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| Good news: researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology have developed a fabric capable of harvesting energy from both sunshine and motion...
| The Energy Charter Secretariat has recently published an occasional paper aimed at assessing the dynamics of cross-border electricity cooper...
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| Here we combine the NXT brick with the TSL2561 light sensor from TAOSinc to make an electricity monitor.
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| More and more smart meters are being installed in dwellings. These meters allow gas and electricity consumption to be read locally and remot...
| Great Britain is facing an electricity supply crunch because the margin between available electricity generation capacity and peak winter de...
| Using simple everyday materials, you can build a generator that can supply enough power for a small electronic device. This discovery comes...
| Two major operators of Dutch power grids, Liander and Enexis, are all set to roll out 'Smart Cable Guard’, a revolutionary system that can p...
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| This article describes how to build a smart meter remote readout using a Raspberry Pi. With just a few components and a bit of programming,...
| Sales of green electricity – by which we mean electricity from renewable energy sources - are on the rise in Europe, but this has also provo...