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Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024

Smart Energy International

In today’s distributed energy system, managing power grid complexity is challenging. But grid operators are often handling these changes with an ageing infrastructure that wasn’t built with a distributed energy system in mind. This puts enormous pressure on power generation,transmission and the distribution network.

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Germany’s E.DIS Netz starts transition to 450Mhz network

Smart Energy International

The 450MHz band – formerly known as the C band – has gained growing interest for military and other critical applications with characteristics such as strong signal penetration and suitability for large scale IoT applications.

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Smart grids vital to green energy drive

Smart Energy International

Centrality of the grid Whether it is the spiralling demand for more electricity or the universal initiative to shift to renewable energy, a crucial element in this complex matrix is the power grid. Myriad challenges facing the grid Expanding the grid, although essential, is just one part of the problem.

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Why a seasoned energy executive sees a bright future in long-duration energy storage from ESS

Renewable Energy World

In fact, he was creating technology that electric utilities could use to make their grids smarter before the words “smart grid” were well known. In 2002, he founded Silver Spring Networks, which combined IoT with big data for smart grids. In 2013 Silver Spring went public and in 2018 it was acquired by Itron.

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