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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? Despite popular belief, electrification does not always lead to a reduction in carbon footprint. Due to demand, even with the rapid growth of renewably generated energy, electricity generation from coal and gas is at record levels.

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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. Have you read?

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Data centre virtualisation and cloud computing can play a pivotal role in power sector emissions reductions, says report

Envirotec Magazine

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.

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GreenCom Lands Funding to Expand IoT Home Energy Controls in Europe and Beyond

GreenTechMedia

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. million customers.

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Ambitious Apple: Can tech giant deliver on its net zero supply chain goals?

Business Green

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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'Fundamental change': How write downs and bankruptcies are fuelling stranded asset fears

Business Green

As Ernest Hemmingway famously observed in his 1926 novel The Sun Also Rises bankruptcies happen two ways: "Gradually, then suddenly". Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate.

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‘Math Doesn’t Yet Add Up’ for Utility Decarbonization Goals: Deloitte

GreenTechMedia

So says a new report from Deloitte highlighting the known, yet often underappreciated, challenges faced by utilities across the country promising to zero out their carbon impact by midcentury. That’s not news to those who’ve been closely tracking plans to reach net-zero carbon from major U.S.