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The sharing economy is now affecting the energy markets

28 November 2016 eric morel 0

“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 […]

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European Utility Week: between myths and reality

21 November 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Is it time for maintenance 2.0 at utilities today?

14 November 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Are facilitators catalysts or gravediggers of EPCs

7 November 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]