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Predictive AI for T&D: How automated inspections optimise electric power systems and contain costs

Smart Energy International

Andrew Maximow of US aerial data analytics company Zeitview, writes on the immense task of modernising the transmission and distribution power grids and how automated inspections might provide some much needed support. They need to rapidly modernise to accommodate the transition to renewables and two-way power flow.

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

One of the primary reasons Germany cannot use all of the renewable energy it produces is because the nation’s fleet of coal and nuclear plants is still needed to ensure power system resilience when the wind slows or clouds cover the sun. and even more so for the myriad targets that have been adopted globally.

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It's been a busy year for green policy - now 2022 must be a year of implementation

Business Green

To deliver the government's vital commitment to have a fully decarbonised power grid by 2035, the continued and necessary growth of renewables will also need to come with a much more holistic approach to drive investment and innovation in co-ordinated networks, interconnection, storage and demand flexibility.

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The 4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive Post-Bankruptcy

GreenTechMedia

The San Francisco-based utility is emerging from bankruptcy with a massive debt load that could make it harder to raise the tens of billions of dollars of investment needed to prevent its power grid from causing more devastating wildfires. PG&E plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid.

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Grid impact of hydrogen is a system architecture matter – ETIP SNET

Smart Energy International

It is instead a question of system architecture, which must be addressed from the start as a coordinated energy system development among hydrogen operators, gas operators and power grid operators, as well as the private investors making those large investments. Have you read?

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How to build a net zero power system: Seven top takeaways from the CCC's green grid blueprint

Business Green

A power system running solely on clean energy technologies is entirely feasible During a media briefing yesterday, CCC officials made a point of emphasising the huge amount of work it has put into producing its most detailed and comprehensive analysis of the UK's energy system to date.

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An Inside Look at a Groundbreaking Solar-Storage Procurement in California

GreenTechMedia

First, it’s one of the largest-ever efforts to aggregate distributed energy resources (DERs) at a scale that can help California’s power grid meet its capacity needs. That’s definitely possible. It breaks ground on multiple fronts. Could part of the 30 MW procurement come from existing resources?