Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Providing a comprehensive understanding of grid orchestration, its challenges, and the transformative potential it holds, this eBook focuses on: Grid Orchestration: The art of harmonising diverse energy sources, demand patterns, and grid infrastructure. Decentralisation: The shift toward decentralised energy production.

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AutoGrid

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

Not at the tables, but in a crowded conference hall, as Jigar Shah and the Department of Energy (DOE) team unveiled their much anticipated report: Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Virtual Power Plants. VPPs are to energy markets what Uber and Lyft are to transportation services. Not at all. The Sharing Economy What is a VPP?

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 16, 2023

EVs Can Drive Equity into the Energy Transition. Of all distributed energy resources (DERs) , electric vehicles (EVs) may be the most transformative. While rooftop solar, often paired with batteries, is decentralizing the energy system, EVs are turning the entire energy transition on its head. By Peter Asmus.

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AutoGrid

AUGUST 16, 2023

August 16, 2023, marks the first full year of the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and this milestone demands a health check. It reflected a uniquely American way of tackling the challenge: empower consumers to take action to adopt clean energy solutions in their own backyards. Just how has the IRA been doing and what’s ahead?

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

GW of new long duration pumped hydro storage, with 90 GWh of storage, could save up to £690 million per year in energy system costs by 2050, as the UK transitions to a net-zero carbon emission system. A new study by independent researchers from Imperial College London has found that just 4.5

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

From good jobs in the industries of the future, to improved health and wellbeing and a more resilient natural world.". Labour is demanding a vote in Parliament on the government's plan," he said. "We "If we get this right, the fight against the climate emergency can create huge opportunities for our country," Starmer added.

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Business Green

JUNE 15, 2021

At the end of last year, the government announced ambitions to generate 5GW of low carbon hydrogen production capacity by 2030 in its 'Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution', while hydrogen was also highlighted as a key net zero technology in the Energy White Paper which emerged several weeks later.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2020

For example, the first call from the CBI is for the government to "prioritise public spending and policy on low-carbon programmes that deliver short-term economic and social benefits and lay the foundations for a resilient, net-zero economy". Sustainable growth is the centrepiece of plans to build back better post-pandemic," argued Fell. "So

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Business Green

JUNE 24, 2020

Reports have suggested the Chancellor Rishi Sunak is looking to spur a "green industrial revolution" in the wake of Covid-19, while the Prime Minister Boris Johnson has repeatedly said the world must "move towards a greener, cleaner, and more resilient future" after the pandemic.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

The current high gas prices have highlighted the need to invest in technologies which can store power as part of building a more resilient, renewables-based system which can wean us off fossil fuels. The transition towards local energy markets is starting to get underway and increasingly these markets will enable us to decarbonise faster.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

This week, Business Secretary Alok Sharma announced a series of initiatives at Climate Week NYC including the launch of the COP26 Energy Transition Council. Will the Energy White Paper definitely be published this Autumn (the latest from Energy and Clean Groath Minister Kwasi Kwarteng is that it will be)?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

We need a fully flexible, decentralised grid network in order to most efficiently reach net zero and ensure a system which can react nimbly to changing patterns of weather and demand. This announcement, though, is just the start.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

However, it is equally important over the longer term to avoid any repeat of the current crisis by expanding our own sources of clean domestic power as well as reducing demand - and subsequent carbon emissions. Reforming the planning system to accelerate the energy transition will result in huge benefits to the UK.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The evidence that ambitious climate policies can boost the damaged economy while laying the foundations for long term competitiveness and climate resilience is becoming more compelling by the year. Nevertheless, Stark captured it pretty well yesterday with his plea for the government to "go for it". Only 15 of them have been partially met.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 1, 2021

But on the other side of this equation is an opportunity: A world in which electric vehicles actually help make the grid more resilient, and render electricity cheaper for everyone. “Electric vehicles are already benefiting the grid to a large extent,” said Miles Muller, attorney for the climate and clean energy program at NRDC.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The government has said it will announce a 10 point green recovery plan later this month, which is set to be followed by a raft of new net zero focused policy papers including the long-awaited Energy White Paper and National Infrastructure Strategy, as well as the promised updated NDC.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 14, 2020

Whether as a defense against global pandemics or as part of a wider climate strategy companies are exploring ways of improving their supply chain resilience. Now more than ever companies need to increase their efforts to build more resilience into their supply chains so that they can quickly respond to changing demands and disruptions.

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AutoGrid

MAY 16, 2023

For definitions of Distributed Energy Management Systems – DERMS – learn more on AutoGrid website. While microgrids are designed to provide resiliency when the larger grid goes down, VPPs aggregate decentralized renewable energy resources, energy storage, and demand response to balance the larger grid.

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AutoGrid

JULY 27, 2023

Electricity demand is expected to grow more rapidly with accelerated electrification across the building and transportation sectors. This blog explores the role digital solutions shaped by artificial intelligence (AI) can play in maximizing the opportunity for DERs under Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Order 2222.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Similarly, what happens as electric vehicles and other technologies lead to a permanent dampening of demand for oil? We still have to maintain the focus on those [diplomatic] priority areas that we had before - ambition, adaptation, resilience, nature, finance, zero emission vehicles, energy transition," she explained.

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AutoGrid

MAY 10, 2022

Our energy systems are being transformed by the dramatic increase in distributed energy resources (DER) that are now populating power grids around the world. DER assets, popularized by rooftop solar PV and then distributed energy storage, are challenging our conventional thinking in new ways. By Peter Asmus.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Green Homes Grant scheme is set to be extended by a year past its original deadline of March, providing relief to the tens of thousands of householders that signed up to the subsidy programme in recent months but have struggled to find an accredited installer to carry out energy efficiency upgrades.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

Whether governments use their economic recovery plans to support decarbonisation and long-term economic resilience is now the single biggest question at the top of the climate agenda. Building back better. Only today British Prime Minister Boris Johnson told the Commons that "our determination to get to net zero by 2050 remains undiminished".

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Business and Energy Secretary and COP26 President Alok Sharma said: "Tackling climate change is the one of the most urgent shared endeavours of our lifetimes, demanding bold action from every nation to prevent catastrophic global warming. Leadership demands consistency. Now, the hard work begins. We look forward to theirs.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The long-awaited Levelling Up Whitepaper and the mooted proposals to tackle soaring domestic energy bills both contain some good news for the net zero transition and wider green economy. Instead, it looks to have opted for a package of loan guarantees for energy suppliers and targeted support for fuel poor households.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Certification is shown to attract and engage top talent, increase credibility and build trust, slash costs, meet the demands of a consumer majority, and protect a company’s mission in the long term. The minimum wage is not enough to meet the basic needs of employees – to cover housing, energy, food, and childcare costs.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 18, 2021

Amply Power is a clean energy technology company going after an emerging $100B market opportunity. Strong track record in generating demand and driving sales-led growth, with samples and results of past campaigns. We are an energy technology company going after an emerging $100B market opportunity. Principal Engineer.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Today, just weeks after his promotion to the second most powerful job in the country, the Chancellor Rishi Sunak unveiled the government's Budget for the coming year and beyond, outlining a multi-billion pound package of spending across the green economy, as well as new tax measures covering the energy sector, plastic packaging, and red diesel fuel.

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Business Green

JANUARY 31, 2020

Very broadly, with the transition period, nothing particularly changes when we hit 1st February," James Diggle, head of energy and climate at the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), tells BusinessGreen. But in similarity with a lot of other sectors, we're very aware of the time ticking away for the end of this year.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

The steps that the UK takes to rebuild from the COVID-19 pandemic can accelerate the transition to a successful and low-carbon economy and improve our climate resilience. The energy sector already invests £14bn a year and is ready to work closely with Government to help power our economic recovery and meet our net zero target.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Yet just weeks later, Claire O'Neill was sacked as COP26 president, prompting the former Energy and Clean Growth Minister to launch a blistering attack on Johnson's "failure of global vision and leadership" when it came to the climate crisis. The promises of improvements to UK energy efficienct present a similar dynamic.

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