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Smart cities : Myth or reality

13 March 2017 eric morel 0

The cities seem suddenly taken with a frenetic appetite for technology: they all knock at the door of the digital world: they become SMART, in other words, intelligent. What are the foundations of this movement? What is the real power of technologies? Is the real […]

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Fragmented energy markets are more dynamic

6 March 2017 eric morel 0

In a country, does the historical structuring of the energy market influence its current dynamism? This is the question that comes to mind when we compare the dynamics of different countries in terms of energy policy and change. Indeed, the stakes are the same for […]

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NZEB: a step forward or backward for energy efficiency?

27 February 2017 eric morel 0

Building thermal regulations have evolved over the last few decades in different European countries by tightening the thermal performance requirements of buildings to asymptotic levels of performance that will now be expensive to exceed. The main challenge now lies in the effective and radical improvement […]

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Energy poverty: cities have a circle to square

6 February 2017 eric morel 0

In 2010, more than 13% of French households are considered in a precarious energy situation, ie spend more than 10% of their budget on energy-related expenditure. This situation is unfortunately not peculiar to France and the trend is not to improve. Although in most countries […]

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Are Smart Cities to be all electric?

30 January 2017 eric morel 0

The great electric manufacturers dream of it: they describe a luminous future world where everything will be more electric than today. Will the Smart Cities fit in with this trend? Does this vision make sense for the cities? Or is it only an incantation launched […]

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Should the services business of a utility be run by a subsidiary?

16 January 2017 eric morel 0

All energy suppliers (electricity, gas, heat) have, in recent years, developed services offers and activities. The first services offered were aimed at improving the customer-supplier relationship, the customer’s “experience” with the energy supplier. Internet portals, customer areas, digitized and explained invoices, consumption histories have been […]

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