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Xcel Energy to instal 260,000 smart meters in Wisconsin

Smart Energy International

Xcel Energy has announced the start of the rollout of smart electricity meters in its Wisconsin service territory. The installations will start in the company’s southern communities and will lead to the installation of more than 260,000 of the new smart meters in the service area through 2025. million electricity and 2.1

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Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid

GreenBiz

Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid. Heatwaves are a double whammy for the electrical grid. The combination of the hot weather and the increased energy running along wires go beyond what they were built to endure. Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love.

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Monitoring grid stability with hydropower signals

Smart Energy International

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. Yilu Liu, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for power grids who has led the project, explains that when the hydropower facility pumps shut down, they almost always stop at a fixed power level.

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Why reliable data on renewable capacity is the missing ingredient for international electricity trading

Smart Energy International

Data collection and transparency are crucial to map the true state of renewable generating capacity across power grids that is needed for international electricity markets, writes Amir Cohen of Electrical Grid Monitoring.

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Landis+Gyr’s Revelo smart meter gets New York’s green light

Smart Energy International

The Revelo advanced sensing meter being deployed in New York has been certified as meeting the accuracy and reliability requirements of the state. National Grid intends to deploy approximately 1.7 million electricity meters and 640,000 smart gas meter modules as part of its transition to next-generation smart infrastructure.

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Smart Energy Finances: Series B funding for AI-powered grid analytics

Smart Energy International

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a successful Series B financing round of $20 million for a US-based platform, Amperon, that uses artificial intelligence (AI) to unlock value from grid data and enhance electricity forecasting. This will play a key role as the platform expands.

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ChatGrid to assist power grid operators with generative AI grid visualisation

Smart Energy International

ChatGrid has been developed as a generative AI solution to simplify and speed up decision making for power grid operators in the US. With this, the user can then ask a question such as: “What is the generation capacity of the top five wind power generators in the Western Interconnection?”