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Ecodistricts and energy: what to do to make the dream finally come true?

In terms of energy, ecodistricts have seemed, in recent years, to be able to respond to many emerging challenges: the necessary development of renewable energies, better energy efficiency, greater commitment from local authorities and cities. [...]
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Guaranteed results or collaborative approach?

Why try to bring together these two trends that are emerging in force today in the energy world? Both refer to the concepts of trust and benefit: – Trust is the essential ingredient of a [...]
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Corona, thank you!

I am fully aware that I am a bit provocative with this title. But far from me, the idea of disrespecting those who suffered from this period. But beyond the negative aspects which have been [...]
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How to respond to such different consumers in the face of energy transitions?

Each consumer, residential, tertiary, industrial or even local authority, positions ifself in a very personal way with regard to energy transitions and their challenges. This positioning may be influenced by the consumer’s political orientations or [...]
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Surviving in a Smart City

The energy transition is not a concept: it is a reality that requires changes in everyone’s behavior. This is an aspect understood by many political decision-makers, which some use in a quasi-moralistic way: “You must [...]
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Why being stubborn to cut up the energy companies?

For several years, the European integrated utilities which had been built up over the past decades have been cut, modified, merged and undergo major changes in their scope of activity. Is what may seem like [...]
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Are energy communities not the true liberalization of the market?

The liberalization of the market has been on the agenda of European energy companies for 20 years. Imposed by regulation, it aimed to open the energy market to competition, electricity first, gas in a second [...]
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The electricity network: mandatory motorway or optional insurance?

This question is a symbol of ongoing developments in the energy field; channeling the production of centralized units to dispersed consumers requires a distribution infrastructure such as the networks we have been accustomed to, so [...]
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Proximity: a key element of energy companies’ strategy

The proximity of energy companies with their customers has been developed historically in some countries, where energy suppliers have remained local (Germany, Switzerland) or even regional (Austria, Finland). These local energy companies today generally enjoy [...]
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When will energy standards for buildings meet all expectations?

Until now, the building energy standards that have prevailed in Europe have been technical specifications recommending the implementation of technologies and solutions to achieve a partial technical performance. For example, this is the case in [...]
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Installers, keystone of energy transitions

Photovoltaic panels are flourishing on rooftops in Europe and around the world but, in the case of integrated installations, how many problems of sealing have been caused by this installation? We are now building very [...]
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European Utility Week 2019: the end of buzzwords?

While every visitor to EUW prepares to be bombarded with buzzwords, these buzzwords we’ve been overflowed with, EUW booked a surprise this year: the sobriety of the messages on the booths and in the conferences [...]
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Collective self-consumption: a regulatory affair?

After having explored this question about individual self-consumption a few weeks ago, it seems interesting to pay a special interest to the case of collective self-consumption. Although collective self-consumption and consumers’ communities respond to a [...]
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Will short channels win the world of energy?

We have seen short channels grow strongly in recent years in the distribution of food products. They seem to respond to a background trend that manifests itself in various ways: – Some consumers become more [...]
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Actors to follow: Eneco

The Dutch energy ecosystem is particularly innovative: it is not surprising for the local players to be of particular interest to all energy companies for their pioneering and innovative nature. Among them, the ENECO group. [...]
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Why local authorities have difficulties to play a significant role in energy?

Local authorities have been at the center of energy developments for a few years. Do they know it? I think so. The local dimension of some energy systems, district heating networks, geothermal energy, use of [...]
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Energy efficiency of industrial processes: a minefield rarely explored

Industrial processes offer a very important source of energy efficiency, all the more important to exploit as these processes are evolving and that a permanent attention is required to maintain a performance of good level. [...]
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Why ESCOs are not so successful in Europe?

The title of this article is already ambiguous considering that ESCOs have only one growth or business model. This is not the case. In their diversity of actions, these companies have been successful in the [...]
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Actors to follow: Shell

Shell is one of the majors of oil directly impacted by the decarbonization of energy. As at Total and BP, its direct competitors, Shell’s strategy anticipate a very strong evolution of its energy mix. Yesterday [...]
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Flexibility (already) in full revolution

Flexibility aggregators appeared some ten years ago to propose the participation of the consumer loads in the systems services and then to sell erasure blocks on the energy markets. Despite some promising developments some of [...]
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Individual self-consumption: a regulatory affair?

How not to speak of individual self-consumption as the subject fills the columns of newspapers and as this mechanism seems obvious in the context of energy transitions? what could be simpler than consuming the electron [...]
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Are big companies still able to innovate?

In order to optimize and standardize their operational performance, large companies have become enthusiasts of processes and procedures; they have codified their mode of operation, going as far as framing the management of innovation, supposed [...]
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Why are energy supplier’s offerings not meeting the hoped-for success?

A first trivial remark makes it possible to answer this question: the suppliers are often from the regulated world and are not used to the marketing process. Customers are not segmented and needs are considered [...]
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Are concentrated markets really innovative?

The question seems incongruous. Why should we ask it? It seems to me more and more necessary to accelerate the energy and / or ecological transition: for that, innovation and changes are necessary. It is [...]
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2019: Summer of all extremes

The summer break is always conducive to taking a step back, necessary to better understand trends, better observe behaviors and positions. This summer was particularly rich in lessons. On the one hand, climate has increased [...]