The notion of demand response sends back to us most of the time to the answers brought to the mechanisms of load balancing. These mechanisms, generally managed by the transmission system operator, can have several supports: adjustment mechanism, capacity market. They can give rise to […]
Digital projects sometimes raise question to the citizens: the intelligent meters for example. Others are well accepted: the quasi-generalization of the high-speed Internet access. What characteristic differentiates them so that the welcome, which is reserved for them, is so different while the associated objective risks […]
Today the district heating networks feed 10 % of the European housing. This figure hides important disparities; the percentage is higher in Northern and Eastern Europe than in Western and Southern European countries and in some big countries: Iceland (92 %), Denmark (61 %), Poland […]
The buildings of rented dwellings, private or public, present characteristics that are not, at first sight, favourable to the success of energy efficiency initiatives. In Europe, the structure of the rental market varies strongly from a country to the other one and influences the exposure […]
A micro-grid, a district heating network, are before any local initiatives, that are at the heart of the energy concerns of a Smart City. They allow defining an energy mix that is optimized for a limited perimeter, that presents a major, inaccessible interest on the […]
All Smart Grids (and Smart Cities!) initiatives seem to lead to Smart Metering. The object of this article is not to discuss the legitimacy of this assertion. But we notice easily that the deployment of smart meters represents a very important cost for the utilities […]
Monitoring of consumption seems to be the Holy Grail of energy efficiency. The number of suppliers in this field is impressive. Undoubtedly, this concern is omnipresent: Hundreds of articles and numerous conferences debating each month of the pressing need that every citizen can follow its […]
To raise this question means asking, one more time, the definition of a Smart City. That can be justifiable at the first hours of this blog. All the more justifiable as everything becomes certified “Smart City”: the slightest urban area getting modernized, the slightest conference […]
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