Energy efficiency News for May 2017

Energy efficiency News Archive

Final conclusions from the OrPHEuS research project show the potential of hybrid energy grids for smart cities.

Bringing together nine partner organizations from Germany, Austria, and Sweden, the European research project OrPHEuS has investigated the concept of hybrid energy grids as a way to increase the usage of renewable energy in urban areas in a “resilient, flexible and cost-effective manner”.

Taiwan spearheads smart grid

More efficient, clean and robust ‘smart’ energy networks are potentially set to emerge from new and wide-ranging research led by Taiwan’s Industrial Technology Research Institute (ITRI).