Energy in Transition
Solving the energy trilemma
The future of renewable developments in Ireland
The Irish government has launched a public consultation on the new Renewable Electricity Support Scheme (RESS) – what does it mean for the future of renewable development in Ireland? The preferred option outlined in the consultatio ...
Separation of duties and IT security
Separation of duties, also known as Segregation of duties, is the concept of having more than one person required to complete a task. It is a key concept of internal controls and is the most difficult and sometimes the costliest one to achieve. The ...
Four Things I Learned from Talking with Trade Allies
I recently had the privilege of hosting an AESP webinar (Trade Allies: Partnership or Vendor), where I interviewed Brian Earl, Vice President of Sales, Connexiones, and Mark Breuker, Managing Director, Burton Energy Group, to discuss utility and trad ...
Non-Mandate Utility Mechanisms to Deploy Energy Storage
There is a perception that energy storage markets require a Public Utility Commission (PUC) or Public Service Commission (PSC) ruling or mandate to rate-base storage; and until that happens, states can’t make any significant advancement in energy s ...
EV uptake will be fast and vast
By Bent-Erik Bakken, Onur Özgün, Anne Louise Koefoed and Mark Irvine After more than a century of fine-tuning, the internal combustion engine (ICE) is an engineering wonder. Yet, suddenly, its future doesn’t look so turbo-charged. ...
Explaining the Jargon behind the ‘Internet of Things’
My previous post, The Upside of Networked Lighting Controls, focused on the value that networked lighting controls create. Networking is not only changing how our ‘things’ communicate, it is also changing our vocabularies. Networking has develope ...
A day in the life of an energy industry newbie
“How long have you been in the industry?” Me: “Well, this is my 6th day...” Monday 6:00 AM- My alarm sounds, I wake up, and I get ready to attend a workshop in Baltimore, Maryland. This is my sixth day of work with DNV GL. I’m excited ...
Making energy storage safer, more reliable and simply mature
By Miguel Roenes Bueno, Dr. Matthias-Klaus Schwarz, Haike van de Vegte The increased use of different renewable energy technologies has set the focus on energy storage to improve grid power quality and reliability and to optimize the matching o ...
What challenges remain for data center operators?
Following my previous post on Best Practices and how they can help prepare for tomorrow, we continue our examination of data centers – let’s look at some of the challenges facing data center operators now and in the future. The challenges general ...
The Great American Eclipse & the Monolithic Forecast
With respect to North American weather, the solar eclipse of August 21 (known as the “Great American Eclipse”) seems like ancient history. And while its impacts on sensible weather were short-lived and modest, the Great American Eclipse had a p ...