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Florida lawmaker says public chargers should be exempt from utility demand charges

Charged

Utility demand charges —steep fees that commercial customers pay when their power consumption exceeds a certain level—are the bane of public charging operators, and most Charged readers are probably familiar with how they work. Demand charges are especially onerous for small businesses that want to install DC fast chargers.

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MPs demand 'bold, visionary' mini-Budget to tackle climate and cost of living crises

Business Green

EXCLUSIVE: Cross party group of MPs on the APPG for a Green New Deal urge Chancellor to invest £11.7bn in urgent rollout of green home retrofit measures. I always support energy efficiency measures like home insulation, that makes sense, and energy prices are higher than they were," she said.

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Green Investment Group launches offshore wind and energy storage push

Business Green

Green Investment Group (GIG) has this week announced two major new moves to bolster its position in both the energy storage and offshore wind markets. Green banking giant announces UK energy storage acquisition and plans for Scottish offshore wind bid. Construction is expected to commence on the first projects this year, GIG said.

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AutoGrid 2023 Milestones Span Flexibility Offerings

AutoGrid

From demand response (DR) programs to distributed energy resource management systems (DERMs), microgrids to virtual power plants (VPPs), electric vehicle (EV) charging to large-scale assets, we saw a huge amount of progress, both within AutoGrid and across energy markets worldwide.

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Green Investment Group and Enso Energy team up on 1GW solar-plus-storage pipeline

Business Green

Green Investment Group (GIG) and Enso Energy have formed a joint venture to build a 1GW pipeline of battery-backed solar projects across the UK. In addition, on-site battery storage facilities will ensure that projects have flexible output and address electricity demand during peak periods, while also providing auxiliary services to the grid.

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America is hungrier than ever for sustainable food systems. Can we build them?  

GreenBiz

The farms we work with are seeing a huge spike in demand [for direct sales]," Dan Miller, CEO and founder of the crowdfunding platform Steward , told me when we spoke by phone in early April. But now they have to quickly switch their businesses to meet that demand."

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Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?

GreenTechMedia

“We can do both: We can do the short-duration time-of-use arbitrage and demand-charge reduction and help monetize those opportunities for customers, but we can also provide them up to two days of backup power in the face of an outage,” Larsen said. The startup, founded in 2012, raised a CAD $3.4 Photo credit: e-Zinc).

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