Financial Times: Energy

MARCH 12, 2024

The climate crisis demands good data that measures the footprint of high electricity users

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With the worst of winter weather arguably still ahead of us, John Humble of grid voltage experts Fundamentals explores how intelligent risk management, targeted maintenance and better communication across our networks are critical for preparing our power grids to keep the lights on.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. An increasingly valuable measurement for clean-powered grids.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

When Hurricane Maria, a Category 4 storm with 155-mph winds, made a direct hit on Puerto Rico in 2017, it ravaged the island’s power grid and caused the longest blackout in US history. Maria left many residents without power for nearly a year.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Price increases alone should spur interest and demand in pursuing alternative energy sources. The impacts on the environment in producing power are minimal, and the byproducts of consumption are substantially less than with traditional fossil fuels.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Power grids -- the web of electrical networks that sprawl across countries and continents -- are under stress. Extreme weather events and volatile energy demands often push the system to the brink.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Rolls-Royce has supplied three mtu EnergyPacks to system integrator Eigen Energy in Singapore to integrate more renewable energy and offset peak electricity loads on the power grid.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

The demand for EVs is rising, the demand for charging stations and established power grids have also increased to ensure that the cars run smoothly. Furthermore, stringent government vehicle emission regulations have made consumers buy EVs.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

In today’s distributed energy system, managing power grid complexity is challenging. But grid operators are often handling these changes with an ageing infrastructure that wasn’t built with a distributed energy system in mind. This puts enormous pressure on power generation,transmission and the distribution network.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EIS, a distributor of electrical process materials and components in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Power Grid Supply (PGS), a supplier of transformer parts and components for the production, repair, and remanufacturing of transformers.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

Demand Response Management (DRM), is a crucial component of actual/upcoming smart grids, playing an active role in reducing peak demand and power fluctuation. Demand Response: Upside for the end-customer. Historical power plant control console without demand management. Image Credit – Pexels.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2022

-Through these projects, Enel Green Power continues its renewables + storage expansion with 350 MW in new generation capacity and 251 MW/376 MWh of battery storage, strengthening the Texas power grid during periods of peak energy demand with clean generation and easily-dispatchable storage resources.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4% Have you read?

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Charged

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

expands microgrid capabilities to ensure that charging stations can still deliver, regardless of what is happening on the power grid. FlexGen’s HybridOS automatically optimizes energy usage and power demand for the charging station, ensuring that it never exceeds physical limits and minimizes utility demand charges.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

Netze BW GmbH has announced two actions to bolster power transmission in Germany: a strengthening of the power grid in Kusterdingen and the latest biodiverse summation substation for Hechingen-Weilheim. Power line works in Kusterdingen. The work began on district road K6903 in the area of ??the

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. ” Why demand-side resources are gaining grid power.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2024

The virtual power plant (VPP) integrated capacity of vehicle to grid (V2G) is forecast to surpass that of energy storage assets ahead of 2040. This is according to US-based consultancy Rethink Energy who in a report hail VPP technology as the core of future power grids.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

The DER company has acquired Centrica’s demand response division, bolstering their DER capacity from 5.6GW to 6.3GW. CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition. Their services aim to help customers earn revenue for participating in demand response solutions that bolster the grid.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

During the month more than 50 per cent of the country's power came from zero carbon sources, a feat also achieved in May, October, November and December, the operator said. National Grid ESO's data also points to a marked fluctuation in electricity demand last year.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

By actively managing the charging schedule of its charge points and promoting smart charging, which allows customers to schedule charging sessions to pause during peak hours over the winter period, ubitricity will help UKPN to alleviate pressure on the electricity grid, while providing convenient and fairly priced charging for drivers.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Grid modernisation initiatives, including the movement to new technologies such as smart grids, are spurring the demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS), according to latest research from Research and Markets. billion by 2026. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 30, 2024

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has announced an upgrade and modernisation of its power transformer factory in Varennes, and other facilities in Montreal, Canada, to address fast-growing customer demand for sustainable energy in North America. The additional 130,000 square foot (approx.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2024

China’s state planner National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has released reform recommendations on how China, the largest EV market globally, can optimally integrate electric vehicles into power grid planning. in residential communities.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This summer Hitachi announced its intention to change its name to Hitachi Energy and drop the joint venture name it adopted when it purchased the grid business from ABB. Today, the company is announcing that the former name, Hitachi ABB Power Grids, has been officially changed to simply Hitachi Energy.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

It’s not as much as the roughly 500 megawatts enrolled in Consumers’ current commercial and industrial demand response programs, or the roughly 30 megawatts available from its existing residential direct air conditioner load control program. And Consumers' 1.6 That’s where the free offering comes in.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 7, 2024

Power grids in many cities are being pushed to the edge of their operating limits with increased cooling demand and other climate change impacts, the IEA has reported. By 2050 urban growth is expected to be equivalent to adding the combined land area of Germany, Italy and Japan.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2021

Low demand for power sees carbon intensity on grid plummet to lowest ever level, National Grid ESO confirms.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2022

The US Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) said in a summer readiness workshop that it will likely need to import more non-firm energy and/or need additional energy resources to meet the 2022 summer peak demand. powers innovation district with green energy.

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AutoGrid

MARCH 30, 2022

How VPPs Reduce Both Costs and Emission in Meeting Peak Demands. The emergence of virtual power plants (VPPs) as bona fide replacements for fossil fuel peaker plants has been discussed conceptually, but is there data to support this opportunity? combustion turbines burning natural gas or oil meet most of the peak power demands.

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TechXplore

MARCH 8, 2024

But first, an important consideration for these flying batteries is where they will charge and whether the existing power grid infrastructure can accommodate this demand. Electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft might quickly move passengers over mountains or float them across urbanscapes.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

The hard truth is that the majority of electric grids were not originally designed to accommodate DERs, writes Dominique Verhulst, head of the Energy Segment at Nokia’s Network Infrastructure Group. All this ratchets up the importance of transforming the power grid into a dynamic entity that can sense, think, and act.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

Nuclear Industry Association (NIA), RenewableUK and Solar Energy UK team up to demand clearer, ambitious clean energy goals. However, today the UK's main clean energy trade bodies warned that an acceleration in clean power capacity deployment is required if emissions goals and rising demand for electricity is to be met.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 24, 2024

The world will need a lot more renewable energy to clean up pollution from power grids and satiate skyrocketing electricity demand from data centers at the same time. That growth is equivalent to adding an extra country’s worth of electricity demand; Sweden under a more modest scenario or Germany at the most.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Solar renewables company Infinigen Renewables and ArcLight Capital Partners have announced a power and battery infrastructure project in Puerto Rico to provide supportive flexibility and reliability to the power grid. Energy storage is critical to helping Puerto Rico with extreme weather and grid reliability.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

JANUARY 13, 2024

Researchers are tapping into idled electric vehicles to act as mobile generators and help power overworked and aging electricity grids. After analyzing energy demand on Alberta's power grid during rush hour, the research proposes an innovative way to replenish electrical grids with power generated from fuel cells in trucks.

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