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Technology Trending: Friendly IoT platform, MD microgrid, solar harvesting for sensors, new solar cell records

Smart Energy International

Friendly Technologies IoT platform for smart meter management, a Maryland microgrid for powering an electric bus fleet, solar harvesting to power IoT sensors and new Perovskite solar cell advances are on the week’s technology radar. The ‘Friendly’ platform for smart meters and IoT devices.

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Smart Energy Finances: CPower closes Centrica demand response acquisition

Smart Energy International

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. Their services aim to help customers earn revenue for participating in demand response solutions that bolster the grid. GW of #DER capacity!

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Targeting grid resilience with digitalisation

Smart Energy International

This decarbonisation demands above all a grid that is robust, resilient, and reliable, able to withstand both the internal impacts of constantly changing demand and supply patterns and bidirectional power flows as well as external impacts such as extreme weather events. Grid resilience and reliability.

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Smart grids vital to green energy drive

Smart Energy International

According to a special report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the world’s electricity use needs to grow 20% faster in the next decade than it did in the previous one, if national energy and climate goals were to be met. For instance, balancing supply to demand in real time, due to the intermittent nature of wind and solar power.

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Mississippi utility co-op deploys fiber network for broadband and smart grid connectivity

Smart Energy International

Secure, fast and resilient connectivity is a basic need in a fast-changing utility environment where utility consumers are demanding innovative and green services. The fiber network is a foundation by the co-op to offer other smart city services as well.

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Technology Trending: New smart electricity and hydrogen meters and US DOE emerging tech office

Smart Energy International

Mike McGann, senior vice president and president of Xylem Americas, Measurement and Control Solutions, says that utility customers continue to embrace the value of data for greater operational resilience and increased customer engagement. Have you read?

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Stepping Up to Support Open Standards for Scaling VPPs

AutoGrid

VPPs allow DER asset owners, whether they have rooftop solar PV, an electric vehicle and/or a smart thermostat, to capture economic benefits while also solving power grid management challenges. See this vodcast for more details about what prosumers are capable of with the right set of tools and markets.