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UK firm presents “game-changing” solution to monitoring indoor air quality

Envirotec Magazine

Butterfly is an innovative and patented IAQ monitoring system including a suite of beautifully designed hardware with integrated software that has been developed at Imperial College London over the past four years to responsibly address this issue. ” The Butterfly system offers dual functionality: monitoring and management. .

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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). According to the International Energy Agency (IEA), global sales of new electric vehicles (EV) grew from 3 million in 2020 to 6.6

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Technology Trending – AI for rooftop PV, home energy management, harnessing kinetic energy

Smart Energy International

AI to optimise the size of rooftop solar PV, the Wiser Home energy management app recognised and BMW’s proposal to harness energy from uneven road surfaces are in the week’s technology radar. EU continues to be at the forefront of clean energy research Manoj Sinha: ‘Innovation is attacking a problem from a multi-dimensional aspect’.

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Technology Trending: Enlit Europe 2023 edition – smart meters, standards, IoT and circularity

Smart Energy International

New electricity, water and hydrogen smart meters, DLMS and LoRa standards developments, and new studies on circularity and IoT are on the week’s technology radar. The new smart meter also is interoperable with third-party vendor solutions, allowing backward compatibility and integration with existing installations.

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Copper Labs raises $5.5m to enhance smart control of energy demand

Smart Energy International

Copper Labs, a technology provider developing grid-edge data for gas, water and electric utilities, announced $5.5 The funds were led by Clean Energy Ventures (CEV), a venture capital firm funding early-stage climate technology innovation and had follow-on participation from National Grid Partners and Blue Bear Capital. ”

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Renault’s bidirectional charger to drive 30% uptick in energy efficiency

Smart Energy International

The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) and Renault Group have jointly developed an on-board bidirectional EV charger, which reduces energy loss by 30%. With bidirectional charging, the vehicle serves the electrical network and enables the end consumer to reduce energy costs.”

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We Already Have the Key to a Clean Energy Economy. We’re Just Not Using it

GreenTechMedia

Over the past 20 years, the increasing recognition that climate change poses a grave threat to our society has given rise to an entirely new clean energy economy. Almost every ambitious clean energy plan recognizes the importance of innovation in renewable generation, distributed energy resources, energy efficiency, and electrification.