The document discusses the global drivers of increasing electricity demand and the need to transition to smarter electricity grids. Population growth, economic development, sustainability concerns, and the rise of distributed and renewable generation are increasing the challenges of reliably supplying electricity through traditional centralized systems. Smart grids that enable two-way power flows, demand response, distributed storage, and real-time operation can help integrate renewable energy and give more flexibility to match supply and demand. ABB provides technologies across the electricity value chain to enable this transition to smarter and more sustainable grid infrastructure.
The document summarizes a presentation given by Tony Quinlan, the Finance Director of Drax Group plc, at a CBI conference on reforming the UK electricity market. The presentation discusses Drax as the largest coal-fired power station in the UK, supplying 7% of the country's electricity. It outlines drivers for change in the market, including aging generation capacity, decarbonization targets, and affordability concerns. Quinlan assesses different proposals for electricity market reform based on criteria like regulatory stability, investment signals, liquidity, and appropriate support for biomass generation. The presentation concludes that a complementary mix of technologies, including large-scale biomass, will be needed to meet policy objectives at low cost
Comprenhensive Utilities & Energy Managementleswilliams93
The document discusses Texas A&M University's comprehensive utilities and energy management program. It outlines the energy services continuum from procurement to customer service. It highlights recent initiatives including a $73 million CHP upgrade, energy action plan to reduce EUI 20% by 2015, and a $200 million 10-year capital program. It also summarizes optimization of buildings, plants and customer service to support campus growth while reducing energy consumption and costs.
New grid and smart grid systems are needed to meet development challenges. Variable renewable power generation like wind and solar creates short-term impacts that traditional grids are not designed to handle. Advanced planning techniques using high performance computing can help scale grid planning and operations models to incorporate high resolutions, dynamic modeling of variability, and stochastic optimization to better integrate renewable energy. The transformation to smarter grids will enable a safe, secure, and efficient transition to sustainable energy.
Viridor Waste Management, CRT Heaven, and MDJ Light Brothers are companies involved in plastics and electronics recycling in the UK. The opportunity involves increasing recycling of electronics and plastics, which currently have low recycling rates. Electronics contain valuable materials like gold but also toxins, while plastic consumption is growing but most is not recycled. Government initiatives aim to boost recyclate markets and recycling infrastructure to create more opportunities in this area and meet environmental targets.
Distributed generation allows energy to be generated close to the point of use, giving customers choice in their energy sources. Customers can generate their own power and sell excess back to utilities, representing a new relationship. Hybrid systems combine renewable sources like solar and wind with traditional energy. Within a smart grid, utilities can access distributed generation to meet peak needs and increase reliability through diversified energy resources. For customers, distributed generation supports lower costs, reduced fossil fuel reliance, and more renewable use.
Energy Performance Contracting Uk Introductiondrpaulfisher
The document discusses Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) as a way for organizations to implement energy efficiency projects with no upfront capital costs. Key benefits of EPC include permanently lower energy costs and emissions through comprehensive efficiency upgrades. EPC uses future energy savings to finance projects, with energy service companies providing upfront costs and guaranteeing savings. Case studies show EPC achieving savings of 38-54% in various building types through measures like lighting, insulation, HVAC, and building management system upgrades.
This document discusses energy efficiency concepts and Cisco solutions for data centers. It notes that climate change is a pressing issue and data centers consume significant resources. Cisco offers products and solutions like storage virtualization, application delivery, and networked CRAC units that can incrementally improve power and cooling efficiency in data centers. Advanced services are also discussed to provide efficiency assessments, benchmarking, and help establish energy management strategies and implementations. Case studies show examples of potential energy savings through efficiency improvements.
Maximise productivity through dynamic, virtual technology (IBM Websphere)IBM Danmark
Lær hvordan IBM WebSphere Software kan hjælpe din virksomhed med at blive klar til at håndtere fremtidige ændringer og med sin dynamiske og virtuelle teknologi kan understøtte procesoptimering og gøre organisationen mere agil.
Læs mere her: bit.ly/softwaredagwebsphere1
The document summarizes a presentation given by Tony Quinlan, the Finance Director of Drax Group plc, at a CBI conference on reforming the UK electricity market. The presentation discusses Drax as the largest coal-fired power station in the UK, supplying 7% of the country's electricity. It outlines drivers for change in the market, including aging generation capacity, decarbonization targets, and affordability concerns. Quinlan assesses different proposals for electricity market reform based on criteria like regulatory stability, investment signals, liquidity, and appropriate support for biomass generation. The presentation concludes that a complementary mix of technologies, including large-scale biomass, will be needed to meet policy objectives at low cost
Comprenhensive Utilities & Energy Managementleswilliams93
The document discusses Texas A&M University's comprehensive utilities and energy management program. It outlines the energy services continuum from procurement to customer service. It highlights recent initiatives including a $73 million CHP upgrade, energy action plan to reduce EUI 20% by 2015, and a $200 million 10-year capital program. It also summarizes optimization of buildings, plants and customer service to support campus growth while reducing energy consumption and costs.
New grid and smart grid systems are needed to meet development challenges. Variable renewable power generation like wind and solar creates short-term impacts that traditional grids are not designed to handle. Advanced planning techniques using high performance computing can help scale grid planning and operations models to incorporate high resolutions, dynamic modeling of variability, and stochastic optimization to better integrate renewable energy. The transformation to smarter grids will enable a safe, secure, and efficient transition to sustainable energy.
Viridor Waste Management, CRT Heaven, and MDJ Light Brothers are companies involved in plastics and electronics recycling in the UK. The opportunity involves increasing recycling of electronics and plastics, which currently have low recycling rates. Electronics contain valuable materials like gold but also toxins, while plastic consumption is growing but most is not recycled. Government initiatives aim to boost recyclate markets and recycling infrastructure to create more opportunities in this area and meet environmental targets.
Distributed generation allows energy to be generated close to the point of use, giving customers choice in their energy sources. Customers can generate their own power and sell excess back to utilities, representing a new relationship. Hybrid systems combine renewable sources like solar and wind with traditional energy. Within a smart grid, utilities can access distributed generation to meet peak needs and increase reliability through diversified energy resources. For customers, distributed generation supports lower costs, reduced fossil fuel reliance, and more renewable use.
Energy Performance Contracting Uk Introductiondrpaulfisher
The document discusses Energy Performance Contracting (EPC) as a way for organizations to implement energy efficiency projects with no upfront capital costs. Key benefits of EPC include permanently lower energy costs and emissions through comprehensive efficiency upgrades. EPC uses future energy savings to finance projects, with energy service companies providing upfront costs and guaranteeing savings. Case studies show EPC achieving savings of 38-54% in various building types through measures like lighting, insulation, HVAC, and building management system upgrades.
This document discusses energy efficiency concepts and Cisco solutions for data centers. It notes that climate change is a pressing issue and data centers consume significant resources. Cisco offers products and solutions like storage virtualization, application delivery, and networked CRAC units that can incrementally improve power and cooling efficiency in data centers. Advanced services are also discussed to provide efficiency assessments, benchmarking, and help establish energy management strategies and implementations. Case studies show examples of potential energy savings through efficiency improvements.
Maximise productivity through dynamic, virtual technology (IBM Websphere)IBM Danmark
Lær hvordan IBM WebSphere Software kan hjælpe din virksomhed med at blive klar til at håndtere fremtidige ændringer og med sin dynamiske og virtuelle teknologi kan understøtte procesoptimering og gøre organisationen mere agil.
Læs mere her: bit.ly/softwaredagwebsphere1
Houston's Smart Grid: Transforming the Future of Electric Distribution & Ener...aectnet
1) Over 1.6 million smart meters have been deployed, with deployment on schedule to reach 2.2 million meters by mid-2012. Benefits include electronic billing and service orders.
2) A $200 million Department of Energy grant accelerated smart meter deployment and supported intelligent grid infrastructure projects. Over $190 million has been invoiced and received from the grant.
3) Smart meters and the intelligent grid provide consumer benefits now like outage notifications and time-of-use rates, with future benefits including energy analysis tools, electric vehicle support, and demand response programs.
Element Blue is an experienced technology consulting firm that helps customers better manage water and related resources through software and instrumentation. They have expertise in analytics, web applications, and business process management. Their Intelligent Operations Center uses sensors and real-time data to help optimize water usage, reduce costs, and improve decision making. A case study highlights how their solution helped Desert Mountain Golf Club reduce water usage and electrical costs through integrated monitoring and controls.
Germany has ambitious renewable energy targets of 80% renewable generation by 2050 and 35% by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a sustainable energy system. This has led to a large increase in distributed renewable generation, especially solar PV, connected to the distribution grid. This is challenging grid operators as renewable generation introduces high variability that must be balanced. Pilot projects are exploring solutions like smart metering, demand response, and energy storage to improve grid observability, balance generation and load, and maximize grid capacity utilization in adapting distribution grids to the energy transition.
SCE's smart grid vision is to develop a more reliable, secure, efficient and environmentally friendly electric system covering production, transmission, distribution and smart use of electricity. Key drivers include growth in renewable energy, electric vehicles and distributed energy resources which are challenging the capabilities of the current grid. SCE's $1.5 billion smart grid development plan includes investments in technologies like phasor measurement, distribution automation and smart metering to help integrate renewables, support electric vehicles and empower customers. Realizing a fully functional smart grid will require continued technology advances, seamless communications infrastructure and a skilled workforce.
Community Microgrids: A resilient clean energy solution for citiesClean Coalition
From 2017 to 2018, the U.S. experienced 30 weather- and climate-related events that cost $1 billion or more and collectively caused damage totaling a record-breaking $404 billion, not including the loss of human life. The Clean Coalition is staging Community Microgrids to provide resilience in the face of these disasters. Municipalities and their constituents are interested in building resilient communities, and Community Microgrids provide a solution that combines solar generation with energy storage and other distributed energy resources (DER) to provide indefinite renewables-driven backup power for critical loads. Many public agencies are taking a serious look at solar+storage to offset increasing utility costs, and to help achieve their climate goals. Adding microgrid-specific equipment like switches and monitoring, communications, and control equipment allows critical facilities to island during grid outages, providing business continuity and resilience with renewables-driven backup power.
The document discusses the multiple benefits of energy efficiency policies in the EU. It argues that such policies could save the EU at least €50 billion per year in foreign energy expenditures, which could be invested domestically instead. Energy efficiency also improves competitiveness and reduces energy poverty. Examples from Germany show that co-financing energy efficiency triggers large private investments. The document outlines various other benefits of energy efficiency including reduced emissions, transmission and distribution capacity savings, and avoided costs of reserves, generation, and transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Vsil Is Power And Utility Process Design In Sap Aditi Interra ItAditi Tarafdar
This document discusses strategies for improving performance at distribution utilities through the use of technology and operational practices. It covers introducing a reform framework, the challenges faced by utilities, and an initiative for improvement. The key points are:
1) A reform framework was introduced to address high losses, regulate tariffs, and incentivize targets for loss reduction.
2) Challenges included high losses, a lack of customer orientation, unreliable supply, and meeting stakeholder expectations.
3) The utility laid out a strategic roadmap and IT plan to reduce losses, improve customer service and reliability, and create a performance culture through automation and change management.
Semantic Decision Support Models for Energy Efficiency in Smart-Metered HomesEuropean Patent Office
This document proposes a community-based framework using semantic decision models to help optimize energy efficiency in smart homes. Key points:
- The framework uses semantic decision tables to create shareable decision-making rules that bridge domain ontologies to rules for end users.
- Decision tables are split into smaller sub-tables for readability and use invocational references to link related conditions and actions across tables.
- The goal is to allow real-time decision support for energy management at a community level using smart meters and an Internet of Things approach.
Thomas Van Maele, Partner Corporate Finance, Econopolis (Market structure and...Vlerick_Alumni
The document discusses the evolution of the traditional electricity supply chain. [1] It describes how liberalization led to unbundling generation, transmission, and distribution and allowed competition in production and supply. [2] It outlines the EU's 20-20-20 targets for renewable energy, emissions reductions, and energy efficiency. [3] Renewable energy targets have incentivized different support policies across member states and more focus is needed on energy efficiency to meet climate goals.
The document discusses challenges in balancing electricity supply and demand in the UK grid as the generation mix shifts to lower carbon sources. It notes that while the system is capable of meeting challenges up to 2020, significant uncertainty exists beyond then as different types of intermittent generation and loads come online in different locations. This will stress networks and balancing operations. A whole systems approach is needed to address risks through tools like increased interconnection, electricity storage, and demand side response. Government must consider actions to ensure a secure, affordable and efficient transition of the electricity system to a low carbon future.
This document provides an analysis of demand side management (DSM) technologies. It begins with an introduction to DSM and its focus on smart grid technologies like energy management systems and advanced metering infrastructure. It then presents the structure of DSM, outlining its key technological domains and components. The document analyzes two case studies - People Power and iControl Networks. People Power offers an integrated energy management solution while iControl Networks provides a software platform to enable home security, energy management, and health care functions. Both partner with broadband and home security companies but have different business models.
Distribution Planning With reliability Options for Distributed Generationdavidtrebolle
This document discusses a proposed market mechanism called reliability options for distributed generation (RODG) that aims to encourage distributed generation (DG) to actively participate in avoiding overloads on electricity distribution networks and substituting new network investments. The mechanism would allocate the firm capacity required from DG through a competitive auction process. This would make DG partly responsible for reliability while also providing incentives for more efficient operation in consideration of network conditions. Benefits would be shared between distribution system operators, who obtain firm power from DG as an alternative to network upgrades, and DG owners, who are compensated for providing this service.
[Case study] Maine Fiber: Smart Grid solution offers precise GIS capabilities...Schneider Electric
The Maine Fiber Company is a telecommunications provider based in Portland,
Maine. The company was formed to oversee the construction, leasing and
maintenance of a 1,100-mile high-capacity fiber optic network being built in the
state of Maine.
Unlike most companies that operate fiber optic networks, Maine Fiber is a dark
fiber provider, not a lit service provider. Its customers are telecomm service
providers in the state of Maine that use the network as the backbone for the lit
services they provide to individuals – who are the actual end users.
The network was launched with the backing of a group of private investors and
a matching economic stimulus grant from the federal government. Maine Fiber
began using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager and ArcFM Viewer in September 2011.
Home Area Networks: A Preferred Choice for Energy EfficiencyCognizant
The day is here when home area networks (HANs) contribute to energy efficiency for utilities and home users; the way forward will be driven by automated demand response (ADR), automated demand side management (DSM), dynamic pricing, and electric vehicle (EV) charging among other key factors.
This document discusses building resilience in cities. It argues that cities need to internalize natural risks and balance risk, performance, and resilience. The document presents a model of city resilience that shows how investments in areas like stormwater management, emergency response systems, and building upgrades can improve a city's ability to withstand unpredictable events. It proposes inverting traditional approaches through bottom-up planning, customized financing tools, and mainstreaming resilience-focused redevelopment.
The Rapid Assessment Framework (RAF) is a practical diagnostic tool for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities to identify priority sectors and recommend specific energy efficiency interventions. It includes a city energy benchmarking component, a process for prioritizing sectors based on energy expenditure and authority influence, and a playbook of tried and tested efficiency recommendations tailored to each sector. The RAF aims to provide cities with a big-picture analysis and basic strategy for pursuing energy efficiency solutions in a structured 3-month process led by energy efficiency experts.
[Case study] Dakota Electric Association: Solutions to streamline GIS, design...Schneider Electric
Applications:
Integration of GIS-based processes makes existing circuits and proposed circuits
available in the same system so operations staff can work in parallel with the designers
rather than in succession.
Customer benefits
• Model, design and manage critical infrastructure
• Highly configurable
• Easily adapted for multiple uses
• Proactively identify needed repairs and replacements well in advance
The document discusses integrating distributed solar and storage systems. It provides an overview of StrateGen Consulting and the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), whose goal is to expand the role of energy storage technology. Distributed applications are seen as offering the greatest number of potential value streams by providing benefits to customers, utilities, system operators, and society. Modeling of a hypothetical example shows that pairing a 350 kW solar PV system with energy storage could provide higher value than the solar system alone by allowing storage to shift solar power to peak demand periods.
This document appears to contain random characters and numbers without any clear meaning or message. It does not convey any essential information that could be summarized in 3 sentences or less.
Green Energy Consulting - It's Good to be Green - KL (3)David Blake
Green Energy Consulting is a UK energy consultancy that specializes in energy procurement, sustainability, and consumption reduction strategies. They offer a range of services including energy management, carbon management, water auditing, energy procurement, and sustainability certification. Their goal is to help clients reduce energy expenditures, access bespoke services, and increase their green credentials through practical solutions.
Take a look to see how the Internet of Things is critical to future city-planning processes. In fact, day by day, cities are facing a variety of challenges such as: job creation, economic growth, environmental sustainability and social resilience.
Internet of Things (IoT) & Industrial Internet of Things (I²oT) is bringing changes to the value chain and impacting Industrial Automation organizations to make a smart and sustainable world which is connected using technologies like IPv6, Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Big Data and Big Data Analytics. The main focus is how these responsible organizations are making their business plan for IoT for saving time, money and supporting business intelligence efforts to have quality control, sustainable and green practices, supply chain traceability and overall supply chain efficiency.
Houston's Smart Grid: Transforming the Future of Electric Distribution & Ener...aectnet
1) Over 1.6 million smart meters have been deployed, with deployment on schedule to reach 2.2 million meters by mid-2012. Benefits include electronic billing and service orders.
2) A $200 million Department of Energy grant accelerated smart meter deployment and supported intelligent grid infrastructure projects. Over $190 million has been invoiced and received from the grant.
3) Smart meters and the intelligent grid provide consumer benefits now like outage notifications and time-of-use rates, with future benefits including energy analysis tools, electric vehicle support, and demand response programs.
Element Blue is an experienced technology consulting firm that helps customers better manage water and related resources through software and instrumentation. They have expertise in analytics, web applications, and business process management. Their Intelligent Operations Center uses sensors and real-time data to help optimize water usage, reduce costs, and improve decision making. A case study highlights how their solution helped Desert Mountain Golf Club reduce water usage and electrical costs through integrated monitoring and controls.
Germany has ambitious renewable energy targets of 80% renewable generation by 2050 and 35% by 2020 to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and transition to a sustainable energy system. This has led to a large increase in distributed renewable generation, especially solar PV, connected to the distribution grid. This is challenging grid operators as renewable generation introduces high variability that must be balanced. Pilot projects are exploring solutions like smart metering, demand response, and energy storage to improve grid observability, balance generation and load, and maximize grid capacity utilization in adapting distribution grids to the energy transition.
SCE's smart grid vision is to develop a more reliable, secure, efficient and environmentally friendly electric system covering production, transmission, distribution and smart use of electricity. Key drivers include growth in renewable energy, electric vehicles and distributed energy resources which are challenging the capabilities of the current grid. SCE's $1.5 billion smart grid development plan includes investments in technologies like phasor measurement, distribution automation and smart metering to help integrate renewables, support electric vehicles and empower customers. Realizing a fully functional smart grid will require continued technology advances, seamless communications infrastructure and a skilled workforce.
Community Microgrids: A resilient clean energy solution for citiesClean Coalition
From 2017 to 2018, the U.S. experienced 30 weather- and climate-related events that cost $1 billion or more and collectively caused damage totaling a record-breaking $404 billion, not including the loss of human life. The Clean Coalition is staging Community Microgrids to provide resilience in the face of these disasters. Municipalities and their constituents are interested in building resilient communities, and Community Microgrids provide a solution that combines solar generation with energy storage and other distributed energy resources (DER) to provide indefinite renewables-driven backup power for critical loads. Many public agencies are taking a serious look at solar+storage to offset increasing utility costs, and to help achieve their climate goals. Adding microgrid-specific equipment like switches and monitoring, communications, and control equipment allows critical facilities to island during grid outages, providing business continuity and resilience with renewables-driven backup power.
The document discusses the multiple benefits of energy efficiency policies in the EU. It argues that such policies could save the EU at least €50 billion per year in foreign energy expenditures, which could be invested domestically instead. Energy efficiency also improves competitiveness and reduces energy poverty. Examples from Germany show that co-financing energy efficiency triggers large private investments. The document outlines various other benefits of energy efficiency including reduced emissions, transmission and distribution capacity savings, and avoided costs of reserves, generation, and transmission and distribution infrastructure.
Vsil Is Power And Utility Process Design In Sap Aditi Interra ItAditi Tarafdar
This document discusses strategies for improving performance at distribution utilities through the use of technology and operational practices. It covers introducing a reform framework, the challenges faced by utilities, and an initiative for improvement. The key points are:
1) A reform framework was introduced to address high losses, regulate tariffs, and incentivize targets for loss reduction.
2) Challenges included high losses, a lack of customer orientation, unreliable supply, and meeting stakeholder expectations.
3) The utility laid out a strategic roadmap and IT plan to reduce losses, improve customer service and reliability, and create a performance culture through automation and change management.
Semantic Decision Support Models for Energy Efficiency in Smart-Metered HomesEuropean Patent Office
This document proposes a community-based framework using semantic decision models to help optimize energy efficiency in smart homes. Key points:
- The framework uses semantic decision tables to create shareable decision-making rules that bridge domain ontologies to rules for end users.
- Decision tables are split into smaller sub-tables for readability and use invocational references to link related conditions and actions across tables.
- The goal is to allow real-time decision support for energy management at a community level using smart meters and an Internet of Things approach.
Thomas Van Maele, Partner Corporate Finance, Econopolis (Market structure and...Vlerick_Alumni
The document discusses the evolution of the traditional electricity supply chain. [1] It describes how liberalization led to unbundling generation, transmission, and distribution and allowed competition in production and supply. [2] It outlines the EU's 20-20-20 targets for renewable energy, emissions reductions, and energy efficiency. [3] Renewable energy targets have incentivized different support policies across member states and more focus is needed on energy efficiency to meet climate goals.
The document discusses challenges in balancing electricity supply and demand in the UK grid as the generation mix shifts to lower carbon sources. It notes that while the system is capable of meeting challenges up to 2020, significant uncertainty exists beyond then as different types of intermittent generation and loads come online in different locations. This will stress networks and balancing operations. A whole systems approach is needed to address risks through tools like increased interconnection, electricity storage, and demand side response. Government must consider actions to ensure a secure, affordable and efficient transition of the electricity system to a low carbon future.
This document provides an analysis of demand side management (DSM) technologies. It begins with an introduction to DSM and its focus on smart grid technologies like energy management systems and advanced metering infrastructure. It then presents the structure of DSM, outlining its key technological domains and components. The document analyzes two case studies - People Power and iControl Networks. People Power offers an integrated energy management solution while iControl Networks provides a software platform to enable home security, energy management, and health care functions. Both partner with broadband and home security companies but have different business models.
Distribution Planning With reliability Options for Distributed Generationdavidtrebolle
This document discusses a proposed market mechanism called reliability options for distributed generation (RODG) that aims to encourage distributed generation (DG) to actively participate in avoiding overloads on electricity distribution networks and substituting new network investments. The mechanism would allocate the firm capacity required from DG through a competitive auction process. This would make DG partly responsible for reliability while also providing incentives for more efficient operation in consideration of network conditions. Benefits would be shared between distribution system operators, who obtain firm power from DG as an alternative to network upgrades, and DG owners, who are compensated for providing this service.
[Case study] Maine Fiber: Smart Grid solution offers precise GIS capabilities...Schneider Electric
The Maine Fiber Company is a telecommunications provider based in Portland,
Maine. The company was formed to oversee the construction, leasing and
maintenance of a 1,100-mile high-capacity fiber optic network being built in the
state of Maine.
Unlike most companies that operate fiber optic networks, Maine Fiber is a dark
fiber provider, not a lit service provider. Its customers are telecomm service
providers in the state of Maine that use the network as the backbone for the lit
services they provide to individuals – who are the actual end users.
The network was launched with the backing of a group of private investors and
a matching economic stimulus grant from the federal government. Maine Fiber
began using ArcFM™ Fiber Manager and ArcFM Viewer in September 2011.
Home Area Networks: A Preferred Choice for Energy EfficiencyCognizant
The day is here when home area networks (HANs) contribute to energy efficiency for utilities and home users; the way forward will be driven by automated demand response (ADR), automated demand side management (DSM), dynamic pricing, and electric vehicle (EV) charging among other key factors.
This document discusses building resilience in cities. It argues that cities need to internalize natural risks and balance risk, performance, and resilience. The document presents a model of city resilience that shows how investments in areas like stormwater management, emergency response systems, and building upgrades can improve a city's ability to withstand unpredictable events. It proposes inverting traditional approaches through bottom-up planning, customized financing tools, and mainstreaming resilience-focused redevelopment.
The Rapid Assessment Framework (RAF) is a practical diagnostic tool for conducting rapid assessments of energy use in cities to identify priority sectors and recommend specific energy efficiency interventions. It includes a city energy benchmarking component, a process for prioritizing sectors based on energy expenditure and authority influence, and a playbook of tried and tested efficiency recommendations tailored to each sector. The RAF aims to provide cities with a big-picture analysis and basic strategy for pursuing energy efficiency solutions in a structured 3-month process led by energy efficiency experts.
[Case study] Dakota Electric Association: Solutions to streamline GIS, design...Schneider Electric
Applications:
Integration of GIS-based processes makes existing circuits and proposed circuits
available in the same system so operations staff can work in parallel with the designers
rather than in succession.
Customer benefits
• Model, design and manage critical infrastructure
• Highly configurable
• Easily adapted for multiple uses
• Proactively identify needed repairs and replacements well in advance
The document discusses integrating distributed solar and storage systems. It provides an overview of StrateGen Consulting and the California Energy Storage Alliance (CESA), whose goal is to expand the role of energy storage technology. Distributed applications are seen as offering the greatest number of potential value streams by providing benefits to customers, utilities, system operators, and society. Modeling of a hypothetical example shows that pairing a 350 kW solar PV system with energy storage could provide higher value than the solar system alone by allowing storage to shift solar power to peak demand periods.
This document appears to contain random characters and numbers without any clear meaning or message. It does not convey any essential information that could be summarized in 3 sentences or less.
Green Energy Consulting - It's Good to be Green - KL (3)David Blake
Green Energy Consulting is a UK energy consultancy that specializes in energy procurement, sustainability, and consumption reduction strategies. They offer a range of services including energy management, carbon management, water auditing, energy procurement, and sustainability certification. Their goal is to help clients reduce energy expenditures, access bespoke services, and increase their green credentials through practical solutions.
Take a look to see how the Internet of Things is critical to future city-planning processes. In fact, day by day, cities are facing a variety of challenges such as: job creation, economic growth, environmental sustainability and social resilience.
Internet of Things (IoT) & Industrial Internet of Things (I²oT) is bringing changes to the value chain and impacting Industrial Automation organizations to make a smart and sustainable world which is connected using technologies like IPv6, Cloud Computing, Fog Computing, Big Data and Big Data Analytics. The main focus is how these responsible organizations are making their business plan for IoT for saving time, money and supporting business intelligence efforts to have quality control, sustainable and green practices, supply chain traceability and overall supply chain efficiency.
This document provides an overview of renewable energy potential and investment opportunities in India, with a focus on the state of Gujarat. It summarizes that Gujarat has significant renewable energy resources like wind and solar, and the state government actively promotes renewable energy development through policies supporting projects. Gujarat's share of renewable energy in its total energy mix is 16% and it has become a preferred destination for renewable energy investments in India. The document outlines the existing and targeted capacities for different renewable technologies in Gujarat by 2020.
Creating end-to-end IoT applications with Eclipse Kura & Solair IoT PlatformSolair
Solair is an IoT platform company that allows customers to create IoT applications without coding. Solair integrates with Eclipse Kura, an open source IoT gateway framework, to enable end-to-end IoT solutions. Solair provides tools for entities, relationships, spreadsheets, and workflows to develop full featured applications using a codeless drag-and-drop interface. Solair also offers an IoT gateway based on Kura to integrate devices and sensors. An example application discussed is Carracho, which monitors vehicles using Bluetooth and GPS.
Green Energy Consulting - It's Good to be GreenKilian Coyne
Green Energy Consulting is a UK energy consultancy that specializes in renewable electricity and gas. They provide services to help clients reduce energy expenditures, access bespoke services, and enhance their green credentials through continued management support. Their services include energy management, carbon management, water auditing, energy procurement, sustainability management, and helping clients obtain ISO certifications. They work with partners to provide additional services like funding assistance, energy efficient lighting, and feasibility studies. Green Energy Consulting aims to provide comprehensive solutions to help clients effectively manage their energy use and costs over the long term.
The Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way manufacturers can do business, enabling critical data to be supplied in real time and allowing smarter and faster decision-making processes across the end-to-end value chain. Let’s take a look at the scenario.
Presentation I gave at the Future Grid Forum in Sydney on 18 March 2015. Introducing ARENA's view on the challenges with integrating renewable energy and grids, and ARENA's draft investment priorities.
SPARK16 Presentation: IoT, Data, and New Business Models are Disrupting Build...Urjanet
The document discusses how Internet of Things (IoT), data, and new business models are disrupting building energy efficiency economics. It notes that IoT is enabling building intelligence through infrastructure for connectivity and data acquisition. This data can provide actionable insights and improvements when used with building energy management systems (BEMS) and analytics. However, barriers still exist including technology hurdles and issues related to people and organizational goals. New business models are emerging around IoT that involve recurring revenue models through offerings of devices, apps, services, and platforms.
Solair speech @Arduino Day 2015, 28th March 2015: who wants to discover how Solair uses Arduino to quickly prototype integrated sensors with its Cloud platform to develop IoT Applications? Watch this!
L'ABC per affrontare progetto IoT con SolairSolair
Come affrontare un progetto Internet of Things dall'ABC, dalle basi.
I progetti IoT creano valore quando impattano sui processi di business, altrimenti rimangono un esercizio isolato.
Ecco una breve guida per affrontare il progetto di un'applicazione collegandolo agli obiettivi aziendali di efficienza e performance.
SPARK16 Presentation: Connecting Facilities Performance Data with Your Real E...Urjanet
This document discusses the need for real estate investment strategies to integrate energy data with other facility performance data. It notes that considering total facility operating expenses beyond just energy can strengthen the business case for efficiency. Several large companies that have implemented comprehensive facility management systems are highlighted. The document predicts the market will consolidate around integrated workplace management systems that bring together various facility and real estate functions, while energy software becomes more specialized. Systems integrators and consultants are expected to drive further adoption of holistic facility optimization platforms.
Internet of Things (IoT) sta cambiando il modo in cui le aziende manifatturiere operano e producono. In particolare, l’IoT, attraverso la raccolta di dati sul campo, aiuta a prendere decisioni in real time, più veloci, più consapevoli, in tutte le fasi della catena del valore. Vediamo come.
The Internet of Things, with its software technology, sensors, networks and applications, allows to achieve new levels of productivity and efficiency in all industrial sectors.
Even the food industry is changing thanks to the IoT, involving all sectors and processes. Let's see how.
This document summarizes a presentation about renewable energy, the Internet of Things (IoT), and integration. It discusses Vattenfall/Nuon, a leading European utility company working on cloud, renewables, and customer strategies. It defines IoT as connecting smart devices and sensors to collect and analyze data. It presents examples of IoT solutions in various industries like energy, healthcare, transportation and more. It demonstrates how IoT devices can integrate with Microsoft Azure services like IoT Hub, Stream Analytics, Machine Learning to enable scenarios like predictive maintenance and remote monitoring. It includes a demo of a wind visualization use case integrating live wind farm data.
Manufacturing e Internet of Things: come trarre il massimo beneficio.Solair
"Manufacturing 2.0: Dal prodotto al prodotto servizio, le nuove tecnologie di Industrial Internet per il cambiamento del business model".
Il manifatturiero del futuro, ormai intrinsecamente globalizzato, deve trovare nuove strade per esprimersi e superare la competizione dei paesi low cost.
Una maggiore attenzione al cliente e alle sue esigenze pone le imprese industriali di fronte a nuovi modelli operativi, tra cui quello del passaggio da mere fornitrici di prodotti fisici a più articolati partner capaci di soddisfare i propri clienti con prodotti e servizi integrati. Questo fenomeno trova nelle moderne tecnologie IT web based una nuova spinta.
L'insieme di soluzioni ispirate al modello dell'Internet of Things, dai remote control, agli embedded sensors permettono infatti di trasformare i prodotti in oggetti intelligenti, attraverso cui erogare servizi a valore aggiunto ai clienti finali (es. telediagnostica, monitoraggio, verifica dei consumi, update, ecc.).
Il webinar, partendo da un inquadramento di contesto, intende approfondire in che modo tecnologia cloud e soluzioni end to end permettono, ad un costo variabile, di migliorare il livello di servizio e assicurare una maggiore redditività agli operatori ed al cliente finale.
Scopri gli altri eventi organizzati da Solair: http://www.solaircorporate.com/it/risorse/eventi
L’Internet of Things, con tutte le componenti di software, sensori, reti e applicazioni, è in grado di far raggiungere nuovi livelli di produttività ed efficienza a tutti i settori industriali.
Anche l‘industria alimentare sta cambiando pelle grazie all’IoT, coinvolgendo tutti i comparti e tutti i processi. Vediamo come.
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Demand response is key to making facilities more competitive and ensuring grid reliability in the face of increasing energy demands and costs. Implementing demand response strategies allows facilities to better manage energy use, reduce costs, and help utilities balance the grid. Tools like enterprise energy management systems and consumption workshops can help identify savings of up to 30% through strategic planning, automated demand management, and cross-facility collaboration. Case studies show global companies cutting annual energy bills by millions through centralized energy procurement and performance benchmarking across their portfolios.
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Advanced smart grid software designed to support DER management and optimize grid operations and planning works with a real-time network model, based on an accurate geodatabase and incorporating data from operational systems such as a supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) system and outage management system (OMS). Along with real-time visualization and monitoring of network status, this Advanced Distribution Management System – ADMS – provides a host of analytical tools that recommend the most optimal device operations, or optionally automate device operations, to maximize network efficiency and reliability. For example, the utility can apply Volt/VAR control to reduce feeder voltage automatically with no effect on the consumer. Detailed load profiling and load forecasting based on integrated weather feeds yield network load forecasting for effective renewables integration. Network simulation helps forecast medium-term and long-term load and supports effective development and planning.
ADMS functionality and tools are demonstrating that utilities can effectively manage demand without building large-scale generation.
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Professor Stuart White - 30th November 2011
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In the 1880s, Nikola Tesla invented the 3-phase 60 Hz technology still used in the North American electrical grid, which was then commercialized by George Westinghouse, who was competing with Thomas Edison.
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This conference will define what is a Smart Grid, outline its main objectives, present how it is being deployed, and discuss some on-going technological and societal challenges that the industry is facing.
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Stephen Lee presented on future system planning to meet new challenges. Some key points:
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- Foundations like situational awareness, models, and protection schemes need strengthening to improve reliability.
- New solutions are needed like optimal dispatch, aggregators, energy storage, and expanded transmission.
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Sierra Club: Making the World Safer with Local PowerRhys Gerholdt
This document summarizes a presentation about microgrids and their potential. It discusses how Pareto microgrids can (1) interconnect distributed energy resources without impacting the distribution system, (2) improve stability for the main power grid while allowing high penetration of renewables, and (3) provide reliable power during outages through autonomous operation with local control. The document provides examples of limitations utilities currently place on distributed generation and argues microgrids can solve issues around voltage regulation, overcurrent, and exceeding circuit limitations.
Foothill College's energy system includes 1.5 MW of solar PV, 250 KW of cogeneration, and utility power. The document discusses distributed generation, the intelligent grid, and a new electricity model with energy generation close to loads. It also examines the energy pulse of the campus throughout the day and the concept of "Energy Intelligence" which uses monitoring, modeling, and management of smart energy systems.
The document discusses the challenges of integrating renewable energy sources into the electric grid. As renewable energy production increases, challenges arise regarding transporting large amounts of energy over long distances from decentralized sources, as well as the inherent volatility of renewable supplies. Technologies such as high voltage DC transmission, energy storage solutions, demand side flexibility through smart grids, and wide area monitoring and control systems can help address these issues and enable renewable energy to become the backbone of the electric grid. However, technology alone is not enough - standards, regulations, and changes in social perspectives are also needed to fully integrate renewables.
Chris Hickman
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Business Model Innovation: Utility-Friendly, Consumer Valued, Regulator Accepted Solutions for the Future of Energy
Michael Hsieh (UC Berkley Extension) - Conférence TechnoArk 2013TechnoArk
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This document summarizes a presentation about smart water networks. It discusses how smart water networks use information technology to optimize water utility management with minimum capital expenditures. Examples are provided of smart water network implementations in Belo Horizonte, Brazil and Qatar that have helped reduce non-revenue water and improve maintenance practices. The conclusions emphasize that smart water networks can improve both operational and business benefits by maximizing existing IT systems and integrating data from different platforms through a centralized GIS system.
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2) Advanced analytics tools are highlighted that can optimize wind farm design and placement to increase efficiency. Remote monitoring technologies allow issues to be identified before failures occur.
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Copenhagen
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