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Kiwi Power Looks to Bring European Virtual Power Plant Expertise to North America

GreenTechMedia

Over the past decade, London-based Kiwi Power has harnessed a gigawatt of flexible commercial and industrial loads in 10 European countries into behind-the-meter networks of energy flexibility, capable of serving wholesale capacity markets , reducing strain on distribution grids, or responding to second-by-second frequency regulation signals.

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Siemens unveils utilities’ struggle with limited behind-the-meter DER visibility

Smart Energy International

Limited visibility and understanding of distributed energy resource (DER) behaviour is creating operational challenges, Siemens has found in a new study with utilities in the US and Canada. Source: Siemens’ Seeing behind the meter survey Have you read?

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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? You can shift a lot of the electric vehicle charging to line up with those times," Langton said. "You

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Arrow Canyon Solar+Storage Project Celebrates Completion

Solar Industry

EDF Renewables North America, along with NV Energy, McCarthy Building Companies and the Moapa Band of Paiute Indians, has celebrated the completion of the Arrow Canyon Solar+Storage Project. The energy generated is supplied to NV Energy through a 20-year power purchase agreement.

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Solar EV charging solution to grid constraints

Smart Energy International

According to IDTechEx, which provides research on emerging technologies and their markets, although the adoption of EVs across all sectors will contribute to a drastic reduction in tailpipe emissions, for economies where grids are already at capacity, the increased load of an electric transport sector risks blackouts and power supply issues.

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Octopus Energy to create Texan virtual power plant

Smart Energy International

Renewable energy retailer Octopus Energy US is partnering with Enphase Energy, Inc., a supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, to create a Texan Virtual Power Plant (VPP). This is the latest move from Octopus Energy in its US market.

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Itron and Schneider Electric announce grid edge integration

Smart Energy International

Itron and Schneider Electric have announced a collaboration, integrating their intelligent grid and distributed energy resource (DER) management solutions to digitalise the demand and supply of electricity.