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. Ares Management Corp.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

US asset manager Blackstone announced that private equity funds affiliated with it have closed the acquisition of Power Grid Components, an electric grid components manufacturer. “The acquisition of Power Grid Components fits squarely within one of our favorite investment themes – the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Generac Power Systems is acquiring Enbala Power Networks, a major step toward putting its market-leading backup generator business and its fast-growing behind-the-meter battery-solar fleet to work as a power grid resource. Canada and Australia, according to Wood Mackenzie data. Leading U.S.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

Dublin-based ESB Networks has announced that it has 1,000MW of electricity storage connected to the Irish power grid. According to the medium and low voltage electricity infrastructure operator, the figure includes 731.5MW of battery storage projects and 292MW from Turlough Hill pumped storage power station.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Concerned about grid inertia, Taiwan’s state-owned electric utility Taiwan Power Company (TPC) has partnered with UK tech company Reactive Technologies Limited (RTL) to use its grid stability measurement platform. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

As the 2020s progress, flexible energy portfolios will grow significantly as resources on either side of the meter proliferate in the U.S., 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. Today, the U.S.

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AutoGrid

JUNE 20, 2023

With this comes a surge in electricity use, mostly from cooling systems. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is predicting a historic demand of over 80,000 MW , putting immense pressure on the state’s power grid.

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CleanTech San Diego

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cleantech San Diego member Baker Electric Home Energy, a leading solar, battery, and home energy solution provider, has announced the launch of its ChargeOn Battery Rewards Program in partnership with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nostromo Energy, a US-based tech company, is developing an ice-based energy storage system that can operate as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to provide demand flexibility to the local power grid when needed. According to Nostromo, buildings, overall, account for 74% of all electricity consumption.

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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

OCTOBER 19, 2020

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

California’s distributed energy resources add up to gigawatts' worth of capacity that could be used to prevent future rolling blackouts and balance the state’s increasingly clean-powered grid — if the state can compensate them for those services. 14 and 470 MW shed on Saturday, Aug.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

What do the Nissan Leaf, floating solar, flywheels and flow batteries have in common? Each is being tested by Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) at their Gardenia Innovation Centre, with the potential outcome of being deployed for power grid management. Flywheels and battery testing grounds. With testing.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

have unveiled a partnership to establish ChargeScape, an equally-owned venture aiming to bridge the gap between electric utilities, automakers and electric vehicle (EV) customers. The company will operate for consumers in the US and Canada, aiming to unlock the potential offered by EVs for the electric power grid.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the latest example , Emerson, one of the country’s biggest industrial, commercial and residential automation and HVAC systems providers, is acquiring OSI Inc. It’s also a long-time player in grid-enabled devices such as smart thermostats and remote-controllable water heaters. More than a dozen U.S.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. GW of dirty power plant usage Controlling over 1.1 million grid-edge resources, including households, with DERs ranging from smart thermostats, rooftop solar photovoltaics and electric vehicles.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Nexamp and Borrego have activated two solar-plus-storage energy projects within ISO New England Territory, namely the Nexamp community solar farms in Massachusetts, USA. They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. ”

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Future of Energy and Grid Resiliency is Distributed By Giovanni Herazo, Vice President, Smart Grid Solutions As one of FPL’s smart grid & innovation leaders, I saw firsthand how our grid was consistently put to the test by unexpected outages, power quality issues, adverse weather conditions, and rising load demand.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. But building transmission lines is contentious and time-consuming. These dispatches delivered a large amount of capacity to energy markets worldwide.

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AutoGrid

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) recent announcement of its partnership expansion with AutoGrid to develop virtual power plants (VPPs) is noteworthy for several reasons. First, PSE is the state of Washington’s largest utility, serving more than one million residential and commercial and industrial (C&I) electric customers.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

Duke Energy’s options for reaching net-zero carbon by midcentury will look a lot different than those being pursued by utilities in the sun-soaked Western U.S., Duke's new IRP presents six very different pathways toward greening its energy mix over the next 15 years, all of them reaching at least 50 percent carbon reduction by 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The endgame is to give an even wider range of devices access to future flexibility services markets, said Energy Web chief executive officer Walter Kok. In the U.K.,

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Order 2222 , a groundbreaking effort to open up U.S. wholesale energy markets to aggregated solar systems, smart inverters, batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, grid-responsive building controls and other distributed energy resources (DERs).

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Kansas City-based Burns & McDonnell tapped its direct-hire subsidiary Ref-Chem to complete construction and installation of the batteries.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. CAISO has issued a "Flex Alert" asking Californians to conserve energy from 3 p.m.

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Business Green

APRIL 30, 2020

Government-backed project assessed grid impacts of bi-directional EV charging at two sites at Aston University. Aston University also studied battery lifetime performance and degradation during the project. "We

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Vehicle to grid (V2G) has been a hot topic globally as grid management and resilience become a growing concern. The increasing prevalence of issues surrounding renewables integration and energy management illustrates how solutions like V2G are required to maintain the stability and efficacy of our energy supply.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S. But Koch Industries is also a massive, if quiet, player in the U.S.

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