Cleantech & Smart Grid
Verdantix covers cleantech and smart grid innovations from the perspective of firms implementing technologies. Our unique focus on the buy-side of the cleantech market helps clarify business cases for investment, track adoption trends and help suppliers refine messaging and identify potential buyers. Focus areas include on-site solar power, on-site wind power, electric vehicles, PHEVs, smart grids and smart meters.
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Symantec Targets European Smart Grid Opportunities
IT security and storage firm Symantec will expand its smart grid offering from the US to Europe throughout 2011. Smart meter deals dominate smart grid implementation projects in Europe but demand response and distribution automation contracts also feature. Large-scale smart grid upgrade projects remain limited in number with European utilities favouring smaller pilot initiatives. View full Report details »
Published: 05 April 2011
Total Portfolio: IT Sustainability Solutions
This Total Portfolio analysis clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of twenty-four IT sustainability solutions. The sustainability rating tool cuts through “greenwash” with a fact-based assessment of each solution’s sustainability benefits, maturity, investment case and future prospects. Executives and managers responsible for implementing technology-based sustainability programs should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions. View full Report details »
Published: 26 March 2009
Total Portfolio: Smart Grid Technologies
This Total Portfolio analysis clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of 23 smart grid technologies. The sustainability rating tool provides a fact-based assessment of each technology’s sustainability benefits, maturity, investment case and future prospects. Executives and managers responsible for smart grid deployment strategies should use this structured assessment to prioritize spending decisions and shortlist service providers. View full Report details »
Published: 19 August 2011
UK Offshore Wind: Broken Economics?
This report helps individuals seeking to understand the future of the UK offshore wind market following announcements by oil majors, utilities and financial investors about problems with the economics of the sector. Offshore wind power generation is a crucial part of the UK government’s plan to generate 15 per cent of electricity from renewables by 2020. For European utilities with fossil fuel generating plants, climate change policy enhances the investment rationale for offshore wind. View full Report details »
Published: 27 January 2009
Uncertain Subsidies Delay Drax Biomass Plans
Drax Group, the operator of Europe’s largest coal-fired power station and supplier of 7% of the UK’s electricity, has shelved plans to diversify its power generation business into biomass. The firm had planned to invest £2 billion to build three 300MW dedicated biomass generation facilities with a target operational date of 2014. View full Report details »
Published: 02 March 2010
Voltalis Disrupts French Electricity Market
Founded in 2007, Voltalis provides a distributed electricity demand reduction service to the French grid operator RTE. The technology consists of the Bluepod wireless transmitter and electricity modulator which are linked to centrally-controlled “smart grid” software. The Voltalis revenue model disrupts industry practices for peak demand management because it requires payment for reducing demand rather than boosting supply. View full Report details »
Published: 21 July 2009
WSP Product Ecology Democratizes LCA Software
In August 2010, WSP Digital, the software solutions business unit of WSP Environment & Energy, launched a new web-based software application called Product Ecology. The software enables industrial designers and product designers to cost effectively assess high-level life cycle environmental impacts on three metrics: carbon emissions, water consumed and waste created. View full Report details »
Published: 06 September 2010
£ 200.00
View details »Total Portfolio: Electricity Meters & Displays
This Total Portfolio analysis clarifies the sustainability benefits, business value and maturity of fourteen types of electricity meters and displays. The sustainability rating tool cuts through “greenwash” with a fact-based assessment of each solution’s sustainability benefits, maturity, investment case and future prospects. View full Report details »
Published: 08 March 2010
£ 300.00
View details »Buyer's Guide To Sustainable Business Software
The pressure on firms to collect, store, audit and report accurate sustainability data is growing. Tighter regulations, stakeholder pressure and potential cost savings drive firms to look at better alternatives to existing systems. With so many providers offering solutions in what appears to be a fairly amorphous market, Verdantix surveyed 65 suppliers to clarify and define purchase options for buyers. View full Report details »
Published: 05 July 2010