Power has secured planning approval for a 40MW battery storage project in Cheshire, which will export stored renewable power to the grid when demand is high. It’s crucial in diversifying the energy network and reducing the need for fossil fuel technologies.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

LITE-ON is teaming with NTU Singapore to develop more power-efficient smart grid and smart home technologies. The focus of the partnership includes a new smart power router, a smart home energy management platform and a big data aggregation platform. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

GreenCom Networks, the Internet-of-things platform provider that’s become a go-to for major European utilities to control solar panels, batteries, electric vehicle chargers and smart home energy loads, has landed another funding round with two new strategic investors that could open new markets. Enabling European virtual power plants.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Green electrification drive over next 10 years critical to the world's largest emitter decarbonising its power grid by mid-century, according to new analysis from Energy Transitions Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 9, 2019

“They are donating all of this electricity they paid highly for in subsidies to other countries, often with negative prices,” said Jussi Heikkinen, director of growth and development for the Americas at Wärtsilä, a Finnish company that manufactures battery storage and flexible gas power plants.

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Business Green

JANUARY 15, 2021

Green electrification drive over next 10 years critical to the world's largest emitter decarbonising its power grid by mid-century, according to Energy Transitions Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040. Additionally, the EC identified the need to reduce the digital sector’s carbon emissions.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Roughly 10,000 delegates from electricity and energy businesses across the globe inclusive of Asia, Europe, America and beyond descended upon Bangkok to hear high-profile industry leaders speak. Baharin Bin Din, suggested that the region and ASEAN requires a more balanced energy mix. “If

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

Natural gas is a fossil fuel made up mostly of methane , an extremely potent greenhouse gas that is much more efficient at trapping heat in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide. Then there are factors like the strength of the power grid and the resilience of its infrastructure, which experts say could complicate electrification. “Of

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2022

Siemens Smart Infrastructure has announced an open, modular grid software suite to support energy stakeholders and enable them to be fast, agile and flexible when coping with existing and future challenges. The speed and scale of changes in the energy system are unprecedented, as distributed energy resources (DERs) grow exponentially.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 4, 2020

Well, the answer to that question greatly depends on the type of energy fuelling them in the first place. While electricity allows these modes of transportation to be carbon-neutral, they still use a pretty significant amount of non-renewable energy resources , both in the manufacturing process and during regular charges.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2022

Herbert Diess, Volkswagen’s CEO, stated: “Our strategy [is] to make individual mobility safer, more convenient and fully climate-neutral. The flexible battery-based chargers can be installed rapidly, as they do not require high power grid connections. The Flexpole units can be directly connected to a low voltage grid.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Enel X and power equipment and management company Eaton will partner on a solar-and-storage microgrid in Puerto Rico, one of the largest yet built on an island struggling to restructure its hurricane-battered power grid. Resiliency, clean energy on an island grid. It will center on a 5-megawatt solar array and 1.1

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Green hydrogen - made by splitting water's hydrogen and oxygen using electricity produced by renewable sources - is a small fish in the "energies pond." locations in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2022

The Itron Inspire EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) 2022 virtual event highlighted the important work being done within the water and energy sectors in the face of pressing challenges. Electric vehicle charging impacts the power grid The EV industry has been experiencing a surge of interest and investment.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Such regulations are critical to reaching our energy-transition targets and paving the way to a net-zero future. Exaggerated claims about the costs and impacts of pursuing a clean power grid are largely dominating the discourse. This would undermine grid reliability.

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CleanTech San Diego

JUNE 29, 2022

Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory ( NREL) on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. GKN Hydrogen’s HY2MEGA can enable safe, long duration clean energy storage without the need for compression. SoCalGas) announced the companies will work with the U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 20, 2021

to become carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 to remove from the environment more carbon than they have emitted since they were founded. It’s obvious how a car or a coal-fired power plant generates emissions, so I wanted a better understanding of the nature of Microsoft’s emissions. ambitious goal and a detailed plan ?to

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Business Green

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Setting out a raft of fresh steps and measures to decarbonise its supply chain, the global tech giant said it will evaluate the work of all of its major manufacturing partners in order to help decarbonise their Apple-related operations, including running on 100 per cent renewable energy and tracking progress annually.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

It also aims to encourage the use of interties from provinces and territories with an abundance of hydroelectric power; incentivise increased use of hydrogen, battery storage and carbon capture and storage; and help to set the stage for the increased use of demand-side management and distributed energy in Canada.

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Business Green

MAY 17, 2022

Confirmation in the latest reduction in the carbon footprint of its vehicles are included in the Swedish company's second Annual Review and Sustainability Report , which today highlights the company's progress towards its broader climate goals. Goals set 10 or 20 years ahead in time might feel fluffy," said Polestar CEO Thomas Ingenlath.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 15, 2021

AutoGrid Announces $85 Million Funding Round to Accelerate Energy Transition. During Summer of 2021, AutoGrid VPPs were dispatched 1,800 times, delivering over 5,000 MW of capacity and 37,000 MWh of energy when the electricity grid was most stressed. Harnessing the Power of AI. Amit Narayan.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The government is reportedly poised to publish the long-awaited Heat and Buildings Strategy next week, with the crucial document expected to feature plans to ban the installation of gas boilers from 2035 and accelerate the roll out of heat pumps through a package of grants and energy bill reforms.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Sonoma Clean Power, a community-owned electricity provider for California's Sonoma and Mendocino counties, is the owner of a unique carbon neutral, 15,330-square-foot headquarters in Santa Rosa, California. "As Several other electrification measures in the headquarters have sealed its success as an energy saver.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Could trash-to-energy technology feed hydrogen demand? Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 23, 2023

The two corporations investing billions to build three new factories just outside Columbus, Ohio, have said that the facilities will be carbon neutral — despite Ohio’s near-total reliance on electricity from fossil fuels. billion electric car parts plant in Fayette County.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

Fresh analysis warns plans for UK's largest BECCS facility in North Yorkshire could prove more expensive for billpayers than Hinkley Point C, but developer Drax rejects calculations and insists carbon capture technology is likely to prove a crucial component of the net zero transition.

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