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There's a famous saying: "Never let a crisis go to waste." The current energy crisis has had a terrible impact on many consumers, but it has also given the energy sector a golden opportunity to get in
Europe has built up one of the best gas distribution infrastructures in the world. There’s one problem though. It distributes natural gas, a fuel that we will hardly be able to use if we’re to reach our net zero targets. Can we use the infrastructure instead for clean hydrogen – either blended with natural gas as a stepping stone, or with pure hydrogen in the future?
According to the company, Europe is on track for 2.7 GW of operational hydrogen electrolyser capacity by 2025.
Three highlights of 2020 Comfort as a Service: Eneco, a Dutch utility, are already trialling this in 60 new build homes. We have seen an increasing number of heat as a service propositions over the past few years, but this is the first true comfort as a service offering we’ve seen, where the supplier takes all the risk, and the customer pays a fixed fee. On top of that, Eneco provides heat pumps and PV optimisation, so it’s possible for these buildings to be net zero – the PV supplies all the heat pump electricity. It’s an exciting proposition. Decarbonisation as a mainstream theme:...
Distribution grids around the world tend to operate in relative darkness, in terms of lacking sensors and monitors to reveal their point-to-point and moment-to-moment condition to their operators. But that may have to change as distributed energy resources take up an increasing role in powering them. That’s the context for recent findings from grid technology developer Depsys, which revealed gaps in the visibility its customers have into their distribution grids. “More than 50 percent of customers discovered critical points in their networks they were previously unaware of, including lo...