Archives Jan. 1, 2020

This week the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) shares its mid-term key Research and Innovation priorities. Overall the roadmap estimates that 4 billion euros of investments are needed over the next 10 years to enable the transition towards a reliable and sustainable European electricity system with very high shares of renewables.

The 10 year ETIP SNET Research & Innovation (R&I) Roadmap 2020-2030 provides the system view to the entire energy transition by addressing a scope with smart electricity grids as its backbone, but going beyond: It also encompasses interactions with the gas and ...

Ireland's leading B2B sustainable energy event will return to the RDS in April 2020. The SEAI Energy Show is a date for your calendar if you work in energy, or if your business has an interest in sustainable energy

The SEAI Energy Show is the only multidiscipline all-inclusive business to business event for the energy sector in Ireland. It is a must visit for all energy professionals looking to network, learn, build business opportunities and experience the latest innovative technologies in the sector.

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Smart Grid Ireland (SGI), Ireland's leading energy cluster, has announced its support for the Edenderry Carbon Challenge. SGI,an independent, industry led networking organisation, actively drives technology and social solutions to achieve a digitalised, decentralised, decarbonised electricity network.

The Edenderry Carbon Challenge (ECC) is a locally led Community Energy initiative aimed at encouraging households, businesses and community groups in the town to participate in a community wide energy savings project. It has the support of the local Tidy Towns Committee, the Chamber of Commerce, Green Offaly and Croi Laighin Credit Union. It is also a member of the Sustainable ...

ISUW 2020 will be organised as an International Conference and Exhibition on Smart Energy and Water for Smarter Cities. ISUW 2020 will bring together India’s leading Electricity, Gas and Water Utilities, Policy Makers, Regulators, Investors and world’s top-notch Smart Energy Experts and Researchers to discuss trends, share best practices and showcase next generation technologies and products in smart energy and smart cities domains. ISUW 2020 will include plenaries, keynotes, interactive workshops, high level roundtables and technical sessions on variety of topics.

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Registration is now open for the first edition of emPOWER, the Energy Transition Summit.

emPOWER is a half-day Summit which will showcase innovative solutions and highlight policies that will help deliver the European Green Deal.

Organised by WindEurope, SolarPower Europe, the Renewable Grid Initiative and smartEN, emPOWER will gather leaders from the worlds of policy, civil society and industry to map the transition to a climate neutral economy.

Topics covered will include:

The new energy system – 2020 snapshot
Game-changers and innovative energy solutions
Managing a 100% renewables-based energy system
Planning the transition to a net zero-carbon economy

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LF Energy and the Linux Foundation team with Dutch distribution system operator, Alliander, to provide a full day of training that leverages best practices for open source software within the enterprise.

Ibrahim Haddad, scholar and practitioner of open source best practices and Executive Director of the LF AI project, will be joined by Jon Aldama, co-founder of FOSSID, along with Executive Director of LF Energy, Shuli Goodman. The event is geared and has been designed for utilities and their suppliers/vendors.

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The ability for people to freely share their energy data with service providers is a key enabler of sustainable energy. Elering has launched an initiative to harmonise data access called the European Data Alliance.

This webinar will cover:

• Future energy is decarbonised, decentralised and digitalised. The ability for people to freely share their energy data with service providers is a key enabler of sustainable energy.
• Achieving Europe’s energy and climate goals depends on integrating our retail and services markets. A key barrier today is lack of access to data in a harmonised way. Companies setting up in new markets ...

Spain, Portugal, Great Britain, Switzerland, Italy and France are expected to join this year and Poland by next year.

Pan-European balancing market Project TERRE (Trans European Replacement Reserve Exchange) has welcomed its first participant, Czech TSO CEPS, which connected on 6th January.

Seven other TSOs will join this year, including Spain’s REE and Portugal’s REN in Q1 2020, Swissgrid, Italy’s TERNA, UK’s NG ESO and France’s RTE in Q2 2020.  Poland’s PSE is estimated to join in Q4 2021 or Q1 2022.

The project was delayed from its originally planned launch of the end ...

Solar-estimate.org uses an AI powered tool to determine solar panel options for homeowners.

Key for the business case for distributed generation for households is the potential of their rooftop and its ability to meeting their energy needs.

Google’s Project Sunroof was a pioneering initiative for consumers and subsequently other estimators have emerged. Now artificial intelligence (AI) has been brought to bear in the latest, aptly named solar-estimate.org, which is claimed as a ‘first’ in incorporating it along with other analytical tools to calculate optimum solar panel placements and the savings these could bring.

The tool, currently available ...

USA approaches 70% smart meter rollout, but benefits are not always being delivered.

US utilities are not exploiting the full potential of advanced metering infrastructure, according to a new report by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy.

Advanced smart meters are considered to be the foundation of a digitised electric grid and have reached almost 70% deployment in the US. But ACEEE revealed that only one utility – Portland General Electric – was using the data from its smart meter fleet for the six functions identified: near-real-time energy use feedback to customers; behaviour-based programmes with customer feedback and insights; time-of-use (TOU ...