Just a few weeks ago, Bloomberg New Energy Finance published an update of the levelized costs of electricity. According to BNEF, in the United Kingdom and Germany, wind power costs respectively $85 and $80 / MWh and is now considerably expensive than electricity generated by […]
About energy efficiency, we know the audits, the bulbs that consume less energy, thermal renovation of buildings, energy boxes and many other contributions. But can we say all these actions represent what can be energy efficiency? The desire to reduce energy consumption is recent. It […]
The largest event dedicated to the Smart Grid industry in Europe has just ended. The various players have left me the impression of a return to the basics of their business. Is it because of economic difficulties and tensions in various markets? Or, is this […]
The amounts invested in smart meters deployments make business plans and cost-benefit analysis of these projects essential for the comfort of policymakers and investors. While completing cost-benefit analysis, one parameter appeared to me more important than the others: the amount of energy savings achievable thanks […]
The Smart Cities, even designed a very limited way, like a cluster of communicating applications, generate data, colossal amounts of data. These datasets represent, rightly, a providential future for the IT industry. This is why all major IT systems vendors redouble their imagination to promote […]
We have seen in previous articles that following its consumption does not lead a citizen to engage in energy savings and that an achieved performance is not necessarily permanent. The involvement of citizens in an energy efficiency approach is a gradual process that meets very […]
In each country that had the means, support schemes have enabled the development of renewable energy, including solar. These schemes theoretically compensate the lack of competitiveness of new energy, when production relies on insufficiently mature technologies to be competitive. They have had perverse effects with […]
I often hear confusion about the different types of energy. The different categories under which we classify today “new” energies are based on intentions and stakes. Here is a clarification of clusters and related stakes. An energy source is said renewable if it is once […]
The successful development of a Smart City passes the following two mandatory challenges: an improved durability, ie a performance that is sustained over years, and the respect for the environment and a better consideration of the citizen, its needs and aspirations (I shall return more […]
The energy storage in general, and especially the electricity storage, is now often seen as a potential “killer application” of the energy market, making intermittent energy sources such as solar and wind power, more desirable. Beyond a certain level of penetration of these energy sources, […]
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