I recently got to visit the FOSDEM 2023 conference, and also speak about our work (video below). Together with some other folks at Linux Energy Foundation, we had organized the first energy devroom. Picture by Jonas van den Bogaard (Alliander) All the talks were very well attended and we got great questions. Hopefully, open source…
In our opinion, the same code that runs your simulations for energy optimization should also run in production, when you actually control your flexible assets in real time. This will decrease your time-to-market as well as your chances of failure, and it will give you more strategic options during operations. Why? 1. After the simulation…
Ard adds a calendar item for his Nissan Leaf car on his phone, … suspended silence… “Click” The Quasar EV charger springs into action and charges Ard’s Nissan Leaf, in expectation of him needing the car soon. The needles on our HomeAssistant app are switching, as well. V2G@Home demo in Utrecht, NL Smiles all around.…
The V2G@Home Living Lab we do together with Ard Jonker of Positive Design has closed the optimisation loop, with an eye on usability! As stated before, optimizing charging in a V2G situation with flexible tariffs, fluctuating solar and random car usage requires smart machine learning in the cloud. This meant we have to bring FlexMeasures…
Things are moving here at Seita Energy Flexibility! We are happy to announce a month of Firsts: The first energy flexibility service based on top of our FlexMeasures platform: GripOnGas The first successful pilot together with our corporate partner Fudura The first SaaS subscriber to our hosting support. The story told as it unfolded during…
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…
