Tag: Energy
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Looking around my neighborhood, solar lights have become more common. During my first visit to Perth, Australia, most houses had solar panels installed on their roofs. It was actually my first time to see so many solar panels in one area. Two years after, I began to see smaller versions in my hometown in the…
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From my previous post, I shared with you why we should think about the possibility of cyberwars. Okay. So why should we think about it? As we get more connected each day, with the ubiquity of smartphones and the ever-growing access to the internet, our devices get more connected as well. And that includes the…
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Even if you live in developing countries like I do, you’ve probably seen or heard about wireless charging, especially with mobile devices appearing everywhere like mushrooms. But like almost all technological advances, you may have not heard how the idea of wireless power started as a signal of change first. A company founded in 2007…
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If you’ve heard about electric vehicles before, you might often wonder about the infrastructures that come with them, such as charging stations. In the Philippines, if you’re living in a small city like I do, most probably, you’ve never seen an e-vehicle charging station. And that’s because the supply of and demand for electric vehicles…
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If you can remember my previous post on the future of the energy market, which you can find here, distributed energy resources can disrupt our vertically integrated power market. And in a webinar facilitated by USAID Southeast Asia EDGE Hub on Transforming the Power Sector: Regulatory Design for Disruptive Technologies, Santiago Enriquez of Abt Associates/USAID…
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Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) is a delivery model that combines hardware, software and services. Solutions should combine demand management and energy efficiency services, facilitate the adoption of renewable and other decentralised supply sources, and also optimise the balance between demand and supply. from the publication of Deloitte on Energy-as-a-Service: The lights are on. Is anyone home? So…
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What if instead of relying on big power plants to deliver you electricity, you can now produce your own? Watch this video to find out.