30 May 2019
The energy landscape is shifting away from fossil fuels towards more sustainable electricity sources, and from vertically integrated monopolies to unbundled and competitive markets. Energy markets have been historically designed around centralised sources, however renewable energy generation requires a different approach – integrating different decentralised sources, energy storage and strengthening linkages with the demand side. […]
12 March 2018 - Solar generation is one of the key technologies in decarbonizing and decentralizing the energy system. While solar PV on single-family houses is a well-established and integrated solution, there have been relatively few such installations on multi-unit apartment buildings so far. Also, with the rapid urbanization, cities – mostly with a high share of apartment buildings […]
11 October 2017 - Starting on January 1, 2018, Next Kraftwerke will provide the Lake Constance Water Supply Association (Zweckverband Bodensee-Wasserversorgung) with the flexible energy tariff package “Best of 96”. The six water pumps at the Süßenmühle pumping station on the banks of Lake Constance will soon play a significant role in supplying the German energy grid with around […]
06 October 2017 - On the occasion of the EU PVSEC, the European PV Solar Energy Conference and Exhibition, the BestRES and IndustRE Consortia organised the workshop “Enabling PV integration by delivering flexibility to the energy market” (Amsterdam, The Netherlands, on 26th September 2017). The variable nature of some renewable sources, like solar energy, imposes extra requirements and costs […]