Monday. 06 March 2017
New approach for matching production and consumption of renewable electricity promotes large-scale integration of solar and wind powerVTT Technical Research Centre of Finland is coordinating the BALANCE project, which brings together leading European research institutes in the field of electrochemical conversion. The project aims to demonstrate a technology that enables flexible storage of large amount of renewable power. Read more…
Sunday. 26 February 2017
Enabling Variable Renewables and Driving Down Emissions, with Electric VehiclesAt a media frenzied event last March, electric car manufacturer, Tesla, unveiled its Model 3. Priced to compete with conventional fossil-fuelled vehicles, it attracted over 325,000 reservations within a week. Read more…
Monday. 20 February 2017
Insights gained from INCRESE project on challenges of decentralized electricity systems shared in Hands on Manual for DSOsFuture decentralized electricity systems will pose additional challenges for existing market actors, including DSOs. New technologies, innovations and business models are being tested in a variety of EU funded projects. Read more…
Monday. 20 February 2017
Insights gained from INCRESE project on challenges of decentralized electricity systems shared in Hands on Manual for DSOsFuture decentralized electricity systems will pose additional challenges for existing market actors, including DSOs. New technologies, innovations and business models are being tested in a variety of EU funded projects. Read more…
Thursday. 02 February 2017
How to plan for the expansion of Solar and Wind energySpurred by ambitious national commitments, international agreements and rapid technological progress, governments are increasingly choosing renewable energy to expand their countries’ power infrastructures. Read more…
Friday. 27 January 2017
Significant Growth Expected in Energy Storage Deployments in Emerging MarketsA new report commissioned by IFC and ESMAP finds that energy storage deployments in emerging markets are expected to grow 40 percent annually over the coming decade, resulting in about 80 gigawatts of new storage capacity. This will be a significant increase upon the less than 2 GW of capacity currently in place. Read more…
Wednesday. 18 January 2017
New Research & Innovation Roadmap Smart Networks for Energy Transition: 2.5 billion euros investment in R&I over next 10 years to help manage Europe’s Energy TransitionThis week the European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) presents long term key priorities to enable the transition towards a reliable and sustainable European electricity system with very high shares of renewables. Overall the roadmap estimates that 2.5 billion euros investments in Research and…
Thursday. 12 January 2017
How the Internet of Things empowers intelligent energy storageThe Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming a major technological phenomenon. In fact, there will be 24 billion internet-connected devices online by 2020. Individuals, businesses, and governments alike are learning about what it means to live in a technologically integrated society created by the IoT. Read more…
Wednesday. 21 December 2016
Call for expertsThe European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) is aiming to elaborate a vision and roadmap for R&I activities for smart networks, storage and other sources of flexibility in integrated energy systems. For this reason ETIP SNET is now seeking experts to take an active part in five of the six…
Wednesday. 14 December 2016
New European Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition R&I kicks off six Working GroupsA call for Working Groups experts is about to be launched over the next month The new European Technology and Innovation Platform Smart Networks for Energy Transition (ETIP SNET) just launched its activities this week and will be seeking experts from mid December 2016 until mid January 2017 to take an active part in its six Working Groups…
