Internet of Things
Ameren Using Schneider Electric’s EcoStruxure Software to Integrate DERs into Utility-Scale Microgrid
Ameren is using Schneider's EcoStruxture Microgrid Advisor to integrate natural gas, solar, wind and battery energy storage capacity to the utility-scale hybrid microgrid it unveiled adjacent to the University of Illinois campus in Champaign this past May.
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Germany’s Innogy Leaps into California’s EV Charging Market
The launch of Innovy e-mobility US marks a milestone in the German "green energy" group's efforts to capitalize and expand on its electric vehicle and e-mobility tech and services in Europe.
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IOTA Sets Stage for Zero-Cost Digital Energy Trading
Much more than a digital cryptocurrency, IOTA tokens are said to open gateways for individuals and organizations, or rather their digital, virtual proxies and automated software agents, to carry out activities across what IOTA expects and hopes will be a virtually limitless vista of distributed, peer-to-peer (P2P) Tangle network transaction and distributed ledger systems and applications, and at zero cost.
Read more →Billion-Dollar Benefits Foreseen via Tandem Energy Blockchain-Internet of Things Tech
Blockchain applications can streamline the entire process of bringing natural gas from well-fields to consumers, eliminating security vulnerabilities and entire facets of the process completely, according to BTL Group.
Read more →Multiple Billion-Dollar Rewards If Energy Blockchains Can Live Up to the Hype
Reducing the vulnerability of the Oil & Gas industry value chain to cyber-threats, which are poised to multiply, is just one of several prospective streams of cost savings that reach billion-dollar multiples, energy blockchain-focused BTL Group asserts in a white paper.
Read more →TenneT, IBM Launch Pilot Distributed Energy-Blockchain Projects in Germany and the Netherlands
The pioneering, utility-scale distributed energy-grid integraion projects will incorporate utility customers electric vehicle (EV) and household battery storage capacity and make use of a permissioned blockchain transaction/database system to be built by IBM using the Hyperledger Fabric platform.
Read more →IOTA Tangle Takes the Blocks Out of Peer-to-Peer, Distributed Ledger Networks
IOTA Tangle resolves key questions regarding blockchain-based transaction and distributed ledger systems, holding out the prospect of throwing the doors of e-mobility wide open.
Read more →Chilean Solar-Storage Microgrid Provider Rolls Out Cloud Billing, Customer Care Service
The first to offer residential and mid-scale "behind the meter" solar-storage microgrids and information services in Chile, Amigo Solar is one of a small but growing roster of independent power producers fueling emergence of a new class of sustainable energy "prosumers."
Read more →California Cleantech Startup Readies U.S. Launch of Blockchain-based EV/E-Mobility Digital Wallet
Oxygen Initiative and Germany's Innogy SE are adapting the Share&Charge e-mobility payments solution for use in the U.S., a bid that may spur uptake of EVs and hasten the advent of fully autonomous vehicles.
Read more →Ugandan Off-Grid Solar, Low-Cost Internet Access Poised for a Growth Spurt
Uganda's national off-grid solar and renewable power iniative brightens prospects for the economy, society and the environment. Entrepreneurial African solar start-ups are keen to contribute.
Read more →EV-Multipurpose Charging Station Combines Blockchain, IoT Tech
Blockchainfirst's Ethan BIoT EV/Multipurpose Charging Station is the latest in a series of blockchain-enabled IoT devices the Singapore startup has introduced, and the first of a series of planned new product introductions in the works for 2017.
Read more →Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models
This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models for the electrical industry. With seemingly daily announcement from car and technology companies, these models are much closer than…
Read more →Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE
According to the 2nd Quadrennial Energy Review , here the key trends shaping the electricity sector today. It also reads as a list of opportunities for microgrids. Increasing Importance of “Internet of Things” (IoT) and Digitization. IoT is “sensors and…
Read more →An Off-Grid Vision for 2025 With Solar, Storage, Efficiency, and Autonomous EVs
The year is 2025 and like most of your neighbors, your house is not connected to the electric grid. During the summer, it is almost completely powered by the solar panels on your roof, which look like traditional roofing shingles…
Read more →World's First Open Microgrid Lets Commercial Zones Co-Invest and Optimize Energy Resources
Two new pilot projects, dubbed 'E-Cloud' seek to develop and optimize open microgrids in Belgium's industrial zones. E-cloud is funded by the local Wallonia government. The "eco-zoning" will allow different companies in the same commercial park to invest together into…
Read more →Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?
Touted as the next ¨transformational¨ digital information and communications technology, interest and investment in Blockchain projects and ventures is diffusing out from banking and financial services to include power and energy markets. Several issues serve as barriers, however.
Read more →Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform
Schneider is building bridges across the energy and IoT sectors with the latest iteration of its EcoStruxure architecture and platform, which offers an ¨industrial strength¨ energy IoT solution that is open, scalable and interoperable, according to the company.
Read more →LO3 Energy Takes Blockchain Microgrid Energy Trading Platform Down Under
Brooklyn, NY-based LO3 Energy is leveraging initial demo installations in the U.S. in a bid to expand globally. Management on Nov. 3 announced it has established itself in Byron Bay, Australia where it is in discussions with local energy market players to build demo installations and pilot P2P energy trading platforms based on Ethereum smart contracts and blockchain RDBMS technology.
Read more →Finnish Research Team Lays Out Blockchain Microgrid Platform Development Model
The ETLA research team identifies and defines a target state and use case -- an adaptive distributed energy resource management platform for an apartment building owned by a Swedish housing society -- and proceeds to elaborate how blockchain can be used in concert with other available and required technological components to design and build one.
Read more →Marin County Energy Launches My Energy Insight Demand Response Pilot
MCE is leveraging AutoGrid's Demand Response Optimization and Management Systems (DROMS) to conduct the year-long pilot system in a bid to lower customer energy costs and GHG emissions and help enhance utility grid performance.
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