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Xcel Energy to instal 260,000 smart meters in Wisconsin

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Xcel Energy has announced the start of the rollout of smart electricity meters in its Wisconsin service territory. The installations will start in the company’s southern communities and will lead to the installation of more than 260,000 of the new smart meters in the service area through 2025. million electricity and 2.1

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Low carbon generation set to meet electricity demand growth – IEA

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The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% in 2023, less than the 2.4% annually through 2026.

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Puerto Rico’s 1.5 million smart meter replacement get go ahead

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Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Other benefits anticipated include faster service response and restoration times, support for new energy savings and efficiency programmes and more accurate invoicing and billing control.

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Smart Energy’s Power Playbook: Revving up the V2G market

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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. The rest of the process is automated.

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Smart Energy Finances: CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition

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Centre stage in this week’s Smart Energy Finances is the closing of an acquisition by CPower. Upon the close of the transaction, previous Centrica demand response customers will join CPower and will be able to tap the company’s industry expertise and technology to support their energy portfolios across the US.

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AES Ohio proposes next phase of smart grid advancement

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At the foundation of the smart grid is smart meters and AES Ohio expects to have deployed these to 95% of customers by June 2025. The smart grid phase 2 plan has three principal components – automation of distribution operations, advanced grid intelligence and telecommunications and cybersecurity. Have you read?

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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

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This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.