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. Weather disasters supercharged by climate change have already led to more power outages in the US.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys. Looking ahead, Shanghai Electric Energy Storage has plans to launch a Series B financing campaign in 2024.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

The report, focussed on potential opportunities for AI in the grid, finds that AI is able to improve grid planning, permitting, operations and reliability and resilience as well to advance the broader transition to a clean energy economy. Anticipating system anomalies to avoid disruption.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Government and grid operators in the Netherlands are taking new, urgent measures to ensure sufficient space on the Dutch power grid as demand continues to surge in the compact country. That is good news, but it also puts enormous pressure on our power grid.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2023

Rapidly scaling sustainable, diversified, and resilient clean energy supply chains is key to achieving net-zero targets on-time and at as low a cost as possible, according to the ETC. In addressing these challenges, there are some clear wins to pursue and some trickier trade-offs which require deep thought from governments and industry.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 19, 2021

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. As a pioneering climatetech community, Greentown Labs is issuing this open letter to highlight our solutions for improving American energy resilience and sustainability.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 27, 2023

According to West Monroe, in the US specifically, there are five priorities for utilities in 2024: decarbonisation and integrated electrification and gas planning; decentralised and virtual power supplies; transmission infrastructure needs; resiliency and security objectives; system operations digitisation.

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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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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“Handling this complexity and improving resilience against vulnerabilities is a significant computational challenge. Quantum computing has the potential to solve important problems in a number of sectors, not least the public sector, and we’re glad that the UK government shares this belief.”

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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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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This situation will become much more widespread without decisive action from all governments. Governments will negotiate how to pay for this loss and damage. And business and wealthier governments will also discuss how to cut emissions faster - what's known as mitigation. This is known as loss and damage.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 24, 2021

For a clean, resilient grid, look to EV infrastructure Katie Fehrenbacher Wed, 03/24/2021 – 00:30 Electric vehicle charging infrastructure could provide a major benefit — boosting both clean energy and resiliency — for the power grid. This is a big year for infrastructure.

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Business Green

MARCH 8, 2023

The UK's climate advisory body latest report provides an in-depth assessment of the mix of renewable, flexible grid, hydrogen, nuclear, and carbon capture technologies that will need to be in place by the middle of the 2030s if the government is to deliver on its stated goal of operating a nearly completely decarbonised power grid by 2035.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Norwegian investment in Indian transmission The Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by government-owned Norfund and KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, is investing approximately $9 million for a 49% stake in the Koppal Transmission Scheme. Also from Smart Energy Finances: E.ON Also from Smart Energy Finances: E.ON

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 31, 2023

The summit was attended by industry experts, state and federal regulators, leaders from the US and Canadian government as well as more than 250 virtual observers. Have you read: National Grid looking to space to boost grid resilience Is Germany’s grid ready for a renewable net zero?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? To redirect our energy usage towards renewable sources, the UK government has recently awarded £6.7 The shift to decentralisation requires new advanced grid network to ensure load sharing to secure stable supply of energy to an entire community.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 22, 2024

In Australia, the government of New South Wales has set a goal of 2 GW of long-duration energy storage installed by 2030, and the state of Victoria is committed to 2.6 Fortunately, an economy powered by renewable energy is potentially much more secure and resilient than one reliant upon fossil fuels.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2022

Together, the IPCC’s latest report on climate change, COP26 and the UK government’s 10-point-plan for a green industrial revolution have added greater focus. Clean technology, modern power systems and green energy sources present a vast investment opportunity for businesses. Electric vehicles accelerate drive to low-carbon future.

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Econaur

JUNE 9, 2023

The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids. The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

Renewable energy projects coupled with energy storage will “change the game” for India’s power grid, Raju said, by eliminating arguments that coal and gas are needed to provide baseload power. And yet, hundreds of millions of people in India still don’t have access to affordable and reliable power.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Have you read: Network solutions to guide Peachtree Corners infrastructure communications Virginia Natural Gas to inspect natural gas infrastructure with UAVs The grid needs long-duration energy storage. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The steps that the U.K. ’s final energy demand by 2050.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Smart grids are a new generation of electric power grids that use digital technology to improve the reliability, efficiency, and sustainability of the grid. Smart grids can help to reduce outages, improve power quality, and enable new services such as demand-side management and renewable energy integration.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Swiss-based Energy Vault, which develops grid-scale energy storage solutions, is developing a 2GWh gravity energy storage project alongside deployment of their Energy Resiliency Centers (ERCs) for China’s zero carbon industrial parks. Gravity solutions and ERCs. Storage amid potential crisis.

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Grist

MAY 22, 2024

It’s on governments to make it so that households are able to choose that option,” he said. Then there are factors like the strength of the power grid and the resilience of its infrastructure, which experts say could complicate electrification. “Of To him, the solution is clear. “It’s

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

The report also provides an overview of how data centres can play a role in helping integrate renewables into European electricity grids. Luigi Freguia, Senior Vice President and General Manager EMEA at VMware commented: “Cloud technologies play a pivotal role in achieving power sector emission reductions in Europe.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Five-year plan aims to frontload investment in boosting grid capacity and resilience while paving way for huge influx in renewable power sources.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Shortly before Christmas in 2015 the power grid in Ukraine suffered a series of outages that impacted roughly a quarter of a million consumers and lasted several hours. [1] 1] Later, in 2017 the same group used ransomware to shutdown servers all over Ukraine, including at the infamous Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant. [2]

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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. They need to rapidly modernise to accommodate the transition to renewables and two-way power flow.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Successful integration of variable renewable energy generation into existing power grids will dictate the speed of Asia’s energy transition. Reliable grids that can support the growth of decentralized power will help to optimize generation and enhance grid stability. Courtesy Black & Veatch.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

Energy policy around the world has recently had to adapt to a massive geopolitical shift, with many countries taking steps to shore up their energy security and ensure their infrastructure and systems are built for resiliency. And, it looks likely that things will remain uncertain, with no real end in sight.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the study, factors driving an increase in the adoption of microgrids include: The inability of grids to meet growing energy demand. The study states that continued increases in energy demand are resulting in the failure of traditional power grids to maintain energy reliability and security.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act includes several investment programs to begin to address these issues with our power grid: Program Upgrading our Electric Grid and Ensuring Reliability and Resiliency. The program authorizes another $1 billion in funds geared specifically to projects in rural and remote areas.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

In this challenging context, ambitious policy commitments and public funding to support the roll-out of new low carbon technologies may not, at first glance, look particularly attractive to some parts of government. 2022 must be a year of greater collaboration across Westminster and with local government.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 18, 2022

Have you read: Project OMEGA-X – A European energy data space Chief data officer and the critical role for data handling in utilities – EY Why a proactive data strategy is the key to grid resilience. This will aim to resolve critical stability issues facing the Queensland power grid as recently identified by AEMO.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

While the focus is mainly on helping build resilience into Ghana’s infrastructure and power resources, reducing carbon emissions remains a fundamental metric for measuring overall program success. Many global efforts to halt or reverse climate impacts have squarely focused on resilience and mitigation. Point 3: Adaptation.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 4, 2021

More worryingly is that extreme heat is putting a strain on power grids from increased air conditioning use. What alternatives can businesses invest in to make them more resilient? Lobby governments on behalf of climate change. How will businesses operate without electricity? Plant trees.

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