Energy Storage

Smart Buildings

EU’s Climate Goals “Can Only Happen if a Systemic Upgrade of the Building Stock is Achieved”

June 7th, 2019
Smart Cities

Building Energy Flexibility into Our Smart Power Systems

May 3rd, 2019
Smart Cities

The Endless Applications of Printable Energy Storage

By now, many have heard of printable electronics. Conductive ink is already being applied in asset tagging and logistics applications through RFID, within circuit boards to replace wiring, acting as radio antennas for vehicles, and even to protect surfaces in cold environments. As advances continue in printable electronics, the electrical conductivity of the ink is […]

Smart Cities

Industry is Poised to Install Microgrids Faster Than Any Other Sector

According to the Rocky Mountain Institute corporate survey, nearly two-thirds of Fortune 100 companies and nearly half of Fortune 500 companies have set ambitious green energy targets. Some, like tech giants Google and Apple, have gone green by investing directly in vast renewable energy generation plants for their power-hungry data centers, but for the majority […]

Smart Buildings

Shell Announces Smart Building Partnerships with Sparkfund & GridPoint

“The Paris Agreement has sent a signal around the world. A new energy system is emerging. It will unfold over decades, moving at different paces in different places. The transition offers challenges, opportunities and tough choices for governments, businesses and customers,” states the Shell Energy Transition Report. Royal Dutch Shell, the British-Dutch oil and gas […]

Smart Cities

Politics Not Technology Stands in the Way of a Clean Energy Future

“It is the way of this world that a ‘crazy person’ is often required for lowering the risk barriers for everyone else,” said 1998 Nobel Laureate in Physics, author and professor at Stanford University Robert B. Laughlin. “In science we like to say that there are three stages of any important new idea; the first […]

Smart Buildings

Turning Entire Cities into Batteries with Energy Storing Cement

Instead of adding batteries to buildings in order to turn them into virtual power plants, what if we could use the building itself to store electricity? That is the thinking behind research at the University of Lancaster in the UK that has come up with a “smart cement” that is able to cost effectively store […]

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