The third chapter of our saga on smart meters leads us on a particularly sensitive ground: the health of the consumers. Incidentally, the smart meters have awakened in many countries, a longstanding controversy, hardly fed for decades by the radio ham community: the harmful nature and […]
In a recent post, I discussed the necessity for companies, that supply solutions, to group together to propose more value to Smart Cities than the single deployment of a simple collection of smart applications. To have the most global possible offer does not modify this […]
Towns, cities and other local entities, like all their counterparts have long functioned independently of private actors. Both, treat public and private, had their areas of competence and influence clearly defined and distinct. Even their advisors were different and responded to opposite logic. The tenders […]
Second chapter of our saga on Smart Meters after the first episode dedicated to their usefulness: critics often argue about their costs, supposedly exorbitant . What is it really the situation? The total cost of deploying smart meters may impress and give credibility to the […]
The evolution of energy systems, that I have been describing for several months in this blog, becomes more and more cross-functional and requires links between previously independent elements, eg between the electricity distribution network, heat and cooling systems and gas storage facilities. The links between energy […]
The configuration of cities and their development has always been closely linked to the history of peoples and of individual destinies. For centuries, cities have organized themselves around the castles of kings, tsars and emperors which were the centres where power was exercised. Later, cities […]
The deployment of Linky smart meters by Enedis (the new brand name of the French DNO) in France results in an emotional release of some journalists and consumers on the Web and in newspapers. Truths and lies mix: the public does not find his benefit […]
In energy efficiency or renewable energy, we have observed the recent and dramatic advances in materials and techniques of performance, compactness and environmental friendliness for insulating, performance and innovation of heating systems and ventilation, new lighting technologies, more efficient PV systems etc … Yet, the […]
I have already mentioned many times the imbalance introduced into the process in place to manage power grids by intermittent energy sources. Utilities move today from a situation where power generation had to adapt to variations in demand to a situation where consumption and production […]
Considering the combination of the concept of recycling with the world of energy immediately leads to the mountain that stands in front of us: the dismantling of the first nuclear power plants. At the risk of being provocative, I do not think this is the […]
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