Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

Why do renewables such as distributed energy resources (DERs) present such a challenge? The hard truth is that the majority of electric grids were not originally designed to accommodate DERs, writes Dominique Verhulst, head of the Energy Segment at Nokia’s Network Infrastructure Group.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

In today’s distributed energy system, managing power grid complexity is challenging. But grid operators are often handling these changes with an ageing infrastructure that wasn’t built with a distributed energy system in mind. What is grid orchestration and why is it critical in 2024?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Other benefits anticipated include faster service response and restoration times, support for new energy savings and efficiency programmes and more accurate invoicing and billing control.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Future of Energy and Grid Resiliency is Distributed By Giovanni Herazo, Vice President, Smart Grid Solutions As one of FPL’s smart grid & innovation leaders, I saw firsthand how our grid was consistently put to the test by unexpected outages, power quality issues, adverse weather conditions, and rising load demand.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Andrew Maximow of US aerial data analytics company Zeitview, writes on the immense task of modernising the transmission and distribution power grids and how automated inspections might provide some much needed support. Electric utilities are being asked to do what may seem like the impossible.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

In this article, experts from CLOU explore the power of energy storage and its transformative impact on the electrical energy sector. In the ever-evolving landscape of the electrical energy segment, one technology is shining bright as a game-changer: energy storage systems (ESS).

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have filed five year grid modernisation with the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) to improve reliability. Consumers Energy also highlights its commitment that all communities should experience the benefits of the reliability roadmap and can participate in the clean energy transformation.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commemorated its first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County. The fully renewable remote grid at Pepperwood replaces 0.7

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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

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In this debut of the Power Playbook, our spotlight on the finance and investment side of the energy transition, Yusuf Latief investigates how Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is becoming a burgeoning market space ripe with investment opportunities. This is what has caught our eye. The rest of the process is automated.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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AutoGrid

JUNE 20, 2023

With this comes a surge in electricity use, mostly from cooling systems. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is predicting a historic demand of over 80,000 MW , putting immense pressure on the state’s power grid. Texas heat waves often result in slim reserve margins, where supply barely meets demand.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The Renewables Grid Initiative (RGI) and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) launched the Global Initiative for Nature, Grids, and Renewables (GINGR) at COP28, aiming to empower governments, industries and the financial sector to achieve energy, climate and biodiversity targets.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. These dispatches delivered a large amount of capacity to energy markets worldwide. DR is the first line of defense to stretch thin power supplies.

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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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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

The study from the University of Nottingham indicates that grid-tied small-scale renewables could cause power failures. Domestic renewable energy generation is growing rapidly in the UK, with just over one million small-scale solar PV systems installed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Amid massive wildfires, rolling blackouts and the continued threat of large-scale grid outages, California is shifting more than $100 million of its $1.2 billion Self-Generation Incentive Program budget to help low-income communities install about 100 megawatts of stalled behind-the-meter battery projects. California Sen.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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CleanTech San Diego

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cleantech San Diego member Baker Electric Home Energy, a leading solar, battery, and home energy solution provider, has announced the launch of its ChargeOn Battery Rewards Program in partnership with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 20, 2022

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being introduced in utility use cases from renewables integration to resilience and more. One company that has developed multiple AI use cases is Silicon Valley headquartered NVIDIA and after having set its stall revolutionising the gaming industry has expanded into others including energy.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2022

David Hall of Schneider Electric highlights five trends to watch for power and utility firms this year. The global shift towards more climate-conscious energy efficiency has accelerated the need for sustainable technology to deliver a cleaner, greener, and fairer energy system. Microgrids fit for the future.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 18, 2022

Emera Technologies has announced that utility Tampa Electric Company (TECO) has purchased, installed and received regulatory approval for its BlockEnergy community microgrid platform. Participants will see 80% of their home energy come from the sun. Image courtesy of TECO. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

The winners include Skyports Deliveries, who will use drones to improve island-to-island connectivity in the Orkney Islands, and Electric Assisted Vehicles, who are developing a four-wheel, electrically assisted lightweight delivery vehicle to help reduce road emissions.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Nexamp and Borrego have activated two solar-plus-storage energy projects within ISO New England Territory, namely the Nexamp community solar farms in Massachusetts, USA. They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. ”

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Centre stage in this week’s Smart Energy Finances is the closing of an acquisition by CPower. Upon the close of the transaction, previous Centrica demand response customers will join CPower and will be able to tap the company’s industry expertise and technology to support their energy portfolios across the US.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One Energy Enterprises, an industrial power solutions company, announced that the first fully digital, plug-and-play, transmission-voltage substation in the US at One Energy’s Findlay, Ohio headquarters, has completed energisation and testing and begun commercial operation.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

have unveiled a partnership to establish ChargeScape, an equally-owned venture aiming to bridge the gap between electric utilities, automakers and electric vehicle (EV) customers. The company will operate for consumers in the US and Canada, aiming to unlock the potential offered by EVs for the electric power grid.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel. ” Rapid growth in India’s renewable energy sector is driving demand for new technologies to modernize the country’s power sector.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The University of Queensland is conducting the first-ever global study of how electric vehicles can support the uptake of renewable energy and improve the resiliency of power grids. The vehicle-to-grid study has recruited Tesla owners from around the world through the analytics platform Teslascope. “We

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Duke Energy, one of America’s largest energy holding companies, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), are entering a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility’s development of smart grid solutions, including new smart grid software and an expansion of their Intelligent Grid Services.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nostromo Energy, a US-based tech company, is developing an ice-based energy storage system that can operate as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to provide demand flexibility to the local power grid when needed. According to Nostromo, buildings, overall, account for 74% of all electricity consumption.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040. Additionally, the EC identified the need to reduce the digital sector’s carbon emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At the foundation of the smart grid is smart meters and AES Ohio expects to have deployed these to 95% of customers by June 2025. The smart grid phase 2 plan has three principal components – automation of distribution operations, advanced grid intelligence and telecommunications and cybersecurity. Have you read?

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. GW of dirty power plant usage Controlling over 1.1 million grid-edge resources, including households, with DERs ranging from smart thermostats, rooftop solar photovoltaics and electric vehicles.

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