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

MAY 18, 2020

The biggest obstacle for those targets is the country’s power grid. Plans for the first factory, known as NorthVolt Ett, were announced in 2017. The European Investment Bank gave Northvolt a €350 million ($380 million) loan. How Northvolt breezed through the valley of death.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 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. Have you read?

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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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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

A 300-unit pilot installation launched in 2017 showed savings between $400 to $1,500 per installation, making the $400 up-front cost of the device well worth it for customers, according to James Skillman, Con Edison customer project manager. That's where we really get excited from a distribution engineering standpoint.".

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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

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. Enbala’s 10-year deployment and investment history.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

A cadre of storage industry veterans and MIT scientists started Form Energy in late 2017 to tackle one of the hardest problems in clean energy: how to make renewable power available whenever it's needed. Of course, the technologies defy direct comparison because they perform different functions on the grid. "A

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

The deal, which was announced yesterday and values the business at around £9.6bn, is expected to complete in the second half of the year, and will see a consortium comprising Macquarie Asset Management and British Columbia Investment Management Corporation acquire a 60 per cent stake.

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2019

At midnight Tuesday, PG&E cut power to about 185,000 customers in Marin, Napa, Solano and Sonoma counties. Southern California Edison said it may have to cut power to more than 170,000 customers across eight counties, while San Diego Gas & Electric warned about 30,000 customers could face outages. PG&E in the hotseat.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

US power company Ameren, which serves 2.4 million electric and 900,000 gas customers, has seen how IP/MPLS can transform grid protection and control. The company replaced legacy leased lines over copper by rolling out a private IP/MPLS fiber network in 2017 to improve reliability for its customers.

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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. The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure.

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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. BloombergNEF has previously predicted the legislation could drive the development of an additional 30GW/111GWh from 2022 to 2030.

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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. When there are relatively few fast-charge points (as today), vehicle manufacturers could be an investment source, but this is probably not sustainable.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2020

Founded in 1999, Capital Dynamics has invested in clean energy for about half that time, says Benoit Allehaut, a managing director with the firm’s clean energy infrastructure team. Its push towards solar began in 2017, when it invested in 1.1 Credit: Capital Dynamics).

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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. Will there be more investment in energy efficiency, offshore wind, and grid upgrades? The details are bad. If not, why not?

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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. “Installing a second meter is very costly. “Installing a second meter is very costly.”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The 11-turbine project, which is situated just south of Glasgow, has been operational since 2017 and produces enough clean energy to meet the annual needs of about 26,000 homes, Statkfraft said. It said the project would improve the security and reliability of the UK power grid and move the country closer to its net zero target.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

String of reports highlights need for UK and other G7 nations to hash out plan to significantly ramp up investments in climate solutions and double down on climate finance at this week's summit. Meanwhile, an extra $100bn to $200bn is needed in investments to protect and restore nature on land and sea, and $150bn in sustainable agriculture.

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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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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. Trahand said. million EV chargers across U.S., and other markets. In the U.S.,

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AutoGrid

MAY 24, 2022

Major investments in grid infrastructure have translated into high connectivity costs. This has led some consumers to consider abandoning grid networks altogether. billion in avoided network investment. 1 Energy Networks Australia and CSIRO, Electricity Network Transformation Roadmap: Final Report, April 2017.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Hurricanes and more intense rainstorms will destroy billions of dollars of property in cities from Miami to Atlanta, and local governments will have to retrofit everything from power grids to water treatment plants to protect residents from the blackouts and disease outbreaks that can follow big storms.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Cove’s Sun Electric, with its off-grid solar, would have harmed Edison’s business case for building out the electric power grid using coal-fired power. In reality, this event occurred in 2017. The electric grid and railways that were used to support the coal economy would have received far less investment.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

This would dramatically reduce the possibility of eliminating carbon emissions from the region’s power grid before 2050.” ” In order to meet Biden’s 2035 target for decarbonizing the power sector, WoodMac says the U.S. In 2017, Trump confirmed his intention to pull the U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

In the past weeks, the Labour Party has dramatically scaled back its £28 billion green investment plans, while the Conservative government has committed to annual licensing rounds in the North Sea in a new oil and gas bill. Danczuk was the MP for Rochdale between 2010 and 2017. In a 2017 tweet he criticised the then U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

The president argues a $2tn clean energy plan will bring millions of new jobs by refashioning the power grid to run on carbon-free sources such as solar and wind within 15 years, building a new generation of energy-efficient homes and electric cars, plus mopping up pollution from oil and gas wells. “The

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