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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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

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. The financial merger of the two groups is expected to be complete by June 2021, said IREC CEO Larry Sherwood, who will head the new organization.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 19, 2023

NextGrid is a new research and innovation project that prepares those working in grid company operating centres to manage the complexity and automated processes needed for the future power grid. This will lead to an increasingly unpredictable power flow. Flexibility resources will play an important role in the project.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Utility-scale battery storage capacity has soared over the past 10 or so years, from almost nothing before 2010 to nearly 1,000 megawatts today, driven in large part by lithium-ion battery storage, as the price of lithium-ion batteries has fallen 85 percent since 2010. Gretchen Whitmer and the MPSC of the MI Power Grid initiative.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Organizations large and small are aiming to address the challenge.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For her work at Sunrun, Jurich was named on Fortune Magazine’s list of top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in December 2009, and, with her co-founder Edward Fenster, Jurich earned a 2010 Ernst & Yung Entrepreneurs of the year. In this vision, GRID Alternatives , a non-profit solar installer, was formed in 2004.

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