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Duke Energy and AWS partner up on smart grid solutions

Smart Energy International

Duke Energy will build new smart grid software and services on AWS and expand its Intelligent Grid Services – a suite of custom-built applications that help the utility anticipate future energy demand and identify where and how to update the power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Consumers Are Playing a Big Role in Keeping the Lights On in California This Week

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After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. Several out-of-state power grids also reported emergency conditions on Monday and Tuesday.

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Texas Utility CPS Energy Kicks Off Search for More Than 1GW of Clean Resources

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CPS now gets about 22 percent of its electricity from about 1,000 megawatts of wind power and about 500 megawatts of solar , with natural gas making up 46 percent of its remaining portfolio and coal-fired power another 18 percent.

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What is residual load?

Smart Energy International

The feed-in into the power grid for power supply consists of conventional energy sources, such as nuclear-, coal- and gas power, as well as renewable energy sources. This means the remaining demand for electricity that cannot be covered by wind and solar power.

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What is residual load?

Smart Energy International

The feed-in into the power grid for power supply consists of conventional energy sources, such as nuclear-, coal- and gas power, as well as renewable energy sources. This means the remaining demand for electricity that cannot be covered by wind and solar power.

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Startups Use Renewables-Rich UK to Test Power Electronics Technologies at Scale

GreenTechMedia

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. Perhaps the UK, which has set far more ambitious green goals for its island grid, may be a better fit?

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Funding the Next Generation of Efficient, Electric, Grid-Interactive Communities

GreenTechMedia

homes and commercial buildings consume roughly two-fifths of the country’s overall energy, three-fourths of all electricity, and account for most of the peak electricity demand that drives generation and power grid infrastructure costs. One of EPRI’s first projects in Fontana, Calif.