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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. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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Generac Acquires Enbala, Boosting Plan to Harness Behind-the-Meter Energy Resources

GreenTechMedia

Generac Power Systems is acquiring Enbala Power Networks, a major step toward putting its market-leading backup generator business and its fast-growing behind-the-meter battery-solar fleet to work as a power grid resource. Canada and Australia, according to Wood Mackenzie data. Leading U.S. Leading U.S.

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

GreenTechMedia

Over the past half-decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consistently won court battles upholding its authority over states to set the rules for how distributed energy resources can play in wholesale energy markets. ” Why demand-side resources are gaining grid power.

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The 4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive Post-Bankruptcy

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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Revealed: Media Blitz Against Heat Pumps Funded by Gas Lobby Group

DeSmogBlog

An energy trade association that represents and promotes gas boilers and manufacturers is behind a barrage of negative press attacking heat pumps, DeSmog has learned. Much of the media coverage about heat pumps features Mike Foster, a former Labour MP and the chief executive of the Energy and Utilities Association trade body.

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V2G value propositions: Fermata Energy is focused on building financially viable solutions for vehicle-to-grid

Charged

Slutzky founded vehicle-to-grid pioneer Fermata Energy in November, 2010. In November 2018, the company partnered with Nissan to launch a pilot program that uses LEAFs equipped with bidirectional charging capability to partially power the automaker’s North American headquarters in Tennessee and its design center in San Diego.

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Solar Net Metering Under Threat as Shadowy Group Demands Intervention in State Policies

GreenTechMedia

Solar net metering, the backbone of the U.S. rooftop solar market for the past two decades, may be facing its most important legal challenge in years — and it's coming at a time when the industry is already reeling from the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.