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Sunrun is building Puerto Rico’s first virtual power plant

Smart Energy International

“We’re solving energy insecurity on the island by switching the model so that solar energy is generated on rooftops and stored in batteries to power each home, and then shared with neighbors, creating a clean shared energy economy.” Residential solar systems have proved resilient despite Puerto Rico’s harsh climate.

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V2G’s value proposition for the UK energy transition

Smart Energy International

Vehicle to grid (V2G) has been a hot topic globally as grid management and resilience become a growing concern. With the ever-increasing amount of electric vehicles (EVs) that have been coming onto the grid, planning how to manage the grid’s wear and tear while maintaining grid functionality is more relevant than ever.

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How rising energy costs could shape UK's net zero agenda in 2022

Business Green

On the one hand, the Christmas holidays marked a particularly green period for Britain's power grid, with electricity from fossil fuels falling to an all-time low, taking a mere six per cent share of overall generation on 29 December, according to analysis commissioned by energy company Drax.

Energy 60
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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

There are some very interesting schemes around using CO 2 as a working fluid for power generation. In 2013, Professor Dr. Martin Saar at ETH Zurich came up with this idea: CO 2 is stored at depth and heated by the geothermal gradient, then produced and used for power generation at the surface.

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An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

GreenTechMedia

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. CCAs procure large-scale power resources for their customers, but they also have access to their customers' billing and smart metering data.

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Why a seasoned energy executive sees a bright future in long-duration energy storage from ESS

Renewable Energy World

In fact, he was creating technology that electric utilities could use to make their grids smarter before the words “smart grid” were well known. In 2002, he founded Silver Spring Networks, which combined IoT with big data for smart grids. In 2013 Silver Spring went public and in 2018 it was acquired by Itron.

Energy 78
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Online Event - VERGE Energy Conference

Green Market Oracle

Momentum is building as businesses and governments transform their organizations to be more efficient and resilient. Introducing the Food Microgrid: A Decentralized and Resilient New Food System (Panel Discussion): The coronavirus pandemic disrupted food supplies and reminded us again that our food systems are ever more centralized.