In every city and in every country, bloom pilot projects, demonstrators and various types of tests. The launch of such a project is enough to attract journalists to a city claiming itself to be a Smart City, in short, feeding the buzz. But, why so […]
In recent years, major technological advances in the digital domain focus attention and investment: cloud applications, mobile applications, Internet of things etc … Their deployment in the area of the city stands out as an inevitable trend and opportunities seem an inexhaustible source of innovations. In […]
The Smart Cities have an intrinsic intelligence associated with the smart systems that are deployed for a greater security, a better resilience after natural disasters, a more efficient management of transport and many other fields. Many also feel the need to develop the City governance, […]
The case of electrical distribution networks is very significant of the matter. Until today, they are organized hierarchically for transmitting electricity from large power plants to consumption places. They were logically operated centrally. Centralized control and monitoring systems are “connected” to the main sub-stations, to […]
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 […]
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