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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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. link] — Nexamp (@Nexamp) March 22, 2022.

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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

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

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Over the past half-decade, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission has consistently won court battles upholding its authority over states to set the rules for how distributed energy resources can play in wholesale energy markets. “But if the aggregations do include demand response, the opt-out can apply,” she said.

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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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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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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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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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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., Some of those pathways move more dramatically toward closing coal plants or halting new natural gas power plants. Solar energy's winter doldrums.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. “I don’t think you can just deploy solar and solve everything,” he said. Demand for flexible, clean power spurs startup activity.

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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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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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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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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

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 31, 2020

The all-cash transaction is expected to close in early 2021 and will create a “complete electric utility solution from generation to metering,” according to Emerson’s press release. It’s also a long-time player in grid-enabled devices such as smart thermostats and remote-controllable water heaters.

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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. Perhaps the UK, which has set far more ambitious green goals for its island grid, may be a better fit? SP Energy taps Ermco, Gridbridge.

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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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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. But that’s a much less complex environment than the low-voltage grids Opus One is being asked to handle.

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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

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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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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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

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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AutoGrid

JUNE 5, 2023

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting our lives across nearly every domain imaginable, its importance in the power systems sector cannot be overstated. Orchestrating armies of diverse, decentralized DERs poses significant challenges for power providers, utilities and other grid operators.

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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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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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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. A connected car offers flexibility on how and when energy is delivered.

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