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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 01:45. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? Mike De Socio. We’re really just scratching the surface at the moment." .

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ACEL Power adds two high-power electric outboard motors to its lineup

Charged

ACEL Power , a startup founded in 2021, has added two offerings to its lineup of electric outboard motors. Anthony Liu, CEO and co-founder of ACEL, says the company’s goal is not just bringing electric power to the boating world, but also the digitalization that comes along with it.

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Finland’s Elenia marks 200,000 smart meter milestone

Smart Energy International

Finnish distribution system operator Elenia has announced a 200,000 smart meter milestone for its meter replacement drive. Measurement data obtained from AinaLab is then suitable for monitoring consumption habits or to support the planning of electrical work. Have you read: ESB Networks reaches 1.5

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Eversource set to introduce smart meters in Connecticut

Smart Energy International

Eversource is ready to instal smart meters for its more than 1.2 The proposal, which was filed in November 2021, forms part of Eversource’s electricity system modernisation and is intended to replace mostly end of life meters – most of them AMR drive-by read meters, which were installed in the early 2000s – with smart meters.

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Europe replaces 50% of electricity meters with smart models

Renewable Energy World

More than half of electricity meters in Europe are now smart, a new report released by Berg Insight has found. The study states that the penetration of smart electricity meters has passed the 50% mark owing to increased investments in grid modernization and digitalization by utilities in the region.

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Smart metering and demand response continue to increase in US

Smart Energy International

FERC’s annual smart metering and demand response assessment highlights annual increases averaging around 8 million new smart meters. The assessment, compiled as a statutory requirement annually, quotes 2021 smart meter data as the latest, with numbers of 111.2 million metering endpoints in the US. in 2021 to 6.5%

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Schneider Electric Unveils the Energy Center for Distributed-Energy-Enabled Homes

GreenTechMedia

Homes need a lot more digital smarts nowadays to manage rooftop solar, backup batteries and electric vehicle chargers. It’s nice if those distributed energy resources (DERs) can be integrated with household electrical load controls via smartphone or Alexa or Google voice-activated devices.