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Can Solar and Batteries Outlast an Extended Power Outage?

GreenTechMedia

Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Not quite full resilience.

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How energy providers can prepare for summer heat with innovative solutions

Renewable Energy World

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. California and other states are pushing to use clean electricity to power vehicles and buildings to cut carbon, which will increase demand. ROOT CAUSES. NERC’s On-Peak Risk Scenario for California.

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Five Reasons to Sell Sustainable Upgrades in the New Year

Mosaic

Products like solar panels and storage, EV chargers, high SEER HVAC systems, heat pumps and ENERGY STAR® windows and doors, all fall under this category. These energy-efficient products can offer customer savings, provide more resiliency, increase home value and comfort — and even help boost your margins! more on average.

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Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI

Bidgely

Learn more about how you can integrate Bidgely’s AI-powered customer profiling and segmentation capability into your operations to generate greater ROI from your AMI investment by downloading our Data Science Lab’s AI-Powered Customer Segmentation for Utilities white paper. Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI.

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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly improve key areas of grid management, a new US Department of Energy report finds. Thus AI models for grid applications should be rigorously validated as well as scalable in performance and adherent to power grid governance standards. Have you read?

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Retailers can capitalize on energy management and see ROI as high as 30 percent

Renewable Energy World

An energy-efficient facility is the product of an energy-efficient design and a successful, energy-efficient design should be based on three fundamental philosophies: Use only the most appropriate energy-consuming equipment.? HVAC has taken on a new significance in the age of COVID-19.

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AutoGrid’s Customers Flex Grid Muscles During Peak Summer

AutoGrid

We are in the middle of peak summer season across the northern hemisphere and the electric grid is already groaning and straining under increased demand. Rolling power outages, alarming spot market energy prices, failing power plants and last minute cries for help from the grid operators, have become the norm.