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Europe replaces 50% of electricity meters with smart models

Renewable Energy World

More than half of electricity meters in Europe are now smart, a new report released by Berg Insight has found. The study states that the penetration of smart electricity meters has passed the 50% mark owing to increased investments in grid modernization and digitalization by utilities in the region.

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Phone Firms Pile into Spain’s Renewable Energy Market

GreenTechMedia

Spain’s booming renewable energy market is attracting the attention of an unlikely retail segment: mobile phone companies. Phone firms including national leader Telefónica are jostling to offer clean energy alongside more traditional products such as broadband connections.

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Retail Business Sustainability Guide: Retail Sustainability Initiatives and Trends

Green Business Bureau

Retail business sustainability. Using these trends we then present retail sustainability initiatives that will help you kickstart your organization’s sustainability program. What is retail sustainability? To operate indefinitely, a retail brand must meet environmental, social, and economic demands.

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Why There Won’t Be A ‘Nest For Water’.

Seyi Fabode

Most utility industry folk, and investors who are bullish on energy-tech, point to Nest as the poster child of a successful product that snuck into the power utility industry and created a new ‘market’. Nest also partnered with solar companies, hardware stores (Lowes/Home Depot) etc. and utilized the traditional retail model.

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We need fresh thinking about the role of digital technologies in our food system

Business Green

Through Green Alliance's Tech Task Force programme, we've already investigated the transformative potential of smart green tech in the energy efficiency, transport and construction sectors. For example, robots Tom, Dick and Harry are learning to monitor and tend to crops autonomously, under AI oversight from Wilma.

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

TB: Internet of food is the second pillar which is exactly what it sounds like: IoT for the food supply chain. As I said before, Tyson sales are primarily through brick and mortar retail and our food service channels, club stores. They just happen to sell an energy drink. Are you looking for retail introductions?

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Why Tyson Ventures is Investing in Sustainability and the Internet of Food

AFN Sustainable Protein

TB: Internet of food is the second pillar which is exactly what it sounds like: IoT for the food supply chain. As I said before, Tyson sales are primarily through brick and mortar retail and our food service channels, club stores. They just happen to sell an energy drink. Are you looking for retail introductions?