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Blockchain technology – a threat to distribution network operators?
intelligent energy storage system from Sonnen Network operators should get involved soon in blockchain technology. If they miss the digital revolution, it will threaten their business model in the...
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Interview Sytse Zuidema, CEO EV charging leader NewMotion: “Charging at home...
Over the next five years the European mobility market – as well as the electricity market – will undergo a transformation, says Sytse Zuidema, CEO of NewMotion, Europe’s largest EV charging company,...
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Energiewende enters a new phase – how is it performing?
The Energiewende is proceeding ahead of schedule with high grid reliability, writes researcher Schalk Cloete. However, costs are much higher than originally planned, while CO2emissions are stagnating....
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Trading platforms and VPPs find profitable niches – and this is only the start
Trading platforms and virtual power plants are growing rapidly in advanced electricity markets in Europe, writes energy expert and author Fereidoon Sioshansi. According to Sioshansi, the first...
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Subsidy-free solar: how a solar farm in southeast England could bring a new...
The largest solar power plant ever proposed in the UK will be reviewed by the secretary of state within the next six months. The plan is for Cleve Hill to generate the lowest cost electricity on the UK...
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Is coal power “dispatchable”?
Hazlewood power station in Victoria As the clash over climate and energy policy in Australia reaches fever pitch – with the new ultra-conservative Prime Minister, Scott Morrison, appointing a fierce...
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Replacing copper with negawatts—how the UK’s RIIO-2 could revolutionise...
Ofgem’s recent framework decision on improving its performance-based regulation scheme, RIIO, indicates that it may be ready to take a much-needed step toward levelling the playing field between...
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Interview Ditlev Engel, CEO DNV GL Energy: “We have to rethink the mechanisms...
DNV GL’s new 2018 Energy Transition Outlook projects a massive investment shift from fossil fuels to renewables and grids – and this is based mainly on cost considerations. Yet, notes Ditlev Engel,...
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DNV GL’s Energy Transition Outlook shows massive shift of investment from oil...
The global energy transition will lead to a massive expansion of power lines at all voltage levels as well as a steep growth in the number of transformers and substations in the electricity system....
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How the micro-grid solar solution can realize electrification in remote regions
Promoted content – Micro-grids (solar PV and storage) are ideal to achieve rapid electrification in remote areas, but their implementation still faces many obstacles, writes Long Sheng of Huawei. The...
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Why we need a blackout
Blackout in New York City in 2003 The risk of a cyber-attack that will take down the power system is seriously underestimated, writes financial energy specialist Gerard Reid. To prevent future...
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Huawei’s eLTE-DSA technology ushers in the Age of Wireless Power IoT
PROMOTED CONTENT – Huawei is building the world’s leading wireless power IOT in cooperation with the State Grid of China. Huawei’s eLTE-DSA technology ensures low latency, low power consumption, easy...
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The fight over power networks in the EU: will national TSOs become...
The EU is discussing how far and how fast it can take regional cooperation among Transmission System Operators (TSOs). The European Commission and Parliament want to give entities for regional...
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We have a decade to prevent dangerous climate change: these 10 policies can...
The climate change challenge is not technical nor even economic, but a matter of enacting the right policies, writes Silvio Marcacci, Communications Director at San Francisco-based think tank Energy...
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Utilities are starting to invest in big batteries instead of building new...
There has been a dramatic drop in battery costs in recent years. Jeremiah Johnson and Joseph F. DeCarolis, of North Carolina State University, say if this continues grid-scale batteries could supplant...
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The European Battery Alliance is moving up a gear
Europe needs batteries, primarily for clean mobility and grid stabilisation. But EU lithium-ion cell manufacturing is less than 3% of the global share, and mainly for high-end niche markets, not the...
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Smart Charging: parked EV batteries can save billions in grid balancing
95% of a car’s time is spent parked. It’s why parked and plugged-in EVs could be the battery banks of the future, stabilising grids powered by wind and solar. More than 1bn EVs could be on the road by...
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Overbuild solar: it’s getting so cheap curtailment won’t matter
Avoiding curtailment made sense when solar generation was extremely expensive: don’t build solar beyond what you can store. However, that means solar must always wait for storage costs to decline and...
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Germany 2021: when fixed feed-in tariffs end, how will renewables fare?
Starting in 2021 many of Germany’s existing “pioneer” wind turbines, solar PV installations and biogas plants – launched with generous price guarantees – will stop receiving fixed feed-in tariffs. That...
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