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NREL develops cybersecurity tool to flag threats to electric grid

Smart Energy International

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has developed an intrusion visualisation tool, IViz-OT, which can locate and visualise anomalies on the electrical grid that might otherwise go unnoticed. Utility operators need new solutions to monitor and manage grid threats. Cyber alerts. Testing and validation.

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Batteries may suffer the same performance issues as solar – NERC

Smart Energy International

As inverter-based resources like wind turbines, solar photovoltaic, and battery energy storage systems are introduced to the grid, the associated risks are becoming more apparent. The lack of adequate monitoring hinders performance and event analysis, NERC found. Have you read?

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Utah FORGE reports successful stimulation and circulation at EGS site

ThinkGeoEnergy

The Utah Frontier Observatory for Research in Geothermal Energy (Utah FORGE) has published a progress report on their groundbreaking EGS project following stimulation and circulation tests. State-of-the-art seismic monitoring mapped these fracture networks. The production well 16B(78)-32 was subsequently drilled in 2023.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

Charged

Total control of power usage: from solar to EV and back to the house. Once an EV can double as a stationary storage device, it will take its place as part of an energy ecosystem that includes rooftop solar and energy management—and could even become a source of revenue for owners and a valuable grid-balancing resource for utilities.

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How do you collect climate data during a pandemic? Strap on your skis.

Grist

Data from the network and its partner stations is behind some of climate science’s greatest hits, including the Mauna Loa observatory’s long-running CO2 measurements, which alerted the world that Earth’s atmosphere breached the ominous 400 parts per million threshold in 2013 and that it’s been logging new CO2 records ever since.

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Charting Planet’s Second Decade

Planet Pulse

Satellite data is not just useful, but can be indispensable for it, serving as an unbiased base layer to monitoring nature and human-led change. Whole ecosystems yet to be mapped and monitored, such as mangroves, boreal forests and seagrass. or “how many trees have been felled by logging in the Amazon last month?”