Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2024

Algorithm developed for smart grid autonomy during emergencies ISGAN advances smart grids The report lists notable examples of adoption : American utility companies have made substantial investments in acquiring 900 MHz and 3.5 GHz CBRS PAL (Priority Access License) spectrum within their service territories.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Grid technology company Reactive Technologies has launched Tradenergy, a software tool and analytics platform with the aim of providing short-term energy traders real-time insights into grid events such as generation or interconnector trips. Have you read: European merit order energy trading: Obsolete?

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s the assessment of major environmental organizations based in South Korea and Japan, whose representatives told DeSmog that rather than increasing east and southeast Asia’s dependance on an economically volatile and planet-warming energy source it would be much better for the region to shift from coal directly into renewables.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

” At the same time, Crane noted the company is “in the middle of trying to work through legislative strategy in Illinois” that would offer its nuclear power plants in the state an alternative path to earning capacity market revenue that is seen as a critical component of their future financial viability.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

Energy Information Administration (EIA) says nearly half of planned capacity additions in 2022 will be solar energy resources. power grid this year. GW (11%) to come from energy storage projects. EIA said it expects 46.1 GW of new utility-scale generating capacity to be added to the U.S. Around 21.5 Around 21.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Government touts RAB funding model as 'win-win' for climate and consumers, but pushing upfront costs onto energy bills could prove controversial. The new financing rules are likely to provide a major boost for EDF's hopes of building a £20bn nuclear power plant at Sizewell C in Essex.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

clean energy sectors showed strong resilience in 2020, continuing a decade-long growth trend, BloombergNEF (BNEF) and the Business Council for Sustainable Energy (BCSE) find in their annual joint report. Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% Electricity Generation By Fuel Type in 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

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.   Wholesale power markets serve two primary functions: 1.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Utility Dominion Energy is planning a major shift toward renewable energy and batteries as it looks to comply with Virginia's ambitious new clean energy law. gigawatts of energy storage over the next 15 years. Credit: Dominion Energy). Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Seabed interconnector linking Britain and France to allow trade of surplus green power enters testing phase. per cent of Britain's electricity needs - delivering enough zero carbon power for up to one million homes, while avoiding 1.2 The high voltage direct current cable is expected to help meet 1.2

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Engineers, whether working on energy grids or power generation or resource exploitation, are building and maintaining the networks and systems which will be the targets of future ICS malware. Exploration of energy sector significance. Energy plays a critical role in the dynamics of international geopolitics.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 24, 2021

But what if an attack like this happens again and it affects our power grid? Peak Energy Usage. Whether you use gas or another source of electricity to power your home, you are probably aware that your consumption (and your energy bills) has two seasonal peaks. electricity generation is highest in July.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

The European Investment Bank (EIB) is providing Dutch-German TSO TenneT with a loan of €450 million ($440 million) for the construction of a 185km electricity transmission corridor — the Ostbayernring — connecting Redwitz to Schwandorf in the south-east of Germany. 9th loan from EIB to TenneT. Signing of the loan. Courtesy R.Harris/EIB.

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

EV charging station providers and governments must ensure a widespread, inclusive, and transparent charging network where green energy is used, writes Polestar's Fredrika Klaren. Renewables and clean energy has been notably absent from the discussion so far. But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs?

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 7, 2021

will lay the foundations for a flexibility platform encompassing centralized and decentralized assets — the latest step in the country's push to enlist distributed energy resources (DERs) at grand scale to balance an increasingly renewable-powered grid. Conflict control across the grid. DNOs in the U.K.

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Expanding green energy capacity across the UK would deliver a "bonanza" of job and levelling-up opportunities, with renewable and low carbon energy able to support up to five times more secure and skilled jobs than fossil gas power, according to fresh research today from Green Alliance.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Grid operators can’t be replaced easily.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

The real time energy monitoring app, which is provided by Finnish smart tech specialist Wärtsilä, reveals that Germany hit 58 per cent renewable generation throughout May as a share of total electricity supply, while the UK averaged a 48 per cent renewables share. Solar generation also set a new record in May, delivering 11.5

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 19, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric has asked California regulators to approve seven battery projects totaling 423 megawatts, or nearly 1.7 gigawatt-hours of energy storage capacity, to meet its share of a statewide procurement that must be brought online by late next year to assure statewide grid stability.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. gigawatts by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 5, 2020

needs a massive green hydrogen industry to decarbonize its electricity, transportation and industrial sectors, and major investments and policy changes today to enable it to grow to its full potential in the decades to come. The “Roadmap to a U.S.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Last week’s article focused on the nine key elements of Joe Biden’s plan for a Clean Energy Revolution and Environmental Justice. power sector by 2035. He said his administration would “build and install a network of 500,000 charging stations along our existing and new highways” so electric vehicles (EVs) can displace gasoline.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Despite market turbulence brought by the coronavirus pandemic, 2020 proved to be a formative year for India’s clean energy transition. Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. PG&E must keep up with the state’s ambitious clean energy, environmental and electrification goals. Of that, about $7.8

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Investors eye major role for hydrogen in decarbonising UK's gas and energy system after deal valuing business at £9.6bn. National Grid's 7,660-kilometre transmission system plays a critical role in the UK energy landscape, transporting the gas needed to heat homes and power industry and electricity generation.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2022

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. Their price will vary depending on international changes to energy supply and demand as well as major economic and political events.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2021

But the Business Secretary emphasised that the Cumbria mine would produce coking coal for use in industrial manufacturing, and not for generating electricity from coal power plants, arguing steelmaking required coal in the short term and that it would be better for the climate to source such coal from the UK rather than abroad.

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Business Green

MAY 24, 2021

The long-running debate over whether biomass energy can deliver promised emissions savings has been reignited this morning, after fresh analysis from think tank Ember warned plans for the UK's largest biomass with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) plant could undermine the UK's net zero transition and land the taxpayer with a hefty bill.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 17, 2022

Then, beginning around 2009, first wind turbines and then solar photovoltaic panels decreased enough in cost to become competitive in electricity markets. The Biden administration’s goal is to have a carbon emissions-free grid by 2035. The foundation of this transition is a dramatic change in the electric grid itself.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023. million homes' gas use for the entire winter, or 78 tankers of liquified natural gas (LNG).

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2023

BusinessGreen rounds up the critical lessons for business, investors, and the government if the UK is to build a decarbonised power system by 2035 When the Climate Change Committee (CCC) has something to say, it is usually well worth listening. The CCC's analysis tested the resilience of a zero carbon grid very strenuously indeed.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

electricity supply from solar by 2050. Robins Air Force Base Solar Project (Courtesy: E Light Electric). The 128 MW Robins Air Force Base Solar Project is owned by Georgia Power, a subsidiary of Southern Company, and is located adjacent to the Robins Air Force Base. The project was Georgia power's sixth working with the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

transmission grid will play a key role in decarbonizing the country’s electricity system. wide transmission build-out could also slash the costs of reaching a zero-carbon grid with wind, solar and battery technologies that are cost-effective today. Whether it’s politically possible for the U.S.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The tax credit comes with strict stipulations around using newly constructed sources of clean energy to produce hydrogen, as opposed to more polluting sources. The guidelines elicited strong reactions from clean energy advocates and industry today, some celebrating, others outraged.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. What the bill means for electricity providers. Electric vehicles. Home electrification and energy efficiency. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2022

million) for nine projects to oversee the digitisation and modernisation of Romania’s transmission network and power grid. The contracts were signed yesterday between the country’s Ministry of Energy and the national electric power transport company, Transelectrica SA. Contracts have been signed valuing €424.4

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