Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Hitachi Energy acquires eks Energy Tech major Hitachi Energy has announced a strategic acquisition of eks Energy, adding its advanced power electronics and energy management software capabilities to Hitachi’s growing portfolio.

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Sunrun

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

On the East coast, 60 mph winds cut power to more than 1 million customers - toppling 4,000 power lines - and on the West coast a raging fire in California forced utility companies to shut off electricity to hundreds of thousands.2 Utilities Shut Off Power Grids in 2018 And now, a disturbing trend is emerging in 2018.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. These are issues that residents of Puerto Rico have historically demanded and that, consequently, are being addressed through this project that is being developed after a substantial allocation of funds from FEMA.” Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. Perhaps the UK, which has set far more ambitious green goals for its island grid, may be a better fit?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

billion settlement with the California Public Utilities Commission over fires caused by its equipment in 2017 and 2018. PG&E’s fourth-quarter results also took a hit from $86 million in compensation for customers who lost power during its first massive fire-prevention grid blackouts in October.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In 2017, it pivoted to software to dispatch grid assets more profitably in competitive markets. The goal of these pairings is to make battery plants, and clean energy plants more broadly, more profitable and efficient in power markets, thereby hastening the acceleration of a lower carbon power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 6, 2020

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. “We believe their business model can be incredibly synergistic with our business.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear. Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout. Any grid network could fall victim to the circumstances in Texas as temperatures and storms set new records across the country.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

After years of nearly flat demand, the energy transition is generating a growing demand for electricity with the most inexpensive non-carbon alternatives being renewables such as solar and wind, which are reaching price parity with coal and gas in many areas of the world. US power company Ameren, which serves 2.4

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Last year’s acquisition of Sentient, which has deployed its wirelessly networked, self-powered sensors on overhead and underground grid circuits across the country, gave KES a “vertical into the power grid area,” Jim Keener, then Sentient CEO, told Greentech Media last year. Pittsburgh, Pa.-based

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Pacific Gas & Electric’s bankruptcy has already threatened the credit ratings of some of the solar and wind farms, cogeneration plants, and other independent power generators that rely on the utility to buy their electricity through power purchase agreements.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

The price spike marks the first increase since the influential analyst firm started tracking energy storage system costs more than five years ago in 2017. Another positive takeaway is that the higher prices seen across 2022 and 2023 look likely to be a blip, rather than an end to the era of declining clean tech costs.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

According to the National Association of Convenience Stores , in 2017 there were approximately 150,000 retail fueling stations in the United States. A more sophisticated EV interface could support active demand response and take advantage of V2G exchange. Nearly all consumer fuel is delivered through these.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The acquisition further strengthens Macquarie's interests in Britain's gas grid, with the Australian bank having previously snapped up leading gas distribution firm Cadent from National Grid in 2017. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

In fact, the Oxford Monitor Corpus of English (a corpus of web-based news material from late 2017 to the present day), found that ‘climate emergency' was 76 times more frequent in the first half of 2021 than it was in the first half of 2018, and ‘climate crisis' had increased nearly 20-fold over the same period.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 17, 2019

What’s more, we have a secret weapon that many Canadians aren’t aware of: our power grid is over 80 per cent non-polluting and getting cleaner every year. In other words, when we plug things into that grid, the pollution reductions are significant. Last year, the sale of new electric vehicles nearly doubled versus 2017.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 30, 2024

People sit in their home lit by a single donated solar lamp more than two weeks after Hurricane Maria hit the island on October 7th, 2017, in San Isidro, Puerto Rico. Solar panels can form microgrids — islands of locally generated power — that residents might be able to rely on even if there’s a blackout on the broader power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

In its latest research , Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables highlights how answering these questions is a key part of capturing the full value of behind-the-meter assets as they grow to gigawatt scale on U.S. power grids. In the first year, only Sunrun participated. “Installing a second meter is very costly.”

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Its push towards solar began in 2017, when it invested in 1.1 “We are convinced that storage is going to play a huge role going forward in the power grid and, in particular, over time may replace gas peakers and enable a much greater penetration of renewable energy,” said Allehaut.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

A project that was famously expected to be cooking turkeys by Christmas 2017 has seen its start date delayed for the umpteenth time and will now not start generating power until 2029 at the earliest. It looks even more demanding following yesterday's update. The details are bad.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 20, 2020

” In other words, NERA is asking FERC to assert control over all state net metering programs, which pay customers for the energy they don't consume on-site, but feed back to the power grid. That would be, to say the least, a significant expansion of FERC’s authority over the electricity grid," AEE's Dennis said.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

– CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

That prediction is finally coming true: A group of Puerto Rican communities, which were ravaged by Hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, are suing Shell and other fossil fuel producers in a first-of-its-kind, class action climate liability lawsuit. . The groundbreaking case — filed November 22 in the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

That’s roughly the net worth of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos — or twice the $100 billion that Biden has proposed spending to upgrade the nation’s electrical power grid. The pipelines themselves could cost between $170 and $230 billion to build, the CEQ noted, citing an estimate from Princeton’s Net-Zero America study.

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AutoGrid

MAY 24, 2022

These consumption levels translate into flexible load that can serve as the basis for demand response (DR) programs and, ultimately, VPPs. Australia also has the highest per capita rooftop solar PV penetration in the world, grid assets being paired with battery storage. billion in avoided network investment.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Nuvve raised an undisclosed amount of funding in a 2017 Series A round from EDF Renewable Energy, the clean power arm of French utility EDF and a partner in Nuvve's Denmark projects, and from Toyota Tsusho, the investment arm of Toyota Motor Corp. Nuvve’s take on V2G challenges. million EV chargers across U.S.,

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

And the biochar industry still faces hurdles in scaling up production and demand. According to one study , for every home North Carolina bought out between 1996 and 2017, 10 more homes were built in the floodplain. Akielly Hu Northwest How one town put politics aside to save itself from fire Timber Wars tore this town apart.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many Southeastern cities are plagued with flimsy manufactured housing, antiquated drainage systems, and decades-old power grids. After Hurricane Maria, which devastated Puerto Rico in 2017, mortality rates were higher for the elderly and those with the lowest household incomes. Virgin Islands.

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