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The International Energy Agency Digital Demand-Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) Initiative and IEA-4E/EDNA are pleased to invite you to the expert webinar: Blockchain applications: an energy perspective The webinar will be held via Zoom on Tuesday 12 April

EDNA has published a policy brief which summarises the key findings of a report titled Blockchain Energy Consumption – An Exploratory Study.  The report was commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Energy and contains a detailed analysis of blockchain,

EDNA has published a new policy brief, which provides policy makers with considerations for improving the energy efficiency of small network equipment, such as modems, routers, network extenders, etc.  Download here.

4E EDNA and the Users TCP have published a joint report which examines the extent to which ‘usability issues’ at set up and operation prevent smart devices from effectively delivering energy demand flexibility and intelligent efficiency.

EDNA has published a new report which develops and outlines the concept of  an ‘idle metric’ for data centres and servers, which  can be used by policy makers. The advantage of these metrics is that they do

EDNA has published 3 new policy briefs on the topic of digitalisation: Policy Guidance for Energy Smart Digital Devices Provides policy guidance for encouraging the development of consumer devices which are capable of ‘energy smart digital

EDNA has launched 5 new tasks.  These tasks cover a range of issues: Metrics for Data Centre Efficiency; Mobile Devices; Emerging Battery Technologies; Interoperability; Connection with Standardisation.   Task descriptions can be found at the links above,

The EDNA Total Energy Model of connected device energy use has been updated, including a set of interactive charts that can be used to predict the energy consumption of various scenarios.

EDNA has published a report which examines the landscape of residential IoT products and the functions within those products that can be leveraged to yield energy benefits.  The report can now be downloaded.

EDNA has published a report which examines the retrofit solutions that can make “dumb” household devices into “smart” devices which save energy.  The report can be downloaded.

The Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (EDNA) of the IEA 4E TCP welcomes the European Commission as the 14th member of the Annex.

The Electronic Devices and Networks Annex (EDNA) of the IEA 4E TCP welcomes New Zealand as the 13th member of the Annex. New Zealand will work closely with EDNA’s 12 other member countries to develop technical

EDNA has launched its first newsletter: Network Connections The newsletter will be issued approximately every 6 months.

EDNA has published the following new reports: Test Procedures for Measuring Network Standby Power; Global Forecast of Energy Use for Wireless Charging; Bridging the Network Standby Gap between Mobile and Mains-Powered Products; Getting to Zero: An

Webinar 11 September 2019 Connecting everyday, energy-using devices to the internet has profound implications for energy use. Connected devices can participate in new kinds of digital ecosystems: systems of connected devices can be managed intelligently to save energy,

EDNA has published a study on the opportunities for Energy Harvesting to power IoT Edge Devices

EDNA has published a Case Study of the Barriers and Solutions to Intelligent Efficiency – focussed on Smart Homes

EDNA has published a Policy Brief, suggesting policy options to encourage devices to report their own energy consumption

SEAD Connected Efficiency Award – Winners Announced SEAD has announced the communications protocols that were awarded a Connected Efficiency Award. The winning protcols are: IEEE Std 1905.1a™-2014 IEEE Standard for a Convergent Digital Home Network for Heterogeneous

A Workshop on Energy Efficiency of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE) will be held on 28 September 2017 in Vienna. The workshop will explore the current knowledge on energy performance and testing, as a basis for