The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 18, 2023

billion in funding today to upgrade the US’s aging electric grid, the largest investment to date in the grid. Stressed power grids need the money badly, both to prevent blackouts and bring more clean energy online. Stressed power grids need the money badly “Much of [the grid] was built nearly a century ago.

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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

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid, announced its official launch, initial institutional capital raise of $2.5 million, and partnership with Seattle City Light and Vermont Electric Power Company (VELCO). Rhizome’s first utility partners are located on both coasts.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

With 2023 coming to a close, the impact of climate change and rapidly increasing electricity demand have illustrated the crucial importance of grid investment to ensure the grid is fit for purpose. Not investing in the grid is like accumulating cholesterol – you find out you are in bad shape.” Register now

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 22, 2023

With the worst of winter weather arguably still ahead of us, John Humble of grid voltage experts Fundamentals explores how intelligent risk management, targeted maintenance and better communication across our networks are critical for preparing our power grids to keep the lights on.

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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

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

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

In this week’s Smart Energy Finances, Blackstone and Vista’s acquisition of market simulation software provider Energy Exemplar and GE announced its official time frame for spinning off from energy business GE Vernova.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

As countries the world over pursue net-zero goals, the power grids are at the centre of a transformation that will ultimately lead to economy-wide decarbonisation impacting almost every aspect of life, from the way we power and run our homes to how we travel and the products we purchase. US grid investments.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a consortium of Norwegian investors acquiring a 49% stake in an Indian transmission scheme to help scale private capital. The signing between the Climate Investment Fund, ReNew and KLP is a great example of this. “It

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

Domestic renewable energy generation is growing rapidly in the UK, with just over one million small-scale solar PV systems installed. We then used a dynamical model to assess how these changes impact the resilience of power grids to catastrophic failures. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Energy storage is a rapidly growing segment of the clean energy sector, and prices are dropping fast. Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. Storage solutions are now a growing part of this energy transition, and will represent a $150 billion industry in the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

A new briefing from think tank organisation the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) argues that the clean energy transition can be delivered on time and at an affordable cost if supply chain risks are minimised by policy and industry action. offshore wind transport vessels or grid transformers) that are costly and have long lead times.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced $42 million for 15 projects across 11 states meant to improve the reliability, resiliency, and flexibility of the domestic power grid through the research and development of next-generation semiconductor technologies.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 31, 2024

Customers of Norwegian grid company Norgesnett may receive lower power grid fees if they charge their EVs with surplus solar energy in their neighbourhood under a partnership with green tech company Volue. It’s not ‘grid aware.’

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Modeling experts from US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory and several other institutions call attention to the need for better energy system models in a recent Nature Energy paper. Electric utilities use the models in long-term grid planning.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2024

Electrification holds the key to cleaner, more efficient energy distribution and use. Earth Day 2050 What will our planet’s climate be like on Earth Day 2050 if we don’t deliver the energy transition? Significantly increasing renewables in the energy mix, while meeting growing demand for power, requires greater innovation.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Have you read: Investment needed to keep grid fit for purpose says Enel Grids boss Grid resilience lessons from the frontline of climate change “We will be juggling our response between setting the network up to minimise the risk of fire starts and managing outage risk from storm impacts.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2024

What are the biggest market trends in the energy sector? Walking the floor during DISTRIBUTECH International in Orlando, Florida, I asked energy experts this very question – their answers might surprise you. Kunsman adds: “The biggest trend right now is the transition to clean energy and deployment of EV infrastructure.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

shares his expectations for the clean energy transition in 2024. The year 2023 was a record-setting year for investment and growth in clean energy, with the International Energy Agency projecting over 500GW of new renewable capacity to come online by year-end globally. Have you read? This is not limited to the U.S.

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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

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Leading this week’s Smart Energy Finances is pre-seed funding of half a million euros for Finnish startup Capalo AI, which will further develop its virtual power plant and market optimisation technology. The funding round was led by Finnish investment company Innovestor Tech Fund, with Inventure also participating.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief looks into an analysis of the financial impact of a potentially delayed energy transition, how much money is needed across segments for net zero and where our priorities should be when we consider raising capital. trillion.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

The Texas energy crisis in February 2021 reminded us of the precariousness of energy systems and their high costs of failure. This event nearly devastated the state’s power grid due to a frequency drop that put Texas four minutes and 37 seconds away from a months-long blackout.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Despite its clear value to the grid and to the increased integration of renewables, the 1,872-megawatt facility took four years to build and is unlikely to be replicated. Instead, the greatest expansion in energy storage over the last decade has been in batteries. Realizing energy storage's full potential.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 13, 2024

As EVs continue to proliferate and strain the power grid, two critical challenges need to be overcome: safeguarding the functionality of battery arrays and their generated data, explains Hebberly Ahatlan of Intertrust.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Local energy resources have the potential to equitably distribute the benefits of clean energy in a way that provides jobs, resilience and savings to communities left out of our century-old electricity grid. By Odette Mucha, Vote Solar and Luis Nasvytis Torres, Earthjustice. electricity customers.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a $2.5 million grant to Iowa State University engineers to establish a new cybersecurity centre focused on protecting power grids that rely on renewable energy sources. Kumar, director of the DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security and Emergency Response.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

This is the second post in our series on the recently enacted Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act , covering how the Act invests in strengthening our electric grid, which could better prepare us for the shift from fossil fuel generated electricity to renewable power. One in particular is the state of our electric grid.

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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. The loan guarantee is subject to completion of an equity capital raise for an amount yet to be determined.

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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. The UK’s 2050 net-zero pledge deadline looms.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The year 2023 has reaffirmed the position of electric and gas utilities as the epicentre of the energy transition. Achieving this will require digital technology, data, and analytics, among other resources on energy system operations and the electric and gas distribution side.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Investments in new technologies, such as advanced system control devices and next-generation transmission tower technologies, will help the region better integrate its clean energy resources and achieve its goal of building a low-carbon energy future. Prioritize transmission investments. Courtesy Black & Veatch.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

ABB’s Power Grids business has launched its APM Edge solution for transformers to accommodate the growing complexity of grid operations to safeguard energy reliability and resilience – all whilst reducing capital investment and operational expense.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

AES Ohio is proposing to invest $682.7 million in its Smart Grid Phase 2 plan over the ten-year period starting July 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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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Increasing transfer capability between regions may help to support greater grid resilience, the organisations said, particularly following extreme weather events and the influx of renewable generation resources with intermittent output. But is it enough? “As

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