Energy Transition
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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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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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Standard vs Custom EMS: How to Choose the Right Energy Management System
The Smartest Choice Depends on One Question You Probably Haven’t Asked Every company with solar panels, a charging hub, or a battery wants an energy management system. Fewer companies stop to ask whether they need a standard EMS or a custom one. That single question decides whether your investment pays off or sits half-used within…
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Real-Time Data: The Critical Enabler of the Energy Transition
The energy transition is one of the defining infrastructure challenges of our time. At its core lies a deceptively simple requirement: knowing what is happening on the grid at every moment. Yet despite widespread recognition of this need, many energy systems today still operate on fixed settings and periodic data read-outs, driven by billing cycles…
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ESG Reports: Why Sustainability Needs Action, Not More Dashboards
In the realm of sustainability policies, it is time to address the stellar work accomplished so far, particularly by external consultants and ESG dashboard creators. We have witnessed a sudden influx of consultants embracing the “green” label in the last two years. Truth be told, we seem to have more reports than trees, and to…
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PowerWeb Lecture: Building IOT Capabilities for energy transition and digital twin at scale
Abstract: The energy transition in the Netherlands will effectively migrate energy towards less reliable sources like wind and solar. Next to this, the production of energy will be more and more decentralized, and gas will be replaced by alternatives for domestic heating. The increased usage of electric vehicles, heat pumps and home batteries will have…