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California Shifts $100M in Behind-the-Meter Battery Incentives to Low-Income Communities

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Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric customers and tens of thousands of Southern California residents have experienced blackouts as utilities de-energize power grids to prevent them from sparking wildfires. California Sen.

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Drax Cancels Plan to Build Europe’s Largest Natural Gas Power Plant

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’s climate change laws. A Drax spokesperson told GTM the decision aligns with a strategic shift to renewables, a shift that has also seen the firm acquire a portfolio of hydro and pumped hydro plants in 2019. It would have been the largest gas plant in Europe and, unsurprisingly, drew the attention of environmental groups.

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Dominion Targets 24GW of Renewables and Storage in Move Toward Virginia’s Clean Energy Goals

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Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years.

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Building next-generation electric power communication networks

Smart Energy International

In the new electric power system where the proportion of new energy is increasing, new energy access and massive power and electronic devices make the system more complex. The operation of the power grid faces many challenges, such as increasing uncertainty in electric power balance and decreasing system inertia.

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California Clears PG&E Bankruptcy Plan as Critics Call for Public Takeover

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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. At the same time, the public-safety power shutoff events may have helped avoid the catastrophe of another deadly fire.

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Demand Response Industry Asks Feds to Open States to Energy Market Competition

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Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid. Problems like these have driven MISO to launch reforms to improve reliability.

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Media Brief: Canada’s Clean Electricity Regulations

Clean Energy Canada

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.