Adoption of IoT accelerating flexible energy useWayne Pales
Presentation given at the IoT Summit in Sydney on 02/11/17. Describing how the adoption of IoT devices is changing the way people consume energy and the relationship they have with their electricity companies.
The document discusses the rapid growth of data and importance of big data. It notes that 5 exabytes of data were created from the dawn of civilization to 2003, but now that much data is created every two days. It also lists the massive amount of data created every minute on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. The document recommends a 5 step approach for companies to leverage big data: 1) focus on consumer problems, 2) audit existing and needed data, 3) create an initial plan, 4) test proof of concepts, and 5) create a strategic roadmap informed by lessons learned. It provides examples of companies achieving double digit growth and cost savings from enhanced consumer analytics using big data.
2017 GRESB Real Estate Results presentation for Asia, presented on 28 September in Hong Kong, in partnership with ANREV and hosted by Macquarie Capital
Go Green Breakfast Presentation - 29 April 2015 - Bristol ZooStripeOLT
This document summarizes a Go Green Business Breakfast event on April 29th. It discusses how Bristol Zoo is reducing its energy costs and environmental impact through virtualization, energy monitoring, and promoting flexible working practices like telecommuting and video conferencing to reduce travel. Bristol Zoo has consolidated 4 older servers onto 1 modern, more efficient server, saving £1,500 per year in energy costs and more in licensing and maintenance. The document also notes that sustainability practices provide competitive advantages and increased productivity for businesses.
Keppel Corporation’s Presentation to Investors at the CS-SGX ESG-Real Estate ...KeppelCorporation
Keppel Corporation presented on their sustainable data centre solutions. They aim to guide their portfolio towards sustainable urbanization and seize opportunities in green developments and new energy solutions. Their vision is to be an integrated business providing end-to-end solutions for sustainable urbanization across their value chain. They have over 16 years of experience in data centres globally and are exploring innovations like high-rise, underground, floating and tropical data centres as well as using renewable energy sources to drive decarbonization.
This project has received funding from the European Union to implement data structures that support agricultural planning and management decisions related to environmental impacts, crop selection, field management, supply and demand balancing, and identifying supplementary income sources to complement seasonal farming.
2015-01-21 Tech Talk - Managing Global challenges FINALAmit Pathare
Amit Pathare is the Executive Director of the Middle East for GDF SUEZ Labs. GDF SUEZ Labs works to build the vision for the energy systems of tomorrow by managing challenges in power generation, smart energy, and sustainable development. Renewable energy sources are becoming more cost competitive with other sources of power generation. This is fueling a shift from centralized power systems to decentralized, customer-centric models supported by developing smart energy technologies at various levels. GDF SUEZ Labs' goal is to support this shift in a responsible and sustainable manner by building the technological, economic, and strategic vision for future energy needs.
Adoption of IoT accelerating flexible energy useWayne Pales
Presentation given at the IoT Summit in Sydney on 02/11/17. Describing how the adoption of IoT devices is changing the way people consume energy and the relationship they have with their electricity companies.
The document discusses the rapid growth of data and importance of big data. It notes that 5 exabytes of data were created from the dawn of civilization to 2003, but now that much data is created every two days. It also lists the massive amount of data created every minute on platforms like YouTube, Facebook, and Instagram. The document recommends a 5 step approach for companies to leverage big data: 1) focus on consumer problems, 2) audit existing and needed data, 3) create an initial plan, 4) test proof of concepts, and 5) create a strategic roadmap informed by lessons learned. It provides examples of companies achieving double digit growth and cost savings from enhanced consumer analytics using big data.
2017 GRESB Real Estate Results presentation for Asia, presented on 28 September in Hong Kong, in partnership with ANREV and hosted by Macquarie Capital
Go Green Breakfast Presentation - 29 April 2015 - Bristol ZooStripeOLT
This document summarizes a Go Green Business Breakfast event on April 29th. It discusses how Bristol Zoo is reducing its energy costs and environmental impact through virtualization, energy monitoring, and promoting flexible working practices like telecommuting and video conferencing to reduce travel. Bristol Zoo has consolidated 4 older servers onto 1 modern, more efficient server, saving £1,500 per year in energy costs and more in licensing and maintenance. The document also notes that sustainability practices provide competitive advantages and increased productivity for businesses.
Keppel Corporation’s Presentation to Investors at the CS-SGX ESG-Real Estate ...KeppelCorporation
Keppel Corporation presented on their sustainable data centre solutions. They aim to guide their portfolio towards sustainable urbanization and seize opportunities in green developments and new energy solutions. Their vision is to be an integrated business providing end-to-end solutions for sustainable urbanization across their value chain. They have over 16 years of experience in data centres globally and are exploring innovations like high-rise, underground, floating and tropical data centres as well as using renewable energy sources to drive decarbonization.
This project has received funding from the European Union to implement data structures that support agricultural planning and management decisions related to environmental impacts, crop selection, field management, supply and demand balancing, and identifying supplementary income sources to complement seasonal farming.
2015-01-21 Tech Talk - Managing Global challenges FINALAmit Pathare
Amit Pathare is the Executive Director of the Middle East for GDF SUEZ Labs. GDF SUEZ Labs works to build the vision for the energy systems of tomorrow by managing challenges in power generation, smart energy, and sustainable development. Renewable energy sources are becoming more cost competitive with other sources of power generation. This is fueling a shift from centralized power systems to decentralized, customer-centric models supported by developing smart energy technologies at various levels. GDF SUEZ Labs' goal is to support this shift in a responsible and sustainable manner by building the technological, economic, and strategic vision for future energy needs.
Principles for collaboration in eco-systemsJan De Kezel
Collaboration in ecosystems and value chains is important but difficult to achieve due to barriers like lack of trust, access to key players, and knowledge gaps. Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for her research on managing common resources like water and forests successfully over long time periods. Her work identified principles for creating collaborative learning ecosystems with growing trust and results, including continuous monitoring, communication, transparent reputations, clear benefits to collaboration, and long-term collaborative visions and traditions.
VTT is a leading research organization in Finland that is working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, VTT emitted a total of 20,119 tons of greenhouse gases, which was approximately 8.5 tons per employee. VTT held a "Zero Emissions Day" in 2018 where employees were encouraged to focus on sustainable choices in their work to help reduce emissions. In 2019, VTT will further model its greenhouse gas emissions to identify new reduction targets and strategies, and will run an employee campaign integrating climate and well-being issues through educational lectures and a bicycle giveaway competition.
Presented by Arjan Droste and Peter Kalverla at the energy meteorology symposium "From model field to power yield". More info: peter9192.github.io/energy-meteo
The document discusses Cheryl Hung who is the Director of Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Some key details provided include that CNCF has over 400 members, 88 members in their End User Community, over 2.66 million contributions from 56,214 contributors. It also mentions that CNCF has provided over 300 diversity scholarships and has various user group events scheduled.
This document from Cadent Gas Ltd discusses strategic asset management of multi-occupancy buildings. It focuses on stakeholder collaboration, implementing a risk management framework, carrying out innovative repair and refurbishment projects, conducting HAZOP risk assessments, making targeted investments, focusing on higher priority jobs, and avoiding interruptions. The document was authored by Ali Hamdani on June 27, 2017 as part of Cadent Gas Ltd's efforts to transform their investment strategy.
Real Estate and Sustainable Finance | BrusselsGRESB
GRESB is a collaborative ESG data platform that assesses and benchmarks the sustainability performance of real assets including real estate portfolios. In 2018, GRESB assessed 903 entities across 64 countries representing 79,000 assets valued at $3.5 trillion. GRESB provides investors with an aggregated view of the sustainability of their portfolios to inform engagement and decision making. Participants receive benchmarking and analytics to identify opportunities to improve sustainability performance and business practices. Listed real estate portfolios continue to outperform private real estate portfolios in overall sustainability scores according to GRESB's 2018 results.
Dr. Erin Cortus - Lessons Learned from Environmental Footprints of Midwest FarmsJohn Blue
This document summarizes lessons learned from estimating the environmental footprints of Midwest farms. It acknowledges funding from the National Pork Board and cooperating producers. It discusses existing sustainability calculation tools and the need to work with producers to estimate metrics in a way that makes sense to them and those they talk to. Example tools are shown, along with an example footprint report for a wean to finish barn. Barriers to adoption like awareness, priority and trust are discussed. Shared goals among industry groups could help overcome barriers by enabling producers to stronger participate in sustainability conversations and minimize impacts through socially acceptable means. Building trust through comparing estimates to perceptions and focusing on results that are useful will help. Footprints have potential to add to descriptions of continuous improvement.
The document reports on the 2018 results of the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment, which evaluated 903 real estate entities across 64 countries representing 79,000 assets valued at $3.5 trillion. It provides data on sustainability performance trends for different regions and property types, showing that listed real estate entities and those in Australia and the Netherlands continue to lead, while office and residential properties have the highest rates of energy and water reporting. The assessment is positioned as providing investors with standardized sustainability intelligence and analytics to enhance decision making around their real estate portfolios.
A survey was carried out in April 2013 of 8,201 consumers and 403 electricians across France, Germany, Britain, and America. The survey found that most consumers agree that without improvements to energy efficiency, energy costs will continue to rise, more people will fall into fuel poverty, and irreversible environmental damage will occur. While the upfront cost of investments in energy efficiency remains a barrier, 72% of consumers have already made improvements to reduce energy bills and 58% plan to make more improvements in the next five years. Electricians are calling for better financing, a simplified product range, and stricter government regulations to support greater adoption of energy efficiency.
1. The document discusses big data and the need to generate actionable insights from large amounts of data. It notes big data can help solve important problems in healthcare, transportation, energy and other industries.
2. Current methods for working with big data are not scalable and take too long to produce insights. More focus is needed on generating insights faster through applications that better leverage data scientists and domain experts.
3. Trident Capital has invested in big data solutions that produce quicker, higher-value insights for specific industries like healthcare, transportation, and energy. These more targeted industry applications provide a faster path to return on investment.
Implementing and Monetizing Solar & Storage ApplicationsCapgemini
Learn the biggest challenges faced by utilities and equipment manufacturers in the solar and energy storage value chain. This presentation covers those challenges with the help of case studies. You will also find recommendations to adapt to this new environment and in particular build the required digital platform.
The document discusses making the business case for spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and geographic information (GI) initiatives like INSPIRE. It provides tips for understanding digital strategies, setting strategic directions, identifying costs and benefits, and quantifying benefits. Case studies show cost-benefit ratios of 1:3 to 1:4 are achievable. Successful business cases link initiatives to outcomes, are done for the right reasons in partnership, and have futureproof technology strategies.
This presents a high level overview of emerging IoT market in Canada. The author takes one of the biggest telecom
player as a case study to showcase a prioritization framework for IoT solutions.
Big Data Blackout: Are Utilities Powering up their Data AnalyticsRick Bouter
This document discusses utilities' use of big data analytics. It finds that while utilities recognize the potential benefits of analytics, only 20% have implemented analytics initiatives. Advanced analytics can provide significant operational benefits, but adoption is low, with 41% of initiatives limited to basic reporting. Analytics can also improve customer satisfaction and retention, but few utilities focus on customer-centered initiatives. High data storage and manipulation costs, as well as data complexity, are key barriers preventing greater use of analytics. The document argues utilities must take a structured approach to ensure analytics investments deliver business value.
Big Data BlackOut: Are Utilities Powering Up Their Data Analytics?Capgemini
Analytics is seeing greater recognition amongst utility executives. Our research showed that 80% of utilities consider big data analytics as a source of new business opportunities and 75% see it as crucial for future success. Big Data indeed offers an exciting opportunity to transform utility operational effectiveness, while at the same time dealing with the historical problem of low customer satisfaction. Take operational efficiency alone. The annual cost of weather-related power outages to the U.S. economy is estimated to be between $18 billion to $33 billion. Organizations can use Big Data analytics to detect operational challenges and prevent outages, substantially reducing costs. Big Data also affords opportunities to utilities for inventing new business models through the data generated by the smart infrastructure.
The analytics opportunity for utilities is clear, but there continues to be a lack of real impetus and value delivery. Only 20% have already implemented big data analytics initiatives. What is putting the brakes on utilities?
In this paper, we highlight the big data opportunities that utilities can leverage and identify the challenges that are currently holding them back. We conclude the paper with concrete recommendations on how to ensure analytics drive business value.
PAREXEL's Matt Neal joins experts from Microsoft and Allergan to discuss how innovations in technology can help patients by reducing the time and expense of bringing life-saving treatments to market.
Energy & Sustainability Goal-Setting: A Guide To 7 Top Third Party StandardsLeon Pulman
Recent research finds that organizations have more success on energy and sustainability initiatives when they set public goals. But with so many options available, how do you determine which goals will drive the greatest value for your organization? And against what criteria should you assess them?
Our goals primer eBook summarizes the top global, third-party benchmarking standards and recommends how to choose the right one to accelerate your energy and sustainability ambitions.
Sustainability goal setting guide to 7 top third party standardsJackson Seng
Recent research finds that organizations have more success on energy and sustainability initiatives when they set public goals. But with so many options available, how do you determine which goals will drive the greatest value for your organization? And against what criteria should you assess them?
Our goals primer eBook summarizes the top global, third-party benchmarking standards and recommends how to choose the right one to accelerate your energy and sustainability ambitions.
Real-time data processing using technologies like Apache Flink allows companies to gain insights from customer data within seconds to improve the customer experience. It enables real-time situational awareness of issues, personalized marketing offers, and fraud detection. Use cases like recommendations at Netflix and YouTube involve processing large amounts of video data to provide personalized suggestions. Flink provides scalability, fault tolerance, and community support benefits for building these types of real-time analytics applications.
This document provides information on creating a green office plan, including:
1) Requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and goals set by the US.
2) Details on how enterprise operations are large contributors to greenhouse gases and how technology can help reduce emissions.
3) Examples of metrics used by NetApp to measure reductions in energy usage, costs, and emissions from their data centers.
This document summarizes a report on supply chain sustainability across countries. Key findings include:
- Supply chains in the US, China, and Italy face high levels of climate risk but suppliers in these countries have an inadequate response. Suppliers in India and Canada also do not do enough to manage climate change risks.
- Suppliers in Brazil have done the least to manage climate exposures and water shortages indicate risks may be higher than assessed.
- Opportunities exist for collaboration to reduce climate risk, particularly in developing economies like China and India where suppliers are highly willing to collaborate and investments yield high returns.
- A sustainability risk/response matrix allows buyers to quickly assess supply chain sustainability at the country level, with
Principles for collaboration in eco-systemsJan De Kezel
Collaboration in ecosystems and value chains is important but difficult to achieve due to barriers like lack of trust, access to key players, and knowledge gaps. Elinor Ostrom won a Nobel Prize for her research on managing common resources like water and forests successfully over long time periods. Her work identified principles for creating collaborative learning ecosystems with growing trust and results, including continuous monitoring, communication, transparent reputations, clear benefits to collaboration, and long-term collaborative visions and traditions.
VTT is a leading research organization in Finland that is working to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. In 2017, VTT emitted a total of 20,119 tons of greenhouse gases, which was approximately 8.5 tons per employee. VTT held a "Zero Emissions Day" in 2018 where employees were encouraged to focus on sustainable choices in their work to help reduce emissions. In 2019, VTT will further model its greenhouse gas emissions to identify new reduction targets and strategies, and will run an employee campaign integrating climate and well-being issues through educational lectures and a bicycle giveaway competition.
Presented by Arjan Droste and Peter Kalverla at the energy meteorology symposium "From model field to power yield". More info: peter9192.github.io/energy-meteo
The document discusses Cheryl Hung who is the Director of Ecosystem at the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Some key details provided include that CNCF has over 400 members, 88 members in their End User Community, over 2.66 million contributions from 56,214 contributors. It also mentions that CNCF has provided over 300 diversity scholarships and has various user group events scheduled.
This document from Cadent Gas Ltd discusses strategic asset management of multi-occupancy buildings. It focuses on stakeholder collaboration, implementing a risk management framework, carrying out innovative repair and refurbishment projects, conducting HAZOP risk assessments, making targeted investments, focusing on higher priority jobs, and avoiding interruptions. The document was authored by Ali Hamdani on June 27, 2017 as part of Cadent Gas Ltd's efforts to transform their investment strategy.
Real Estate and Sustainable Finance | BrusselsGRESB
GRESB is a collaborative ESG data platform that assesses and benchmarks the sustainability performance of real assets including real estate portfolios. In 2018, GRESB assessed 903 entities across 64 countries representing 79,000 assets valued at $3.5 trillion. GRESB provides investors with an aggregated view of the sustainability of their portfolios to inform engagement and decision making. Participants receive benchmarking and analytics to identify opportunities to improve sustainability performance and business practices. Listed real estate portfolios continue to outperform private real estate portfolios in overall sustainability scores according to GRESB's 2018 results.
Dr. Erin Cortus - Lessons Learned from Environmental Footprints of Midwest FarmsJohn Blue
This document summarizes lessons learned from estimating the environmental footprints of Midwest farms. It acknowledges funding from the National Pork Board and cooperating producers. It discusses existing sustainability calculation tools and the need to work with producers to estimate metrics in a way that makes sense to them and those they talk to. Example tools are shown, along with an example footprint report for a wean to finish barn. Barriers to adoption like awareness, priority and trust are discussed. Shared goals among industry groups could help overcome barriers by enabling producers to stronger participate in sustainability conversations and minimize impacts through socially acceptable means. Building trust through comparing estimates to perceptions and focusing on results that are useful will help. Footprints have potential to add to descriptions of continuous improvement.
The document reports on the 2018 results of the Global Real Estate Sustainability Benchmark (GRESB) assessment, which evaluated 903 real estate entities across 64 countries representing 79,000 assets valued at $3.5 trillion. It provides data on sustainability performance trends for different regions and property types, showing that listed real estate entities and those in Australia and the Netherlands continue to lead, while office and residential properties have the highest rates of energy and water reporting. The assessment is positioned as providing investors with standardized sustainability intelligence and analytics to enhance decision making around their real estate portfolios.
A survey was carried out in April 2013 of 8,201 consumers and 403 electricians across France, Germany, Britain, and America. The survey found that most consumers agree that without improvements to energy efficiency, energy costs will continue to rise, more people will fall into fuel poverty, and irreversible environmental damage will occur. While the upfront cost of investments in energy efficiency remains a barrier, 72% of consumers have already made improvements to reduce energy bills and 58% plan to make more improvements in the next five years. Electricians are calling for better financing, a simplified product range, and stricter government regulations to support greater adoption of energy efficiency.
1. The document discusses big data and the need to generate actionable insights from large amounts of data. It notes big data can help solve important problems in healthcare, transportation, energy and other industries.
2. Current methods for working with big data are not scalable and take too long to produce insights. More focus is needed on generating insights faster through applications that better leverage data scientists and domain experts.
3. Trident Capital has invested in big data solutions that produce quicker, higher-value insights for specific industries like healthcare, transportation, and energy. These more targeted industry applications provide a faster path to return on investment.
Implementing and Monetizing Solar & Storage ApplicationsCapgemini
Learn the biggest challenges faced by utilities and equipment manufacturers in the solar and energy storage value chain. This presentation covers those challenges with the help of case studies. You will also find recommendations to adapt to this new environment and in particular build the required digital platform.
The document discusses making the business case for spatial data infrastructures (SDI) and geographic information (GI) initiatives like INSPIRE. It provides tips for understanding digital strategies, setting strategic directions, identifying costs and benefits, and quantifying benefits. Case studies show cost-benefit ratios of 1:3 to 1:4 are achievable. Successful business cases link initiatives to outcomes, are done for the right reasons in partnership, and have futureproof technology strategies.
This presents a high level overview of emerging IoT market in Canada. The author takes one of the biggest telecom
player as a case study to showcase a prioritization framework for IoT solutions.
Big Data Blackout: Are Utilities Powering up their Data AnalyticsRick Bouter
This document discusses utilities' use of big data analytics. It finds that while utilities recognize the potential benefits of analytics, only 20% have implemented analytics initiatives. Advanced analytics can provide significant operational benefits, but adoption is low, with 41% of initiatives limited to basic reporting. Analytics can also improve customer satisfaction and retention, but few utilities focus on customer-centered initiatives. High data storage and manipulation costs, as well as data complexity, are key barriers preventing greater use of analytics. The document argues utilities must take a structured approach to ensure analytics investments deliver business value.
Big Data BlackOut: Are Utilities Powering Up Their Data Analytics?Capgemini
Analytics is seeing greater recognition amongst utility executives. Our research showed that 80% of utilities consider big data analytics as a source of new business opportunities and 75% see it as crucial for future success. Big Data indeed offers an exciting opportunity to transform utility operational effectiveness, while at the same time dealing with the historical problem of low customer satisfaction. Take operational efficiency alone. The annual cost of weather-related power outages to the U.S. economy is estimated to be between $18 billion to $33 billion. Organizations can use Big Data analytics to detect operational challenges and prevent outages, substantially reducing costs. Big Data also affords opportunities to utilities for inventing new business models through the data generated by the smart infrastructure.
The analytics opportunity for utilities is clear, but there continues to be a lack of real impetus and value delivery. Only 20% have already implemented big data analytics initiatives. What is putting the brakes on utilities?
In this paper, we highlight the big data opportunities that utilities can leverage and identify the challenges that are currently holding them back. We conclude the paper with concrete recommendations on how to ensure analytics drive business value.
PAREXEL's Matt Neal joins experts from Microsoft and Allergan to discuss how innovations in technology can help patients by reducing the time and expense of bringing life-saving treatments to market.
Energy & Sustainability Goal-Setting: A Guide To 7 Top Third Party StandardsLeon Pulman
Recent research finds that organizations have more success on energy and sustainability initiatives when they set public goals. But with so many options available, how do you determine which goals will drive the greatest value for your organization? And against what criteria should you assess them?
Our goals primer eBook summarizes the top global, third-party benchmarking standards and recommends how to choose the right one to accelerate your energy and sustainability ambitions.
Sustainability goal setting guide to 7 top third party standardsJackson Seng
Recent research finds that organizations have more success on energy and sustainability initiatives when they set public goals. But with so many options available, how do you determine which goals will drive the greatest value for your organization? And against what criteria should you assess them?
Our goals primer eBook summarizes the top global, third-party benchmarking standards and recommends how to choose the right one to accelerate your energy and sustainability ambitions.
Real-time data processing using technologies like Apache Flink allows companies to gain insights from customer data within seconds to improve the customer experience. It enables real-time situational awareness of issues, personalized marketing offers, and fraud detection. Use cases like recommendations at Netflix and YouTube involve processing large amounts of video data to provide personalized suggestions. Flink provides scalability, fault tolerance, and community support benefits for building these types of real-time analytics applications.
This document provides information on creating a green office plan, including:
1) Requirements to reduce greenhouse gas emissions under the Kyoto Protocol and goals set by the US.
2) Details on how enterprise operations are large contributors to greenhouse gases and how technology can help reduce emissions.
3) Examples of metrics used by NetApp to measure reductions in energy usage, costs, and emissions from their data centers.
This document summarizes a report on supply chain sustainability across countries. Key findings include:
- Supply chains in the US, China, and Italy face high levels of climate risk but suppliers in these countries have an inadequate response. Suppliers in India and Canada also do not do enough to manage climate change risks.
- Suppliers in Brazil have done the least to manage climate exposures and water shortages indicate risks may be higher than assessed.
- Opportunities exist for collaboration to reduce climate risk, particularly in developing economies like China and India where suppliers are highly willing to collaborate and investments yield high returns.
- A sustainability risk/response matrix allows buyers to quickly assess supply chain sustainability at the country level, with
Analytics plays a critical role in supporting strategic business initiatives. Despite the apparent value of providing the data infrastructure for these initiatives, many executives question the economic feasibility of business intelligence and analytics. This requires information professionals to calculate and present the business value in terms business executives can understand.
Unfortunately, most IT professionals lack the knowledge required to develop comprehensive cost-benefit analyses and return on investment (ROI) measurements.
This session provides a framework to help IT professionals research, measure, and present the economic value of a proposed or existing analytics initiative. The session will provide practical advice about how to calculate ROI, the formulas in use, and how to collect necessary information.
For the first time, CDP and Accenture have analyzed this data at the national level to assess the relative climate risk faced by supply chains in 11 key markets, the preparedness of these supply chains to manage these risks and the propensity of suppliers to work with their customers to reduce risk and seize climate opportunities. This year’s supply chain program involved 66 corporations with $1.3 trillion in procurement spend. They requested that their suppliers disclose information on how they are approaching climate and water risks and opportunities, generating the largest ever set of such data, from 3,396 companies worldwide, up from 2,868 in 2013.
Green computing aims to reduce the environmental impact of computing through more efficient use of computing resources and design of environmentally friendly computing technologies. Virtualization allows for server consolidation which reduces energy consumption by increasing hardware utilization. A green data center uses energy efficient technologies and design to minimize its environmental footprint.
This document summarizes a potential pay for success program to address childhood asthma through healthy homes interventions in Springfield, MA. It outlines the basic pay for success model and how it could apply to reducing asthma triggers in the home. Unhealthy homes cause 40% of asthma episodes, so addressing root causes through environmental assessments, education, and repairs could significantly improve health outcomes. The evidence shows home-based multi-trigger interventions recommended by the Surgeon General and Task Force can reduce asthma hospitalizations and costs. Measurable savings in healthcare utilization could repay private investors if a targeted number of asthma episodes are averted.
Lecture given at the University of Catania on December 2nd, 2014.
Start from Big Data definitions, continue with real life examples of successful Big Data Projects, go a little bit deeper with Sentiment Analysis, and conclude with a brief overview of Big Data tools and Big Data with Microsoft.
Summary:
1. What is Big Data? (includes the 5Vs of Big Data)
2. Big Data Examples (includes 6 Real Life Examples and comments on Privacy concerns)
3. How to Tackle a Big Data Problem (my 4 Universal Steps to follow)
4. Sentiment Analysis (what is sentiment analysis? Why do we care? A Technique and a plan)
5. Big Data tools (Hadoop, Hadoop Ecosystem, Hive, Pig, Sqoop, Oozie; Azure HDInsight, Excel Power Query, Power Pivot, Power View, Power Map)
This document discusses approaches to green IT, including virtualization, power management, efficient storage, video cards, displays, remote conferencing, product longevity, algorithmic efficiency, resource allocation, terminal servers, and operating system support. It notes that data centers consume a huge amount of power for servers and cooling, costing $4.5 billion annually. Organizations can reduce their "data footprint" and deployment/management resources through technologies like database solutions for massive data analysis and open-source software. This helps save money and resources while making operations more environmentally friendly.
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7 Lessons from electricity digital utility projects that water could learn from
1. 7 lessons from electricity digital
utility projects that water could
learn from
– Wayne Pales
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Those utilities that took the bold step to
invest in smart meters are now reaping
the rewards.
3. Mistake 1: Ignoring what’s happening around us
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4. New energy
technologies are
getting cheaper,
physically smaller,
and more efficient
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5. Everything is becoming connected
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6. The growth of data is increasing insights
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7. Energy consumers
strive for greater
choice and control
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8. Energy consumers expect simplicity
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9. Reducing environmental impact influences buying decisions
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10. Reducing environmental impact influences buying decisions
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Mistake 2: Not seeing energy data as a strategic asset
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You must take the first step to smart meters
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Mistake 3: Not setting yourself up for success
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Mistake 4: Taking your eye off the basics
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5 steps to smart
meter mastery
1. Contain costs
2. Reduce costs
3. Improve customer service
4. Support behind the meter
5. Optimize behind the meter
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Mistake 5: Applying old thinking to new challenges
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Mistake 6: Failing to think like a start-up
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Mistake 7: Thinking knowledge is power
19. Energy Data Hub
Smart
Home
Rooftop
Solar
Battery
Storage
Bill
Validation
Product
Comparison
Energy
Efficiency
Energy
Conservation
50+ 300+ 30+ 4 9 30+ 30+
Share My Data Portal
1. Secure login to portal
2. Select service from registered providers
3. Authorise third party safe and secure access to data
4. 3rd party engages energy consumer to deliver service
Number of
Australian
service
providers.
Potential
partner
opportunities
End point smart
meters and
remote sensors
Multi-purpose
platform
Simple customer
interface
The Customer
1. Conservation & Demand Management
2. Create local jobs
3. Assist in achieving climate targets
4. Local economic development
5. Export overseas
The WHY
Demand
Response
20+
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