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Things That Can Impact Power Pricing

The Environmental Blog

Several things can have an impact on power pricing. The cost of fuel is the most significant factor affecting your electricity rates. If natural gas prices increase, your electricity rates will rise. Prices also pass through changes in generation power costs.

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Smart Energy Finances: CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition

Smart Energy International

Centre stage in this week’s Smart Energy Finances is the closing of an acquisition by CPower. The DER company has acquired Centrica’s demand response division, bolstering their DER capacity from 5.6GW to 6.3GW. CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition. Other stories of note include RWE’s $6.8

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Workplace EV charging: Lessons from sustainability trailblazers

GreenBiz

Businesses are reaping the environmental and social benefits of providing electric vehicle charging for employees. Last fall, a research team from PGS conducted a study on workplace electric vehicle charging practices. Optimize energy management. Tue, 07/14/2020 - 01:30.

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Why smart grids are essential to meeting the UK’s housing needs

Smart Energy International

With about 30% of the total energy usage in the UK due to the heat and power needs of residential and commercial buildings, the housing sector will face the challenge of adapting rapidly to a net zero world. Have you read: 34.8

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Energy Hedging: A New Way to Make Demand Response Pay in California?

GreenTechMedia

But the structures for valuing the “negawatts” that demand response delivers have largely remained the same. The 25 megawatts of load reduction OhmConnect is making available will help EBCE hedge its energy purchases during hot summer afternoon and evening hours, when California’s grid is under the most stress, he said.

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Construction of geothermal heating plant in Turek, Poland set to begin

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Municipal and Housing Management Company (PGKiM) of the town of Turek in the Greater Poland Voivodeship, Poland has handed over the construction site for a planned geothermal heating plant to construction company In?ynieria Drilled to a depth of 2169 meters, PGKiM President Micha? ynieria Rzeszów SA. million (approx.

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£1.3 million of new funding for net zero-driven energy data application winners

Envirotec Magazine

million of new funding across nine new digital energy data projects has been announced by UK Research & Innovataion (UKRI). The non-departmental public body is awarding the funding through its ‘Modernising Energy Data Applications phase 1’ competition overseen by the Prospering From the Energy Revolution challenge.