4 Factors That Could Affect a Solar Street Light Proposal
There are many different factors to consider when putting together a solar street light proposal. Not many people know all the considerations required, but here is a list of a…
Efficiency Retrofit Project For 5,000 Public Housing Units Kicks Off In Hawaii
The project will replace all incandescent lighting with LEDs, install high-efficiency shower and faucet fixtures, and put in protective and energy-saving Advanced Power Strips. HPHA is publicly owned housing for lower-income and transitional…
Tesla Solar Roof Orders Starting In April
Tesla’s various solar roof products will become available for order for the first time starting in April, CEO Elon Musk revealed in a tweet yesterday.As far as when deliveries and…
New Google Rooftop Solar Tool Says 80% Of US Roofs Are Suitable For Solar Panels
Google has updated its Project Sunroof to include 3-D models of every rooftop in all 50 states. The new software takes into consideration the trees on your property, how…
Europe’s first large-scale battery factory hopes to emulate Tesla’s Gigafactory
Peter Carlsson worked as Tesla’s head of supply chain up to 2015 and has since co-founded Nordic energy firm Northvolt AB. The firm has today (7 March) received a €3.5m…
Green buildings primed to assist Government with national policies
The construction and property industry is "eager" to work with the UK Government to boost housebuilding standards, improve economic growth and help achieve binding carbon targets, but this will only…
How smart city technology is connecting Europeans
Urban sprawl is the reality for two out of three people living in Europe. This edition of Real Economy comes from the Spanish city of Valencia. As we move to…
Joint press conference of Andries Piebalgs and Janez Potocnik on Strategic Energy Technology plan
nZEB-RETROFIT: Achieving nearly zero-energy buildings – A lifecycle assessment approach to retrofitting existing buildings
NGUI - Informatics Research Unit for Sustainable Engineering The overall goal of this project is to examine the effectiveness of innovative building structural elements and systems, regarding their structural, environmental…
DESI: The Digital Economy and Society Index – European KPI framework
Denmark, Finland, Sweden and the Netherlands have the most advanced digital economies in the EU followed by Luxembourg, Belgium, the UK and Ireland. Romania, Bulgaria, Greece and Italy have the lowest…
Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality and Ericsson sign smart city partnership
Having transformed Istanbul into a 'city brand', Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality (IMM) has signed a cooperation agreement for a smart city consultancy project with Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC). Under the umbrella of the…
Amazon.com plans big solar-power rollout at warehouses
Amazon.com is putting the idle rooftops of a significant portion of its massive warehouses to work — by installing solar panels. The e-commerce giant says it will place solar power-generating…
PERFORMER: results consolidated into three categories – public deliverables, newsletters and case studies
PERFORMER latest achievements, as well as other useful resources and links will be shared in this section to favour scientific, industrial and public awareness. PERFORMER public deliverables PERFORMER newsletters PERFORMER…
PERFORMER: report published on the solution for building and district monitoring protocol
The PERFORMER solution can be utilised in a range of buildings to help manage and optimise energy usage. However, buildings are rarely, if ever, exactly the same and hence deployment…
Workshops of SP2016
MAS²TERING: Highlighting the groups collaborating on smart grid business convergence
The MAS²TERING Community consists of selected groups or individuals that contribute either directly or through similar topics surrounding prosumer community technologies, listed as follows: ADVISORY GROUP – a group of smart…
STREAMER: A look at the partners within the project consortium
The STREAMER consists of 19 partners: 12 industrial partners (7 large companies + 5 SMEs + 1 non-profit private hospital), 4 research organisations, and 3 public bodies (hospital institutions). The STREAMER…
STREAMER: Rationale and demonstrations is four hospital districts with EeB design plans
Here is some background information about the state-of-the-art that forms the starting point for the research within STREAMER, whose results will be validated in the 4 real projects involving the Implementers Communities.…
MAS²TERING: Flexibility management demonstrated to show the need for the MAS platform solution
The MAS²TERING project can be sumarized as: Impact Methodology Pillar 1 – Interoperability Pillar 2 – Security and Reliability Pillar 3 – Holonic Architecture & Distributed Optimization Pillar 4 –…
Building integrated photovoltaics from PV-SITES project: Europe’s next wave of renewables
The PVSITES project is addressing the barriers and challenges to large scale deployment of building integrated solar PV in Europe.In towns and cities around the world there is a whole…
Demand response: National Grid to help businesses save $3.6bn
National Grid’s new demand response programme claims to help business customers save thousands of dollars in electricity.US electricity and natural gas delivery company National Grid has put into place the…
Reform of EU carbon trading scheme agreed
The agreement to reform the emissions trading system comes after almost two years’ of discussions but just two weeks after the European parliament voted in favour of a new directive.…