Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2023

Renewable energy retailer Octopus Energy US is partnering with Enphase Energy, Inc., a supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, to create a Texan Virtual Power Plant (VPP). This is the latest move from Octopus Energy in its US market.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Energy technology supplier Enphase Energy and Octopus Energy have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their platforms, allowing UK retail customers to access low-cost residential energy rates, Octopus Energy clients to create VPPs, and support battery management to ease congestion on the power grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Energy tech firm Octopus Energy has launched a new tariff to help businesses with renewable generation to share the green power they generate on one site with the rest of their sites – and lower bills as a result. Octopus estimates it could save businesses like these up to 25% off their annual electricity bills*.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

The growth of Home Energy Management (HEM) has led to a burgeoning, heretofore fragmented market, within which rages a business battleground of players large and small. The key to winning, explains Yusuf Latief in Smart Energy International ’s Power Playbook column, will be ownership of customer confidence. billion in 2021.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2024

2023 was a big year in energy – wholesale prices fell from their record highs, renewable energy generation has continued to grow at pace, and AI has been the word on everyone’s lips. However, incumbent retailers can’t just bolt on these innovative offerings anymore. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar, and add other costs being passed through to utility customers.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Solar energy advocates reacted strongly to proposed changes to California’s net metering program. Residential solar developer Sunrun in its initial response appeared to frame a potential federal-level challenge to the proposal, which was issued December 13 and is scheduled for a January 27 vote.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utilities across the country have pushed to move away from paying full retail rates, arguing it shifts costs onto other ratepayers.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees three load shifting investments take centre stage as demand response becomes a more notable priority for utilities the world over. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite. 120 million for Swell Energy’s VPP suite.

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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. Customers can also stack the benefits of payments for solar generation on top of this.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Generac Power Systems is acquiring Enbala Power Networks, a major step toward putting its market-leading backup generator business and its fast-growing behind-the-meter battery-solar fleet to work as a power grid resource. Canada and Australia, according to Wood Mackenzie data. Leading U.S. Leading U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Jeff Hutchins, president and chief technology officer at EOS Linx, writes on the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and how its booming growth necessitates, now more than ever, a renewed focus on cybersecurity measures. Electric vehicles are the future. They’re not monitored by utility workers who are always on-premise.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The UK’s second largest energy supplier has launched Octoplus, a demand response-focused rewards programme, to incentivise consumers to reduce their electricity load at peak hours. The rewards scheme is designed to empower smart meter customers to take control of their energy usage in exchange for benefits and prizes.

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altenergymag

JUNE 15, 2020

Jurisdiction over net metering rests with the states and local regulatory bodies and granting a petition to have the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulate retail programs would represent an unlawful federal power grab, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) will say in response to the petition today.

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Solar Industry

APRIL 22, 2024

Enphase Energy has formed a strategic partnership with Octopus Energy Group which expects to focus on deploying Enphase’s IQ8 Microinverters and IQ Battery 5P in the U.K. Octopus Energy’s U.K. Octopus Energy’s U.K. Enphase Energy is also a participant in the Octopus Energy GridBoost battery program in Texas.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Project Symphony will investigate the use of distributed energy resources in Western Australia’s energy market. million from the Western Australia government and the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO). million has now been made available by the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). New rooftop solar PV rules.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 16, 2022

While consumers wait for further updates on support from the government, the UK energy industry is already quietly working in the background to alleviate the challenges by helping to improve the way energy is consumed, measured and managed, writes Rachel Eyres, Business Unit Director for Energy and Utilities at Expleo.

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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. To mitigate the risk of buying power at these exorbitant prices, reducing demand becomes crucial.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

Octopus Energy Group is partnering with Brazil’s Energisa to deploy its Kraken energy management platform in that country. Energisa, one of Brazil’s largest energy companies, serves over 8.5 Have you read?

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 19, 2024

Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS) says it will provide O&M, asset management, accounting, remote monitoring and related services for REC Solar’s renewables portfolio, including solar and energy storage projects for hundreds of U.S. This award increases CAMS’ renewable assets under management to over 5.6

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 31, 2022

LO3 Energy, an Oregan-based cleantech company, has installed its Pando platform to optimise renewable energy production in New South Wales, Australia. Pando software enables suppliers and clean energy operators to support 24/7 load matching and offer incentives to drive renewable energy use.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Spain’s booming renewable energy market is attracting the attention of an unlikely retail segment: mobile phone companies. Phone firms including national leader Telefónica are jostling to offer clean energy alongside more traditional products such as broadband connections.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Ofgem has this week given the green light to plans to roll out market-wide half-hourly settlement across the retail electricity market as standard, in a move that is expected to unlock significant investment and innovation across the fast-expanding flexible grid sector.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 4, 2020

Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, as it looks to transform into an energy retailer that helps customers get more value out of their solar and storage systems. Lining up against the giants.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. These climate change linked trends are highlighting the growing need for distributed energy resource management systems (DERMS) that can manage the grid intelligently while quickly responding to the real-time needs of grid operators.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 12, 2021

Multi-site retailers are under tremendous pressure to increase sales, cut costs, and provide shareholders with consistent revenue and earnings growth year-over-year. With HVAC systems sized correctly for the buildings they serve, air quality monitoring should reveal the building is adequately ventilated. About the author.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 12, 2022

Tesla’s Elon Musk and solar evangelist Bill Walton called on California officials to reject proposed changes to the state’s residential solar rooftop rules. And Walton, a former NBA star who is now a solar advocate, issued a letter calling on Newsom to reject the CPUC’s proposed decision on rooftop solar. .

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 14, 2021

There’s a movement underway whereby companies that want to power their operations with clean energy would like to go further than simply purchasing the output of a renewable energy power plant via a power purchase agreement (PPA). Alam added that his team collaborated with Axpo U.S. “to

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I just had a solar-plus-storage system installed at my new home in Tempe, Arizona. It was surprisingly complicated, and I research distributed solar for a living. Don’t get me wrong — I love our new system and take immense pride in all the carbon-free energy it will produce for us and the grid. But no one could.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. First, they’ve built up the technology to monitor and manage these distributed energy resources (DERs) at a large scale.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Order 2222 , a groundbreaking effort to open up U.S. wholesale energy markets to aggregated solar systems, smart inverters, batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, grid-responsive building controls and other distributed energy resources (DERs).

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2019

households to cleaner, cheaper energy options, raised $30 million Tuesday to fuel its expanding community solar and retail energy services business. based startup has built a novel business in the energy services space, based on software that can aggregate, analyze and package a variety of energy options for U.S.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Bright Blue's Rebecca Foster calls for more support to scale up bi-directional EV charging technology in order to boost uptake and energy security. We are living in one of the most exciting times in the history of electrical infrastructure. This is where bi-directional charging comes in.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 27, 2022

The acquisition is expected to unlock gigawatts of behind the meter renewable generation and consumer flexibility. 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.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 29, 2020

“We wanted to be more of a consumer electricity product, a simple solution for consumers,” founder and CEO Eric Clifton said in an interview. Once installed, the battery and a connected home energy monitor will coordinate charge and discharge around rooftop solar production and time-based utility rates.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

In other words, EBCE will enlist OhmConnect in much the same way it contracts with energy suppliers with physical power plants serving the energy markets operated by California grid operator CAISO, Howard Chang, EBCE’s chief operating officer, said in a Tuesday interview.

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