Net Zero Go provides councils with a platform to help them put decarbonisation strategies in place and develop successful, locally-focused zero carbon projects. Created by Energy Systems Catapult in partnership with Salesforce, providers of Net Zero Cloud, and IBM
Centre for Research into Energy Demand Solutions. CREDS is a research centre established in 2018 with a vision to make the UK a leader in understanding the changes in energy demand needed for the transition to a secure and affordable, net-zero society. Working with researchers, businesses & policy makers, we support the transition to a net-zero society.
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last modified: 2022-04-08
The Open Energy programme makes it easy to search, access and securely share energy data. It covers both Open Data and commercial Shared Data where access requires control. Developed and operated by Icebreaker one
The Energy Research Accelerator is an embedded cross-disciplinary energy research hub in the UK funded by Innovate UK, with match funding and support supplied by a range of industrial partners that draws on the expertise and world-class facilities of the Midlands Innovation group of universities – Aston, Birmingham, Cranfield, Keele, Leicester, Loughborough, Nottingham and Warwick, plus the British Geological Survey.
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last modified: 2022-02-03
We estimate the changes in demand, capital spending, costs, and jobs, to 2050, for sectors that produce about 85 percent of overall emissions and assess economic shifts for 69 countries.
A report by Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group showing the potential of PV installations on rooftop of superstores. The United States has the technical potential to produce 78 times as much electricity as it used in 2020 just with solar photovoltaic (PV) energy.
A report published in December 2021 by EIA shows projects 78GW of generating capacity additions in 2022 through 2023. A majority of the additions will be large-scale solar and energy storage projects, forecast to add 62% of the total figure, in the news
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last modified: 2022-01-08
Advanced Battery Energy Storage System Market Growth Statistics 2021 Industry Demand, Share Evaluation, Prominent Players Strategies, Size, SWOT Analysis, COVID-19 Impacts and Recovery, Forthcoming Developments, Upcoming Investments and Forecast to 2030. Report available for purchase here
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last modified: 2022-01-08
Careful Policy Design Could Unlock Massive Rooftop Solar Market Around The World: market still largely untapped with potential to exceed 2,000 gigawatts of solar and 1,000 gigawatt-hours of energy storage by 2050. Report available here. In the news
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last modified: 2022-01-08
The vision of the National Digital Twin programme is 'To progress our society, economy and environment through collective innovation.' The DT Hub will connect you with other experts and innovators and provide the opportunity to help shape the future of the built environment in the UK.
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last modified: 2021-11-27
UK govt ambitious uplift in the energy efficiency of new homes. In Nov 2021 PM Johnson delivered a speech to the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) announcing mandatory EV charging points for new buildings in England
tagged as: knowledge regulations real-estate paper
last modified: 2021-11-25
This strategy sets out how the UK will decarbonise our homes, and our commercial, industrial and public sector buildings, as part of setting a path to net zero by 2050.
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last modified: 2021-11-25
This document sets out the government’s ambition to make the UK the best place in the world for green and sustainable investment.
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last modified: 2021-11-25
The forecast for household solar continues to look bright for coming years, with European solar & storage set to grow over 400%, from 3 GWh installed storage capacity in 2020 to 12.8 GWh in 2025. SolarPower Europe has published its annual ‘European Market Outlook for Residential Battery Storage’ report, covering 2021-2025.
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last modified: 2021-11-25
Global Energy Storage Market Set to Hit One Terawatt-Hour by 2030, from BNEF, also reported by Edie. Also, from energy storage news: COP26 The energy transition is here to stay and battery storage is essential to it
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last modified: 2021-11-25
The UK will exempt solar PV, energy storage and other clean energy technologies from business rate rises — the charges levied on non-domestic properties to pay for local services — from April 2023. Business Rates Review Report, October 2021
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last modified: 2021-11-05
Australian regulator takes Tesla big battery to court in Oct 2021 for alleged breaches of the National Electricity Rules. The news from 2017 reported the case for static storage: how Tesla big battery in Australia provided a millisecond response to adjust frequency when a coal plant stopped working
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last modified: 2021-10-11
Mainstream EVs will transform the automotive industry and help decarbonize the planet. Report September 2021
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last modified: 2021-10-06
The change primarily concerns the introduction of Five-Minute Settlement (5MS) of wholesale electricity market prices in the NEM, replacing the 30-minute wholesale electricity spot market settlement
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last modified: 2021-10-06
NABERS UK was introduced in November 2020 to help address performance gaps in current energy efficiency ratings, managed by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) the scheme replicates the well-established NABERS Australian rating scheme, in the news from edie, Oct 2021
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last modified: 2021-10-04
The UK Government and energy regulator Ofgem have outlined their initial views on replacing National Grid with a new independent system operator for electricity and gas, as part of a string of policy updates designed to accelerate the low-carbon transition. Meanwhile UK Power Networks and Northern Powergrid outline £7.7bn investment plans. Whilst a report from the NAO published on July 16th revealed that 91% of the UK’s local authorities have set at least one climate commitment but finding it hard to engage with the UK Government.
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last modified: 2021-09-16
Plan to decarbonise the entire transport system in the UK. Widely reported in the news: from Edie, from UKERC
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last modified: 2021-07-22
In its new report, ‘The Carbon Countdown: Road to 2030’, E.ON explores the key areas where the UK must move faster and with greater focus in this decade if it intends to meet its 2050 carbon goals.
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last modified: 2021-07-12
Ernest & Young (EY Parthenon strategy) study uncovers 13,000 “shovel- ready” global renewable energy projects that could reduce emissions while boosting economic recovery. Published Jul 2021, reported by Edie, Reuters, pdf here
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last modified: 2021-07-12
The Digital Twin Consortium coalesces industry, government and academia to drive consistency in vocabulary, architecture, security and interoperability of digital twin technology.
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last modified: 2021-07-12
plenty of resources here, links to NREL BITES, project discontinued and reframed under a number of other projects
The information you'll find on OpenEI is community driven, it is a collection of content and data provided by contributors ranging from experts to enthusiasts. The platform is a wiki, similar to Wikipedia’s Wiki, with which many people are already familiar.
The RIIO-ED2 price control sets the outputs that the 14 electricity Distribution Network Operators (DNOs) need to deliver for their consumers and the associated revenues they are allowed to collect for the five-year period from 1 April 2023 to 31 March 2028. On the back of it, UKPN published their updated business plan, pdf here
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last modified: 2021-07-12
As electric vehicle sales take off, demand for public charging will explode. Providers can pursue seven strategic plays in this nascent but fast-moving market.
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last modified: 2021-06-18
Making sense of business models in electric vehicle charging. PDF here
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last modified: 2021-06-18
The Energy & Sustainability team explores how the growth of electric vehicles will impact real estate and what opportunities exist for landlords, developers and occupiers. The e-mobility report is here
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last modified: 2021-06-18
panel discussion from the Energy Storage Summit 2021 with BEIS, Energy Systems Catapult, trade association Energy UK and gas network Wales & West Utilities
Rochdale council has secured £11m funding through the government’s Public Sector Decarbonisation Scheme (PSDS)
list of local authorities of all political persuasions that have declared climate & ecological emergencies and are creating action plans to deliver on their ambitions. Head to section action plans for the full dataset
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last modified: 2021-06-08
The University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) has announced the start of works on its new visionary headquarters. The Entopia Building, a retrofitted 1930s Telephone Exchange at 1 Regent Street, Cambridge, will be transformed in 2021 into an ultra-low carbon sustainability hub
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last modified: 2021-06-08
A new £3.5m 'centre of excellence' with funding from BEIS to help social housing providers retrofit their homes, and City Hall has also entered a new partnership deal that could unlock £10bn of private finance to cut building emissions.
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last modified: 2021-06-08
The in-house analysis and research team at Solar Media Market Research answers which projects will likely get built, and when. The report explains some of the methodologies to filter out the top 10 projects in development in the UK.
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last modified: 2021-05-24
A list of energy startups classified by sources, countries, technologies
UK emissions trading scheme (ETS) opened for the first time on Wednesday morning (19 May) with carbon price topping £50 per tonne.
Soft Landings delivers improvements to the performance of buildings once the keys have been handed over, Central Government launched their own version, Government Soft Landings (GSL) in 2016.
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last modified: 2021-04-24
The Environmental Insights Explorer (EIE) uses exclusive data sources and modeling capabilities in a freely available platform to help cities measure emission sources, run analyses, and identify strategies to reduce emissions — creating a foundation for effective action.
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last modified: 2021-04-12
list of winners of the MEDApps competition (autumn 2020)
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last modified: 2021-04-04
storage market in the UK has become a viable investment opportunity in just the past few months. Meanwhile, more than 300,000 battery storage systems installed in German households
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last modified: 2021-03-24
transport / buildings / industry / etc. carbon calculator by BEIS
London Mayor has developed a London Building Stock Model with the UCL Energy Institute. The model has data on every domestic and non-domestic building in the capital. News from UCL, May 2018
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last modified: 2021-03-24
The EU Building Stock Observatory (BSO) aims to provide a better understanding of the energy performance of the building sector through reliable, consistent and comparable data.
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last modified: 2021-03-24
Soft Landings is a building delivery process which runs through the project, from inception to completion and beyond, to ensure all decisions made during the project are based on improving operational performance of the building and meeting the client’s expectations
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last modified: 2021-03-24
Blocpower in Feb 21 announced a $63 million Series A with the goal of leveraging advanced technologies, innovative electrification equipment and structured finance to provide green heating and cooling to America's aging urban buildings
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last modified: 2021-03-02
webinar on the future of Smart Home Energy, hosted by DevicePilot with Octopus, Ben Kott from Lightsource labs, Cornwall insight, Oxford Uni. Plenty of insights, check UKPN project Shift with Kaluza, Octopus, ev.energy
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last modified: 2021-02-27
CleanStart: Simulating a Clean Energy Startup. by MIT management Sloan School
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last modified: 2021-02-27
a list of uk based angel investor syndicates
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last modified: 2021-02-15
P375 proposes using Metering Equipment ‘behind’ the defined Boundary Point for Balancing Services (‘behind the Meter’), for Settlement purposes rather than the Boundary Point Meter.
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last modified: 2021-02-15
Customer and community expectations for the US electric grid are evolving. Utilities must adapt by pursuing integrated modernization plans. Nov 2020
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last modified: 2021-01-30
More than 50 million electric vehicles could be sharing roads in the next five years. Updating charging infrastructure is key to scaling the industry. Jan 2021
geo are leading a BEIS funded consortium that’s enabling domestic demand-side-response through our Hybrid Home in 24 UK homes.
Vital Energi are leading a consortium of experts to drive innovation in the development and support of smart tariffs. The tool will be open source, funded by BEIS Jul 2020
The funding expired in Jan 2021 provided by BEIS has provided a great boost to the public sector at a time when so many are thinking about our environment, our economy and the future of our planet.
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last modified: 2021-01-13
Energy white paper setting out how the UK will clean up its energy system and reach net zero emissions by 2050.
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last modified: 2020-12-22
a list of companies that caught Pietro Invernizzi attention in the space of climate tech
We bring you perspective on the evolving world of climate tech by interviewing top investors & operators and covering recent venture deals, news, and jobs.
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last modified: 2020-12-17
How to get solar radiation and climate data (precipitaton, temperature, wind, insolation...) anywhere in the world free from NASA database
technical knowledge on nuclear , with simple explanations
Siemens + BEIS partnership to finance net zero infrastructure
Sustainable energy without the hot air (book, pdf)
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last modified: 2020-12-08
Warming from wind
Breakthrough energy Europe announcement and breakdown of greenhouse gas source emissions link on Gates notes
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last modified: 2020-12-08
Happening in Germany link and the e-on / Microsoft joint venture for energy monitoring dashboards
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last modified: 2020-12-08
about better futures accelerator
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last modified: 2020-12-08
From BEIS, 8.8.18 “smart meters is the way to go” link
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last modified: 2020-12-08
Electric vehicle footprint , this is fun. Basically: buy a Prius instead of a Tesla
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last modified: 2020-12-08
**energy flows** if you have to impress people using Sankey charts - Lawrence Livermore (world, but mainly updated for US) link
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last modified: 2020-12-08
City Leap is a series of energy and infrastructure investment opportunities that represent a big step towards a cleaner, greener Bristol.
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last modified: 2020-12-08
A survey of weather APIs, useful for PV and wind generation prediction
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last modified: 2020-11-23
Data sets for the US (commercial and residential hourly load profile linked here - link)
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last modified: 2020-11-18
primary channel for providing operational data relating to the GB Electricity Balancing and Settlement arrangements. It is used extensively by market participants to help make trading decisions and understanding market dynamics and acts as a prompt reporting platform as well as a means of accessing historic data
a very good article from Flexitricity explaining the balancing mechanism and the bid/offer acceptances structure
McKinsey report on changing utility landscape May 2018
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last modified: 2020-10-20
**Pandora’s box!** So much content here, loads of innovation projects and reports in a single place link very interesting sections: low carbon London and smarter network storage in the large scale projects section
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last modified: 2020-10-20
Status of nuclear fusion in Sept 18 link
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last modified: 2020-10-20
IPCC (intergovernmental panel on climate change) report on 1.5C released in early October 2018: link this is the **badass doc** that worked as wake up call for loads of people
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last modified: 2020-10-20
List of API energy related
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last modified: 2020-10-20
Sept 2020 - In launching the new API, National Grid ESO aims to make it easier for smaller assets such as batteries and small distributed generators to bid into the Balancing Mechanism
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last modified: 2020-10-17
a comprehensive overview of V2G and V1G technologies and regulations. before regulatory changes come into effect, much of the potential value is from behind-the-meter optimisation
Smart Export Guarantee (SEG) tariffs have been unveiled after the legislation came into full effect yesterday (1 January 2020), with pricing ranging wildly
The EnergyTec Cluster at Harwell Campus has 57 organisations comprising of over 1100 employees and aims is to bring together the multiple capabilities of Harwell with the surrounding regions to help address the UK’s energy challenges, and the economic opportunities they present.
Guidehouse Insights Leaderboard Report: VPP (Virtual Power Plant) Platform Providers by Navigant
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
tagged as: storage knowledge research
last modified: 2020-06-22
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
tagged as: storage knowledge research
last modified: 2020-06-22
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.
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.
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-26
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.
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-26
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-16
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.
Data on electricity generation, supply, consumption and fuel use for generation.
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. check their n2ex spot analysis tool
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
a good post on medium detailing solar efficiency and costs
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Posts on solar panel efficency. How Hot Do Solar Panels Get? Effect of Temperature on PV Panel Efficiency
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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
Impact in climate change (loads of references) world economic forum and good ol' Yates
new fluoride-ion battery tech from honda / jpl / caltech
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last modified: 2020-05-11
green energy storage an Italian company implementing a patented organic flow battery
aggregation is making storage a software business
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last modified: 2020-05-11
New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has a program on energy storage , their report sent by GridMarket when registering on their website
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Distributed energy resources and blockchain, Berkeley study linked from this article
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last modified: 2020-05-11
EV footprint depends on the grid producing the li-ion battery
tagged as: consumption ev
last modified: 2020-05-11
SAVE is a five-year trial across 4,000 homes in the Solent region called SAVE, which tried a range of mechanisms to see how households could provide demand reduction and response. From the Energyst
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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
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
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Renewable energy hub UK big marketplace for installers and generation devices
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last modified: 2020-05-11
DR-BOB Demand Response energy management solution optimises the local energy production, consumption and storage in real time.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Replicate Renaissance of Places with Innovative Citizenship and Technology
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last modified: 2020-05-11
SmartEnCity aim to develop strategies that can be replicated throughout Europe in order to: Reduce energy demand and Maximise renewable energy supply
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last modified: 2020-05-11
SMARTER TOGETHER is a joint project that aims to improve citizen’s quality of life in nowadays transforming cities.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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:
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last modified: 2020-05-11
the traveller’s guide to carbon offsetting your flights
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last modified: 2020-05-11
a very close look at carbon capture , new materials that could make it very efficient and feasible
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Data Communication Company has built and maintained the secure national infrastructure that underpins the roll-out of smart meters across Great Britain.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
An algorithm for electrical grid mapping by Facebook based on image analysis and a modified Dijkstra algorithm
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Electricity System Operator UK national grid eso another website full of content, innovation, fundings, etc. mainly from the TSO point of view
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last modified: 2020-05-11
AEMO and ARENA build a 200MW battery for extreme peaks, twice the size of the Tesla big battery
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last modified: 2020-05-11
machine learning can boost the value of wind energy, from a Google company
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last modified: 2020-05-11
How AI will affect the future of energy and climate change
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Programmable web list on solar-related APIs
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
DRED (Dutch Residential Energy Dataset) is the first open-access, publicly available dataset from The Netherlands. The data set live deployment consists of several sensors measuring electricity, occupants occupancy and ambient parameters in a household.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
5.5k households smart meter half hour readings between nov 11 and feb 14
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last modified: 2020-05-11
ENERGYDATA.INFO is an open data platform providing access to datasets and data analytics that are relevant to the energy sector.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
Electric Insights was established by Drax Group to help inform and enlighten the debate on Britain’s electricity.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
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.
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last modified: 2020-05-11
2020 article - By 2030, the US market for energy-optimization services to support the charging of electric-vehicle fleets could be worth $15 billion per year. Here is how companies can capture the opportunity.