| | JUNE 20209technological expertise, our activities consist of managing R&D projects and providing local ENGIE entities with key differentiators to win bids, de-risk innovative technologies, and unlock new markets or new ways of value creation.Cooling technologies are crucial nowadays with the increasing number of cities and global warming. Cooling is set to expand 625 percent by 2050 in Asia, especially in the tropical humid climate like in Singapore. On the one hand, advanced green technologies are required to avoid harming the environment by the process of itself, and on the other hand, cooling is essential for people's lives and thus a big part of the technology focus. ENGIE Lab Singapore stands at the forefront of this domain by looking at different cooling technologies as well as integrated optimization of cooling and electrical energy.Over 500 companies have made public commitments to sustainability targets in accord with the Paris Agreement, with an increasing amount targeting a zero-carbon objective. More than 90 of the world's largest cities have joined C40, a network of the world's megacities committed to climate change, and New York City recently signed the world's most ambitious carbon reduction goal in history. In order to offer businesses and local government the ability to achieve their zero-carbon transition in a simple, integrated and financed manner, ENGIE Lab Singapore could bring most advanced and localized technologies to the APAC market. Liquid Energy Storage (LAES), for instance, is one of the topics ENGIE Lab Singapore is working on. LAES is the energy storage which has the potential to combine cold and heat energy with electrical power. Such characteristic positions the technology in the very interest of the future industry and city application.IoT technology and its data analytics context aim to improve the efficiency of people's daily life. Such improvements can lead to the reduction of energy, reduction of waste and ultimately, reduction of carbon footprint. The first steps from ENGIE Lab Singapore rolled out to install IoT devices in different locations with different focuses. The next step, with the recorded data, will be to use data analytics technology to evaluate, treat, and analyze the operations. The intelligence developed should then be able to help the industry process to move towards decarbonization and efficiency improvements.Microgrids interoperability is a futuristic topic when we imagine a decentralized world. With renewable energy, which is mostly distributed/not centralized, more and more power grid will consist of large numbers of microgrids. Such microgrids will have their own control and optimization while keeping a harmonious operation among all the microgrids is not easy. To prepare the future in a decentralized world of the energy and provide access to the energy to people in remote areas, ENGIE Lab Singapore, with other partners, set up a microgrid pilot project in the South of Singapore on a real tropical island called Semakau. By participating in this initiative within the REIDS project, ENGIE is at the top front of this topic with the big players in the market. Such a world will help to shape tomorrow's regulation and rules for power grid, and ENGIE, thanks to this experience, will be the pioneer and grasp the market at an early stage. The idea is as well to convert renewable electricity productions into hydrogen fuel through different electrolysis technologies and store the hydrogen gas using different storage techniques. ENGIE is convinced that hydrogen will play a major role in the long term and large capacity storage needs of the microgrid solution. The aim is to demonstrate the relevance of producing and using hydrogen as a smart and decarbonized energy on an island territory. For that, the demonstration will consist of producing hydrogen from a renewable source--tidal, wind and solar energy produced locally--through an electrolyzer either to store this energy and use it when needed through a fuel cell (regeneration of power) or to valorize it in hydrogen vehicles (Hydrogen Refueling Station). We have a wonderful project ahead. We are at the forefront of one of the main not to say the biggest challenge of the century. Instead of being afraid, I would say it is an incredible opportunity. Energy as a service (EaaS) can be summarized as the provision of technical and intellectual capacity towards energy-based end-solutions such as heating, lighting, and mobility
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