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Lighting Controls are Illuminating the Way to the Internet of Things in Buildings
March 2nd, 2016Smart Cities and Buildings: The Reaction From COP21
December 18th, 2015The Power Station you don’t need to Build; Smart Buildings + The Smart Grid
Much of the focus in the energy debate today surrounds the switch from heavily polluting fossil fuels, to greener and more renewable alternatives for electricity production. However, much greater gains are to be had from the increase of efficiency throughout the power system, from production through to the end user. Smart Grids and Smart Buildings […]
Why 2014 is a Good Time to be in the Lighting Controls Business
Network based lighting controls have failed to gain much traction over the last 5 years despite the benefits that they can deliver for improving operating costs and reducing CO2 emissions. So why will the influx of LED lighting into the commercial building market open up new opportunities for controls? This is now the most exciting […]
Energy Conservation through Smart Buildings and Smart Cities will take Centre Stage in 2014
There is an old Irish joke in which a traveller asks for directions to Limerick and is told that, ‘well you wouldn’t want to be starting from here!’ That is the major problem facing the CleanTech industry today. Capital intensive renewable power projects are now at a place where governments around the world are delaying […]
The Global Market for Building Energy Management Systems will Reach Over $23bn by 2017, Predicts Memoori Research
Memoori has published a new research report on the market for Building Energy Management Systems (BEMS) and Enterprise Energy Management; bringing together market sizing statistics, investment data and all the factors that are influence the industries future. In 2013, the total world sales of Building Energy Management Systems ‚Â (BEMS) will be $16.7 billion at […]
Transactive Energy Markets will Drive Distributed Power
We have previously discussed how distributed power is gradually becoming a serious part of the new business model for Smart Grid and explored the reasons why common sense is now starting to change regulatory powers. We highlighted how in Germany the utilities are coming together with owners of distributed energy to invest in major distributed […]
The Smart Grid ‘Acid Test’ – Accommodating Variable Renewable Energy (VRE)
In the previous posts, we have discussed the need for the regulators and policy makers to develop a new framework on which to build Smart Grid. The next stage is to investigate how much VRE can be accommodated through Smart Grid. Maximising the amount of VRE that can be accommodated is the ‘Acid Test’ for […]
The Return to Climate Change Issues & CO2 Emission Levels
Will the devastation caused by Hurricane Sandy and other “once-in-a-lifetime storms” experienced across the globe in the last 2 years, now force our politicians to ensure that we at least meet the CO2 reduction targets now in place? There is now serious concern that even these targets will not prevent an increase in global temperature […]
Can Distributed Energy Help Keep the Lights on after 2015?
Britain is facing the rising risk of an energy shortfall within 3 years, Ofgem has warned as electrical generation will plunge to 4% spare capacity from its present level of 14%. Some 12GW of coal fired plants; equivalent to a sixth of the total generation capacity can now only operate for a limited number of […]
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