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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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Vietnamese 500-MW floating solar and storage attracts investment from SEACEF

Renewable Energy World

This week, Clime Capital, a Singapore-based investment management company that manages funds from SEACEF, announced that it has invested in an innovative floating solar and storage project in Dong Nai Province, Vietnam, currently under development by Blueleaf Energy.

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Smart, reliable transmission grids central to Asia’s energy transition and renewable integration

Smart Energy International

Investments in new technologies, such as advanced system control devices and next-generation transmission tower technologies, will help the region better integrate its clean energy resources and achieve its goal of building a low-carbon energy future. Prioritize transmission investments. By Narsingh Chaudhary, Black & Veatch.

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A New Era Is Beginning for the Grid Edge. Is the Utility Industry Ready?

GreenTechMedia

Europe, Asia and beyond. The degree to which this wave of new flexible resources can be tapped for grid-balancing will depend on four key areas, according to a new research insight from WoodMac. In the 2020s, the utility industry’s focus is shifting from mitigating the operation of assets at the grid edge to monetizing them.

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Smart Energy Finances: Norwegian investors buy 49% stake in Indian transmission scheme

Smart Energy International

Norwegian investment in Indian transmission The Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by government-owned Norfund and KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, is investing approximately $9 million for a 49% stake in the Koppal Transmission Scheme. ReNew has won three transmission projects in Karnataka to date.

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Smart Energy Finances: Funding for Capalo AI’s market optimisation platform

Smart Energy International

According to the startup, with the popularity and commissioning of renewable energy rising globally, the role of energy storage and flexible demand will be crucial, necessitating the balance of consumption and production of electricity to ensure grid stability. subsidiary, Essent, also based in the Netherlands. A subsidiary of E.ON

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China Three Gorges starts work on 1.7 GW pumped storage station

Renewable Energy World

Upon completion, the Tiantai station will mainly provide peak load regulation, valley filling, frequency regulation, phase modulation, power storage and emergency use for Zhejiang’s power grid, as well as offer flexible dispatching capacity for the East China Grid. CTG expects to record annual output of 1.7