National Energy Production in Comparison

Guest Post by Lizzie Dawes Of the individual countries looked at (Austria, UK, Germany, USA), Austria produces the most renewable energy, in terms of proportion. Unsurprisingly, given its area, the USA produces the most renewable energy. The USA was second only to China in its investment in renewables, spending $51 billion (around 41 billion Euros) […]

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Smart Microgrids: Overview and Outlook

Our paper “Smart Microgrids: Overview and Outlook” by Anita Sobe and Wilfried Elmenreich has been accepted for the Smart Grid Workshop of the ITG INFORMATIK 2012 conference, taking place from 16th to 21st September 2012 in Braunschweig, Germany. The idea of changing our energy system from a hierarchical design into a set of nearly independent […]

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