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AI can significantly improve grid management reports DOE

Smart Energy International

The report, focussed on potential opportunities for AI in the grid, finds that AI is able to improve grid planning, permitting, operations and reliability and resilience as well to advance the broader transition to a clean energy economy.

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Smart home app gamifies grid-reactive air con for consumers

Smart Energy International

A new partnership in the US combines a demand response programme with smart air conditioners, enabling a gamified reward system to incentivise consumers to lower consumption at times of peak demand on the power grid.

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The retrofitting strategy behind Sonoma Clean Power's all-electric headquarters

Business Green

Using a microgrid controller and WattTime software that can track grid emissions and identify times of peak demand or high carbon intensity the building can also place power back onto the grid to reduce its dependency on fossil fuel power plants.

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Lessons from inside the heat dome about the future of the electric grid

GreenBiz

Even without extreme weather events, the power grid needs love. The grid was largely built in the 1950s and 1960s with a 35- to 80-year life expectancy , meaning much of it should have been retired and replaced by now. Here are three priorities to ensure the grid is resilient as the climate gets chaotic. .

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More than 100,000 clean energy worker just lost their jobs and more layoffs are coming.

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

one essential to our economy, our resilience and our environment. They include electricians, plumbers, HVAC technicians and other construction workers in energy efficiency. Now, without directed stimulus to overcome the COVID-driven demand declines the clean energy sector and its workers are on the line. million workers suffer.

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