Today, in all European countries, with a more or less enthusiastic impulse and more or less coercive regulation, the gas and electricity markets are liberalizing and opening up to competition to an expected benefit for consumers. The former energy monopolies discover the laws of open […]
All Smart Cities claim to be the pioneer, the first. Taken at random from publications, there are many examples: – « La Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, classée comme smart city pionnière » (Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis ranked as smart city pioneer) – « Lyon, pionnière de la smart […]
It may seem incongruous to talk about a strategy for a network operator: in fact, it operates in a regulated environment in order to operate, in a monopoly position, a network, according to rules laid down by the legislator and the energy regulator. In the […]
Most of the Smart Cities incorporate an environmental component in their program: reduction of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, waste treatment, etc. Depending on the country, they face a skepticism or an inertia that is more or less important and relies on a proactive citizen base […]
Storage, solar and wind are linked by common interests: storage clearly helps to develop and value intermittent energies, enabling production to be stored, as long as the optimal conditions for consumption or distribution are met. But these technologies have another characteristic in common: for each […]
Nuclear power is a completely special subject: it is extremely rare to read expert opinions about it that are not partisan, that are not influenced from an excessive emotional character. The opinions are always without nuance, and rank immediately in the camp of “pros” or […]
Historically, demand response has been designed as load shedding, a response to various problems encountered by power distribution networks: reduction of the peak consumption, reduction of congestions, avoidance of blackout. It consisted of interrupting some loads on command or on schedule at appropriate times. Although […]
A wind of technological renewal is blowing strongly on the final energy sector today. The novelties succeed one another and worry the most traditional actors: demand response, IoT, blockchain, storage, data security. The boldest energy companies test them, one after the other, to evaluate their […]
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 […]
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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