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. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Crypto mining and data centres – the green challenge Why heating and cooling is the missing piece of Europe’s energy transition. To demonstrate the concept the companies have set up a 1,300 computing system based data centre at Tepco Power Grid’s business premises in the Tokyo metropolitan area. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 19, 2022

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning design consists of direct expansion cooling units to provide cooled and conditioned air to the building, as well as to the face of the battery racks to maintain consistent temperatures.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Now, shoring up energy systems means bringing renewables online to prevent more extreme climate change — especially as climate-fueled disasters like heatwaves and storms increasingly threaten power grids across the world. The transition to clean energy is happening worldwide and it’s unstoppable.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Led by an interagency working group, the “Net-Zero Game Changers Initiative” will direct billions of dollars under the bipartisan infrastructure law, the CHIPS and Science Act, and the Inflation Reduction Act toward five initial priorities: Efficient Building Heating and Cooling , including refrigerants with low global warming potential; Net-Zero Aviation (..)

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

The selected projects are: Smart AC/DC hybrid microgrid: This project aims to ease the integration of renewable and distributed energy resources, such as solar PV and EV charging with V2G capabilities into the existing AC grid without disruption to the main power grid.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 25, 2021

The heating, ventilation and air conditioning design will consist of direct expansion cooling units to provide cooled and conditioned air to the building, as well as to the face of the battery racks to maintain consistent temperatures.

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The Environmental Blog

JULY 8, 2021

Taking care of cracks and gaps results in reduced workloads for your heating and cooling systems, which results in reduced energy consumption. If you look at the power tariffs, you will see that the charges are higher during peak periods. If you look at the power tariffs, you will see that the charges are higher during peak periods.

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AutoGrid

MAY 24, 2023

This term – bidirectional – is related to V2G in that it refers to the ability of EVs to not place a load burden on utility power grids but instead offer up a compelling solution to meeting peak demands while lowering emissions, accelerating the transition to a zero carbon energy economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? To effectively manage the energy supply power grid requires the collaboration between both information technology (IT) and operations technology (OT) expertise. Tom Christensen is Global Technology Advisor and Executive Analyst at Hitachi Vantara.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

The 33,000-square-foot building now sports solar panels that drive mechanical heat pumps, which work in tandem with a closed-loop ground heat exchange system to provide all-electric heating and cooling. Previously, natural gas accounted for about 65 percent of the building’s $65,000 annual energy costs.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

With regard to increasingly volatile electricity markets, battery storage can be used to profitably market storage capacity while having a stabilizing effect on our power grids,” explained Florian Schönberger, CTO of VISPIRON Energy. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It adds to the comfort of drivers and customers, as vehicles can be heated or cooled at the taxi stand without reducing range. Due to the decentralized design of the charging infrastructure and a high connection time of the vehicles with the charging points, a grid-serving integration into the urban power grid can be achieved.”.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

However, it is crucial that new AI use cases do not introduce new risks to the grid, the report states. Thus AI models for grid applications should be rigorously validated as well as scalable in performance and adherent to power grid governance standards. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

As a leading company in smart electricity meters, CLOU provides various standards of smart energy meters, acquisition devices for electricity information and AMI solutions for State Grid, China Southern Power Grid, and international smart grids. Integrated energy solutions.

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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. Temperatures across Texas will run 10-15 degrees above normal for at least the next seven days.

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Charged

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The smaller and lighter inverter package, which is now water ethylene glycol (WEG) cooled, eliminates oil lines. The eGen Flex system features a new drive unit, inverter and battery pack. The drive unit includes a disconnect clutch that enables engine-off capability. Source: Allison Transmission.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Rising temperatures across the world has cast a spotlight on the need to provide cooling in cities without overburdening urban power grids and in turn further contributing to climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

utilities have to plan for an electricity peak driven by summer air conditioning and cooling demand, Duke and other Southeastern utilities face an equally daunting winter peak driven by a reliance on electric heating and unpredictable cold snaps, as this U.S. While most U.S. Energy Information Administration data illustrates.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Our power grids will buckle and we don’t yet have the wherewithal to manage so many distributed energy resources coming on line at once. Its software provides the visibility layer for building heating and cooling.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

The report also provides an overview of how data centres can play a role in helping integrate renewables into European electricity grids. engaging in demand response by reducing data centre power consumption to better match the current local supply of renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 14, 2020

electric heating and, in particular, cooling, dwarf other categories of power consumption in the home, even on a year-round basis. Heating or cooling efficiency actions that reduce a residence’s peak load, such as a more efficient air conditioner, can pay out handsomely against both NCP- and CP-based rates.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

building on each other’s strengths, to collectively grow our portfolio to offer more clients affordable and reliable sustainable heating and cooling.” Added Bas Evers, managing director of Equans Energy Solutions: “We are looking forward to working together with Essent and E.ON A subsidiary of E.ON A subsidiary of E.ON Essent has 2.3

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Smart Energy International

JULY 27, 2022

This story was originally published on Power-Grid International. The CER is intended to help provide long-term regulatory certainty while also encouraging the increased deployment of non-emitting electricity options such as wind, solar and small modular reactors. You may read the proposed regulations here.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. These climate change linked trends are highlighting the growing need for distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) that can manage the grid intelligently while quickly responding to the real-time needs of grid operators.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The design team removed three natural gas-fired heating and cooling units and replaced them with four rooftop heat pump alternatives and one split heat pump system to account for the increased occupant density and change in spatial programming from the previous existing office building design.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Residential demand response and energy efficiency are one way to mitigate these impacts, giving utilities and technology vendors an incentive to find ways to expand their scope and effectiveness before summer arrives to stress power grids and customer utility bills alike. Avoiding the AC "snapback effect".

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From storing, processing and analyzing the data needed to power any online service, data centres are the backbone of the growing digital economy, but have been notorious to be energy-guzzling facilities. From powering the servers and storage equipment to cooling infrastructures, data centres have a large appetite for electricity.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

By constructing the units on local utility company Holy Cross Energy’s power grid, the building will have a net-zero carbon footprint on opening day. Holy Cross Energy is committed to becoming 100% renewable by the year 2030, creating a solid sustainability investment for the future. Aspen Snowmass Images courtesy of Aspen Snowmass.

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Business Green

APRIL 9, 2020

Google, for example, can deliver seven times as much computing power today as it did five years ago, using the same amount of electrical power, according to a blog published by Urs Holze, senior vice president of technical infrastructure, in late February.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Actions like moving work to cooler hours of the day, deploying local power sources such as wind and solar and investing in battery storage to increase energy independence and help make the local power grid more resilient to climate change are key. Planting native tree species can reduce flood risk and cool city streets.

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EDF + Business

JULY 19, 2019

Its DeepMind team has been able to use AI to reduce the amount of energy for cooling in their data centers by up to 40 percent. The company is also using machine-learning algorithms to harness the power of wind energy by predicting wind output 36 hours in advance and delivering optimal hourly delivery commitments to the power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

The CPUC requires utilities to provide public outreach and support during PSPS events, including setting up community centers where families can recharge phones or other electronics, stay cool and receive medical treatment and referral if necessary. These opportunities extend to market-driven approaches.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

The proposal could also allow hundreds of megawatts of seawater-cooled gas plants, known as OTC plants, to keep running past their 2021 retirement dates, if the reliability shortfall it fears can’t be met by other means. SoCal's grid headaches.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 5, 2022

DLR provides grid operators greater visibility on existing transmission line capacity minute-to-minute by taking into account environmental factors that could increase or reduce capacity such as winds acting as additional cooling for power lines, which would allow them to carry more electricity.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That being said, with government incentive programs offered across North America and the ability to sell excess energy back to power grids, the payback on this investment is often much shorter than expected. Institute a More Flexible Dress Code.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Customers with large power demand were on “interruptible rates,” wherein the utility had a no-notice option to completely interrupt power to a load, in exchange for a rate slightly lower than normal commercial rates. As power grids evolved to focus on economic incentives, the value proposition for DR also grew.

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