Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Report: VPP (Virtual Power Plant) Platform Providers by Navigant
Despite many energy storage technologies vying for market share – including much-hyped alternatives like flow batteries, which position themselves as the long-duration technology of choice – lithium-ion has maintained its leading position in the sector.
A patented technology for electrical energy management and storage devices ( Hydrogen-Oxygen battery) that combines traditional/standard electric batteries with hydrogen injection for the production of electricity
In recent years, K-ion batteries (KIBs) have attracted significant attention as potential alternatives to LIBs. This review comprehensively covers the studies on electrochemical materials for KIBs. Another paper shows An Intrinsically Non‐flammable Electrolyte for High‐Performance Potassium Batteries
The startup Nanotech Energy claims to be “the world’s top supplier of graphene” and plans to release a non-flammable, environmentally friendly lithium battery that can charge “18 times faster than anything that is currently available on the market” — within the next year.
The Cambridge Carbon Map will bring together town and University organisations to create a public map of carbon emissions for the city of Cambridge. It will be accessible to anyone with a mobile phone and will allow you to compare carbon emissions for organisations with a simple tap on your mobile screen.
Our building concept integrates solar technology into one system – that enables them to generate, store and release their own solar energy – both heat and electricity. Rolled out through The Active Building Centre seeks to revolutionise the way the UK designs, constructs and operates buildings.
Ofgem data portal for the energy markets in Great Britain. This portal gives direct access to all of our interactive data charts in a single location, alongside indicators we consider key to our performance monitoring.
global source of Independent Commodity Intelligence Services - ICIS connect data, markets and customers to create a comprehensive, trusted view of the global commodities markets, enabling smarter business decisions that optimise the world’s resources.
Data on electricity generation, supply, consumption and fuel use for generation.
Nord Pool runs the leading power market in Europe, and we offer day-ahead and intraday markets to our customers. The day-ahead market is the main arena for trading power, and the intraday market supplements the day-ahead market and helps secure balance between supply and demand. Historical datasets are available on their website.
Intercontinental Exchange builds, operates and advances global markets through information, technology and expertise. The leading pricing, analytics and market data offered through ICE Data Services support mission-critical processes across the front, middle and back offices of organizations around the world.
Here we outline and evaluate the current range of approaches to electric-vehicle lithium-ion battery recycling and re-use, and highlight areas for future progress.
Electric Insights was established by Drax Group to help inform and enlighten the debate on Britain’s electricity.
ENERGYDATA.INFO is an open data platform providing access to datasets and data analytics that are relevant to the energy sector.
Data sets for the US (commercial and residential hourly load profile linked here - link)
5.5k households smart meter half hour readings between nov 11 and feb 14
Solar Panel Energy Generation dataset contains voltage, current, power, energy, and weather data from low-voltage substations and domestic premises with high uptake of solar photovoltaic (PV) embedded generation.
SEG - Smart Export Guarantee is the new way for small generation to have a feed-in tariff, starting after the old one dies on March 31st 2019. Some useful notes from the Energyst
Low carbon and renewable energy economy, UK: 2017 Final results from the Low Carbon and Renewable Energy Survey on the low carbon and renewable energy economy, 31.1.19
the case for static storage: how Tesla big battery in Australia provided a millisecond response to adjust frequency when a coal plant stopped working
AEMO and ARENA build a 200MW battery for extreme peaks, twice the size of the Tesla big battery
Electricity System Operator UK national grid eso another website full of content, innovation, fundings, etc. mainly from the TSO point of view
An algorithm for electrical grid mapping by Facebook based on image analysis and a modified Dijkstra algorithm
Data Communication Company has built and maintained the secure national infrastructure that underpins the roll-out of smart meters across Great Britain.
a very close look at carbon capture , new materials that could make it very efficient and feasible
the traveller’s guide to carbon offsetting your flights
The Smart Cities Information System (SCIS) is a knowledge platform to exchange data, experience and know-how and to collaborate on the creation of smart cities. List of demonstration projects, and some projects funded:
SMARTER TOGETHER is a joint project that aims to improve citizen’s quality of life in nowadays transforming cities.
SmartEnCity aim to develop strategies that can be replicated throughout Europe in order to: Reduce energy demand and Maximise renewable energy supply
OrbEEt framework will continuously capture and analyse real time building information from low-cost, off-the-shelf non-intrusive sensors and convert this into meaningful real-time energy rating information
DR-BOB Demand Response energy management solution optimises the local energy production, consumption and storage in real time.
Renewable energy hub UK big marketplace for installers and generation devices
Microsoft announced that in early 2020 it will open an AI Centre of Excellence for Energy in the United Arab Emirates – a global first for the company – to empower organisations in the industry in accelerating digital transformation, equipping the workforce with AI skills, as well as collaborating on coalitions to address sustainability and safety challenges.
Protect Earth is a list of links divided by categories and tags and compiled to a website (a bit like this repo, but better :smile:), the source is here on Github
En-roads scenario simulation helps to improve decision-maker understanding of the dynamics of the climate-energy-land-economic system, particularly focusing on policy-makers, citizens, educators, and business leaders FAQ
**energy flows** if you have to impress people using Sankey charts - Lawrence Livermore (world, but mainly updated for US) link
Electric vehicle footprint link , this is fun. Basically: buy a Prius instead of a Tesla
Distributed energy resources and blockchain, Berkeley study linked from this article
Breakthrough energy Europe announcement and breakdown of greenhouse gas source emissions link on Gates notes
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has a program on energy storage , their report sent by GridMarket when registering on their website
aggregation is making storage a software business
green energy storage an Italian company implementing a patented organic flow battery
new fluoride-ion battery tech from honda / jpl / caltech
Warming from wind link
Impact in climate change (loads of references) world economic forum and good ol' Yates
Sustainable energy without the hot air (book, pdf) link
Siemens + BEIS partnership to finance net zero infrastructure - link
technical knowledge on nuclear , with simple explanations
eco passenger is a calculator that compares the energy consumption, the CO2 emissions and other environmental impacts for planes, cars and trains in passenger transport
NREL PVWatts calculator with publications on model. Estimates the energy production and cost of energy of grid-connected photovoltaic (PV) energy systems throughout the world. It allows homeowners, small building owners, installers and manufacturers to easily develop estimates of the performance of potential PV installations.
How to get solar radiation and climate data (precipitaton, temperature, wind, insolation...) anywhere in the world free from NASA database