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Cisco’s Sustainability 101: What Are Smart Grids?

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Cities, regions and countries are creating electricity networks that use digital communications technology to detect and react to local changes in usage (“ smart grids ”). Digitalization of electric grids is supporting new ways to source and use energy more sustainably while also enhancing cybersecurity.

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Empowering Sustainability: 4 Strategies To Significantly Reduce the Semiconductor Industry’s Carbon Footprint

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It’s needed for every sustainability effort – smart grids, the transition to renewables, low carbon footprint logistics, and supply chains. In 2022, TSMC, the world’s largest chip manufacturer, consumed 97 million metric tons of water and 22 thousand gigawatt-hours – a significant portion of Taiwan’s total energy output.

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Communications Is Connecting Grid Modernization

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This severely limited the monitoring and control functionality of the grid, but changed with the introduction of digital computer systems in the 1970s. Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems emerged to provide centralized control using digital signals to collect data from remote locations.

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

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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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Accenture Acquires Engineering and Consulting Firm Boslan to Target Net Zero Infrastructure Opportunities

ESG Today

Accenture said that the acquisition will enable the firm to “reinvent how clients engineer and execute net-zero infrastructure projects,” with the new combined team applying AI and other digital technologies to asset lifecycle management, helping clients to optimize project investments and become carbon-neutral faster.

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Help Along the Way to Carbon Neutrality

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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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The Plan for Possible: How Cisco is Connecting a Regenerative Future

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We have a plan: It is possible to power the world with affordable clean energy , so we are helping to digitize smart grids and smart buildings. We have a goal that 80% of Cisco component, manufacturing, and logistics suppliers by spend have a public, absolute GHG emissions reduction target by FY25.