The steering challenge: SNB processes 410,000 tonnes of waste water sludge every year ― 30% of the Dutch sludge produce. SNB operators need to keep their high-temperature facility in good state at all times. For instance, the oven temperature always has to stay within bounds. Now they are also asked to reduce fossil fuel consumption.…
The steering challenge: How can an electric vehicle, with all its energy flexibility potential, be integrated into a home setting, or small business environment? To maximize own solar energy consumption, to buy low and sell high, to use green energy ― preferably, all of the above! We apply our open source FlexMeasures platform to the…
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…
