Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at an investment round for Neara, an Australian company that has developed a platform that uses AI to help utilities design networks, enhance wildfire and vegetation management programmes and bring renewable projects online faster. million) for Shanghai Electric Energy Storage Technology.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 5, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced a vital reform in network planning to make it easier for households and businesses to utilise their customer energy resources (CER), such as household batteries and EVs, to lower energy bills and feed energy back into the grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

From storing, processing and analyzing the data needed to power any online service, data centres are the backbone of the growing digital economy, but have been notorious to be energy-guzzling facilities. From powering the servers and storage equipment to cooling infrastructures, data centres have a large appetite for electricity.

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

In this week’s issue : We kick off our energy series with the top dog: fossil fuels Orange rivers in Alaska A river mystery in Colombia Feature Story: Energy: Fossil Fuels If you’re reading this then you owe gratitude to fossil fuels. We’ll trace supply chains as they move from open-pit mines to self-driving electric vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 11, 2023

New South Wales utility Endeavour Energy has been granted a sandbox trial waiver to upgrade 5,600 smart meters. The aim is to improve the delivery of load management services to reduce consumption at peak periods and lower electricity network costs for consumers, as well as to introduce new energy services to those participating.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 6, 2024

Five hundred South Australian households will partake in a new project from the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) and electricity distributor SA Power Networks to trial smart home energy management and its effect on the power system. million) to the Energy Masters project, coordinated by SA Power Networks.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 9, 2022

The majority of improvements made in recloser manufacturing are to help utilities better manage and mitigate the disruption of electrical services. One of the solutions that has seen tremendous improvements, including smart technology, is the recloser. The improved technology also supports eliminating the need for routine maintenance.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 17, 2022

The JV has been formed between Enzen Australia, which provides advisory, engineering services and solutions for the power, water, gas and renewable energy sectors, alongside Tasmanian state-owned enterprise 42-24.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Shell Energy’s ‘Commercialising Smart Energy Hubs’ project will recruit at least 40 commercial and industrial (C&I) customer sites to demonstrate flexible demand capacity. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced AUS$9.1 million ($5.7 million ($19.7 million) in total.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Queensland government utility Ergon Energy is home to the new Microgrid and Isolated Systems Test (MIST) facility. million) facility in Cairns, which was opened in October 2021, is helping to guide the eastern Australian state’s transition to a low carbon energy future, according to a statement. The Au$6 million (US$4.3 Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JULY 4, 2022

Enzen Australia has secured its first engagement in an ambitious strategy to digitalise the energy infrastructure of Australia through smart IoT solutions. According to Enzen Australia, the Horizon Power IoT Living Lab is flexible, cost-effective and can be scaled at speed, complementing and extending control systems such as SCADA.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Australian utility Telstra Energy has signed a 10-year deal with Intellihub for the provision of smart metering services. Up to 4 million smart and intelligent devices are expected to be added to Intellihub’s IoT network for near real-time processing of consumer energy usage and the status of distributed assets.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

UL, renewable energy modelling software developer, announced the release of HOMER Front. The licensable web-based software platform will enable designing and optimising of complex utility-scale energy storage systems (ESS) — whether standalone or in combination with solar or wind energy.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 28, 2023

A new ‘Lighthouse Project’ entitled ‘Electricity network planning and implementation under uncertainty for the clean energy transition: The roles of smart distribution grids in energy systems’ is aimed to initiate closer collaboration between the Networks’ six working groups to address smart distribution grids. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 11, 2022

Project Symphony is a two-year initiative to pilot consumer owned distributed energy resources as a virtual power plant (VPP). Project Symphony aims to orchestrate approximately 900 distributed resources across 500 homes and businesses into a VPP to generate and store electricity at a local level. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In July, for example, the Taiwan Power Company hired Enel X, the advanced energy services business unit within Italian energy giant Enel, to shore up the Taiwanese grid with a virtual power plant (VPP) made up of assets provided by commercial and industrial clients. Meanwhile, MarkNtel Advisors puts the VPP market’s CAGR at 20.2

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 10, 2023

Shell Energy Australia is partnering up on – and will connect to the grid – a 500MW/1GWh BESS ( Battery Energy Storage System), to be built on the site of the old Wallerawang Power Station near Lithgow, New South Wales (NSW).

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Emerging electricity and gas supplier Telstra Energy has deployed Fluence’s AI-powered IQ bidding application. Both Murra Warra 1 and Emerald Solar Park have long-term power purchase agreements to supply clean energy to Telstra Energy and their offtake partners. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

Together the two utilities deliver electricity to around 1.27 With population growth, home electrification and the rise of electric vehicles, the need for grid flexibility has become increasingly important. million homes and businesses in Melbourne’s central business district and inner suburbs and about two-thirds of regional Victoria.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

Melbourne headquartered 1st Energy is the first energy retailer in Australia to offer the option of crypto payments. 1st Energy is partnering on the service with the US-based crypto payment provider BitPay with twelve crypto options available so far.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 20, 2024

The BVLoS mission, which was approved by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), paves the way for Carbonix’s drones to inspect South Australia’s electricity distribution network of more than 180,000 square kilometres.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 13, 2022

The loan’s pricing conditions are tied to Endeavour Energy achieving a set of agreed sustainability performance targets. The sustainability linked loan, the first to an Australian electricity distribution network provider, is worth Au$920 million (US$684 million) over five years. Endeavour Energy supplies power to over 2.6

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2024

The Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) has granted Generator Performance Standard (GPS) approval for the Waratah Super Battery, marking the first approval for such a large battery energy storage project. Compliance with these standards helps prevent disruptions and ensures smooth integration into existing energy infrastructure.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Australian Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has announced rule updates to the National Electricity Market, aimed at mitigating the risk of power outage as the country undergoes a transition from aging coal-fired generation to increased reliance on renewable energy sources. hours at the Market Price Cap by the same date.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

The acquisition brings together Australia and New Zealand smart metering Intellihub’s advanced smart metering platform with GreenSync’s cloud-based distributed energy resource interoperability software deX. There’s also a growing level of dispatchable resources like pool pumps, hot water systems and electric vehicles.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 17, 2022

As the adoption of electric vehicles and distributed energy resources like solar, wind power, and battery storage become more widespread and add more load to the grid, the introduction of these new elements creates disruption and presents grid reliability challenges that must be addressed. 60-minute session. REGISTER BELOW.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 4, 2024

The Australia Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has issued a draft rule to start accelerating the deployment of smart meters from July 2024. The draft rule follows the March decision of the Commission to fast-track the process, to achieve a full rollout of smart meters across the country’s national electricity market by 2030.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Enel X Australia has secured a contract from the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) to provide 120MW of flexible demand capacity to the Western Australia wholesale energy market. The VPP aggregates the energy savings of these participants, providing additional capacity to the grid when required.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 29, 2024

Tasmania’s energy minister Nick Duigan has reported that 70% of residential and business customers now have a smart meter. The cheapest kilowatt of energy is the one you don’t use,” said Aurora Energy CEO Nigel Clark. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

The Electric Power Innovation for a Carbon-free Society (EPICS) centre has been launched at the Johns Hopkins University (JHU) in Baltimore, MD in the US. Through the EPICS centre, we hope to develop innovative computing, economics, engineering and policy solutions for transitioning towards a 100% renewable energy power grid,” said Hobbs.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Extreme storm activity, strong winds, lightning and resulting fire danger and falling trees caused damage to the electricity network in Victoria, Australia, while also causing access issues for repair crews to damaged powerlines and critical infrastructure.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding for Intellihub in a virtual power plant (VPP) project to leverage a network of 2 million smart meters and interface with over 140,000 customer energy resources for optimised load control. On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has announced AU$9.75 million ($6.55

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Switzerland headquartered Landis+Gyr, a provider of integrated energy management solutions has acquired EV infrastructure, New Zealand based company Thundergrid. Have you read? Thundergrid’s commercial independence including current management and team structure will be retained to drive the company’s vision and strategy in New Zealand.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The renewable energy developer and fund manager purchased the project from Firm Power, a battery energy storage systems (BESS) developer. Once operational, the project will store and dispatch 1GWh of electricity, supporting peak demand on the power grid and providing power to approximately 70,000 homes for one day.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

billion) to expand and modernise electricity grids in Perth, the South West and in the North West Pilbara region. Upgrading the SWIS and NWIS networks The SWIS is WA’s main electricity network and serves more than 1.1 million residential and business customers in Perth and across the South West.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2023

The announcement was made by the Albanese and Perrottet Governments to connect New South Wales’ Renewable Energy Zones (REZs). billion) from the NSW Transmission Acceleration Facility, to help NSW realise its Electricity Infrastructure Roadmap and increase reliability across the east coast grid. billion ($3.2 billion ($2.1 billion ($3.2

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 30, 2021

ImpactAlpha, August 30 — Australia is way behind in the global electric vehicle race. The post BlackRock takes a stake in JOLT to accelerate electric vehicle adoption in Australia appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Sydney-based JOLT believes it can accelerate EV adoption with.

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