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EDNA has published a new report “Plug-In Battery Energy Storage Systems” providing market insights and insights on opportunities and challenges. 

A new based on reasearch by Oeko-Institut Consult GmbH presents an assessment the flexibility potential of data centres and analyses challenges and opportunities for using that potential.

The IEA’s Digital Demand-Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) Initiative, and the 4E EDNA Platform are co-organising a webinar to explore how new approaches and technologies to unlock demand-side flexibility at scale to support secure, efficient, and decarbonised power systems.

The report on Liquid Cooling in Data Centres presents research conducted by Viegand Maagoe. It maps liquid cooling technologies, and analyses challenges and opportunities in implementation and the impact that liquid cooling can have on energy efficiency. 

In a new report, commissioned by the 4E TCP EDNA Platform, Viegand Maagoe provides an overview of the current landscape of communication protocols that can be used to enable demand side flexibility of household appliances, and suggests a practical pathway to overcoming interoperability challenges.

In a new report, commissioned by the 4E TCP EDNA Platform and the Users TCP, the Austrian Institute of Technology conclude that policy and behavioural measures are as important as technical ones.

The IEA’s Digital Demand-Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) Initiative, the IEA 4E TCP Efficient, Demand Flexible Networked Appliances (EDNA) and the Super-Efficient Equipment and Appliance deployment (SEAD) initiative are co-organising a webinar focused on the electricity use of data centres and the role of energy consumption data in enabling effective policy and planning.

New EDNA report examines the ability of ‘flexibility platforms’ to unlock demand flexibility from appliances in the household and commercial sectors. Download here.

EDNA has published 2 new reports on data centres: Data Centre Energy Efficiency Labels and Public Data on Data Centre Energy Use.

This report focusses on cybersecurity threats in relation to demand flexible networked appliances.  It investigates current efforts to address these, and summarises the issues that policy makers should be aware of in relation to minimising cybersecurity risks.

EDNA has published 3 new policy briefs: Turning dumb appliances into smart appliances Appliance interoperability Energy efficiency policies for data centres These can be downloaded from the EDNA publications page.

This new policy brief summarises the EDNA Guide to Energy Management Protocols, which is a resource for policy makers.

This webinar provided policymakers with information and evidence-based recommendations for policy measures to improve the energy efficiency of data centres.

Over the past decade, EDNA has provided policy guidance aimed at improving the efficiency of smart devices and associated systems. In recent years EDNA has done a lot of work in the area of ‘demand flexible’ devices.

Since 2014 EDNA – the Electronic Devices and Networks Annex of 4E – has helped its 14 member countries to better understand digital technologies. Our extensive research into how policies can both encourage ‘energy smart digital devices’, and minimise the additional energy used to connect devices to the internet, has resulted in more than 60 publications.

29 Nov 2022 14:00—15:00 Paris Time EDNA and the IEA’s Digital Demand-Driven Electricity Networks (3DEN) Initiative are co-organising this webinar on the topic of interoperability of household appliances and equipment. The webinar will draw on the

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.