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Unlocking smart meter data for research

Smart Energy International

James O’Toole explains how the UK’s Smart Energy Research Lab is enabling researcher access to smart meter data. With over 21 million smart gas and electric meters now in Great Britain’s homes, there is a growing wealth of half-hourly and daily domestic energy use data available to those who can access it.

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Defective Meters and Whistleblower Complaints Raise Questions About Gas Utility’s Profits

DeSmogBlog

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER. RECYCLED STEEL.

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Smart Energy Finances: SMS smart meters lift dividends and €15.1bn EIB green financing

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees Smart Metering Services (SMS) post lifted dividends, citing increased smart meter installations – up to 40,000 per month – and their first grid-scale battery project coming online. SMS strong H1: 40k monthly smart meters and grid-scale battery project.

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UK project will use AI plus microbes to unlock higher biogas production

Envirotec Magazine

Creating home-grown biogas like this reduces our dependency on imported fuels and protects the UK from the associated vulnerabilities. She said: “If digestors can start to reliably use a wider range of waste, there are multiple environmental benefits.

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Phantom Gas and Missing Documents Reveal Gaps in Utility Oversight

DeSmogBlog

After multiple requests for information about the Oregon DOJ’s follow-up on the case, Communications Director Kristina Edmunson claimed in an email that the department never received a complaint and said she was unable to provide any additional information. Any information you can give me?”.

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UK launches funding pool for AI decarbonisation projects

Smart Energy International

The programme’s objective is to stimulate further innovation in the UK in the AI sector, to drive growth and achieve net zero ambitions by encouraging collaboration in the field across the technology, energy and industrial sectors. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. Stream 2, worth up to £1 million ($1.2