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Can Renewables Restart the Grid? The UK Investigates

GreenTechMedia

’s Electricity Network Innovation Competition, an annual funding scheme, secured in 2018. National Grid is carrying out the project in partnership with the Iberdrola-owned electricity distributor SP Energy Networks and TNEI, an independent energy consultancy. million ($13.5 million) in backing from the U.K.’s

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Smart Energy Finances: Growth financing for AI-based network resilience

Smart Energy International

The investment marks a first for Prosus Ventures in the utilities domain, traditionally investing in tech growth opportunities in fields such as logistics, fintech, health, blockchain and more. Under the terms of the three-year partnership, commercial financing will be extended on a project-by-project basis. billion ($300.9 million).

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ComEd to lead impact study of climate change on the grid

Smart Energy International

Oracles and blockchains – managing climate change in the energy sector Climate innovation: Wins, challenges and gaps. In particular, it should further inform ComEd’s multi-year integrated grid plan, which will be filed with the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) in January 2023. Have you read?

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Rethinking the energy grid: The evolution of mission-critical power

Smart Energy International

From telemedicine to non-fungible tokens (NFTs), these are just some of the amazing innovations in technology spurred by the pandemic as more patients and artists were forced into a digital space. Distributed grids: A promising solution. Have you read? $38

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Technology Trending: REC transactions and energy consumption matching

Smart Energy International

Such 24/7 hourly matching yields multiple benefits from increasing corporate sustainability claims’ transparency, thanks to more granular carbon accounting, to incentivising investments in renewables and storage technologies, to decarbonising and digitalising the power grid, states the study.

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. In short, in the words of a recent Wired overview of the technology , blockchain creates “tamperproof databases.”

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Meet Our Newest Startup Members

Greentown Labs

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. PolyJoule develops low-cost, high-power energy storage designed to strengthen the power grid.