Climate Week took place September 24-30, 2019. Many issues were raised during the week’s events, but one topic did not get enough attention—refrigerants. Hydrochlorofluorocarbon (HCFC) and hydrofluorocarbon (HFC) refrigerants are ubiq…
Integrated distributed energy resources (IDER) programs are a topic of growing interest. Several utility-led pilot programs have explored the potential of DER, controlled in aggregate, to pr…
The proliferation of distributed energy resources (DER) technologies across the US is providing grid operators with new mechanisms to address capacity constraints and replace strained and aging transmission and distribution (T&D) grid infrast…
Many people are well aware of transactive energy (TE) and flexibility. These issues have been topics of discussion for a decade. Since 2016, a rash of startups have announced plans to launch TE platforms. Most companies secure only a single proje…
Traditionally, home builders have seen energy technologies as a sunk cost needed to comply with customer needs or, in the best case, as luxury items to add to the perceived value of a proper…
In many countries, the RF EMF exposure limits that MNOs must adhere to are lower than those defined by the ICNIRP guidelines. In this report, we examine how these lower limits affect MNOs’ 4G and 5G investment plans and what regulators, vendors and operat…
Single family homes have traditionally been the main market for residential Internet of Things (IoT). Although that is likely to remain true, multifamily is expected to gain a significant share of residential IoT revenue in the coming years. Most multif…
eSIMs’ growing popularity will change the provisioning of services over the coming decade. This comment explores regulators’ investigations into the technology and how their recommendations will affect operators.
The demand for fast, low-latency and reliable data delivery is expected to skyrocket in the upcoming decade, and the available bandwidth is limited by the availability of spectrum and the laws of physics. The telecommunications industry basically has tw…