In this new addition to our blog posts explaining different technologies like Construction Technology, Property Technology and Insurance Technology, we talk about another of those trendy buzzwords that a lot of people use without really knowing what they mean: CleanTech. We will answer the following questions: **what is CleanTech?**, **how does CleanTech benefit traditional businesses?** and **what CleanTech solutions do we offer?**. Keep reading to find out how CleanTech can help you to **#ONEUPYOURBUSINESS**.

## WHAT IS CLEANTECH?

CleanTech is the acronym for Clean Technology and it refers to the use of Technology to improve energy efficiency, reduce carbon emissions, minimise waste, protect the environment and maximise sustainability of resources. Like Agriculture Technology and Property Technology, people use Clean Technology to refer to the startups that operate within the sector, but Clean Technology is more suitable for the technologies themselves.

Some of the technologies that are more relevant include Thermal imaging, 3D visualisations, Artificial Intelligence and Data Analysis.

## HOW DOES CLEAN TECHNOLOGY BENEFIT TRADITIONAL BUSINESSES?

Since the Industrial Revolution and up until recently, we really never cared for the emissions that we were dumping to the atmosphere, how efficient our energy production and consumption were or how much waste we were creating. However, we have realised that with an excessive overpopulation our planet’s resources are limited and that if we keep damaging the environment as before, we would not have a place to live in a very summary amount of time. The world’s population mentality has changed thanks to the efforts of people like Sir David Attenborough and some of his documentaries like Blue Planet II.

With technological advancements in the last few decades, we are now at a point in time when we can start taking action to remediate the damage that we have done to the environment.

Smart sensors that control heating, energy, water, lighting, foot traffic, etc., can give a huge amount of information that we would not get otherwise. This information can be later analysed and processed to understand usage habits and therefore tailor how we consume energy and other resources, with substantial savings in utility bills.

Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Data Science can truly make an impact by interpreting the data collected by the aforementioned smart sensors and come up with different patterns and predictions that can further optimise the energy usage and maximise the savings.

Software Development is useful in order to present the results of Artificial Intelligence in an easy and comprehensible way to your partners and customers. For the ultimate experience, 3D Models and Digital Twins will give you a new interactive and immersive way of accessing your data.

Drones are very well suited to Clean Technology. They allow us to produce reports and inspections much quicker, more efficiently and safer than using traditional methods. Drones have the ability to fly while using different sensors, like high-definition thermal cameras, and photographic cameras. With drones we can assess how effective your Carbon Sequestration strategy is. We talked about [carbon sequestration](/blog/what-is-carbon-sequestration "carbon sequestration") in a previous article.

Thermal reports are used to detect heat leaks in buildings and roofs, giving us an insight about the efficiency of the buildings. All thermal reports can be overlaid on top of normal visual inspections and will be tagged with accurate GPS coordinates.

We explain what is CleanTech, how it benefits traditional business by reducing their carbon footprint and what CleanTech solutions we offer.

What is CleanTech?

We have already looked at [what is 5G](/blog/what-is-5g "what is 5G") and [5G for Construction](/blog/5g-for-construction "5G for Construction"). In this new blog post we are going to be answering the following questions: **what are the advantages of using 5G within the Renewable Energy Industry?** And **what 5G solutions do we offer for Renewable Energy?** Keep reading to find out how 5G for Renewable Energy can help you to **#ONEUPYOURBUSINESS**.

## WHAT ARE THE ADVANTAGES OF USING 5G WITHIN THE RENEWABLE ENERGY INDUSTRY?

As we have explained in other blog articles, implementing 5G for your business will change the way your business operates for you. 5G makes for a greener future with its potential to help improve the energy efficiency of industrial sectors and below we discuss the advantages of using 5G within the Renewable Energy Industry:

  - **Control energy infrastructure**: 5G will be able to handle energy infrastructure helping reduce carbon emissions, energy use, and expenses by being able to turn on and off street lighting when there are no vehicles or pedestrians in the area
  - **Reduce downtime**: 5G will be able to immediately diagnose any breakdowns or issues that occur by the smart grid technology connected by 5G Technology. It will be able to quickly and efficiently find a solution to help the grid get working again
  - **Increase of demand-side management**: by linking energy consuming devices to a smart grid, a boost in demand-side management will be increased helping reduce electricity peaks, energy costs and support load balancing
  - **Improve forecasting**: 5G allows devices to be observed to provide better forecasting of energy needs by allowing various unconnected energy-consuming devices to be incorporated into the grid through low-cost 5G connection
  - **More cost-effective**: with 5G enabling super-fast data transmissions, low latency, and better connectivity compared to the previous 4G Network means each connection takes a reduced amount of time to complete. This will in turn will enable the improvement of saving energy, handling energy generation, transmissions, and cost-effectiveness 
  - **Improve safety**: sensors and networking devices in critical components will enable you to be notified when issues arise for a few examples: when parts are required maintenance or replacement, any interference, or if conditions exceed tolerances. Companies such as wind-based utility businesses will benefit from this as they can then cut down on putting anyone in harm’s way when monitoring and maintaining wind turbines, improving the safety of employees 
  - **Digest large amount of data**: not only does 5G benefit wind-based utility companies but it also supports people working with other sources of energy such as oil and gas. 5G allows for sensors and software run by artificial intelligence (AI) enabling large amounts of real-time data-gathering and output real-time responses helping people to make more informed decisions on issues. This can help the oil and gas industry in the sectors such as upstream, midstream, and downstream
  - **Providing communication and reliability**: in certain climates solar panels have challenges in communication, with intelligent tuning algorithms they can help solar-generated power equipment that are installed on solar farms and rooftops to collect power from the grid and sell power back. Therefore, 5G can help distribute resources in gloomy weather and provide reliability 

To read more about 5G for Property in the West Midlands, please visit the [WM5G’s website](https://global5g.org/news/webinar-report-5g-energy-sector "WM5G’s website").

## WHAT 5G SOLUTIONS DO WE OFFER FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY?

We fully support and promote the adoption of 5G across all viable sectors and industries, and the Renewable Energy Industry is a clear example of an industry that truly benefits from 5G. We have a range of solutions tailored to help you take advantage of implementing 5G in your business: 

  - **Bespoke Software Development**: we are able to provide and create custom between your systems and any third-party 5G-enabled sensors, combining the data and presenting it as real-time, interactive applications
  - **Data-driven Digital Twins**: we incorporate the information collected by any 5G-enabled sensor or device with our highly accurate Digital Twins. Allowing us to provide your business with visualisation and reporting capabilities

Overall, 5G Technology will play a significant part of your business providing smart energy systems of the future and rapid speeds for data, efficiency, productivity, profitability, and increased safety, making you able to make more informed decisions.

We explain how adopting the latest 5G Technology for Renewable Energy will help benefit you business and reduce costs and eliminate risks.

5G For Renewable Energy

In previous articles, we have already covered [What is Circular Economy](/blog/what-is circular-economy/ "What is Circular Economy") and [Technology and Circular Economy](/blog/technology-and-circular-economy/ "Technology and Circular Economy"). In this blog post we are going to be talking about **Circular Economy and Renewable Energy** and answering the following question: **how can Renewable Energy benefit the Circular Economy?** Keep reading to find out how Renewable Energy and Circular Economy can help you to **#ONEUPYOURBUSINESS**!
 
## HOW CAN RENEWABLE ENERGY BENEFIT THE CIRCULAR ECONOMY?

Renewable Energy helps pave the way for a Circular Economy in terms of energy sources. The use of renewables like solar and wind energy are alternatives to fossil fuels and with the Circular Economy focussing on the reuse of raw materials together they allow for a sustainable future. Below we discuss the benefits Circular Economy can gain from Renewable Energy:

  - **Cost-effective fossil fuel alternatives**: due to the expense of fossil fuel, renewable sources are estimated to supply more than 60% of global electricity in 2050 because the costs of generating electricity from wind, solar and battery technologies are cheaper. The cost-effectiveness of renewable sources will enable a greener future and benefit the Circular Economy
  - **Substituting materials**: using renewable, secondary materials, and low carbon as alternatives can work the same but provide lower emissions. Replacing fossil fuels with renewable sources for examples: decarbonised electricity, biomass, and hydrogen can help to eliminate fossil fuel usage. Emissions that cannot be reduced through renewable energy technology and material productivity developments will go through procedures such as carbon capture and permanent storage where the remaining CO2 will be captured. Therefore, substituting materials will help the aim of achieving a Circular Economy by reducing global emissions
  - **Reduced emissions**: with 75% of global emissions from the transport sector the increase of hybrid, plug-in hybrid, and electric vehicles are set to reduce emissions and help increase the life cycle of a vehicle to five to ten years
  - **Shared, electrified and autonomous travel**: powered renewable energy vehicles can provide less traffic reducing accidents, lower maintenance, less congestion, reduced travel time due to being designed for durability, reuse, stability, and in some vehicles with artificial intelligence processes. Improving the wellbeing and quality of life of people and helping to reduce air pollution
  - **Recirculating materials**: Reusing materials can help reduce waste and emissions for example, renewable energy powered vehicles can help decrease the removal of natural materials by 95% due to the extended vehicle lifetime and the reusing of materials and components helping to reduce landfill waste
  - **Emerging technologies**: new technologies are being developed to help decarbonisation by creating carbon-neutral energy systems that can convert leftover energy from renewables and store them for an extended period
  - **Home heating and off-grid cooking**: with the UK government having a target of reducing all greenhouse gas emissions to net zero by 2050 companies like [Pumped Heat](http://www.pumpedheat.co.uk "Pumped Heat") are developing a heat storage unit by using renewable electrical energy. They can generate heat from electricity and offer home heating and off-grid solar cooking
  - **Wind turbines**: wind turbines have a recyclability rate of 85% to 90%. Improving the design of wind turbines can help extend the life of a turbine and its parts for more than 20 years and replace the non-recyclable materials to recycle materials for example non-toxic plastics or bio-based materials. An eco-design will improve carbon footprint, renewable energy usage and waste reductions as a few examples and help them to become 100% recyclable as we enter a circular economy
  - **Renewable powered**: many of the processes vital to a circular economy like remanufacturing and refurbishing can be powered by renewable electricity which in turn can also improve efficiency
  - **Decarbonisation**: the increase of wind and solar panels along with infrastructure of power generation and power grips will also help decarbonisation and enable consumers, businesses, and residents to access renewable energy and benefit from climate efforts

Find out how Renewable Energy can benefit the Circular Economy and help your business pave its way towards a greener future and Net Zero Carbon.

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