Remove Home Energy Monitoring Remove IoT Remove Resilience Remove Transportation
article thumbnail

Technology Trending: Friendly IoT platform, MD microgrid, solar harvesting for sensors, new solar cell records

Smart Energy International

Friendly Technologies IoT platform for smart meter management, a Maryland microgrid for powering an electric bus fleet, solar harvesting to power IoT sensors and new Perovskite solar cell advances are on the week’s technology radar. The ‘Friendly’ platform for smart meters and IoT devices.

article thumbnail

Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2024

Greentown Labs

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Electricity Active Surfaces develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

article thumbnail

Greentown Sector Pitch Day Explores Decarbonizing Existing Buildings?

Greentown Labs

The event explored three dimensions of this topic and featured pitches from Greentown startups working in each: Planning and financing retrofit projects: Zero develops automation software that enables hassle-free home retrofits to improve comfort and eliminate emissions. Managing the ongoing environmental footprint of buildings.

article thumbnail

IP/MPLS secures the journey to a net-zero emissions future

Smart Energy International

This transition from fossil fuels, which in Europe has accelerated with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, is driving the electrification of transportation, home heating and cooking, agricultural production and many industrial processes from concrete to steel worldwide. US power company Ameren, which serves 2.4

article thumbnail

Greentown Startups Share Insights on the Buildings Sector?

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs supports startups that are decarbonizing the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and building resilient communities. Buildings represent a very big piece of the energy pie—about 40 percent of U.S. primary energy use.

article thumbnail

Event - DISTIBUTECH International 2021

Green Market Oracle

Sessions in this track will help attendees develop an understanding of how utilities are performing asset management activities from reactive to proactive using condition monitoring and trend evaluation. They want quick responses and proactive communications.