Tag: solar
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Energy System Resilience: Lessons Europe Must Learn from Ukraine
While decentralised power enhances resilience, by itself it is insufficient. Lessons from Ukraine reveal that energy security now relies on robust infrastructure capable of withstanding attacks and disruptions. Preparedness, strategic planning, and logistics are crucial for restoring power swiftly, ensuring system durability amidst crises.
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Solar’s Second Sunrise: Why the Next Decade Will Outshine Everything We’ve Seen So Far
Solar energy’s remarkable evolution from costly beginnings to becoming the cheapest power source today, means unprecedented growth and innovation ahead.
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Why You Can’t Drone a Solar Panel: Electrification and Europe’s New Energy Security
Europe’s energy vulnerability was exposed by disruptions, highlighting the need for renewable electrification. Reports show a major shift towards clean energy, emphasizing its security and affordability benefits.
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Digital Supply Chain – Women in Supply Chain a chat with @circular_nomad and @supplychnqueen
As well as running the Digital Supply Chain podcast, and the Industry 4.0 themed series of podcasts, I decided to also spin up a new series – themed around the topic of Women in Supply Chain. This series will strive to highlight the stories of women leaders in Supply Chain to attempt to address the…
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Three Industries Where Technology Is Reducing Our Carbon Footprint
The science is in. We need to significantly reduce our carbon emissions to limit the amount of warming our planet undergoes as a consequence of climate change. The good news is, technology is rising up to meet this challenge. The bad news is it needs to do far more, and do it faster. How…
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Internet of Things, renewables and storage – a perfect storm for utilities’ digital transformation
Without doubt it is a time of great turbulence in the electric utilities space. In most regions globally, wind and solar are now our cheapest sources of electricity generation, even without subsidies. As a consequence of this, wind has overtaken nuclear, hydro and coal to become the second largest source of electricity generation in EU…
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Will the price of oil ever increase again?
The price of oil collapsed in early 2014, and hasn’t rebounded since then. With more oil in proven reserves than we can ever use, a softening demand, and Saudi Arabia getting off oil, will prices ever go back up again?
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The future of electric utilities – change and disruption ahead
The utilities industry has typically been change averse, and often for good reasons, but with the technological advances of the past few years, the low carbon imperative, and pressure from customers, utilities are going to have to figure out how to disrupt their business, or they will themselves be disrupted. I gave the opening keynote…