COVID-19 lockdown helps to be creative: think about new business models and environment

In the middle of a lock-down due to Covid-19, we have time to stop and think.

Even though this virus crisis is worse than others, at the same time,we can't forget another one: the climate change.

We then have 2 challenges: the virus and the irreversible shift to a catastrophic hard time for the Earth and its inhabitants.

While being at home, we should prioritize actions to defend us from pandemic, but also on how to get out of it stronger than ever.

In this article, FastCompany writer suggests 4 ways "to reboot the economy" and at the same time "fix the climate":

• make buildings and homes more energy efficient (what you invest now in building can be saved in maintenance and living costs);
• modernize the transmission infrastructure (make it more efficient and its governance more likely to shift to a neural network);
• invest in zero-emission public transportation (coupling increasing adoption of Electric Vehicles, even public transportation will be key to reduce pollution and congestion);
• invest in reforestation and tree restoration efforts (without natural clean air recycling there will be no life for human being, so better to invest on retrieving environmental condition, also not to be debilitated in respiratory)

BeChained and Tecnalogic are more than ever involved in focusing their efforts on Power System empowerment, by mitigation some of its pain points: congestion, governance, reliability in adopting DERs (Distributed Energy Resources), and, finally, boosting its modernization.

It is well known that the best cost-effective solution is to potentiate the participation in Demand Management market for Consumers.

So that, BeChained in Spain and Tecnalogic in Italy bring in Consumers into the market, through their Demand-Side Response (DSR) platform. It:

• leverages on energy flexibility to empower Consumers;
• allows their aggregation into Energy Communities;
• doesn't interrupt electricity supply for their production, nor gets output quantity and quality worse, rather it maintains system constrains and it programs Consumers' production to achieve the committed goal with Grid;
• turns smart grid into a neural grid, because it automatizes all the governance of consumption with Artificial Intelligence algorithms;
• embeds optimization of efficiency and turns consumption into a valuable asset for each Client;
• lowers their delivered cost of energy, as being rewarded the more Consumers participate in the market;
• finally, guarantees that all the energy transaction within the platform are secure, transparent and auditable for all the Consumers, as it deploys blockchain to switch from a gray information system (the current one) to a crystal-clear real-time access to their consumption data.

This platform is designed to put the Consumers in the center of market, to empower them and to permit to everyone (the dreamers) to take the best informed action to finally become climate change doer.