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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

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.

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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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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The University of Queensland is conducting the first-ever global study of how electric vehicles can support the uptake of renewable energy and improve the resiliency of power grids. The vehicle-to-grid study has recruited Tesla owners from around the world through the analytics platform Teslascope. “We

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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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Business Green

JULY 16, 2020

Households with solar panels and batteries installed can earn savings on their winter bills for excess energy generated in the summer. Shell has become the latest energy supplier to launch a flexible tariff, allowing householders to potentially earn money back for helping to balance supply and demand for the power grid.

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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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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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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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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

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. National Grid and Smart Wires target transmission. The first involves National Grid and Smart Wires , an Oakland, Calif.-based

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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

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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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

The study from the University of Nottingham indicates that grid-tied small-scale renewables could cause power failures. Domestic renewable energy generation is growing rapidly in the UK, with just over one million small-scale solar PV systems installed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

What’s driving the deployment of utility-scale energy storage assets? We will focus on the opportunities for “utility-scale” or “grid-scale” energy storage in this blog. Grid-Scale Batteries Grid-scale energy storage systems include batteries, flywheels, pumped hydro, and compressed air energy storage.

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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. These dispatches delivered a large amount of capacity to energy markets worldwide. But building transmission lines is contentious and time-consuming.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

An intriguing aspect of electric vehicle (EV) charging is how it will change business models for vehicle energy. In this article, aspects of charging practices and impacts are discussed, in the context of consumer-driven electric vehicles. Thus, access at home, at work, or in community environments enters the picture.

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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

The trend for Silicon Valley startups applying advanced technologies to solve utility grid problems is clear — go big, or stay home. 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.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Driven by soaring fossil fuel prices and the urgent need for cleaner, cheaper energy, the market for smart grid technologies is expected to explode over the coming decade. But where will electricity come from when the sun doesn't shine and the wind doesn't blow?'.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Between video calls, collaboration applications and streaming services, data centers are working overdrive - proving why energy efficiency matters more than ever. One obvious exception: the world's data centers and internet infrastructure, which are experiencing an unprecedented spike in usage. How much more efficient?

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2021

Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid. Heatwaves are a double whammy for the electrical grid. The combination of the hot weather and the increased energy running along wires go beyond what they were built to endure. Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. At least 111 deaths are confirmed , over 17M homes lost access to clean wate r , and $200B in damages are projected. The cold weather in February 2021 caused energy demand to skyrocket.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

Distributed energy resources including rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them — and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their distribution grids. power grids.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Upgrading to the latest resource efficient appliances and equipment is a great way to green your home, lower utility bills and minimize your environmental impact. Below you will find several sustainable home products that can bring long-term cost savings and help preserve our resources and planet health. total energy consumption.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Photoncycle claims it can store solar power from summer to winter cheaper than batteries. Photoncycle, a startup from Norway, is tackling interseason storage of solar energy, which could save the abundance of solar energy generated in sunny months to be used for heat and electricity in the winter.

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