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Energy Trends and Predictions for 2022
This week GridDuck is speaking to investors and partners with various areas of energy expertise and asking for their new year predictions.
2021: The Year in Energy and GridDuck’s Highlights
GridDuck is looking back, looking forward and talking about all things new years! We review the year in energy, alongside giving a round-up of our 2021 journey.
How to Keep IoT Devices Secure
In this week’s article, we explore the cybersecurity risks associated with IoT, alongside GridDuck’s own tips and methods for keeping your system safe.
The End of Bulb and the Rise of Energy Management
In this week’s article, we explore the collapse of energy giant Bulb, asking why so many energy suppliers have gone into administration, what the wide-scale effects of these closures are and why it’s time to start managing energy better.
Sustainable Hospitality and Tourism Are Here to Stay, Here’s Why.
This week, we discuss the trend of sustainable hospitality and ecotourism, alongside the benefits of running green businesses and why now is the perfect time to adopt more environmentally friendly practices.
What Does COP-26 Mean for the Future of Renewables?
This week, we discuss COP 26 and the future of renewable energy generation, with take-home tips from wind energy expert, Ranjit Mene.
The Sustainable Restaurant Association: “Businesses Are Not Navigating This Alone”
This week, GridDuck sits down to chat with the Sustainable Restaurant Association. The discussion covers challanges, take-home tips, upcoming projects and what sustainability success looks like as a restaurateur.
Energy Managers: What They Do and Why They Matter
Energy Managers play an important role in helping businesses to minimise overhead costs, meet sustainability credentials and run efficient operations. In this week’s article, we explore how they do it and why now is the perfect time for your business to invest in energy expertise.
5 Ways to Make Your Farm More Energy Efficient and Save Money
Running a farm can require a huge amount of electricity, making energy costs one of the biggest overheads in the agricultural sector. Many of GridDuck’s customers tell us that it’s their most expensive overhead after labour costs. This can affect profitability. Energy costs are also rising dramatically. Yet many farms have very little data about their energy consumption and how much is being wasted unnecessarily.
“We Can Start Really Getting to Grips With Our Original Mission of Balancing the Supply and Demand of the Energy Grid”: CTO, Richard Tolley, Gives the Lowdown on GridDuck’s Advanced Rules
Over the last 6 years, Richard Tolley and his tech team have been developing GridDuck’s all-in-one energy saving solution for commercial buildings. In 2021, the CTO completed work on a new chapter in GridDuck’s software potential: Advanced Rules. For this week’s blog, Richard sits down to explain how Advanced Rules work and can benefit your business.
Why It Pays to Be a Sustainable Business
There has been no better time to make the business case for sustainability. Just recently the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a report that included some stark warnings about acting now to stop some of the most devastating effects of global warming.
EV Charging: A Lifeline for Hospitality Businesses (2/2)
In our previous article, we discussed the growing popularity of electric vehicles and the financial incentives to installing EV chargers. This time, we explain why EV Charging is the perfect investment for hospitality businesses in 2021.
EV Charging: How It Works, How Much It Costs and the Financial Support Available (1/2)
Electric vehicles are here to stay and with boosted government incentives, ambitious diesel-reduction targets and a wider variety of available chargers than ever, now is the time to seriously consider investing.
Energy Prices Are on the Rise: It’s Time to Start Metering!
Two weeks ago, the BBC published the headline: “Energy bills to rise by at least £139 for millions of households.” Whilst this is certainly an alarming statistic, it fits a more gradual trend in energy prices over the last two decades.
Five Negative, Environmental Impacts of the Pingdemic
The pingdemic is bad news for businesses and employees but what about the environment? Recycling, food waste and low-carbon transport options have all been effected by the track-and-trace app.
Can smart buildings contribute to net zero?
According to the UK Green Building Council, the built environment contributes about 40% of the UK’s total carbon footprint and almost half of this comes from energy used in buildings and for infrastructure that has nothing to do with their functional operation.
