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The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has provided $994,685 in funding to Solcast to pilot its next-generation energy forecasting technology. The aim of the pilot is to enhance existing weather forecast services to optimize renewable energy generation. Solcast will use the funding to implement the Gridded Renewables Nowcasting Demonstration project in South Australia. A tool will […]

Bitcoin rallied today, exceeding $52,000. getty Bitcoin prices have rallied lately, surpassing $52,000 after struggling near the $50,000 price level. The digital currency rose to $52,636.22 earlier today, CoinDesk data shows. At this point, it was up nearly 12% after falling to as little as $47,118.40 yesterday, additional CoinDesk figures reveal. Since then, the cryptocurrency

Image credit: Stock The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organisation enabling mass innovation through open source, has announced the intent to merge the FinOps Foundation to advance the discipline of FinOps through best practices, education, and standards. The FinOps Foundation includes 1,500 individual members across the globe, representing more than 500 companies with more than $1

Amazon Web Services has announced Amazon Honeycode, a fully managed service that allows customers to quickly build powerful mobile and web applications – with no programming required. Customers who need applications to track and manage things like process approvals, event scheduling, customer relationship management, user surveys, to-do lists, and content and inventory tracking no longer need to

LF Energy, a Linux Foundation nonprofit, Alliander, RTE and Savoir-faire Linux have unveiled SEAPATH (Software Enabled Automation Platform and Artifacts THerein), the second project in its Digital Substation Automation Systems (DSAS) initiative. SEAPATH will provide a reference design and a real-time, open-source platform for grid operators to run virtualised automation and protection applications. “The use of power transmission and

Financially, many of us associate April with taxes – but we should also associate December with important IRA deadlines. December 31, 2021 is the deadline to take your Required Minimum Distribution (RMD) from certain individual retirement accounts. April 15, 2021 is the deadline for making annual contributions to a traditional IRA, Roth IRA, and certain

US consumers are willing to transition from fossil fuels to electricity for transportation, heating, cooking and water heating, according to a nationwide survey conducted by the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC). SECC surveyed 1,200 Americans to gauge interest in switching to electricity, determine barriers that might exist and uncover underlying motivations for switching. Key study

Image credit: Stock As the world’s 13th largest emitting country for fossil-fuel emissions and a domestic economy powered by coal, it’s time for South Africa’s private sector to step up and take responsibility for its contribution, writes Eckart Zollner, head of business development at American multinational information technology equipment and services firm EDS Systems. This

Aliaksei Brouka © 123RF.com Energy poverty is a reality and a challenge for utilities. Yet, is there a technology solution which may address some of the challenges around cost-to-serve? The European Commission has estimated that nearly 11% of the EU’s population is in a situation where their households are not able to adequately heat their

Bitcoin prices bounced back today after falling to nearly $43,000. getty Bitcoin prices have experienced a notable recovery lately, climbing after falling to nearly $43,000 yesterday afternoon. The world’s largest digital currency by market value rose to as much as $49,520.72 earlier today, CoinDesk data shows. At that point, it was up roughly 15% from