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? Getting in tune with power markets

Climate Tech VC

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. Act as a matchmaker between electricity buyers and sellers.

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The key lesson from the Ukraine crisis? Shifting to net zero is more important than ever

Business Green

To become energy secure and genuinely resilient from volatile fossil fuel prices, the UK must accelerate its transition to a zero-carbon energy system, writes Nick Molho, from the Aldersgate Group. Moving to net zero emissions: the key to long-term resilience, energy security and levelling up.

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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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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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The Inflation Reduction Act is signed into law

Smart Energy International

The bill provides a historic amount of money for climate change mitigation that is billed as helping electric utilities deliver cleaner energy including money for energy efficiency, electric vehicles (EVs), home and business electrification, plus tax credits for renewable energy developers. Electric vehicles.

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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. CCAs procure large-scale power resources for their customers, but they also have access to their customers' billing and smart metering data.

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Lessons from Texas and Beyond. Can DERs Save the Grid?

Bidgely

Years of worsening wildfires from extreme heat and wind in the West, more frequent superstorms in the East and last month’s historic cold in the South have made grid resiliency one of the most urgent energy crises ever faced by the United States. Grid Resiliency is Within Reach. Expanding Solar, Storage and EV Adoption.