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What Is Energy Transition? A Guide to the Future of Energy

3BL Media

Smart grids : Digitalized grids optimize electricity distribution, reduce waste, and enhance energy efficiency. Major financial institutions, corporations, and governments are channeling capital into wind, solar, hydrogen, and energy storage technologies, with nearly $2 trillion in direct investment since 2020.

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Digital twin assists Yorkshire borough’s net zero planning

Envirotec Magazine

Compiled by global climate tech company, IES, using its digital twin technology, the Local Area Energy Plan (LAEP) identified changes to the borough’s buildings and energy generation needed to hit the net zero target. Among its principal towns are Halifax, Brighouse, and Hebden Bridge.

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Enabling a Sustainable Chip Industry Requires a Long-Term Vision and Near-Term Actions

3BL Media

Semiconductors play a critical role in enabling digital transformation. Renewable energy and smart grids rely on semiconductors, as do collaboration and remote monitoring tools that dramatically reduce the need for travel. Chris Librie. Director of ESG, Corporate Sustainability and Reporting.

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

3BL Media

The emerging vision for 6G is to make possible near-instant and ubiquitous connectivity to transform how the human, physical, and digital worlds interact. 6G will both expand upon and go far beyond the capabilities of 5G, marking a new era of wireless that accelerates digitalization and drives business innovation across critical industries.

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Cybersecurity Is Protecting Grid Modernization

3BL Media

A digital virus behaves similarly to a biological virus; it accesses a vulnerable host, replicates itself, and searches to infect other vulnerable hosts. However, protecting against a digital virus is quite disparate with a biological one.

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Help Along the Way to Carbon Neutrality

Cisco CSR

Examples of that technology include smart grids and smart buildings. Smart grids. Ensure optimal usage of energy provided through the electric grid. Today, every utility company may be looking at ways to deploy smart grids to increase the efficiency and sustainability of their electric grids.

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Unlocking the value of energy communities

Renewable Energy World

Local community solar projects enhanced by one-stop shop digital systems are set to play a crucial role in the global energy transition. Spectacular decreases in the price of solar and wind energy, combined with advances in digitalization, are opening new ways for citizens to participate in the energy system.