Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this debut of the Power Playbook, our spotlight on the finance and investment side of the energy transition, Yusuf Latief investigates how Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is becoming a burgeoning market space ripe with investment opportunities. This is what has caught our eye.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

billion) increase to its 2024-2028 investment plan, citing the need for continued grid expansion to connect an increasing number of renewable energy facilities. plans to boost its four-year investment plan from €33 billion ($36 billion) to €42 billion ($46 billion), focusing on energy networks and energy infrastructure solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Swell Energy has lined up $450 million in financing to give homeowners and business owners batteries and solar systems at no upfront cost, and earn the money back by turning them into virtual power plants serving utilities’ grid needs. These behind-the-meter assets are increasingly becoming targets for infrastructure investors.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Itron’s 2023 industry insight report finds that half of utility executives cite grid modernisation and infrastructure upgrades as the top barrier to the energy transition. The report is based on a survey of 250 utility executives at electric, gas and water utilities and a cross-selection of 10 state utility respondents.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 26, 2023

More and higher resolution data on Britain’s energy system is the demand of users of National Grid Electricity Distribution’s ‘presumed open’ datasets. In conjunction with the currently available data, data users were also requesting National Grid Electricity Distribution about making more data openly available.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Britain’s smart meter programme has failed to hit targets and secure public support, the parliamentary Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has reported. In that period the deadlines have been pushed back three times and the targets reduced from “all homes and small businesses” to have smart meters by the target date to the current 74.5%

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 30, 2024

While the Future Homes Standard (FHS) is a welcome roadmap for the future of decarbonised homes, explains Dan Nicholls of SNRG Group, it will not be realised without accompanying policy measures, which encourage the uptake of enablers like smart grids. Have you read: 34.8

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Greentown Labs’ 200+ startups are developing, deploying, and commercializing climatetech solutions to decarbonize the key greenhouse-gas-emitting sectors—agriculture, buildings, electricity, manufacturing, and transportation—and build resilient communities. Fervo Energy and Google’s next-generation, 3.5-MW

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 29, 2020

But a segment of the grid edge industry has been trying to achieve that for years, installing controllable devices at homes and businesses that can work together to help the grid. Though small individually, distributed energy resources are projected to grow to 387 gigawatts in the next five years , according to research by Wood Mackenzie.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bringing out the most from flexible systems can enable a valuable entry point for consumers into the power system and support power grid management. They will be able to avoid costly price peaks by mainly consuming electricity when it is sufficiently windy or sunny.”

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 27, 2021

By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Today, 44 member-owned electric co-ops serve about 1.7

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees Smart Metering Services (SMS) post lifted dividends, citing increased smart meter installations – up to 40,000 per month – and their first grid-scale battery project coming online. SMS strong H1: 40k monthly smart meters and grid-scale battery project.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

ubitricity, a UK-based EV charge point operator with a network of more than 7,000 public charge points, is partnering with UK Power Networks (UKPN), the UK’s largest electricity distribution network, to shift charging demand away from periods of peak demand on the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 20, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances looks at Shell USA Inc., which has reaffirmed its march into the Electric Vehicle (EV) arena with the acquisition of EV network developer Volta Inc. The survey found the energy sector to be a dominant area for investment, specifically energy security, renewables and EVS/batteries.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

With the acquisition, energy supplier EDF is positioning itself to meet the expected take-up of solar panels as the demand increases, with projections indicating an up to 75% increase by 2030. Britain’s EDF has acquired the Chorley-based solar panel and battery installer Contact Solar as part of its strategy towards net zero.

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the most energizing parts of my job is meeting with clean energy leaders to discuss where we are heading as an industry and how we can work together to achieve ambitious decarbonization, electrification, and resiliency goals. A view around the table of leaders from EV, utility, microgrid, and other clean energy companies.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 25, 2023

Glasgow-based Smart Metering Systems (SMS plc), an energy infrastructure company, has acquired the domestic services division of Manchester-based heat pump specialist Evergreen Energy, which imports and distributes European-made renewable energy products.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Meta-Headlines of 2023 As our beloved industry matures, our hope for when climate tech grows up is for it to “become boring.” Should we call 2023 the Year of IRA deployment? Since the IRA passed, 265 clean energy and manufacturing projects worth $100B+ have been announced. Not a subscriber yet?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. First, they’ve built up the technology to monitor and manage these distributed energy resources (DERs) at a large scale.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Despite coronavirus-related setbacks, 2020 will be one of the biggest years for solar demand in Latin America. But despite falling system costs, growth in the region will be fairly constrained, and much of it will be offset by bottlenecks in Mexico slowing its pace of renewable energy development. Country demand and system cost trends.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

Investor-owned utility, Consumers Energy has proposed a $272 million investment in Michigan’s electric grid in what it said is a bid to increase reliability and prepare the grid for more renewable energy. In the second half of 2021, Consumers Energy filed a five-year, $5.4 per month.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Between 2023-2025, Spanish utility Endesa will invest €994 million ($983.5 The nearly €1 billion investment also aims to deploy renewable energies, facilitate Catalonia’s energy transition and continue improving the quality of the service received by the company’s 4.4 million customers in the region.

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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. Wood Mackenzie's working definition of minigrids. Source: Wood Mackenzie.

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Bidgely

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Watch our on-demand webinar AI, GPT and the Utility of the Future to continue to explore this topic. While the jury is still out on the pros and cons of AI, Bidgely strongly believes that AI is imperative for the energy transition and to realize a clean energy future. Even then, AI remained a niche technology.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Additional €100bn for renewables, heat pumps, energy efficiency, and biomethane needed as EU faces 'sterner' gas supply test next year, IEA warns. The additional €100bn the IEA said is required to bolster Europe's clean, efficiency energy sources in 2023 amounts to less than a third of that mobilised by EU member states so far this year.

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Bidgely

JANUARY 5, 2022

With billions of dollars on the way from the federal government to deploy the infrastructure needed to fast track transportation electrification, energy businesses need proven accurate, credible data to drive their EV charging investments. investment in transportation electrification: $7.5 travel corridors by the end of 2023.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The European Commission has released its action plan for digitalising the region’s energy sector to improve efficiency and renewables integration. Digitalisation, one of the four ‘D’s of the energy transition, is as the ‘enabler’ central to its realisation, cutting across businesses, consumers and technologies alike.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Energy UK's Louise Shooter sets out how the government could unlock an innovative, market-led approach to green home upgrades. In his Autumn Statement, the Chancellor Jeremy Hunt focussed on the role of energy efficiency as a long-term policy response to rising international gas prices.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 9, 2023

As of October 1, 2023, the EU’s CBAM has entered into its transitional phase The Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM) is a groundbreaking strategy devised by the European Union (EU). Market Expansion: With the CBAM in place, there may be an increased demand for green hydrogen in Europe.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Here are the categories for recognition at the May 2023 Sustainable Facilities Forum recently held at the Scottish Rite Masonic Center in Sacramento, California: State Building Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) Local Government Pioneer (There were two awardees in this category for 2023.)

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The Gateshead mine water heating scheme located in northeastern England has been hailed a great success six months after it officially started operations in March 2023. A collaborative project The project was funded by the Heat Network Investment Project (HNIP) and the Gateshead Council and took about three years to develop.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2023

The Electrification of Heat (EoH) Demonstration Project, which was funded by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ), was launched to understand the technical and practical feasibility and constraints faced by a mass rollout of heat pumps in British homes. High Temperature ASHPs were also included in the research.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

The rapid development and deployment of home-grown clean energy technologies in the EU is key to the response to the current energy crisis, the European Commission reports. Scaling up clean fuels for net zero WEMO plots a course for affordable energy and climate action. Specific clean energy technologies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

The plans raise the prospect of the UK adopting energy efficiency standards for lighting from later this year that are more demanding than the regulations currently in place in either the US or EU.

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Climate Tech VC

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

  KoBold Metals discovered a major copper deposit, which could be the start to solving growing supply and demand imbalances brought on by copper’s fundamental role in the energy transition.  Zambia produced 760k tons of ore in 2023. Demand The most critical of energy transition minerals.

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Green Technology

MAY 1, 2023

the world’s first battery-powered office systems furniture product. Battery power enables flexible layouts and easy reconfiguration. The product powers laptops, monitors, sit-stand desks, and wireless phone charging. Our HVAC equipment brands include Trane, RUUD, Day & Night, and Mitsubishi Electric.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2021

Government confirms Future Homes Standard will apply to any new homes built from 2025, delivering a major uptick in the pace of the shift away from gas boilers - but campaigners are left disappointed by failure to adopt more rapid timetable.

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