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The Living, Breathing, Thinking, Learning – Human Smart Building
November 15th, 2019Towards Net-Zero Buildings – Legislation for a Sustainable Energy Future
November 12th, 2019
Building-to-Grid Interconnectivity has “Far-Reaching Electricity Policy & Regulatory Implications”
The energy landscape is changing. Compelled by climate change and supply reliability drivers, our power systems are trying to find ways to introduce stable, clean, and affordable power to homes, businesses, and institutions. However, the variability of renewable generation and distributed energy resources (DERs) leads to complexity and as these systems expand across progressive electricity […]
Value of Smart Building Deals Reached $2Bn in Q3 2019
This article was written by Daphne Tomlinson, Senior Research Associate at Memoori. This article provides a snapshot of some of the notable investments in the smart buildings space in the third quarter of 2019. As part of our ongoing deal tracking service, Memoori recorded 61 funding rounds amounting to around $2 billion in disclosed deal […]
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% […]
Every Bit of Data Needs a Bit of Energy – The Data-Driven Environmental Cost
“With the advent of the internet of things, the amount of data being collected around the world is growing exponentially. We are collecting data with a current need in mind, we are collecting for future purposes and we are collecting it just to have it, in case we find a way to use it later,” […]
A City is Only As Smart As Its Buildings – Making a Case for Retrofits
What’s a smart city without smart buildings, and where is the city with only smart buildings? Municipal and national governments talk confidently about their smart cities, but until they can drive the conversion of old building stock into smart-connected elements of the urban landscape, they are just creating smart infrastructure. To truly see the potential […]
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 […]
EU’s Climate Goals “Can Only Happen if a Systemic Upgrade of the Building Stock is Achieved”
The EU has strong environmental ambitions and buildings must be at the center of any efforts to reduce power consumption and decarbonize EU economies. In 2010, the Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) set a strong direction for the full decarbonization of the European building stock by 2050 through its 2010/31/EU. The building is evolving […]
Building Energy Flexibility into Our Smart Power Systems
It is the same old problem. The large-scale distribution of renewable energy generation is required to mitigate the impacts of fuel poverty and climate change but these intermittent power sources push the grid to its limits or beyond them. The solution is the same too. We must develop a more flexible power system to account […]
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