What are the enabling and limiting factors of solar deployment? New answers thanks to deep learning
Giacomo Marangoni
According to this op-ed on the NYT, the popularity of behavioral economics follows just from good marketing… to me, much more is at stake!
How much of the energy we consume do we actually waste? Energy Flow Charts leave no doubt on how poorly we perform and on how to improve…
For a researcher like me, optimizing the transfer of information through data visualization is (or should be) a continuous challenge. In the quest for innovative ways of displaying data, I stumbled on one that I found very effective. This webpage …
The ease and relative affordablility with which most Europeans can consume electricity can make them oblivious of the impacts of power generation on the environment, but new visualization tools might help to make this information more salient.
When it comes to energy conservation, much is in the hand of power consumers…
Read more →On May 25th-26th I had the honor to participate in a workshop on the language of energy. Researchers, designers, and representatives from utilities and other energy-related organizations gathered in Naples to discuss the idea of developing a Natural Language for …
The path that leads from a research idea to a research paper is like a roller coaster. When you slow down and think you are coming to an end, it’s probably time for a new thrilling ride.
Read more →At any istant in time, power grids operators struggle to balance the quantity of electricity demanded and generated. Sudden, unanticipated, nation-wide surges or drops of demand create unbalance in the system and if no immediate reaction on the generation side …
While it is clear that behavior affects energy consumption, it is not always clear how much and via which channels. An example of badly understood (and hence untapped) energy savings potentials comes from the way we navigate the internet, as …
Besides widely known Energy and Electricity smart meters, over the last two decades, water smart metering programs have been launched in a number of medium to large cities worldwide to nearly continuously monitor water consumption at the single household level. …
While the potential for energy conservation attainable via behavioural change seems promising, the best way to design mechanisms to induce such change is still highly debated.
If you were shown exactly how much your daily transportation choices contribute to/avoid CO2 pollution, would you be more willing/satisfied to adopt less carbon-intensive behaviors? Maybe yes. But if you were asked to manually keep track of each movement for …
An increasing share of renewables in energy systems makes harder to maintain the provision of energy reliable and affordable. Nonetheless, in these difficulties may lay opportunities, as Prof. Meredith Fowlie observes.