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  • Smart Energy: technology leaders?

    Smart Energy: technology leaders?

    Smart meters and smart devices are capable of transmitting and receiving real-time consumption data and instructions. This data-file tracks 40 leading companies, mostly at the venture and growth stages. They help lower demand, smooth grid volatility and encourage appliance upgrades.

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  • Smart Wires: grid capacity breakthroughs?

    Smart Wires: grid capacity breakthroughs?

    This Smart Wires technology review finds that Static Synchronous Series Compensators (SmartValve) and dynamic line rating software (SUMO) can increase throughput along existing transmission lines by 20-100%+. The patents confer a visible moat around SmartValve and focus on improving electrical performance reducing deployment costs.

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  • Kraken Technologies: smart grid breakthrough?

    Kraken Technologies: smart grid breakthrough?

    Kraken Technologies is an operating system, harnessing big data across the power value chain, from asset optimization, to grid balancing, to utility customer services. We reviewed ten patents, which all harness big data, of which 65% optimize aspects of the grid, and 40% are using AI. This supports the deployment of distributed energy, renewables and…

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  • Sentient Energy: smart grid breakthrough?

    Sentient Energy: smart grid breakthrough?

    This data-file is a technology review for Sentient Energy, assessing innovations in smart grids. Its technology can achieve energy savings via a combination of “Conservation Voltage Reduction” and “Volt-VAR optimization at the grid edge”. This also helps to integrate more solar and EV charging into power grids. We explain the technology.

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  • Weatherization of homes: what methods and costs?

    Weatherization of homes: what methods and costs?

    The weatherization of 2M American homes is part of Joe Biden’s proposed energy policy, in order to reduce heating costs and emissions. Hence, this data-file estimates the costs and payoffs of attic insulation, air sealing, window upgrades, window coverings and smart thermostats.

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  • Building automation: energy savings, KNX case studies and companies?

    Building automation: energy savings, KNX case studies and companies?

    High-quality building automation typically saves 30-40% of the energy needed for lighting, heating and cooling a building. This matters amidst energy shortages, and reduces payback times on $100-500k up-front capex. This data-file aggregates case studies of KNX energy savings, and screens 70 companies, from Capital Goods giants to private pure-plays.

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  • Demand shifting: electrical flexibility by industry?

    Demand shifting: electrical flexibility by industry?

    Demand shifting flexes electrical loads in a power grid, to smooth volatility and absorb more renewables. This database scores technical potential and economical potential of different electricity-consuming processes to shift demand, across materials, manufacturing, industrial heat, transportation, utilities, residential HVAC and commercial loads.

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  • Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?

    Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?

    Power grids move electricity from the point of generation to the point of use, while aiming to maximize the power quality, minimize costs and minimize losses. Broadly defined, global power grids and power electronics investment must step up 5x in the energy transition, from a $750bn pa market to over $3.5trn pa. But this theme…

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  • Australia energy supply-demand model?

    Australia energy supply-demand model?

    Australia’s useful energy consumption rises from 820TWH pa in 2023, by 1.2% pa 1,100 TWH pa in 2050. As a world-leader in renewables, it makes for an interesting case study. This Australia energy supply-demand model is disaggreated across 215 line items, broken down by source, by use, from 1990 to 2023, and with our forecasts…

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  • AI and sensors: case studies and examples?

    AI and sensors: case studies and examples?

    The global sensor market is worth $230bn pa and likely accelerates due to the rise of AI. This data file has compiled 15-20 examples of AI systems integrating sensor data, as patented by industrial companies in 2024, to estimate what types of sensors, will be used in which contexts, and whether AI demand will surprise…

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