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Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024

Smart Energy International

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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Demand Response Industry Asks Feds to Open States to Energy Market Competition

GreenTechMedia

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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Plugging into electricity’s energy challenge

Envirotec Magazine

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. Tom Christensen writes.

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Solar Foundation and Interstate Renewable Energy Council to Merge

GreenTechMedia

The non-profit Solar Foundation will soon become part of the Interstate Renewable Energy Council, merging two groups with a common vision for an increasingly clean-powered grid. In addition to solar, IREC works on energy storage and grid modernization.

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Forget King Coal. Solar Is ‘New King’ of Global Power Markets, Says IEA

GreenTechMedia

Solar power is the "new king" of global electricity markets, with the International Energy Agency calling it the cheapest form of electricity in history in its annual centerpiece World Energy Outlook report. Just a decade ago, in its 2010 Outlook , the IEA called coal “the backbone of the global electricity system.”

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IEA: Surge in clean energy capacity to drive five per cent drop in power sector emissions in 2020

Business Green

Global renewable energy generation is expected to grow by seven per cent in 2020, further bolstering record shares of the power mix for clean power sources after plummeting electricity demand during the coronavirus crisis saw fossil fuel generation marginalised. per cent jump seen in 2010 after the financial crisis took a 0.6

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California Clears PG&E Bankruptcy Plan as Critics Call for Public Takeover

GreenTechMedia

But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear. Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy.

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