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Apprenticeship launched in the UK to combat smart meter ‘dumb mode’

Smart Energy International

Utilita Energy and Cheshire College South and West have launched a new-style smart metering apprenticeship, designed to overcome many of the communications issues engineers face during a smart meter installation, namely smart meters being left in a ‘dumb mode’, whereby data is not sent to the supplier.

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An Open Letter: The Texas Energy Transition—The Greentown Labs Community Offers Pathways to a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future

Greentown Labs

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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Your ‘Love Is Blind’ addiction is not heating the planet … yet

Grist

billion — Fortune Magazine published a more-alarming statistic : Streaming the nearly five-minute video that many times required as much computing power “as 40,000 U.S. And all that computational activity takes energy. That’s mainly thanks to improvements in energy efficiency. homes use in a year.”.

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Energy-efficient Luxembourg library follows cradle-to-cradle principles

AGreenLiving

After five years of construction, architecture firm BOLLES+WILSON has completed the new home for the Bibliothèque National du Luxembourg, a visually striking and energy-efficient building that consolidates the Luxembourg national library’s immense collection of materials and functions. Located on the main thoroughfare of Avenue John F.

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? The bits and bytes of grid tech

Climate Tech VC

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun. As electricity demand rises to meet population growth and the electrification transition, so does the need to expand and strengthen the grid.

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Grid enhancing technologies find a place in FERC’s ANOPR on transmission planning

Renewable Energy World

FERC is looking for comments on transmission planning, cost allocation, and generator interconnection processes since this could be one of the most important transmission planning orders from FERC since Order 2003. MISO Independent Market Monitor (IMM) also supports DLRs.

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Embracing Green - 3 Environmentally-Conscious Teams and Leagues in Sports

Living Green Technology

Here’s a brief on the efforts made by the top three of such nature-lovers: National Hockey League (NHL) Large energy usage is inherent in ice hockey leagues. Philadelphia Eagles Philadelphia Eagles have been committed to their Go Green program to reduce their environmental impact since 2003. of their waste.