26 Sep 2018

E.ON partners with Microsoft to offer smart home energy services

Handelsblatt Global

Microsoft has announced it will partner with German utility E.ON to develop a smart home platform to manage everything in a house that runs on electricity, report Jürgen Flauger and Christof Kerkmann in Handelsblatt Global Edition. The partnership will combine Microsoft’s powerful cloud and chip products with E.ON’s vast distribution network and will enable the utility to add profitable services to its basic provision of power, according to the authors. E.ON said the deal “aims to combine data from all electrical devices within the home – including heating and cooling systems, PV installations, battery storage, or chargers for electric vehicles – on a single platform.”

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Find plenty of background in the dossiers The digitalisation of the Energiewende and Utilities and the energy transition.

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