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Ready to embrace IEC 61850 everywhere in your power grid?

Smart Energy International

But if Thomas Edison, who opened the first investor-owned power utility in New York City 140 years ago, were to tour the switchyard of a modern substation, he would still recognize the transformers, circuit breakers, switches and capacitors. To the naked eye, it might appear that the power grid hasn’t changed.

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Aspern smart city grid to be modelled with digital twin

Smart Energy International

Siemens has been involved demonstrating new building and grid energy management solutions from the early days of the initiative, which opened in 2013 and is set to house some 25,000 people and provide around 20,000 workspaces. Have you read?

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Sunrun is building Puerto Rico’s first virtual power plant

Smart Energy International

Sunnova Energy said that only 59 of its 30,000 rooftop solar arrays required repair in the two weeks following Hurricane Fiona, which struck Puerto Rico in early September, causing widespread outages as the island’s electric power grid failed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. It said customers averaged 5.3

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Vistra, LS Power Top Winners in PG&E?s 420MW Storage Procurement

GreenTechMedia

Massive battery farms are expected to become an increasingly central asset for California’s grid as the state pushes toward its goal of getting 100 percent of its energy from carbon-free resources by 2045. The state’s 2013 mandate to bring 1.35

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V2G’s value proposition for the UK energy transition

Smart Energy International

According to Buddon’s graph on electrical load shifts, from between 2013 to 2020 the UK system has seen a significant curvature in when and how consumers use their electricity. This shift calls for attention into how our load is managed to prevent harmful effects on the power grid.

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Ørsted secures green light for mammoth 2.4GW Hornsea Three offshore wind farm

Business Green

The grid operator revealed last week that, with wind and solar records having again been sent tumbling throughout 2020, the average carbon intensity of the Britain's power grid reached a new low last year of 181 grams of CO2 per kWh, down from 215g of CO2/kWh in 2019.

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MIT Study: Transmission Is Key to a Low-Cost, Decarbonized US Grid

GreenTechMedia

These results come from a linear optimization model that uses hourly weather data from 2007 to 2013, encompassing heat waves, winter storms and other weather events that can disrupt renewable power supply, Brown noted. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5