Net Zero Energy

To avoid the worst effects of the climate crisis, we need to reduce emissions as much as possible. But what do we do with the rest? By Drew Shula, Founder & CEO, Verdical Group Stop f*cking around. Hopefully I’ve grabbed your attention… In a world where Instagram influencers overload us…

To decarbonise our energy networks, new ideas and technologies will have to move rapidly to ‘business as usual’. How can we achieve this? Paul Padaruth looks at recent work on this challenge. Paul Padaruth is Head of Commercialisation with the Ofgem Strategic Innovation Fund (SIF) team at Innovate UK, which…

Written by Jade van Zuydam , Programme manager, Digital Leaders Last Tuesday, we launched The Net Zero 50 List. At a time of heightened awareness of the environment and to coincide with COP27, the Net Zero 50 List showcases the top 50 individuals, organisations, initiatives, products and services helping us…

Modern businesses have an overwhelming amount of data available to them from a huge number of IoT devices and applications in wide and varied file formats. This data can be extremely time-consuming and complex to ingest and transform into a readable, useful format. …

I wanted to replace our 11-year old electric resistance, 80-gallon hot water heater (HWH) before it went kaput and I took the opportunity to make it more efficient. …

A “smart electrical panel” is different from that boring gray box in your garage/basement/outside in two critical ways: First, smart panels use digital circuits versus physical circuits and that means they can be turned on and off through code. This opens up a world of “if this, then that” (IFTT)…

When people think of blockchains, the first thing that comes to mind is usually Bitcoin, cryptocurrencies, DeFi and other digital assets. The underlying technology for these offerings is public blockchains, such as Bitcoin, Ethereum, Polygon and many others, in which anyone is free to operate. However, there are other distributed ledgers known as private blockchains, which only allow trusted users to enter the network. The operator has the right to overrule…

Okay, I’d just like to say something before the main post. A foreword, if you will. This is my first proper post on here and I’m very sure there’s room for improvement, constructive criticism is welcomed! I tried to write this so the information is accessible to the majority of…

Tailoring energy systems to places holds great promise for accelerating the journey to net zero. Jodie Giles looks at what local authorities and communities are doing about it, with lessons for the future, in this piece timed to align with Community Energy Fortnight. Jodie Giles, Innovation Lead, Prospering from the…