This idea is not new: I take it for myself. Let us remind ourselves of the main stakes of a Smart City: from one city to another, they are never the same because the “Smart City” is only an additional evolution of a city, allowed […]
The great genetic overhaul of the energy sector started some years ago. Energy companies that were used to sell fluids in protected and regulated environments begin to sell energy services in a highly competitive context. The manufacturers of electro-technical products expand their offerings and now […]
“Transactive grids” is an iconic American project related to the subject. The project intends to build a residential micro-grid, a self-producers community located at Brooklyn, sharing their own electricity. The size of this community is not proportional to the number of articles that revealed its […]
The main European summit for Utilities dedicated to Smart energy has just finished. It helped to take the pulse of the industry and see what facade it offers today to its customers. Because, more and more, this is, for the participating vendors, a pure exercise […]
Along with the constraints and difficulties that emerged in the US utilities’ market in the early 2000s, I had imagined that the utilities would seek to quickly optimize the maintenance of its physical assets through a more comprehensive approach. As the US markets are sometimes […]
To deliver EPCs (energy performance contracts) profitably request to meet very specific conditions: among them, access to capital, support for investments, a perfect financial and legal control of the process, a high degree of industrialization of the model, leaving no room for improvisation and banning […]
As part of their energy policy and particularly of energy efficiency, the main challenge faced by cities is the financing of the thermal rehabilitation of buildings. In this context, the use of third party financing through Energy Performance Contracts often imposed itself as a mean […]
This last post about reactions observed about Smart Meters addresses a topic that is very variably perceived according to countries and individuals: invasion of privacy. This is probably the subject about which our imagination is most active. I often read about smart meters “These meters […]
Throughout my assignments with utilities to assist them in redesigning their strategy or in the management of their digitization project, this question appeared to me to be at the heart of the concerns of my clients. First, watching and describing the current market for European […]
I recently spoke about the need for cities and local authorities to develop new types of partnerships. But are these partnerships sufficient to enable them to successfully achieve their transition to a Smart City? It seems that they are sufficient to successfully deploy a collection […]
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