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The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul

The Verge: Energy

Workers erect a steel tower at the 220kV line project in Jiangsu Province, China, on October 16th, 2023. Without that overhaul, countries risk missing their climate goals and worsening climate-related disasters like storms and fires that are already walloping power grids. But power grids aren’t keeping up, and it puts that 1.5-degree

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FERC Rule Will Get Clean Energy onto the U.S. Power Grid Faster?

NRDC onEarth

FERC’s Order 2023 is an important first step, and NRDC stands with FERC to defend it. Reforming the interconnection process is critical to advancing clean energy.

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New digital twin reference library to further decentralise power grids

Smart Energy International

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids.

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US energy storage market installed more than 12K MWh in Q4 2023

Smart Energy International

The US energy storage market broke previous records for deployment across all segments in the final quarter of 2023, with 4,236MW/12,351MWh installed over the period. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Distributed storage exceeded 2GWh in 2023, another first for the market.

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Dublin battery system to support the Irish power grid

Smart Energy International

The project, operational since late November 2023, has the capability of providing 75MW of energy for two hours to Ireland’s electricity system.

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US energy storage market installed more than 12K MWh in Q4 2023

Smart Energy International

The US energy storage market broke previous records for deployment across all segments in the final quarter of 2023, with 4,236MW/12,351MWh installed over the period. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Distributed storage exceeded 2GWh in 2023, another first for the market.

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Solarplaza Summit Energy Storage The Netherlands 2023

altenergymag

This influx of renewables into the national power grid has surpassed the speed with which the grid can sustain this growth. Power grid congestion and energy curtailments are realities of our energy management and storage is the leading solution to help mitigate these challenges.