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September 16, 2024
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8 minutes
Learn how our new renewable energy forecasts enable consumer electronics companies to build more engaging products that optimize energy use and empower their consumers to lower their carbon footprint daily.
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May 21, 2024
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5 mins
Electricity Maps was created with the mission to enable a data-driven decarbonization of electricity. But what exactly does that mean? And how do we ensure we continuously contribute to fighting climate change?
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May 13, 2024
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15 minutes
To make our marginal signal more accurate, and explainable we combined two models, a marginal topology and a marginal generation model.
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May 7, 2024
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2 min
We’re very excited to announce that we just closed a financing round of €5M led by climate funds Transition and Revent.‍
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February 22, 2024
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10 mins
(Potentially) unpopular opinion: Asking “How do you define the role of tech lead?” is the wrong question. I encourage instead tech leads and other engineers to reflect about what being a leader actually means;
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January 31, 2024
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10 minutes
In 2023, emissions from electricity consumption decreased by 5% with a 20% reduction in coal-fired generation. Can wind and solar exceed coal in 2024?
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January 17, 2024
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10 minutes
Emissions from electricity consumption dropped below pandemic levels in 2023 but could bounce back in 2024
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September 19, 2023
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10 minutes
A deep dive into Europe grid interconnection and how it got impacted by various factors, including weather, prices, policy, and geopolitics, between 2021 and the end of H1 2023.
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