Featured in Burning ambition – 09-2012

Now thats smart

Intelligent grid: For some time now, experts have been saying that it is theoretically possible to obtain 100 percent of required power from renewable energy sources. In the heart of Berlin, a so-called micro smart grid is poised to provide evidence for this. But the project has placed researchers in uncharted scientific territory.

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Mirco Sieg

05 Sep 2012

The table in the power control room at the InnoZ looks like something out of a science fiction movie. Countless red dots and green lines race back and forth on its surface. Though it may look so, this isn’t the makings of an interstellar space battle; it’s the power grid of the future and Fabian …

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