GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 13, 2021

The modern, renewable energy-rich power grid is an increasingly complicated machine to model. That’s the genesis of Pearl Street Technologies ’ approach to analyzing the complexities of power flows and planning parameters for the transmission grid. From computer chip design to power grid optimization.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 8, 2021

during the period 2018-2019. If you look at the power tariffs, you will see that the charges are higher during peak periods. Hence, you should avoid using dishwashers and washing machines during a peak period when there is a more significant load on the power grid. Replace Bulbs with LEDs.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2023

The smart meter and smart grid programme was launched in 2021, following a 5,000 smart meter pilot introduced in 2018 in the southern state municipality of Ipiranga. The programme is expected to see the introduction of around 4.5 million smart meters in total. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

oil producers lag their European rivals in making strategic investments into clean energy companies and technologies, but as voracious consumers of electricity — and often in remote areas — they have taken a growing interest in low-cost wind and solar power. public network of electric vehicle chargers.

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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. Varentec’s primary U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

per cent in 2018, according to the annual Digest of UK Energy Statistics (DUKES) published by the government today. The growth in wind capacity made up the bulk of growing influence of renewables on the UK power grid, last year accounting for a fifth - 20 per cent - of the mix alone. Solar PV generation grew 1.4

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 24, 2020

The Bay Area company finished development of its Boost Charger, which delivers fast charging (up to 120-kilowatt output) while minimizing stress on the local power grid with the help of a built-in 160-kilowatt-hour battery. BP Ventures led the round, which attracted new investors Energy Innovation Capital and ABB Technology Ventures.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

’s Electricity Network Innovation Competition, an annual funding scheme, secured in 2018. National Grid is carrying out the project in partnership with the Iberdrola-owned electricity distributor SP Energy Networks and TNEI, an independent energy consultancy. million ($13.5 million) in backing from the U.K.’s

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

That requires a new approach to planning and permitting and continued investment in power grids. But for offshore wind alone, Siemen's Gamesa blew the competition away last year after more than doubling its installations compared to 2018, including almost 2GW in just the UK.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

Our analysis also explores the costs of using battery storage to complement wind and solar power, finding that, even with storage included, both are still highly cost-competitive. For starters, Alberta and Ontario are in the midst of transforming their power grids. These results are important for a few reasons.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

A 2018 Rocky Mountain Institute study modeled the costs of electric space and water heating to those of natural gas-fueled space and water heating, using assumptions based on four different cities, Houston, Oakland, Providence and Chicago, two of which are cold-winter cities. What policymakers and regulators can do.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Wood Mackenzie's latest Global Energy Storage Outlook projects that deployments will grow 13-fold over the next six years, from a 12 gigawatt-hour market in 2018 to a 158 gigawatt-hour market in 2024. Energy storage can also provide backup power during events that disrupt the power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

billion offer to buy Pacific Gas & Electric’s grid assets within its city limits, the most concrete step yet from cities, counties and public agencies served by the bankrupt Northern California utility to lay claim to their portions of its power grid. San Francisco has made a $2.5

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 31, 2022

The pilot was launched in 2018 and was the first of its kind on the California energy market. The 2MW/8MWh vanadium redox flow battery provided long-duration energy storage and acted as a microgrid to ensure grid reliability and climate resilience.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

CPS now gets about 22 percent of its electricity from about 1,000 megawatts of wind power and about 500 megawatts of solar , with natural gas making up 46 percent of its remaining portfolio and coal-fired power another 18 percent. Sommers natural-gas power plants. It’s also planning to retire the aging Braunig and O.W.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

That’s nearly quadruple the targets laid out in Dominion’s 2019 IRP, and a major shift from a 2018 IRP that was rejected by Virginia’s regulator, the State Corporation Commission (SCC). The new plan, by contrast, sets out a goal of nearly 16 gigawatts of solar, more than 5 gigawatts of offshore wind, and 2.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage will “change the game” for India’s power grid, Raju said, by eliminating arguments that coal and gas are needed to provide baseload power. And yet, hundreds of millions of people in India still don’t have access to affordable and reliable power.

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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

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Serial entrepreneur Vic Shao launched Amply Power in 2018, pledging to simplify the customer transaction to a dollar-per-mile payment. To learn more about the role of EVs and other forms of distributed energy in decarbonizing the world's power grids, click here.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

That rule is expected to include Exelon’s Clinton and Quad Cities nuclear power plants, which receive hundreds of millions of dollars per year in zero-emissions credits created by Illinois’ Future Energy Jobs Act. “We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse. 2018 Camp Fire cost PG&E, “that is enough incentive for a utility to act," Kirsch said.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

California’s three big investor-owned utilities want to invest more than $10 billion over the next three years on reducing the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids. Now it’s up to state regulators to decide which parts of their plans will move forward. PG&E: Playing catch-up.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

In 2018, renewables accounted for 20 percent of Alliant’s portfolio while coal made up 31 percent and natural gas accounted for 42 percent. billion through 2020 on updating its power grid to interface more effectively with solar and other renewables as well as electric vehicles and batteries.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Over the past decade, Utilidata has been taking the energy-saving technology known as conservation voltage reduction deeper and deeper into the power grid, with an unusual combination of real-time power flow modeling and real-time grid controls that has allowed greater visibility and insight into the edges of distribution networks.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Systems Control has been a portfolio company in Comvest’s private equity strategy since 2018. ‘Mission critical’ substation solution manufacturer switches hands Comvest Partners, a middle-market private investment firm, will sell Systems Control to Hubbell Incorporated, a manufacturer of utility and electrical solutions, for $1.1

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2020

This is the first announced deal that will take the technology out of the lab and deploy it in a full-scale power plant context. In the spring of 2018, Form President Ted Wiley gave a talk on long-duration storage unlocking high-renewables power systems. It is due online in late 2023. Making the deal.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The funding will help SparkMeter grow its share of metering for the fast-growing off-grid energy market, which has exploded in the past half-decade or so with more than $1.7 billion invested as of the end of 2018, most of it in the prior two years, according to Wood Mackenzie. ” The World Bank’s International Finance Corp.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation. Renewables’ contribution to the power grid set another record, rising 11% year-on-year. power in 2020. Power from all zero-carbon sources (renewables plus nuclear power) set another record, meeting 40% of demand.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The two firms are offering free installations of smart EV chargers worth £5,500 to Nissan Leaf electric car drivers living in the three regions as part of the 'Electric Nation' trial, which aims to test the ability of V2G technology to help balance the power grid at times of peak demand.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

PG&E also can’t precisely predict when power will be restored for every customer, since it must inspect and clear power lines before re-energizing them, he said. This work will also provide the data to determine just how many potential fires the power shutoff may have prevented.

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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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Business Green

MAY 26, 2020

in October 2018, the newspaper reports. RenewableUK's Clark told The Telegraph the constraint payments are the "cheapest way for National Grid to run the electricity network within its current limits".

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Research released in late February by researchers at Northwestern University, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and Koomey Analytics found that total global data center energy consumption grew six per cent between 2010 and 2018, even though the number of 'compute instances' grew by 6.5 times during that same timeframe.

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