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Nowadays, the world faces serious environmental challenges and problems that no individuals, companies nor governments can ignore. Our energy consumption has harmful and deep consequences on our environment. In this perspective, more efficient energy consumption is one of the key challenges of today.
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Since 1973, energy security has been playing a crucial role in the European policy. All this time, public concern was mainly linked to uncontrolled oil prices and consequences. But since 2006, gas regains some consideration when Germany started limiting its consumption under the pressure of Gazprom and its unilateral gas cuts on Ukraine. Those events brought out politics and diplomats tensions between generators and consumers in the worldwide volatile environment. |
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Stronger customer expectations for innovation and quality, further globalisation in designing and manufacturing products, greater public awareness of environmental impacts boost the management of product lifecycle at the point to become a key element for differentiation among competitors.
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Europe continues to observe a steady growth in wind generation: from 41 GW of installed power in 2005 to more than 67 GW in 2008. Although wind is a great resource for sustainable power, its unstable behavior is also making the existing power distribution networks less easy to manage. |
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| Carbon Neutrality:
The goal of carbon neutrality is to minimize C02 emissions from ones activities and to offset the remaining C02 emissions by taking alternative measures in other places on earth to neutralize ones impact on the environment.
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Smart Metering systems are not the enthusiastic fad for future innovations anymore. Across Europe,it is rapidly becoming a reality with operational projects in Italy, Ireland and Sweden and many more are to come. |
Initially, it was common sense to believe the initiative would come from DGOs (Distribution Grid Operator) – as it has been done for currently operational smart metering projects – to implement the new metering since regulators were putting pressure on them to reduce the distribution costs and to bring more transparency in consumption data. However, today, we are observing alternative approaches coming from independent energy suppliers offering basic smart metering services.
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