The document discusses the smart grid, which modernizes the over 100-year-old electrical grid through digital and analog systems. The smart grid aims to increase reliability by decreasing outages through improved grid stability. It also has environmental benefits like reducing emissions and scaling renewable energy. Additionally, the smart grid allows economic benefits like lower energy bills through monitoring consumption and time-of-use pricing that reduces peak loads.
The document discusses the smart grid, which represents an opportunity to improve reliability, availability, and efficiency of the energy industry. It will allow for more efficient transmission of electricity, quicker power restoration, and lower costs for utilities and consumers. A smarter grid can provide benefits like self-healing capabilities, predicting severe weather, detecting overloads, and making appropriate corrections. This can reduce operations, generation, and maintenance costs for utilities. Upgrades may save 3-7 times the initial investment within a few years due to lower emissions and savings of over $3 billion per coal power plant per year.
The document discusses the vision for a smart grid that fully integrates digital technologies into the electric grid. This will allow the grid to become more nimble and leverage electric supply to reduce carbon emissions. Key components include smart meters, dynamic pricing, distribution automation, energy storage, vehicle-to-grid integration, and smart homes. A smart grid will feature a self-healing distribution system and substation automation. Benefits are seen in greater asset utilization, peak shaving, lower costs, enhanced reliability, outage restoration, reduced carbon emissions through electric vehicles and distributed generation.
Smart grid technologies provide several benefits to consumers:
Lower energy bills through real-time usage data from smart meters that allows better management of energy usage. Demand response programs incentivize reducing usage during peak times. Compatible smart devices like thermostats and lights can be controlled remotely.
Renewable energy sources and distributed generation systems give consumers more control over their energy with options like solar panels and batteries.
Software solutions help consumers track usage data, lower bills, and switch providers seamlessly while utility customer portals provide energy management tools.
The document summarizes EcoFactor's approach to understanding home thermal characteristics using smart grid data to optimize HVAC efficiency. EcoFactor's software analyzes thermostat, weather and usage data to adjust home HVAC systems, reducing energy consumption by 20-30% without compromising comfort. This benefits various stakeholders - HVAC providers through leads and subscriptions, consumers through savings, utilities through demand response and energy efficiency, and energy retailers through increased subscriptions and margins. EcoFactor's data-driven approach requires collecting large amounts of usage data to make automated adjustments that optimize each home's HVAC efficiency daily.
Defending a decentralized grid: Talking an energy revolution from OMNETRICOMNETRIC
This document discusses distributed energy resources (DER) and the challenges of integrating diverse energy systems into the main power grid. It describes OMNETRIC's approach to securing DER management systems (DERMS) by understanding threats and vulnerabilities, analyzing risks, and implementing controls to mitigate risks. Specific risks addressed include nation states or researchers breaching DERMS devices or systems, and the controls proposed to reduce the likelihood and impact of such risks.
The world’s first climate positive data center is built in Sweden_FINALDerek Webster
The world's first climate positive data center is being built in Falun, Sweden. EcoDataCenter will source electricity solely from renewable sources like solar and wind, and excess heat from servers will warm nearby buildings through district heating. This integration means the data center will have a negative carbon footprint annually. EcoDataCenter aims for the highest security and availability standards, and will reuse waste energy through connections to the local energy system, making it the world's most sustainable and efficient data center.
9. Pasi Hurri (BaseN) - Data Gathering for a Clean Energy FutureCassandra Project
The document discusses a sustainable urban living project in Finland that utilizes BaseN's real-time energy monitoring technology. BaseN monitors energy usage from solar panels on the building's roof that provide electricity for common areas and electric vehicle charging. BaseN also monitors each apartment's electricity, water, and heating usage, allowing residents to track their consumption online. The goal is to minimize the building's net energy usage and provide residents transparency into their energy habits.
The document discusses the smart grid, which modernizes the over 100-year-old electrical grid through digital and analog systems. The smart grid aims to increase reliability by decreasing outages through improved grid stability. It also has environmental benefits like reducing emissions and scaling renewable energy. Additionally, the smart grid allows economic benefits like lower energy bills through monitoring consumption and time-of-use pricing that reduces peak loads.
The document discusses the smart grid, which represents an opportunity to improve reliability, availability, and efficiency of the energy industry. It will allow for more efficient transmission of electricity, quicker power restoration, and lower costs for utilities and consumers. A smarter grid can provide benefits like self-healing capabilities, predicting severe weather, detecting overloads, and making appropriate corrections. This can reduce operations, generation, and maintenance costs for utilities. Upgrades may save 3-7 times the initial investment within a few years due to lower emissions and savings of over $3 billion per coal power plant per year.
The document discusses the vision for a smart grid that fully integrates digital technologies into the electric grid. This will allow the grid to become more nimble and leverage electric supply to reduce carbon emissions. Key components include smart meters, dynamic pricing, distribution automation, energy storage, vehicle-to-grid integration, and smart homes. A smart grid will feature a self-healing distribution system and substation automation. Benefits are seen in greater asset utilization, peak shaving, lower costs, enhanced reliability, outage restoration, reduced carbon emissions through electric vehicles and distributed generation.
Smart grid technologies provide several benefits to consumers:
Lower energy bills through real-time usage data from smart meters that allows better management of energy usage. Demand response programs incentivize reducing usage during peak times. Compatible smart devices like thermostats and lights can be controlled remotely.
Renewable energy sources and distributed generation systems give consumers more control over their energy with options like solar panels and batteries.
Software solutions help consumers track usage data, lower bills, and switch providers seamlessly while utility customer portals provide energy management tools.
The document summarizes EcoFactor's approach to understanding home thermal characteristics using smart grid data to optimize HVAC efficiency. EcoFactor's software analyzes thermostat, weather and usage data to adjust home HVAC systems, reducing energy consumption by 20-30% without compromising comfort. This benefits various stakeholders - HVAC providers through leads and subscriptions, consumers through savings, utilities through demand response and energy efficiency, and energy retailers through increased subscriptions and margins. EcoFactor's data-driven approach requires collecting large amounts of usage data to make automated adjustments that optimize each home's HVAC efficiency daily.
Defending a decentralized grid: Talking an energy revolution from OMNETRICOMNETRIC
This document discusses distributed energy resources (DER) and the challenges of integrating diverse energy systems into the main power grid. It describes OMNETRIC's approach to securing DER management systems (DERMS) by understanding threats and vulnerabilities, analyzing risks, and implementing controls to mitigate risks. Specific risks addressed include nation states or researchers breaching DERMS devices or systems, and the controls proposed to reduce the likelihood and impact of such risks.
The world’s first climate positive data center is built in Sweden_FINALDerek Webster
The world's first climate positive data center is being built in Falun, Sweden. EcoDataCenter will source electricity solely from renewable sources like solar and wind, and excess heat from servers will warm nearby buildings through district heating. This integration means the data center will have a negative carbon footprint annually. EcoDataCenter aims for the highest security and availability standards, and will reuse waste energy through connections to the local energy system, making it the world's most sustainable and efficient data center.
9. Pasi Hurri (BaseN) - Data Gathering for a Clean Energy FutureCassandra Project
The document discusses a sustainable urban living project in Finland that utilizes BaseN's real-time energy monitoring technology. BaseN monitors energy usage from solar panels on the building's roof that provide electricity for common areas and electric vehicle charging. BaseN also monitors each apartment's electricity, water, and heating usage, allowing residents to track their consumption online. The goal is to minimize the building's net energy usage and provide residents transparency into their energy habits.
Paolo Gemma of Huawei discusses increasing energy efficiency in data centers through modular solutions. Huawei's smart modular data center solutions can adapt to diverse scenarios and provide reliable, efficient and simple operation. Their solutions utilize technologies like AI to optimize cooling and power usage efficiency, reducing energy consumption by up to 15% compared to traditional data centers. Prefabricated modules can also reduce time to market for new data centers by 50%.
The document presents a solution called UniqueStudio to address climate change by reducing carbon emissions. It consists of three systems: a data monitor system to collect real-time energy usage data, a data analysis system to provide usage insights and tips, and an economic incentive system where carbon credits can be earned and redeemed for discounts. The solution aims to increase awareness, provide measurement of usage, and offer incentives to encourage energy efficient behaviors and adoption of appliances. It would work by integrating wireless modules in households and enterprises to monitor usage, with cloud-based analytics and services to analyze data and reward reductions in emissions.
This document outlines civil and infrastructural projects management programs including electrical power engineering projects in power generation, transmission and distribution. Specific areas of focus are listed as electrical power generation engineering, power transmission systems, wind power generation systems, and nuclear/thermal power generation.
IT and OT: How the Internet of Things enables the convergence of IT & EnergySchneider Electric
Demand for energy continues to increase and more and more intelligent devices are being connected to people and each other. As business leaders and consumers, how will we be able to benefit from this massive technological shift whilst driving down operating expenditure and improving our carbon footprint for our companies and the planet?
Presented by Jonathan Hart – SVP Corporate Marketing, Schneider Electric during Power To The Cloud, Schneider Electric Middle East Datacenter Solutions Conference
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - Why sustainability makes sense for tech by Albane B...apidays
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software
December 7, 8 & 9, 2021
Why sustainability makes sense for tech
Albane Bruyas, COO at Scaleway
Energy Data Streaming – Decentral Energy Distribution in a Digital Worldconfluent
Keynote from Confluent’s streaming event in Munich, presented by Alexander Alten-Lorenz, Chief Architect Global Platform/Technology at E.On SE.
This three-day hands-on course focused on how to build, manage, and monitor clusters using industry best-practices developed by the world’s foremost Apache Kafka™ experts. The sessions focused on how Kafka and the Confluent Platform work, how their main subsystems interact, and how to set up, manage, monitor, and tune your cluster.
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - Google Cloud Carbon Footprint by Vincent Poncet, Go...apidays
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software
December 7, 8 & 9, 2021
Google Cloud Carbon Footprint: Energy-based apportionment of shared ICT infrastructure
Vincent Poncet, Principal Architect & Digital Pollution at Google
1. E3 has developed an intelligent cloud computing platform that connects devices and analyzes data to optimize energy use in homes.
2. E3's home energy management service automatically works to eliminate energy waste, improve comfort, optimize equipment, learn user preferences, and predict energy use. It is currently deployed in 5 communities across 4 states.
3. While technology has improved energy efficiency, sustaining savings remains a challenge. E3's managed service operates automatically to deliver savings without requiring changes in user behavior or active energy management.
The document discusses a presentation given to the IEEE San Diego Power & Energy and Power Electronics Societies about using object-oriented database technology for advanced utility analytics. It describes the uniqueness of utility big data and critical use cases, and presents an integrated NoSQL data management and analytics solution framework. Examples are given of using NoSQL-based solutions for PMU data analytics to create real-time situational awareness across wide areas of the power grid and enable real-time simulations that could help recognize and avoid blackouts.
This document discusses three natural solutions - ventilation, facade, and lighting - from three brands that highlight intelligent energy management for buildings. Intelligent facades can cool buildings by an average of 2°C and save 20-30% on air conditioning costs by cleverly managing solar protection equipment. Over 40% of a building's energy is used for heating and cooling, and intelligent solutions can achieve 36% economies of scale.
Solar Tracking and Monitoring System for Solar Water HeaterIRJET Journal
This document describes a solar tracking and monitoring system for a solar water heater. The system uses sensors to track the sun's position and maximize sunlight on solar panels to heat water more efficiently than a fixed panel. It includes an Arduino microcontroller, sensors for water level, light, and temperature, a solar tracking mechanism with stepper motor, and a relay. The system monitors water level and temperature and opens a solenoid valve when conditions are met. It concludes that the solar tracking system increases efficiency by 32.17% compared to a fixed panel system.
Klaas Hommes - Electricity market place and impact regulation.Dutch Power
This document summarizes a session on electricity marketplaces and regulation. It discusses various papers on tariff systems, new functions in a digital world, deployment of regulation, flexibility, and asset and risk management. Specifically, it outlines papers on topics like time-of-use tariffs, demand side management, power-based tariffs, ancillary services for distribution system operators, local energy markets, virtual power plants, risk management in smart cities, and cybersecurity. In total, the session included 99 papers, with the most papers covering flexibility (28) and asset management (28).
MoreGreenIP - AMS-IX - Running a Green Datacenter OperationJan Wiersma
The document provides an overview of the EvoSwitch data center and discusses sustainability in data centers. Specifically:
1) EvoSwitch offers a secure, efficient and sustainable data center with 24/7 security, green energy usage, efficient cooling systems, and support for customers.
2) Data centers can significantly improve their sustainability by increasing energy efficiency in demand, supply, and reducing costs. Metrics like PUE are important to measure efficiency.
3) While progress has been made, most data centers still have opportunities to improve efficiency in equipment intake temperatures and better measurement of energy usage.
The document proposes a Community Resources Manager (CRM) system that allows a community of homes to share resources like electricity, hot water, and internet from a single resource station. This centralized system aims to reduce costs for residents through more efficient use of resources and cheaper bills while addressing issues like depletion of natural resources and irregular demand. It involves a smart software manager that organizes optimal consumption schedules for each home and coordinates with the resource producer to deliver only the needed amounts. The system promises increased efficiency, easier establishment of new technologies, and control over resource consumption.
Forecasting Electricity Consumption Using Weather Data in Edge-Fog-Cloud Data...Juan Carlos Olivares Rojas
This document proposes an edge-fog-cloud computing architecture to forecast electricity consumption using weather data and machine learning models. The architecture implements linear regression models at the edge, fog, and cloud layers to improve forecasting accuracy. Results show forecast accuracy was improved with 91-94% of devices having better forecasts when models were executed across multiple layers. The architecture provides a feasible approach for electricity forecasting considering periodic offline execution of models across layers.
A growing number of utilities are calling for reform or abolition of net metering. They call it a “free ride” to use utility wires and not pay for the service. IREC, along with other non-profits and the solar industry, know net metering can be fair and balanced. It provides benefits that outweigh utility costs in most cases, particularly by deferring new utility construction. It's a hot button topic. A rundown of what's happening in key states, including a deeper analysis of the issue and insight into how to achieve a fair valuation of all of net metering's benefits, was covered by Jason to standing-room crowds
Net Energy Metering (N.E.M.) 2.0 - Solar Regulations in San DiegoHome Energy Systems
Home Energy Systems Net Energy Metering (N.E.M.) 2.0. Presentation from their Solar Seminar on October 29, 2016. This presentation gives a summary of the rules and regulations surrounding resident owned energy and how it effects your solar system.
The document discusses how digital technologies and data can help address sustainability issues like reducing CO2 emissions and increasing climate change resilience. It provides examples of how technologies like the Internet of Things, analytics, and cognitive computing can give insights into issues like energy usage, transportation flows, and infrastructure management. These insights can then be used to improve operational efficiency, better prepare for and respond to events, and foster new forms of collaboration. The document argues that, with the right approaches and by treating data as a new natural resource, digital technologies have the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from various economic sectors and help build more climate resilient systems.
The document discusses the next wave of green IT and making data centers more energy efficient. It notes that data center energy costs are significant and that McKinsey predicts data centers will produce more greenhouse gases than airlines by 2020. It provides best practices for building sustainable green data centers, including exploiting virtualization, improving server utilization rates, and designing efficient cooling systems.
Paolo Gemma of Huawei discusses increasing energy efficiency in data centers through modular solutions. Huawei's smart modular data center solutions can adapt to diverse scenarios and provide reliable, efficient and simple operation. Their solutions utilize technologies like AI to optimize cooling and power usage efficiency, reducing energy consumption by up to 15% compared to traditional data centers. Prefabricated modules can also reduce time to market for new data centers by 50%.
The document presents a solution called UniqueStudio to address climate change by reducing carbon emissions. It consists of three systems: a data monitor system to collect real-time energy usage data, a data analysis system to provide usage insights and tips, and an economic incentive system where carbon credits can be earned and redeemed for discounts. The solution aims to increase awareness, provide measurement of usage, and offer incentives to encourage energy efficient behaviors and adoption of appliances. It would work by integrating wireless modules in households and enterprises to monitor usage, with cloud-based analytics and services to analyze data and reward reductions in emissions.
This document outlines civil and infrastructural projects management programs including electrical power engineering projects in power generation, transmission and distribution. Specific areas of focus are listed as electrical power generation engineering, power transmission systems, wind power generation systems, and nuclear/thermal power generation.
IT and OT: How the Internet of Things enables the convergence of IT & EnergySchneider Electric
Demand for energy continues to increase and more and more intelligent devices are being connected to people and each other. As business leaders and consumers, how will we be able to benefit from this massive technological shift whilst driving down operating expenditure and improving our carbon footprint for our companies and the planet?
Presented by Jonathan Hart – SVP Corporate Marketing, Schneider Electric during Power To The Cloud, Schneider Electric Middle East Datacenter Solutions Conference
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - Why sustainability makes sense for tech by Albane B...apidays
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software
December 7, 8 & 9, 2021
Why sustainability makes sense for tech
Albane Bruyas, COO at Scaleway
Energy Data Streaming – Decentral Energy Distribution in a Digital Worldconfluent
Keynote from Confluent’s streaming event in Munich, presented by Alexander Alten-Lorenz, Chief Architect Global Platform/Technology at E.On SE.
This three-day hands-on course focused on how to build, manage, and monitor clusters using industry best-practices developed by the world’s foremost Apache Kafka™ experts. The sessions focused on how Kafka and the Confluent Platform work, how their main subsystems interact, and how to set up, manage, monitor, and tune your cluster.
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - Google Cloud Carbon Footprint by Vincent Poncet, Go...apidays
apidays LIVE Paris 2021 - APIs and the Future of Software
December 7, 8 & 9, 2021
Google Cloud Carbon Footprint: Energy-based apportionment of shared ICT infrastructure
Vincent Poncet, Principal Architect & Digital Pollution at Google
1. E3 has developed an intelligent cloud computing platform that connects devices and analyzes data to optimize energy use in homes.
2. E3's home energy management service automatically works to eliminate energy waste, improve comfort, optimize equipment, learn user preferences, and predict energy use. It is currently deployed in 5 communities across 4 states.
3. While technology has improved energy efficiency, sustaining savings remains a challenge. E3's managed service operates automatically to deliver savings without requiring changes in user behavior or active energy management.
The document discusses a presentation given to the IEEE San Diego Power & Energy and Power Electronics Societies about using object-oriented database technology for advanced utility analytics. It describes the uniqueness of utility big data and critical use cases, and presents an integrated NoSQL data management and analytics solution framework. Examples are given of using NoSQL-based solutions for PMU data analytics to create real-time situational awareness across wide areas of the power grid and enable real-time simulations that could help recognize and avoid blackouts.
This document discusses three natural solutions - ventilation, facade, and lighting - from three brands that highlight intelligent energy management for buildings. Intelligent facades can cool buildings by an average of 2°C and save 20-30% on air conditioning costs by cleverly managing solar protection equipment. Over 40% of a building's energy is used for heating and cooling, and intelligent solutions can achieve 36% economies of scale.
Solar Tracking and Monitoring System for Solar Water HeaterIRJET Journal
This document describes a solar tracking and monitoring system for a solar water heater. The system uses sensors to track the sun's position and maximize sunlight on solar panels to heat water more efficiently than a fixed panel. It includes an Arduino microcontroller, sensors for water level, light, and temperature, a solar tracking mechanism with stepper motor, and a relay. The system monitors water level and temperature and opens a solenoid valve when conditions are met. It concludes that the solar tracking system increases efficiency by 32.17% compared to a fixed panel system.
Klaas Hommes - Electricity market place and impact regulation.Dutch Power
This document summarizes a session on electricity marketplaces and regulation. It discusses various papers on tariff systems, new functions in a digital world, deployment of regulation, flexibility, and asset and risk management. Specifically, it outlines papers on topics like time-of-use tariffs, demand side management, power-based tariffs, ancillary services for distribution system operators, local energy markets, virtual power plants, risk management in smart cities, and cybersecurity. In total, the session included 99 papers, with the most papers covering flexibility (28) and asset management (28).
MoreGreenIP - AMS-IX - Running a Green Datacenter OperationJan Wiersma
The document provides an overview of the EvoSwitch data center and discusses sustainability in data centers. Specifically:
1) EvoSwitch offers a secure, efficient and sustainable data center with 24/7 security, green energy usage, efficient cooling systems, and support for customers.
2) Data centers can significantly improve their sustainability by increasing energy efficiency in demand, supply, and reducing costs. Metrics like PUE are important to measure efficiency.
3) While progress has been made, most data centers still have opportunities to improve efficiency in equipment intake temperatures and better measurement of energy usage.
The document proposes a Community Resources Manager (CRM) system that allows a community of homes to share resources like electricity, hot water, and internet from a single resource station. This centralized system aims to reduce costs for residents through more efficient use of resources and cheaper bills while addressing issues like depletion of natural resources and irregular demand. It involves a smart software manager that organizes optimal consumption schedules for each home and coordinates with the resource producer to deliver only the needed amounts. The system promises increased efficiency, easier establishment of new technologies, and control over resource consumption.
Forecasting Electricity Consumption Using Weather Data in Edge-Fog-Cloud Data...Juan Carlos Olivares Rojas
This document proposes an edge-fog-cloud computing architecture to forecast electricity consumption using weather data and machine learning models. The architecture implements linear regression models at the edge, fog, and cloud layers to improve forecasting accuracy. Results show forecast accuracy was improved with 91-94% of devices having better forecasts when models were executed across multiple layers. The architecture provides a feasible approach for electricity forecasting considering periodic offline execution of models across layers.
A growing number of utilities are calling for reform or abolition of net metering. They call it a “free ride” to use utility wires and not pay for the service. IREC, along with other non-profits and the solar industry, know net metering can be fair and balanced. It provides benefits that outweigh utility costs in most cases, particularly by deferring new utility construction. It's a hot button topic. A rundown of what's happening in key states, including a deeper analysis of the issue and insight into how to achieve a fair valuation of all of net metering's benefits, was covered by Jason to standing-room crowds
Net Energy Metering (N.E.M.) 2.0 - Solar Regulations in San DiegoHome Energy Systems
Home Energy Systems Net Energy Metering (N.E.M.) 2.0. Presentation from their Solar Seminar on October 29, 2016. This presentation gives a summary of the rules and regulations surrounding resident owned energy and how it effects your solar system.
The document discusses how digital technologies and data can help address sustainability issues like reducing CO2 emissions and increasing climate change resilience. It provides examples of how technologies like the Internet of Things, analytics, and cognitive computing can give insights into issues like energy usage, transportation flows, and infrastructure management. These insights can then be used to improve operational efficiency, better prepare for and respond to events, and foster new forms of collaboration. The document argues that, with the right approaches and by treating data as a new natural resource, digital technologies have the potential to significantly reduce CO2 emissions from various economic sectors and help build more climate resilient systems.
The document discusses the next wave of green IT and making data centers more energy efficient. It notes that data center energy costs are significant and that McKinsey predicts data centers will produce more greenhouse gases than airlines by 2020. It provides best practices for building sustainable green data centers, including exploiting virtualization, improving server utilization rates, and designing efficient cooling systems.
IRJET - A Research on Eloquent Salvation and Productive Outsourcing of Massiv...IRJET Journal
This document discusses a research on efficiently outsourcing the processing of massive datasets to the cloud while maintaining data privacy and security. It begins by introducing the growth of big data and challenges of analyzing large datasets. It then discusses how convex separable programming problems are involved in various applications and how solving them at large scales is computationally difficult for individual users. The proposed system develops an efficient transformation scheme to privately transform vectors and matrices before outsourcing computations to the cloud. It also uses convex separable programming to approximate convex functions with linear programs, which are then securely solved in the cloud. A verification scheme is used to validate the correctness of the cloud's returned results.
Green networking aims to reduce the carbon footprint of information and communication technology (ICT) networks by improving energy efficiency. Key strategies include optimizing network infrastructure utilization through technologies like virtualization, improving equipment energy efficiency, and locating network resources closer to renewable energy sources. Measurement of energy savings is important to track progress towards a lower carbon "Green Network".
The climate impact of ICT: A review of estimates, trends and regulations (ISM...Adrian Friday
We examine peer-reviewed studies which estimate ICT's current share of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions to be 1.8-2.8% of global GHG emissions. Our findings indicate that published estimates all underestimate the carbon footprint of ICT, possibly by as much as 25%, by failing to account for all of ICT's supply chains and full lifecycle (i.e. emissions scopes 1, 2 and fully inclusive 3). Adjusting for truncation of supply chain pathways, we estimate that ICT's share of emissions could actually be as high as 2.1-3.9%. We explore the argument for and against the role of efficiency gains and green energy in offsetting ICTs global carbon footprint. Whatever assumptions analysts take, they agree that ICT will not reduce its emissions without a major concerted effort involving broad political and industrial action. We provide three reasons to believe ICT emissions are going to increase barring a targeted intervention. We make specific recommendations and pose a set of challenges for those using heavy computation in their research.
Related report: https://arxiv.org/abs/2102.02622
Sustainable Times Issue 10
A US study found that running a computer application in the cloud is generally more energy and carbon efficient than a server room, but that it was not a foregone conclusion and there were a number of factors that could influence overall energy and carbon efficiency.
Schneider Electric’s perspective on:
> the role energy plays in our lives
> who we are and what we do
> how we contribute to the new distributed & connected world of energy
> how Life is On with Schneider Electric.
The document discusses the importance of IT-enabled smart energy and the challenges and opportunities it presents. Key points include:
- IT is crucial for the energy sector now and in the future to help meet efficiency goals like reducing consumption and increasing renewable energy use.
- Smart metering, big data analytics, gamification and social media can help consumers reduce energy use but challenges include data standards, security and a lack of skilled professionals.
- Education programs should focus on hands-on learning like building smart home systems to help train the workforce needed to develop smart energy solutions and bridge the gap between IT and energy.
This document discusses GE's Total Efficiency Datacenter solutions which can lower utility bills by 10-20%, reduce cooling requirements by 50-70%, and achieve 97-99% energy efficiency. GE provides hardware, software, services, and financing to address power, cooling, and energy management challenges in datacenters through their open and modular architecture. Their solutions can help improve existing datacenters and enable increased computing density while reducing energy usage and costs.
- Global warming poses one of the greatest threats to society and the economy, requiring 15-30% cuts in greenhouse gas emissions by 2020 and deeper 60-80% cuts by 2050 to limit temperature rise.
- Information and communication technology (ICT) can both directly reduce its own 2-3% share of emissions and enable much larger indirect emission reductions in other sectors like transportation and buildings.
- A "zero carbon" strategy of relocating ICT infrastructure to remote renewable energy sites powered by wind and solar is proposed, using optical networks to connect to users. This could make growth in ICT services carbon neutral.
Centrica Business Solutions helps major healthcare organizations improve energy efficiency and performance through onsite generation. They provide energy insights, optimization, and technical solutions like combined heat and power to increase efficiency by 25% and solar power. Centrica works with hospitals to reduce costs and carbon emissions through measures like installing a new CHP unit at University Hospitals of the North Midlands NHS Trust that saves £500,000 annually and cuts carbon by 2,000 tons, equivalent to the emissions of 20 nurses.
The document summarizes Cisco EnergyWise, a new approach from Cisco Systems to managing corporate energy consumption through the enterprise network. Cisco EnergyWise allows organizations to measure, manage, and control the power usage of all devices connected to the corporate network, including both IT and non-IT systems. It provides a way to centrally monitor and optimize energy usage across the entire organization. The architecture is built on Cisco switches and uses the network to distribute commands and aggregate power data from all connected devices. This allows organizations to gain visibility and control over their total energy footprint and costs.
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December 14, 15 & 16, 2022
Are the providers’ sustainability strategies... sustainable ?
Arnaud Gueguen, Sustainability Consultant at DarwinX and Member of Lean ICT and Climate Education Working Group at Shift Project
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So Cal Edison Smart Grid Strategyand Roadmapbrucetotty
This document provides Southern California Edison's (SCE) updated smart grid strategy and roadmap. It discusses the need for a smarter grid to meet policy goals around climate change, energy independence, and infrastructure security. A smarter grid is needed to integrate more renewable energy, enable customer participation, and ensure continued reliability. SCE developed its first smart grid roadmap in 2007 and this updated roadmap summarizes SCE's activities and plans for developing and implementing a smarter grid through 2030 using a methodology of customer-focused engineering, open innovation, scenario planning, standards development, and technology evaluation.
Green Commputing - Paradigm Shift in Computing Technology, ICT & its Applicat...Dr. Sunil Kr. Pandey
I was invited as Key Note Speaker in a National Event organized at Gajadhar Bhagat College, Naugachia, (TM Bhagalpur University). I took session on "Paradigm Shift in Computing Technology, ICT & its Applications - Socioeconomic and Environmental Perspective". It was a wonderful learning experience to meet, interact and experience sharing with delegates, faculty and students there.
The Growing Interdependence of the Internet and Climate ChangeLarry Smarr
This document summarizes a talk given by Dr. Larry Smarr on leveraging Australia's National Broadband Network to speed climate change goals. Some key points:
- The NBN aims to connect 90% of households with fiber internet with speeds of 100 Mbps within 8 years.
- This high-speed internet can enable smart grids to reduce energy usage, video conferencing to reduce transportation emissions, and cloud computing at renewable energy sites.
- ICT has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions through applications like smart grids, transportation systems, and buildings - potentially reducing emissions five times more than ICT's own carbon footprint.
- International collaboration on green ICT, such as linking Australia, US, and
Universities can play a leadership role in reducing global warming by transitioning to a zero-carbon economy through their information and communication technologies (ICT). ICT currently accounts for 2-3% of global emissions but has the potential to enable much larger indirect emission reductions. Universities should inventory their ICT carbon emissions, develop zero-carbon network architectures using renewable energy sites, virtualization, and applications to reduce emissions. This can also create economic opportunities while positioning universities as sustainability leaders.
IES Faculty: Digital Twins – the latest buzz word! But what does it mean for ...IES VE
The concept of digital twins is not new. However, the advance of the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ is making cyber-physical systems in the built environment practical, useful and affordable. Productivity gains and cost savings aside, digital twins will also become an essential tool in addressing the current climate crisis, presenting dramatic and exciting opportunities to achieve zero carbon targets and promote sustainable, healthier buildings.
But what are digital twins? And how can they be used in the built environment? What tools are available? And how can we overcome the challenges faced by lack of data? This faculty answered these questions.
This document discusses PowerSecure's leadership in the microgrid market and its microgrid solution delivery structure. It also summarizes a case study of the APC Smart Neighborhood which demonstrated a community-scale microgrid integrating distributed energy resources, high-performance homes with connected technologies, and buildings-to-grid integration. Additionally, it provides microgrid data and lessons learned from the project regarding managing behind-the-meter assets, energy use optimization, and the potential for microgrids or simpler systems to serve as non-wire alternatives to traditional grid upgrades.
Presentation by Davy Hanegreefs and Bram Biesbrouck at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/funumentary-take-what-you-can-give-nothing-back-not
Presentation by Frank Verschoor and Jochem Van Den Berg at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/smarter-open-data-process-and-practice-flevoland-nl
Presentation by Nils Walravens at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/smart-flanders-how-flemish-cities-are-tackling-urban-challenges-together-through-open-data
EIF and NIFO connecting public administrations, businesses, and citizensOpen Knowledge Belgium
Presentation Miguel Alvarez Rodriguez by at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/eif-and-nifo-connecting-public-administrations-businesses-and-citizens
Presentation by Delphine Jenart and John Robert at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/mundaneum-factories-open-tokenomics-factoring-net-smart-society-work
Presentation by Bert Jehoul, Serge Ravet and Dominic Orr at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/european-open-recognition-project-mirva-making-informal-recognition-visible-and-actionable-2
Eliminating data roadbloacks to get by traffic roadblocks without painOpen Knowledge Belgium
Presentation by Bert Van Nuffelen at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/eliminating-data-roadblocks-get-traffic-roadblocks-without-pain
Presentation by Alina Saenko and Sam Donvil at Open Belgium 2018 -
http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/linked-open-data-limbo-co-creation-catalyst-cultural-heritage-resources
Presentation by Aad Versteden & Niels Vandekeybus at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/musemtech-transitional-architecture-linked-data
This document discusses an open source chatbot project called Linked Open Chatbots that was developed for the city of Ghent, Belgium. The chatbot aims to provide information about events, apps, and technology related to Ghent using linked open data. It encourages opening data to benefit both people and future applications, and demonstrates how live applications can be built using linked open data through a GitHub repository and demo of the chatbot.
Presentation by Ton Zijlstra at Open Belgium 2018 - http://2018.openbelgium.be/session/role-and-value-detailed-data-inventories-government-making-openness-part-holistic-data-governance-gdpr-and-infosec
STATATHON: Unleashing the Power of Statistics in a 48-Hour Knowledge Extravag...sameer shah
"Join us for STATATHON, a dynamic 2-day event dedicated to exploring statistical knowledge and its real-world applications. From theory to practice, participants engage in intensive learning sessions, workshops, and challenges, fostering a deeper understanding of statistical methodologies and their significance in various fields."
Global Situational Awareness of A.I. and where its headedvikram sood
You can see the future first in San Francisco.
Over the past year, the talk of the town has shifted from $10 billion compute clusters to $100 billion clusters to trillion-dollar clusters. Every six months another zero is added to the boardroom plans. Behind the scenes, there’s a fierce scramble to secure every power contract still available for the rest of the decade, every voltage transformer that can possibly be procured. American big business is gearing up to pour trillions of dollars into a long-unseen mobilization of American industrial might. By the end of the decade, American electricity production will have grown tens of percent; from the shale fields of Pennsylvania to the solar farms of Nevada, hundreds of millions of GPUs will hum.
The AGI race has begun. We are building machines that can think and reason. By 2025/26, these machines will outpace college graduates. By the end of the decade, they will be smarter than you or I; we will have superintelligence, in the true sense of the word. Along the way, national security forces not seen in half a century will be un-leashed, and before long, The Project will be on. If we’re lucky, we’ll be in an all-out race with the CCP; if we’re unlucky, an all-out war.
Everyone is now talking about AI, but few have the faintest glimmer of what is about to hit them. Nvidia analysts still think 2024 might be close to the peak. Mainstream pundits are stuck on the wilful blindness of “it’s just predicting the next word”. They see only hype and business-as-usual; at most they entertain another internet-scale technological change.
Before long, the world will wake up. But right now, there are perhaps a few hundred people, most of them in San Francisco and the AI labs, that have situational awareness. Through whatever peculiar forces of fate, I have found myself amongst them. A few years ago, these people were derided as crazy—but they trusted the trendlines, which allowed them to correctly predict the AI advances of the past few years. Whether these people are also right about the next few years remains to be seen. But these are very smart people—the smartest people I have ever met—and they are the ones building this technology. Perhaps they will be an odd footnote in history, or perhaps they will go down in history like Szilard and Oppenheimer and Teller. If they are seeing the future even close to correctly, we are in for a wild ride.
Let me tell you what we see.
Analysis insight about a Flyball dog competition team's performanceroli9797
Insight of my analysis about a Flyball dog competition team's last year performance. Find more: https://github.com/rolandnagy-ds/flyball_race_analysis/tree/main
End-to-end pipeline agility - Berlin Buzzwords 2024Lars Albertsson
We describe how we achieve high change agility in data engineering by eliminating the fear of breaking downstream data pipelines through end-to-end pipeline testing, and by using schema metaprogramming to safely eliminate boilerplate involved in changes that affect whole pipelines.
A quick poll on agility in changing pipelines from end to end indicated a huge span in capabilities. For the question "How long time does it take for all downstream pipelines to be adapted to an upstream change," the median response was 6 months, but some respondents could do it in less than a day. When quantitative data engineering differences between the best and worst are measured, the span is often 100x-1000x, sometimes even more.
A long time ago, we suffered at Spotify from fear of changing pipelines due to not knowing what the impact might be downstream. We made plans for a technical solution to test pipelines end-to-end to mitigate that fear, but the effort failed for cultural reasons. We eventually solved this challenge, but in a different context. In this presentation we will describe how we test full pipelines effectively by manipulating workflow orchestration, which enables us to make changes in pipelines without fear of breaking downstream.
Making schema changes that affect many jobs also involves a lot of toil and boilerplate. Using schema-on-read mitigates some of it, but has drawbacks since it makes it more difficult to detect errors early. We will describe how we have rejected this tradeoff by applying schema metaprogramming, eliminating boilerplate but keeping the protection of static typing, thereby further improving agility to quickly modify data pipelines without fear.
Beyond the Basics of A/B Tests: Highly Innovative Experimentation Tactics You...Aggregage
This webinar will explore cutting-edge, less familiar but powerful experimentation methodologies which address well-known limitations of standard A/B Testing. Designed for data and product leaders, this session aims to inspire the embrace of innovative approaches and provide insights into the frontiers of experimentation!
The Ipsos - AI - Monitor 2024 Report.pdfSocial Samosa
According to Ipsos AI Monitor's 2024 report, 65% Indians said that products and services using AI have profoundly changed their daily life in the past 3-5 years.
4th Modern Marketing Reckoner by MMA Global India & Group M: 60+ experts on W...Social Samosa
The Modern Marketing Reckoner (MMR) is a comprehensive resource packed with POVs from 60+ industry leaders on how AI is transforming the 4 key pillars of marketing – product, place, price and promotions.
Predictably Improve Your B2B Tech Company's Performance by Leveraging DataKiwi Creative
Harness the power of AI-backed reports, benchmarking and data analysis to predict trends and detect anomalies in your marketing efforts.
Peter Caputa, CEO at Databox, reveals how you can discover the strategies and tools to increase your growth rate (and margins!).
From metrics to track to data habits to pick up, enhance your reporting for powerful insights to improve your B2B tech company's marketing.
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Learn SQL from basic queries to Advance queriesmanishkhaire30
Dive into the world of data analysis with our comprehensive guide on mastering SQL! This presentation offers a practical approach to learning SQL, focusing on real-world applications and hands-on practice. Whether you're a beginner or looking to sharpen your skills, this guide provides the tools you need to extract, analyze, and interpret data effectively.
Key Highlights:
Foundations of SQL: Understand the basics of SQL, including data retrieval, filtering, and aggregation.
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Join us on this journey to enhance your data analysis capabilities and unlock the full potential of SQL. Perfect for data enthusiasts, analysts, and anyone eager to harness the power of data!
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