L R AS Published on Saturday 9 December 2017 - n° 215 - Categories:cies d'électricité
Il faut différentes flexibilités à un réseau électrique
Le danois DNV GL souligne qu'il faut différentes sources de flexibilité pour la bonne marche d'un réseau. La flexibilité est actuellement
L R AS Published on Sunday 12 November 2017 - n° 211 - Categories:cies d'électricité
American Electric Power investit dans les EnR
American Electric Power (AEP), l'une des plus grandes sociétés d'électricité des États-Unis qui possède
AS Published on Saturday 11 November 2017 - n° 211 - Categories:divers USA, cies d'électricité
Les compagnies d'électricité américaines doivent s'adapter à l'évolution du secteur électrique
L'irruption du solaire et de l'éolien ainsi que les ressources distribuées comme les batteries, le solaire sur les toits, les véhicules électriques ou les micro-réseaux ont incité les compagnies d'électricité américaines à investir dans l'infrastructure pour suivre l'évolution du réseau de distribution. C'est qu'on demande au réseau d’avoir des fonctions très différentes :
AS Published on Saturday 11 November 2017 - n° 211 - Categories:cies d'électricité
Les compagnies d'électricité rachètent des compétences en intelligence artificielle
Les fusions et acquisitions impliquant des entreprises énergétiques et de jeunes entreprises d’intelligence artificielle ont atteint une valeur d'environ 500 millions de dollars au premier trimestre 2017, puis de
AS Published on Monday 6 November 2017 - n° 210 - Categories:cies d'électricité
S'orienter vers une énergie plus flexible à la production et à la distribution
Le marché de l'électricité a besoin de flexibilité pour absorber les énergies renouvelables, ce qui met en cause les centrales au charbon et les centrales nucléaires qui ont pour principale qualité la récurrence et la fixité de leur production.
La flexibilité est la capacité du réseau à ajuster la production à la demande,
AS Published on Sunday 8 October 2017 - n° 206 - Categories:electricity companies, new development
Smart metering opens up the analysis market for utilities (and possibly consumers)
The introduction of smart meters opens up the analysis market for electricity companies and consumers.
The smart meters installed in Europe were
L R AS Published on Sunday 25 June 2017 - n° 197 - Categories:electricity companies
The low price of gas, wind and solar power makes the plants unprofitable--
Studies by the American Power Research Group and Wilkinson Barker Knauer say that the current low price of gas, wind and solar power makes it uneconomic to
L R AS Published on Saturday 10 June 2017 - n° 195 - Categories:electricity companies, the American PV
Electric utilities see residential installations as their biggest challenge
Power company executives see residential facilities as the biggest challenge for their future. This does not only concern
L R AS Published on Saturday 20 May 2017 - n° 192 - Categories:electricity companies, the American PV
Electricity companies have not given up on the idea of penalising solar roof owners in the United States.
Electricity companies have not given up on the idea of penalising solar roof owners in the United States: thus
AS Published on Saturday 11 March 2017 - n° 183 - Categories:electricity companies
Italian electricity company Enel sets up in Silicon Valley --
Italy's Enel has already deployed smart meters at all its customers since 2001 and has achieved a return on investment in four years. It has invested in renewable energy and owns 36 GW in 24 different countries. The company wants to be fully focused on renewable energy by 2050.
To achieve this, it needs to be aware of technological developments, hence its move to Silicon Valley to tap into the entrepreneurial spirit that reigns there.
The company does not wish to
L R AS Published on Sunday 5 March 2017 - n° 182 - Categories:electricity companies
Investors in American companies
U.S. and European utilities have invested $1 billion in 2016 in distributed energy companies. That's three times the amount invested in 2010; the cumulative amount invested reaches
AS Published on Saturday 4 February 2017 - n° 178 - Categories:electricity companies, various sectors
A 10% reduction in the use of fossil fuels would lead to a serious economic crisis.
Large energy companies constantly underestimate the efficiency, flexibility and lower cost of photovoltaics and electric vehicles in the future. According to the Grantham Institute at Imperial College London, electric vehicles could reduce the market share of fossil fuels by 10% within ten years,
R AS Published on Sunday 22 January 2017 - n° 176 - Categories:electricity companies
How should distribution networks evolve?
During the round table of the Abu Dhabi RE Week (ADSW), the director general of EDF, Antoine Cahuzac believes that "a trend is emerging towards the development of decentralized energy systems. This trend stems from the fact that RE such as solar energy is becoming very cheap and local communities increasingly want to produce their energy locally.
R AS Published on Saturday 21 January 2017 - n° 176 - Categories:electricity companies
Can the intermittent nature of RE be managed by the power stations themselves?
To see if intermittent renewable energy disrupts the power grid, First Solar studied last summer with the Californian grid operator CAISO how to reduce this disruptive influence. Over a series of days (duration not specified). First Solar has slightly
L R AS Published on Sunday 8 January 2017 - n° 174 - Categories:electricity companies, French companies
ekwateur wants to make a place for itself in energy distribution
The young French company ekwateur, created in November 2015, has just raised €2 million from BNP Paribas, Bouygues Telecom Initiative and the energy investment fund Aster Capital. For ekwateur, this involves