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Viessmann Group Business and Financials Examined
This Research Note examines Viessmann climate and refrigeration solutions business based on their 2021 financial results, press releases, acquisitions, and divestments. Founded in 1917, Viessmann is a leading global provider of sustainable climate (heating, cooling, water and air quality) and renewable energy solutions. The family-owned company is based in Allendorf, Germany with over 13,000 employees […]

Webinar: The Impact of MicroMobility on the Built Environment
Please join us on Wednesday 20th April at 1700 Paris | 1600 London | 1100 New York | 0800 San Francisco for our 4th FREE Webinar in the 2022 Smart Buildings Series. We will be joined by Ed Webster, CEO of MicroMobilityNews, to discuss the impact of micromobility on commercial buildings and the built environment. What do […]

Buildings Need to Cement Their Place in the New World of Electric Mobility
The future of the automobile is no doubt electric. Electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to grow through dedicated EV firms like Tesla and through the release of EV or hybrid vehicles by traditional automotive companies. As adoption goes up prices will gradually come down and as environmental drivers continue to grow we will see EVs take a […]

Will SPACs Offer an Alternative Exit Route for Companies in the Smart Buildings Space?
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. In 2020, an alternative to a conventional IPO – Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) – took the innovation landscape by storm, according to Michael Holman of Lux Research. “A SPAC is an alternative to a conventional initial public offering (IPO) in which an […]

Virtual Power Plants Can “Relegate California Blackouts to the History Books”
“As I look out my window I can see [wildfire] smoke right now and I was warned about power outages last week,” said Ryan Hledik, principal at research consultancy Brattle Group, during a phone interview from his California home in mid-August. The state’s grid operators went on to order rolling blackouts for the first time […]

Conservative Forecasting is Hiding the Speed of the Energy Storage Revolution
Our power system is evolving. Too slow for some and too fast for others. The evolution is symbolized by renewable energy and the infrastructure necessary to manage its fluctuating electricity supply, but there is more to our power evolution than the grid. Smart buildings, smart cities, smart homes, electric vehicles, district heating, and a range […]

Virtual Power Plants Make it Easier to Introduce Renewables but Need Better Policy
Greater energy consumption accelerates climate change but climate change also accelerates energy consumption. That’s according to a recent paper by Bas J. van Ruijven, Enrica De Cian, and Ian Sue Wing, that suggests southern regions of the US, China, and Europe, will see an additional 25% energy consumption due to climate change alone. That’s 25% […]

Energy Harvesting: Scalable Renewable Energy for the IoT
“In the long term, battery technology will not be able to meet the demand being created by the expansion of internet of things (IoT) applications,” James Myers, director of devices and circuits at UK chipmaker Arm’s research and development division. The firm estimates that if each of the trillion or so wireless sensor nodes that […]