Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Grid stability is consistently brought up as a key puzzle that needs to be solved to reach our net zero targets. One often overlooked piece, states Bernard Salha, group technical director and R&D director for French energy giant EDF, might be found in nuclear power.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 10, 2022

power grid this year. The agency says another 5% of the country’s planned electric capacity additions in 2022 will come from two new reactors at the Vogtle nuclear power plant in Georgia. EIA’s numbers on capacity additions come from monthly and annual reports submitted by developers and power plant operators.

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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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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

UK consumers are set to pay up-front for the construction of a fresh fleet of large-scale nuclear power plants through their energy bills under a new financing model unveiled by the government today, which looks set to provide a key building block of its plans to deliver a net zero 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. This is driven by international gas shortages and reduced availability of French nuclear power.

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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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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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Business Green

MARCH 30, 2022

The government has set out the UK's plans to accelerate the charging network rollout to help transition to zero emission vehicles, committing to 300,000 public electric vehicle (EV) charge points by 2030. But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs? But how green are the energy sources powering our EVs?

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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? 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. Peak Energy Usage.

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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. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

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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. A new active network management project in the U.K.

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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.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

C temperature limit, the country must fully phase out gas from its electricity sector over the same time period, Solutions for Our Climate calculates. South Korea is currently the world’s third largest LNG importer and plans to expand its gas capacity 50 percent by 2036. But to reduce South Korea’s emissions in line with the 1.5°C

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Thursday’s proposed decision from the California Public Utilities Commission ( PDF ) is the culmination of more than a year of study and debate over the state’s grid reliability needs, as part of its Integrated Resource Plan proceeding. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. Southern California Edison in the hot seat.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Energy demand for electricity and transportation fell by 3.8% The impacts of cleaner electricity generation will persist. GW of wind and solar capacity was added to the grid this year. Electricity Generation By Fuel Type in 2020. Notable clean energy statistics from the pandemic year include: Power Generation.

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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.

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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

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. This is notable because it would actually boost the demands on the power sector, which will increase the challenges of decarbonizing the sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 4, 2020

Dominion’s new IRP is driven by Virginia's Clean Economy Act passed earlier this year, which calls for 100 percent carbon-free electricity by 2045 and sets targets for energy efficiency, energy storage, and in-state solar and wind power. Under the law, Dominion Virginia and the smaller Appalachian Power Co.

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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 plans to invest about $40 billion over the next five years into its power grid. Of that, about $7.8

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

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. In total, the firm estimates the subsea cable enables the UK to import enough clean electricity to power around one million homes. "By

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Business Green

JULY 21, 2022

Earlier this year, the government published an Energy Security Strategy, which ramped up targets for offshore wind and solar power while also promising to develop new oil and gas fields in the North Sea, in a bid to reduce exposure to risky, global fossil fuel markets.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

Solar prices hit record-lows, firmly ousting coal as the cheapest source of electricity. The government held creative auctions designed to facilitate adding greater amounts of intermittent renewables on the grid. “All of this will require substantial investment in a modern, flexible electricity system.”

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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

MARCH 9, 2022

Putting the UK on track for net zero emissions by 2050 - as required by the Climate Change Act - involves building a zero-carbon power system predominantly based on renewable energy by 2035, whilst significantly improving the energy efficiency of homes and buildings.

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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

MAY 24, 2021

Energy giant Drax has long maintained that a proposed BECCS plant at its power station in North Yorkshire can play a crucial role in delivering on the UK's net zero ambitions by generating electricity with negative emissions. As a result, Drax is entirely reliant on public subsidy to operate."

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

That is the headline finding from the latest edition of the Energy Climate and Intelligence Unit's (ECIU) Winter Power Tracker , which found that renewables have produced 2TWh more electricity than gas over the winter months to date. 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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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. ” Breaking down transmission’s costs and benefits.

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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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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Moreover, it can run on electricity generated by renewables or carbon-free nuclear energy. They’ll have to purchase clean electricity from new generators that only started operating within three years of the hydrogen production facility coming online. An electrolyzer can split water into oxygen and hydrogen molecules.

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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 a and Timi?oara/S?c?laz

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

What the bill means for electricity providers. 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.

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