News : Think Smartgrids

The CRE wants to make data a lever for the efficiency of the energy system

26 Feb 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]A[/leap_dropcap]s part of its general mission to help the electricity and natural gas markets function properly, the French Energy Regulatory Commission (CRE) has examined, in recent months, the problem...

Take-off of microgrids in France

26 Feb 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]T[/leap_dropcap]he ratification of the decree on microgrids was adopted last February. A photovoltaic tariff that should soon introduce an investment premium; packaged offers proposed by suppliers such as EDF...

Smile Programme: Eight new projects approved

16 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]I[/leap_dropcap]n recent weeks, the board of directors of the Smile association has approved eight new projects. A new proof of the vitality of the French, Breton and Loire sectors...

French Smart Grids start ups in fighting form

8 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]S[/leap_dropcap]mart Grids are attracting an increasing number of young entrepreneurs. Their young companies need support to design the innovative services of tomorrow. For some years now, the French government...

Ademe is looking into the rise of demand response in France

4 Jan 2018

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]I[/leap_dropcap]n its recently published study “L’effacement de consommation électrique en France”, (“Erasure of Electricity consumption in France”) ADEME estimated that 70% of the industry’s technical and economically profitable sources...

Ademe launches an innovation competition for innovative start-ups and SMEs in Smartgrids

22 Dec 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]T[/leap_dropcap]he Future Investment Programme has just launched a new call for projects “Innovation Competition”. The Competition aims to support projects that develop ambitious, innovative and sustainable methodologies, technologies, services...

COP23: Some progress in a gloomy context

6 Dec 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]C[/leap_dropcap]OP23, which brought together delegates from nearly 200 countries in Bonn, from 6 to 21 November, detailed the process for committing signatories to the Paris Agreement, which will enter...

A new agenda for local energy data

20 Nov 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]O[/leap_dropcap]n Tuesday 10 November, the Ministry of Ecological Transition organised a day of mobilisation dedicated to local energy data, in collaboration with the Etalab mission, GRDF, Enedis, RTE, GRTGaz,...

Germany: 500 million euros for five new smart Grid demonstrators

30 Oct 2017

[leap_dropcap style=”style-1″]G[/leap_dropcap]ermany has embarked on an ambitious energy transition: Energiewende aims to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 80% and make renewable energy the main source of energy supply...