The UK says it wants to keep or even expand its close ties with the European Union energy market after Brexit, but it might not get what it wants if the country leaves the EU with no deal in 2019. Gas and electricity will continue to be traded between the two, but the risks of […]
How a new utility project could give voice-assistant devices like Amazon’s Alexa and Google Assistant real-world energy and behavioural insights to share with their owners.
Voice-assistant device platforms like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant could give utilities a huge new opportunity to engage their customers — if they can answer questions about energy and bills with real personalised […]
Scottish Power has become the first major UK energy firm to completely drop fossil fuels in favour of wind power, after selling off its remaining gas and hydro stations to Drax for £702m.
While customers will still get some electricity from non-green sources that the company has purchased from other operators, the firm indicated it would now be freed up to invest more […]
Flexitricity has landed almost £500k of government funding in order to try and bring smaller companies – and smaller sites of larger companies – into demand-side response (DSR).
Most aggregators have traditionally focused on larger companies with megawatt scale load and generation assets due to cost of sales and market entry. National Grid’s systems and procurement […]
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) met in South Korea earlier this week and released their starkest warning yet on the threat posed by climate change.
The Special Report on Global Warming highlighted a number of climate change impacts that could be avoided by limiting global warming to 1.5°C instead of 2°C. For example, at 2°C: […]
During the design phase of the HOLISDER project, the Demand Response framework architecture was developed.
It covers, in a holistic manner, demand-side flexibility into energy markets, by enabling end-to-end interoperability between platforms and devices and participation of end-users as active stakeholders (see Figure 1).
Figure 1. HOLISDER Framework Architecture.
The HOLISDER platform consists of 3 interconnected and interleaved […]
New research from Siemens Financial Services (SFS) estimates the potential for self-financed conversion to smart buildings in commercial buildings, government buildings and hospitals
Private sector finance solutions, known as “Smart Buildings as a Service”, capture future savings from energy efficiency and then deploy those savings to ‘self-finance’ smart buildings conversion
The study notes that […]
The World Energy Outlook is the gold standard of long-term energy analysis. The 2018 edition provides updated analysis to show what the latest data, technology trends and policy announcements might mean for the energy sector to 2040. It also outlines an integrated way to meet multiple sustainable development goals: limiting the global temperature rise in […]
National Grid expects “significant solar growth” for decades to come, even in its most conservative modelling of the UK’s future energy mix.
According to its annual Future Energy Scenarios report, solar capacity will double from around 14GW today, to at least 28GW by 2050. It could reach 65GW.
A more immediate effect of solar’s rise is on minimum […]
Demand-Side Response event 2018 – The Banking Hall, London
Adapting to Change
The energy market is changing fast. Policy and regulatory decisions made over the last 12 months will have significant bearing on demand-side response economics. National Grid’s changes to service procurement will also reward those with more flexible strategies. Meanwhile, competition is starting to affect traditional […]
