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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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Smart grid technology helps renewable energy transition

Sustainability Matters

Hetech has teamed up with EcoJoule to manufacture the PCB boards for the EcoVAR, and build the products ready for distribution. The benefits of this product can be felt throughout the whole solar/energy supply chain, with households benefiting from better energy utilisation, higher solar export volumes and lower bills.

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Executive Predictions 2024: What’s Next for Automotive?

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Battery health will become a factor influencing EV buying decisions, presenting an opportunity for auto manufacturers to visualize a car's health status to reassure and inform drivers. billion available to expand transmission lines, improve grid resiliency, and deploy “smart-grid” technologies. This is part of the $10.5

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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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Canada’s net-zero opportunities might skip some provinces

Corporate Knights

Ontario has supported investments in electric vehicle manufacturing by auto manufacturers and in lower-carbon processes by steel companies. But the government plans to rely more heavily on natural-gas-fired power for electricity over the next decade. “The

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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

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In Toronto, a smart traffic management system that enables traffic lights to self-learn and recognizes patterns shortened travel times by up to 25% and reduced emissions by 13%. Manufacturing. 6G will build upon 5G’s ability to modernize all stages of manufacturing — from product design to the factory floor to the warehouse.