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Monitoring grid stability with hydropower signals

Smart Energy International

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. Yilu Liu, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for power grids who has led the project, explains that when the hydropower facility pumps shut down, they almost always stop at a fixed power level.

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Xcel Energy to instal 260,000 smart meters in Wisconsin

Smart Energy International

Xcel Energy has announced the start of the rollout of smart electricity meters in its Wisconsin service territory. The installations will start in the company’s southern communities and will lead to the installation of more than 260,000 of the new smart meters in the service area through 2025. million electricity and 2.1

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Landis+Gyr’s Revelo smart meter gets New York’s green light

Smart Energy International

The Revelo advanced sensing meter being deployed in New York has been certified as meeting the accuracy and reliability requirements of the state. National Grid intends to deploy approximately 1.7 million electricity meters and 640,000 smart gas meter modules as part of its transition to next-generation smart infrastructure.

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ChatGrid to assist power grid operators with generative AI grid visualisation

Smart Energy International

ChatGrid has been developed as a generative AI solution to simplify and speed up decision making for power grid operators in the US. With this, the user can then ask a question such as: “What is the generation capacity of the top five wind power generators in the Western Interconnection?”

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Reactive Technologies: Pinpointing the Inertia of Renewable-Powered Grids

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Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. pilot project , and many other technology providers are pursuing.

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Dublin battery system to support the Irish power grid

Smart Energy International

In a bid to support Irish grid stability, Electricity Supply Board (ESB) has opened a major battery plant at its Poolbeg site in Dublin, which will add 75MW/150MWh of fast-acting energy storage. No electricity system can operate without a backup. In Ireland this has traditionally been provided by fossil fuel generation.

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Entergy reaches smart meter milestone

Smart Energy International

New Orleans headquartered energy company Entergy has reported upgrading more than 3 million electricity meters for home and business customers. The milestone recorded on December 31, 2021 marks completion of the initial phase of the company’s grid modernisation initiative, which was launched in January 2019.