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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Software developers’ increasing interest in sustainability projects revealed by survey

Envirotec Magazine

Main focus to date has been sustainable development – close to 70% of respondents have worked on projects in this area, followed by energy and power at 57%, natural resources at 51%, and transport and mobility at 49%. Some 66% of developers who worked on transport and mobility projects focused on EVs.

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Fast Company Honors CLP Power for Beating the Heat in Hong Kong

AutoGrid

This year, in the Sustainability/Energy category, the magazine is honoring AutoGrid’s customer CLP Power , the utility serving Hong Kong. Missions” Critical In the face of July 2021’s extreme heatwave, CLP Power’s Energy-Saving Missions program was able to curtail power consumption across 600,000 Hong Kong households.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

But big companies and startups alike are exploring how blockchain could change everything from contracts, corporate compliance, and auditing to digital identity and voting, supply chain tracking, and even building a smart, carbon-free electric grid. In parallel, how much energy we use swings wildly during the day.