Panorama

The Resilient Power of Microgrids: From the South Side of Chicago to Patagonia

Monday, 19 July 2021 Access to reliable and affordable electricity is fundamental to social and economic development, but the system that provides this access is facing significant challenges. As awareness of global climate ...

India Needs a “REnewed” Strategy

Wednesday, 02 December 2020 REM India has ambitious plans for installing renewable energy capacities of 175GW by 2022. This includes 100 GW from solar, 60 GW from wind, 10GW from bio-sources and 5 GW from small hydro. Although the pace ...

Alfen Expands Microgrid for Lighting System at Red Harvest

Thursday, 17 September 2020 REM Red Harvest, one of the larger tomato growers in the Netherlands, is installing a grow lighting system in the last of its four greenhouses at their location in Middenmeer in the Netherlands. To this end, ...

Social Energy Supports Development of the smart grid

Thursday, 06 August 2020 REM Social Energy is working with UK Power Networks, the electricity distribution network operator in London, the South East and East of England, to offer homeowners the opportunity to take part in a project ...

The Netherlands

LF Energy and Alliander announce GXF to tackle interoperability on the Dutch power grid

Tuesday, 11 February 2020 Robin Whitlock LF Energy is working with Dutch distribution system operator Alliander to utilise, on its open-source community, Alliander’s Grid eXchange Fabric (GXF), a scalable and technology-agnostic industrial ...

Columbia

Innowatts partners with Celsia to deliver more accurate forecasting in South America

Thursday, 12 December 2019 Robin Whitlock Innowatts, a Houston-based company specialising in AMI-enabled predictive energy analytics and AI-based solutions, is expanding its partnership with Colombian utility Celsia to deliver more accurate forecasting ...

Demonstration Project to Test Ontario’s First Local Electricity Market

Monday, 09 September 2019 REM The Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO) is launching Ontario’s first ever local electricity market in the York Region, with support from Alectra Utilities and Natural Resources Canada, in ...

University of Sheffield’s new energy research centre set to support UK’s transition to a low-carbon economy

Thursday, 27 June 2019 Robin Whitlock

University of Sheffield has been awarded funding for a new £21 million Translational Energy Research Centre which will form part of the University’s newly launched Energy Institute.

Analysis shows heating is the biggest household challenge to Net-Zero emissions

Monday, 17 June 2019 Robin Whitlock Millions more households will have to switch to low carbon heating before 2030 if the government is to achieve its plan to reach ‘net-zero’ emissions by 2050, underlining the need for new consumer-friendly ...

The energy transition can only be successful if everybody is involved, say stakeholders at EESC debate on accessible energy

Thursday, 14 February 2019 Robin Whitlock The role of people in the energy transition was at the heart of the agenda of the February meeting of the Section for Transport, Energy, Infrastructure and the Information Society (TEN) of the European ...