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Smart meters 3: are they dangerous for our health?

3 October 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Smart Cities: A need for a new public-private cooperation

19 September 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Smart Meters 2: are they really expensive?

12 September 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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The myth of the global offer

5 September 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Smart City: a legacy for the History?

29 August 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Smart Meters 1: are they really useful?

25 July 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Utilities face paradox with transverse projects

11 July 2016 eric morel 0

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 […]

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Recycling, future energy challenge?

4 July 2016 eric morel 0

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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