Smart Energy International

JANUARY 8, 2024

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has announced $70 million in funding to support research into resilience technologies to reduce risks to energy infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters and climate-change fueled extreme weather events.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Solano County, California, and renewable energy services provider ENGIE North America, have broken ground on a $41 million new energy infrastructure upgrade programme as part of a sustainability alliance. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve.

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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). Infrastructure investment planning has traditionally relied primarily on historical data.

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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 2, 2024

However, it is crucial that new AI use cases do not introduce new risks to the grid, the report states. Thus AI models for grid applications should be rigorously validated as well as scalable in performance and adherent to power grid governance standards. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 27, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are working to understand the effects of electrical faults in the modern US power grid. Faults are abnormal conditions in an electrical circuit that interrupt the flow of power, with the potential to cause blackouts that affect thousands of customers.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 16, 2023

An advanced metering infrastructure should improve the operation of the electricity system, as well as the metrics and situational awareness of the company and customers to address security issues and irregular situations during future weather events. Have you read?

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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. of the time, but we still have work to do to create a more resilient power grid that provides customers with the reliability they expect and deserve.”

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Over nine hundred companies of production chain took part in the event, including industrial executive institutes, scientific research organizations, power grid enterprises, power generation firms, system assembly providers and financial institutes. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 22, 2023

If approved, Entergy says its plan will: Invest $1 billion in the grid over 10 years in two, 5-year phases Cut outage times by more than half and save customers millions of dollars Upgrade thousands of poles to withstand 150 mph winds Harden 650 miles (1046km) of power lines Have you read: How can Canada meet net-zero goals?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

Peaking at nearly 32MW from 8,500 solar-plus-storage residential systems, Sunrun and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) customer batteries provided consistent clean energy to California’s power grid through the summer and fall of 2023.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 28, 2022

The panel was moderated by Clarion Event’s VP of Energy Content, David Wagman and took place during the DISTRIBUTECH and POWERGEN International leadership summit in Dallas, Texas on May 23. Matevosyan said the extreme weather event that hit Texas during February 2021 could not have been predicted and planned for.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 26, 2022

Neara aims to solve the greatest issues faced by utilities, including an increasingly unstable climate, extreme weather events and commitments to scale up renewable energy generation. This post was originally published on Power-Grid International in light of DISTRIBUTECH 2022. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Recent power outages in North America offer us an opportunity to reflect on the importance of reliable access to electricity. Extreme weather events are the leading cause of power outages. In October millions of people in California endured protracted power outages. Subscribe in a reader

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

Giordano offers deeper insight into the topic as part of her keynote presentation during the upcoming DISTRIBUTECH/POWERGEN International events in Dallas, May 23-25. Giordano offered Power Grid International editor Jenn Runyon a sneak peak of her talk (below). Giordano speaks at 1:00 pm on May 24. Register today.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 30, 2023

State agencies will begin immediate inspections of energy storage sites, and the working group is intended to help prevent fires and ensure emergency responders have the necessary training and information to prepare and deploy resources in the event of a fire. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published on Power Grid.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 12, 2024

The model is hoped to allow researchers at NREL and beyond to investigate weather events like future heat waves and the interplay between the electrical grid and renewable energy generation.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2023

In a statement, CEO of Hawaiian Electric, Shelee Kimura acknowledged that there are “important lessons to be learned” from the tragic event, and urged the public to embrace the Hawaiian spirit of “collective strength and unity of our community.” Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published on Power Grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2023

Modeling grid operations Form Energy and Xcel Energy collaborated on extensive modeling with Formware, Form Energy’s investment and operational modeling tool for power grids.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

New solutions for a digital grid are being pioneered by Gridspertise building on Enel’s positioning over two decades at the forefront of advances. Grid resilience and reliability. Gridspertise’s cloud and edge solutions and services include: ?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The round comes as severe weather and wildfires continue to cause significant stress on power grids across the globe, in some cases causing blackouts This is resulting in greater investments into power grids and networks.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This is why we’ve designed our fully digital substations at One Energy to be secure, digital, resilient, embrace real-time condition monitoring, and survive every conceivable weather event.” Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published on Power Grid.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

That being said, with government incentive programs offered across North America and the ability to sell excess energy back to power grids, the payback on this investment is often much shorter than expected. There are electronics recycling programs in all areas of North America.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion GRIP Program, which itself is one of several tools from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda that DOE is meant to use to strengthen, diversify, and expand America’s power grid while creating union jobs and building community climate resilience.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 18, 2022

The BlockEnergy solar-plus-energy storage microgrid aims to enable increased operability, security, and grid resilience to mitigate extreme weather and other events that can impact electric utility grid uptime.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

It said the plan offered a blueprint for how it aims to strengthen and modernise the grid to accept more intermittent renewable energy and withstand the more severe weather events it is expected to experience as a consequence of climate change. This article was originally published on Power Grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 26, 2024

Re-energising the Transition draws on the results of a survey among energy professionals collected in the second half of 2023, in-depth expert interviews conducted at the Enlit Europe live event as well as insights and recommendations of the Enlit Europe Think Tank – a half-day workshop that took place in Paris at Enlit Europe 2023.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 4, 2022

“We saw record volumes of new capital deployed to support the transition to a lower-carbon economy, a record number of electric vehicles sold, and record contributions to the power grid from zero-carbon renewable sources of power. As revealed in the Factbook, the story of the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 5, 2022

ACORE also strongly supports the inclusion of grid-enhancing technologies within such planning efforts.”. “A A resilient national grid requires more transmission to withstand damage from natural events, systemic failures, cyberattacks, and other stressors and disruptions,” said Shashank Sane, EVP of Transmission, Invenergy.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In a release, California’s biggest utility, Pacific Gas and Electric (PG&E), said they had already restored power to approximately 1 million customers since Monday, February 5, although they expect to restore most accessible outages by end-of-day Thursday.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Lastly, the University will establish a Center of Excellence for Crisis Events with its National Incident Management Systems and Advanced Technologies Institute (NIMSAT). Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on, and edited with permission from, Power Grid. The announcements of up to $3.46

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Needs will shift over time as the clean energy transition, evolving regional demand, and increasingly extreme weather events must all be accommodated by the future power grid. Register now Originally published by Sean Wolfe for, and edited with permission from, Power Grid. Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

– CEO and Co-Founder, GRID Alternatives During the 2001 California energy crisis, Erica Mackie, a mechanical engineer, along with Tim Sears, had a vision for free, clean, solar-driven electricity that would be practical and accessible for the low-income communities that needed it the most. million impressions per online event.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2021

And establishing high-voltage direct-current links between North America’s three macro-grids, the Eastern, Western and Texas interconnections, could cut average wholesale costs to just over $70 per megawatt-hour. Another study led by Princeton University released last month, which charts a $2.5

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

As extreme heat records fall across the West of the US and strain the power grid, San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) is testing new approaches to demand response through a new virtual power plant. Since the start of the pilot, the VPP has been tested through 17 simulated demand response events.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

It is also touted as one of the first down payments on an over $20 billion investment under the Administration’s Building a Better Grid Initiative. We are moving swiftly to deliver cleaner, cheaper energy to every American community by building a modern and reliable electric grid,” said US Secretary of Energy Jennifer M.

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