A short opinion piece, about energy fairness and cooperation as a consequence of local and time-of-use energy prices. Local and time-of-use electricity prices can reduce energy bills, says a British think tank: “Such a system would encourage electric car drivers in Cornwall to charge their vehicles when its sunny and those in Aberdeenshire to charge…
When thinking about Energy Flexibility ― which we need to unlock for a successful climate mitigation future ― it’s easy to get overwhelmed by the complexity of that challenge. Focus is crucial! We focus locally when working on energy flexibility. David Sykes, of Octopus Energy, does a great job in this article to create priority.…
We believe open source software is a corner-stone of modern IT, and we’re proud that this month, we were able to contribute. Here, we describe how much work is behind such a simple bugfix. We use many libraries every day, one of them being Pandas, the popular data analysis / manipulation library for Python. With…
This news probably isn’t exciting to you, but we believe it should be: A microgrids industry is about to emerge, and it’s not just hospitals and military facilities. Big players like Schneider Electric are preparing to roll out a microgrid service offering applicable to buildings with an electrical load under 5 MW – this represents…
We’re improving drinking water distribution with data, together with MeterInsight and Brabant Water N.V. ! We’ll be using smart algorithms on sensor data in real time to detect consumption anomalies and provide informative historical reports.
It’s great to be enthusiastic about technology. But to actually help our customers, we should put more emphasis on being helpful – customer value comes before enthusiasm for your subject.
