Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Other benefits anticipated include faster service response and restoration times, support for new energy savings and efficiency programmes and more accurate invoicing and billing control.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

-based ConnectDER, is a meter collar adapter that plugs into the socket where electrical meters connect to buildings. Con Edison is in the final stages of deploying smart meters to its approximately 1.3 million customers, but those only measure net household loads, not what’s happening behind the meter.

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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. Canada and Australia, according to Wood Mackenzie data. Leading U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2019

The following have been recognised for their achievements: The building materials manufacturer, Adolf Gottfried Tonwerke GmbH , together with the technology provider, Orcan Energy AG , in the Energy Transition 2.0 category, for exploiting previously unused waste heat from two furnaces for electricity generation.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 13, 2022

Smart meters and network automation were key components of the first phase of DEWA’s smart grid strategy. The strategy has seen DEWA (Dubai Electricity and Water Authority) replace its over 2 million electricity and water metering base with smart meters between 2015 and 2020. Have you read? The AED 7 billion (US$1.9

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 12, 2021

Proterra, builder of electric buses, heavy-duty vehicle drivetrains, batteries and charging systems, plans to go public on the NASDAQ exchange via merger with a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), the latest in a string of EV companies seeking access to public market financing to meet growing demand. Proterra is one of the oldest U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 14, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at acquisition of UK-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS) by a US-based investment firm, a successful financing round for a Spanish start-up developing smart grid technology and Siemens’ acquisition of an AI-based tech company developing solutions for the water sector.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

A truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. For Shalanda Baker, a professor of law and public policy at Northeastern University, thinking about a clean energy future means thinking about the daily, weekly and sometimes invisible ways that people in deprived communities can control their power supply. Alec Appelbaum.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Over the past decade, London-based Kiwi Power has harnessed a gigawatt of flexible commercial and industrial loads in 10 European countries into behind-the-meter networks of energy flexibility, capable of serving wholesale capacity markets , reducing strain on distribution grids, or responding to second-by-second frequency regulation signals.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 20, 2020

Chilean grid operator Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN) has added First Solar’s 141-megawatt Luz del Norte PV power plant to its list of generators approved to provide grid services. That’s a task usually assigned to fossil-fired power plants and hydroelectric dams, or, in a growing number of cases, batteries.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Enough energy to power all households in the USA and Mexico; Enough nutrients to meet ~13% of world fertilizer needs; Enough water to fill Lake Victoria in seven years, Lake Ontario in four. ” Among many findings: The energy value in 380 billion m3 of wastewater is estimated to be 53.2

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Krakow-headquartered DSO Tauron Dystrybucja has reported the rollout of smart meters to over 950,000 customers. By 2031 it is envisaged that all of the company’s energy consumers will be billed via remote reading, but the question on executives’ minds is what technology should be employed for the next phase of the rollout.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

European energy giant unveils investment strategy that will see it invest €160bn directly in green infrastructure, while leveraging a further €30bn from other parties. The investment will support a goal to cut carbon emissions from the company by 80 per cent against 2017 levels.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

There’s a lot of energy underneath homes — if reasonably priced technology can be scaled up to tap its potential. Dandelion Energy hasn’t gotten nearly to that scale yet. On Wednesday, Dandelion raised a $30 million Series B round led by Bill Gates-founded Breakthrough Energy Ventures to expand on those ambitions.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. Cold storage — from frozen food warehouses to grocery and restaurant refrigeration — has one of the highest energy costs of any industry; energy expenditures are usually second only to payroll.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 22, 2023

Analysis of public building energy usage appears to find government risks missing its 75% CO2 emission reduction target – by 101 years. The report attempted to examine the actual energy usage and efficiency of over 450,000 public buildings in England and Wales.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. European acquisition spree.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A little over a decade ago, Gary Dye, then a gas measurement engineer at NW Natural, Oregon’s largest gas utility, lost faith in his employer to responsibly deal with what he believed to be systematic inaccuracies among the company’s hundreds of thousands of gas meters. Faulty Meters Raise Questions About Profits.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2020

SAI’s Farm Sustainability Assessment dives into 112 questions over 17 categories to evaluate a farm’s investment in sustainable practices. For example, one question — "Do you take measures to maximize energy use efficiency such as optimizing your farm equipment and optimizing electricity use?" In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2022

The majority of utilities in the US are not ready to define or implement grid modernisation and digitalisation programmes that help ensure the resilience and reliability of energy networks, according to a new e-book released by consulting firm Black & Veatch. This is more than double the number experienced in 2017. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 15, 2022

The Spanish electric utility company Iberdrola through its subsidiary Neoenergia has been awarded its largest power grid line project, according to the regulatory agency, National Electricity Agency (Aneel). The company also won the 291km contract in the state of Mato Grosso do Sul. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2020

Canada’s Brookfield Renewable Partners on Monday offered to buy out all the shares of yieldco TerraForm Power that it does not already own, potentially adding further heft to what is already one of the world’s largest clean-energy generators. Brookfield also bought out SunEdison’s second yieldco, TerraForm Global.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2019

BBOXX, a startup delivering pay-as-you-go solar PV plans to hundreds of thousands of African homes, has landed a $50 million investment led from Japanese industrial giant Mitsubishi, marking another major funding milestone in the off-grid solar market. billion of this investment has occurred over the past two years. More than $1.2

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 4, 2021

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. ’s National Grid, Australian grid operator AEMO, Italian grid operator Terna and Japan’s biggest utility Tokyo Electric Power Co. and Canada’s Ontario province.

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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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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 9, 2023

One of the latest announcement’s coming out of Biden’s infrastructure law is an investment aiming to spur smart water and water efficiency projects in the US. The Elephant Butte Irrigation District in New Mexico will install motors on an existing check structure and construct a new metering station on the Leasburg Main Canal.

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Econaur

JANUARY 1, 2022

Energy Efficiency in Buildings. With the current rate of urbanization and the subsequent increase in energy demand, energy efficiency in buildings has a significant role to play in contributing to energy security in developing countries. In conventional Indian buildings, energy consumption is 200 kWh per sq.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

They invest in precision agriculture to reduce impacts on the environment. It is not humanly possible to monitor details of an entire 50,000 hectare farm on a daily basis, no matter how many people you assign to the task,” Moreira said. Monitoring has to be constant,” explained Moreira. Leveraging over 8.7

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Charged

MARCH 23, 2022

The Washington legislature has voted to set a target for ending the sales of gasoline-powered cars by 2030. The Governor vetoed a similar bill in May 2021 because of an amendment that tied the EV goal to a road usage charge.). Clean Cars 2030 sets Washington on a nation-leading path toward a fully-electric automotive future.”.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

The heating network will be deployed by the local public company (SPL) Unigeo, which was created in February 2022 by the three communes along with Sipperec , the intermunicipal syndicate for energy and communication networks in the outskirts of Paris. To date, about EUR 80 million have been invested for the geothermal heating project.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

An intriguing aspect of electric vehicle (EV) charging is how it will change business models for vehicle energy. In this article, aspects of charging practices and impacts are discussed, in the context of consumer-driven electric vehicles. A connected car offers flexibility on how and when energy is delivered.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean-power sector. Minigrids the lowest-cost option for many.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. When Murphy won and took office, he signed sweeping clean energy legislation in May 2018 that turned his goals into law. Who’s the Boss?

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2019

Equinor and its partners on those oil fields signed off Friday on the NOK 5 billion ($560 million) investment, equivalent to around $6.4 In 2017, Equinor built what stands as the world's largest floating wind project, the 30-megawatt Hywind pilot project off Scotland. million per megawatt.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. energy industry, with Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) serving as its engineering and project services arm. ” Consolidating the realm of grid edge controls.

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