Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

As hurricanes threaten, Puerto Rico utilities are shoring up their defences using a PNNL-devised planning tool called the Electrical Grid Resilience and Assessment System (EGRASS), writes Nick Hennen from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Maria left many residents without power for nearly a year. million customers.

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TechXplore

APRIL 4, 2024

The Gulf Coast of the United States is often hit by tropical cyclones (TCs), hurricanes and other extreme weather phenomena, which can cause widespread electricity outages. Climate change and global warming are expected to increase the risk of these events occurring, which could significantly disrupt activities in the area.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The ability to remotely operate microgrids, says SDG&E in a release, offers real-time monitoring, faster response to grid events, more efficient energy storage management and enhanced grid resilience.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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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. Although these high-impact events can be very damaging, often overlooked is the impact of minor disruptions that trigger a domino effect throughout the system, according to a study analyzing European power blackouts.

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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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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. Build a resilient grid. Software underpinned with a strong data foundation is key.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced its official launch, initial institutional capital raise of $2.5 million, and partnership with Seattle City Light and Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO).

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

Chattanooga headquartered power distribution company EPB and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have launched the Collaborative for Energy Resilience and Quantum Science. As a result of this work, the EPB Quantum Network powered by Qubiteckk was launched to accelerate the commercialisation of quantum technologies.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023. ”

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. DR is the first line of defense to stretch thin power supplies. But building transmission lines is contentious and time-consuming. What can we do right now?

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

With lots of solar and wind power, energy storage, and advanced extreme weather impact modeling, Puerto Rico could achieve a 100% renewable power grid by 2050. These and other recommendations are the.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

As countries the world over pursue net-zero goals, the power grids are at the centre of a transformation that will ultimately lead to economy-wide decarbonisation impacting almost every aspect of life, from the way we power and run our homes to how we travel and the products we purchase. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Science Daily: Renewable Energy

MARCH 1, 2024

Large scale-power outages caused by tropical cyclones can be prevented almost entirely if a small but critical set of power lines is protected against storm damages, a new study finds. Scientists developed a new method that can be used to identify those critical lines and increase the system's resilience.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2022

The energy provider will make significant upgrades to its high voltage distribution (HVD) system in an effort to make the power grid more reliable for Consumers Energy’s electric customers in the state of Michigan, US. And as weather becomes more severe, Michigan needs a power grid that’s more reliable and resilient.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

UK needs additional £14bn in annual renewables investment to meet 2050 goal Australia’s small scale RECs scheme sees record installations in 2020 Grid Resilience with Enedis, an interview with COO Antoine Jourdain. We then used a dynamical model to assess how these changes impact the resilience of power grids to catastrophic failures.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The manufacturer-agnostic, TXpert™ Ecosystem to enable millions of dollars in savings through greater flexibility, efficiency and resilience in electricity networks

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Generac's program will focus on enhancing grid flexibility and improving the resilience of the power system against growing threats of extreme weather and climate changeGenerac Grid Services,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2019

It’s exposing both the vulnerability of our existing electric system and the opportunity to use clean energy as a critical resilience strategy. The good news is that we already have the technologies we need for clean, truly reliable backup power. ” The good news.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New research from the Wi-SUN Alliance finds that advanced weather prediction tops the list of initiatives that US utilities are undertaking to ensure better network resilience. Other top initiatives are renewable energy integration, grid modernisation and microgrids and disaster response and recovery plans.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 1, 2024

The Dutch demonstrator of the eFORT project is developing a digital twin of the grid to increase its resilience to cyber attacks. In particular the focus of the demonstrator is on preventing cascading failures and power grid restoration following an outage. Other demonstrators are in Spain.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Future of Energy and Grid Resiliency is Distributed By Giovanni Herazo, Vice President, Smart Grid Solutions As one of FPL’s smart grid & innovation leaders, I saw firsthand how our grid was consistently put to the test by unexpected outages, power quality issues, adverse weather conditions, and rising load demand.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Have you read: Investment needed to keep grid fit for purpose says Enel Grids boss Grid resilience lessons from the frontline of climate change “We will be juggling our response between setting the network up to minimise the risk of fire starts and managing outage risk from storm impacts.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 24, 2024

A $10 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant will help create a pilot regional cybersecurity research and operations centre meant to help protect the power grid against cyber attacks. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on Power Grid International.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

billion ($38.96) by 2026, more than half of this being funnelled into power grid investments, the Group said more focus will be placed on profitability, flexibility and resiliency through selective capital allocation to maximize its risk/return profile. Beyond the power grid , approximately €12.1

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online. Weather disasters supercharged by climate change have already led to more power outages in the US.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Grid technology company Reactive Technologies has launched Tradenergy, a software tool and analytics platform with the aim of providing short-term energy traders real-time insights into grid events such as generation or interconnector trips.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for 15 projects across 11 states meant to improve the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the domestic power grid through the research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As part of the Baltic power grid synchronisation project, the compensators will also be installed in Lithuania and Estonia – three in each country. kls signed a contract with the general partnership EM&SE Syncons for the supply and installation of the compensators, with a total cost of €114 million ($112.5

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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

MAY 2, 2024

The report, focussed on potential opportunities for AI in the grid, finds that AI is able to improve grid planning, permitting, operations and reliability and resilience as well to advance the broader transition to a clean energy economy. Anticipating system anomalies to avoid disruption.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

million grant to Iowa State University engineers to establish a new cybersecurity centre focused on protecting power grids that rely on renewable energy sources. This will be a university-based cybersecurity research centre for renewable energy on the distribution grid,” Govindarasu said. The centre will have two main goals.

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POWER Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

An energy storage project in Southern California will provide resource adequacy (RA) and ancillary services to the state’s power grid, adding more reliability and resiliency for electricity in the California […] The post Energy Storage Project Announced to Serve California Grid appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

What we need to work on is (grid) investments.” billion ($38.96) by 2026, nearly €19 billion for grid investments will focus on improving quality, resiliency and digitalisation of the power grid, alongside new connections. Last week, Enel Group announced a new investment strategy for the period 2024-2026.

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