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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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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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Building a More Sustainable Future with 6G

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For example, Ericsson’s Smart 5G Factory reduced waste by 5%, saved 5% on energy costs, and increased overall energy efficiency by 24%. This opens new sustainability opportunities for the agricultural sector, where chemical fertilizers, pesticides, and animal waste release harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.

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How European Climate Policy Can Bolster Energy Efficiency Measures

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That means better incentivizing end-users to consume their energy as efficiently as possible, minimizing unnecessary waste. Digital technologies render energy waste visible. In many parts of the EU, for example, excess energy generated by rooftop solar panels can now be straightforwardly sold back to the grid.

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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. It is possible to design out waste , so we are re-building products from used ones. We believe that future is possible, and Cisco can help get us there.

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Open letter: Our governments must act now to decarbonize and expand the electricity system, or Canada will fail to reach net-zero by 2050. 

CREA

Pursue market and regulatory reform to enable deployment of energy storage, disruptive smart grid technologies, and distributed energy resources. There is much to do and there is no time to waste. Competitively procure non-emitting electricity generation.

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IoT news of the week for April 7, 2023

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TechXplore ) — Stacey Higginbotham Smart grid exec founds new smarter grid startup : Ray Bell, the former CEO and founder of both Silver Spring Network and Grid Net, has created a new company for the smart grid called Aetheros.