Digital Transformation
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When Siemens Energy Must Choose: Your AI Data Center or the Grid That Powers It
The energy transition has a bottleneck that rarely makes headlines. Not a shortage of wind turbines or solar panels. Not a lack of capital or political will. A structural shortage of power transformers, switchgear, and high-voltage direct current (HVDC) connections. The physical components that move electricity from where it is generated to where it is…
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The Power Grid Does Not Know What You Know
The Dutch electricity grid is congested. That diagnosis is no longer controversial. What remains poorly understood is why the flexibility that could relieve that congestion is sitting idle behind millions of meters, owned by businesses and households who have neither the information, the incentive, nor the trust to put it to use. The problem is…
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TenneT, The Backbone of the Economy Under Strain, But Cannot Be Allowed to Break
What TenneT’s 2025 Annual Report Tells Us About the Dutch High-Voltage Grid: the Backbone on Which Our Digital Economy Rests. Beneath our digital and industrial prosperity lies the Dutch high-voltage grid: a national infrastructure already running at its limits, while the true peak of the energy transition is yet to come. That tension is largely…
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Your Innovation Pilots Are a Graveyard.
Time to Stop, Bury them with a distinct Ceremony. Most innovation pilots in large organisations are not experiments. They are expensive theatre. A team is assembled, a budget is allocated, a vendor is selected, and a steering committee is formed. Six months later, a slide deck lands in front of a board that politely nods.…
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Smart Grid Strategy: Turn Energy Data Into Decisions
You’ve got the tech. But do you have the tactics? Across Europe and beyond, organizations are investing heavily in smart grid infrastructure—smart meters, IoT sensors, digital substations, and AI-powered analytics. The promise? Real-time insights, predictive maintenance, and optimized energy flows. But here’s the uncomfortable truth: Many smart grids are just data collectors. Not decision-makers. The…
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5 IoT Trends Confirming Its Maturity in 2024
In my experience, the world of IoT is shifting towards a more mature and mainstream technology. Almost every new physical device now has a means of connecting and sharing data with a central system. That data is processed for purposes ranging from condition monitoring and intelligent operations through actuators, to predictive behaviour powered by algorithms…
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Data is the new Uranium
Inspired by the tweet of Filippo Valsorda I want to debate the analogy “Data is the new oil”. I think this analogy is incorrect since data has a lot of properties that are not similar to oil. Below, I will explain why I think “Data is the new Uranium” is a more accurate analogy. Data is very…
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Internet of Things Strategy: How IoT Creates Business Value using IoT and Digital Twin
The Internet of Things (IoT) is all about getting in-depth insight into your customers. It is the inter-networking of physical devices, vehicles (also referred to as “connected devices” and “smart devices”), buildings, and other items embedded with electronics, software, sensors, actuators, and network connectivity, which enable these objects to collect and exchange data. For me,…
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Who is responsible when Artificial Intelligence fails?
I am a heavy user of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. I often do not realize I am using them and, like most of us, never think about the things that can go wrong. All day long we use Siri as our voice-controlled personal assistant. We rely on systems like Waze for navigation, which not only…