Kranj in Slovenia starts digital makeover to become smart city

Households in the Mlaka pri Kranju suburb in Slovenia’s fourth-largest city, are soon getting access to real-time information on their gas, water and power expenditure. The smart solutions implemented in Kranj should ease the local authority’s overall planning and emergency response and slash losses for utilities. Companies are helping with digitalization, including transportation and air […]

ENERGY TRANSITION – 3D array is key for tracking trends (part two)

Author: Prof. Nikola Rajaković, School of Electrical Engineering (ETF), University of Belgrade The central trends today in energy can be tracked with a 3D array – decarbonization, decentralization and digitization. The simplified schematic concept makes it possible to explain complex processes more easily, says Professor Nikola Rajaković from the School of Electrical Engineering in Belgrade […]

Energy transition – Incentives should be abandoned, renewables left to the market (part two)

Author: Goran Granić, director of Energy Institute Hrvoje Požar The biggest problem with all energy policies, including the European Union’s (EU), is inconsistency, i.e. extracting one problem and tackling it individually. For the first time ever, the EU is initiating a unified climate-energy policy, with the drafting of member states’ national plans under way, which […]