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).

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 27, 2023

The Digital Twin Consortium (DTC) – which aims to drive development of the digital tech – has announced a reference library of use cases and case studies, including use of digital twins as a tool to decentralise power grids. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed

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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. Build a resilient grid. Software underpinned with a strong data foundation is key.

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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

APRIL 24, 2024

A $10 million Department of Energy (DOE) grant will help create a pilot regional cybersecurity research and operations centre meant to help protect the power grid against cyber attacks. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on Power Grid International.

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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

MAY 24, 2022

The energy provider will make significant upgrades to its high voltage distribution (HVD) system in an effort to make the power grid more reliable for Consumers Energy’s electric customers in the state of Michigan, US. And as weather becomes more severe, Michigan needs a power grid that’s more reliable and resilient.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

UK needs additional £14bn in annual renewables investment to meet 2050 goal Australia’s small scale RECs scheme sees record installations in 2020 Grid Resilience with Enedis, an interview with COO Antoine Jourdain. We then used a dynamical model to assess how these changes impact the resilience of power grids to catastrophic failures.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

New research from the Wi-SUN Alliance finds that advanced weather prediction tops the list of initiatives that US utilities are undertaking to ensure better network resilience. Other top initiatives are renewable energy integration, grid modernisation and microgrids and disaster response and recovery plans.

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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

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

billion ($38.96) by 2026, more than half of this being funnelled into power grid investments, the Group said more focus will be placed on profitability, flexibility and resiliency through selective capital allocation to maximize its risk/return profile. Beyond the power grid , approximately €12.1

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

The Future of Energy and Grid Resiliency is Distributed By Giovanni Herazo, Vice President, Smart Grid Solutions As one of FPL’s smart grid & innovation leaders, I saw firsthand how our grid was consistently put to the test by unexpected outages, power quality issues, adverse weather conditions, and rising load demand.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) has cautioned against the impacts of electric vehicle (EV) charging on bulk power system reliability, calling for cross-sector coordination to bolster and ensure the reliability of the power grid.

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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

APRIL 29, 2024

million grant to Iowa State University engineers to establish a new cybersecurity centre focused on protecting power grids that rely on renewable energy sources. This will be a university-based cybersecurity research centre for renewable energy on the distribution grid,” Govindarasu said. . The centre will have two main goals.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 1, 2024

The Dutch demonstrator of the eFORT project is developing a digital twin of the grid to increase its resilience to cyber attacks. In particular the focus of the demonstrator is on preventing cascading failures and power grid restoration following an outage. Other demonstrators are in Spain. Italy and Ukraine.

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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. Upon completion of the Series A, the post-investment valuation of Shanghai Electric Energy Storage is forecast to surpass RMB2.2 billion ($300.9

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Grid technology company Reactive Technologies has launched Tradenergy, a software tool and analytics platform with the aim of providing short-term energy traders real-time insights into grid events such as generation or interconnector trips. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

As part of the Baltic power grid synchronisation project, the compensators will also be installed in Lithuania and Estonia – three in each country. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. 75% of the eligible costs of the synchronous compensator projects will be covered by the co-financing granted by CEF.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Also on the radar is the launch of AI software company Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid. Energy Exemplar provides a platform for utilities, power producers, grid system operators, and others in the energy transition ecosystem to forecast market operations.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

With changing weather patterns and extreme weather events becoming more prevalent – among them in Michigan a doubling of average wind speeds over the past four years – grid reliability and resilience are coming under increasing utility scrutiny. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed “More reliable. More resilient.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

. £145,000 for Otaski Energy Solutions Ltd and Syselek Ltd (Based in Gateshead and partnered with Costain): Trialling their cost and energy-efficient smart charge and bi-directional converter, which allows EVs to charge from any power grid source and discharge energy back to the grid or storage.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

Their objective was to inform researchers, regulators, policymakers, industry, and funding agencies about opportunities to enhance the models. New technologies such as solar power and grid energy storage are being rapidly deployed, and to accommodate these and other technologies, utilities must run electric grids in completely new ways.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 7, 2023

GINGR will also collect and showcase best practices, developing a framework for biodiversity management and conservation whilst facilitating a faster roll-out of renewable energy and electricity grids globally. We will do this together with all interested stakeholders, because this should be a collaborative and not a competitive effort.

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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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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

MARCH 23, 2022

They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Have you read: Construction starts on 230MW solar plant in Azerbaijan Alibaba logistics arm generates solar power from warehouse rooftops Rooftop solar PV could reduce grid resilience, study finds.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

For Xcel Energy, the rollout marks the next step in the modernisation of its power grid, which so far has focussed primarily on boosting the capacity and reliability of the system through new and improved lines and substations. Currently, the majority of Xcel Energy’s old meters are AMR meters. Xcel Energy serves approximately 3.7

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2022

Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. The Ready Path Solution is the first competitively awarded reliability project chosen by ISO New England (ISO-NE), the region’s independent power grid operator. “This critical project’s continued progress to be complete ahead of schedule is great news for reliability in the region.”.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The aim is to generate new knowledge that can help engineers design smarter and more resilient energy grids for urban populations of the future, with flexibility for deployment in islanded grids and off-grid communities. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Roman DSO Areti’s project RomeFlex will test the capital city’s ability to manage congestion and voltage volatility across its stressed power grids. In the next ten years, it is estimated that the peak electricity demand on the Roman DSO power grid will increase from 2,200MW to 3,300MW.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It also gives us clearer insight to the power grid and how it is operating, ultimately creating a smarter energy future for our customers and communities.”. For example, solar panels combined with battery storage can play a key role in grid resiliency and flexibility in the near future.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

US NREL investigates quantum computing in grid operations Europe’s grid action plan: a step in the right direction, but is it enough? Handling this complexity and improving resilience against vulnerabilities is a significant computational challenge.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This is unfortunate, because, as revealed by the Michigan Public Service Commission’s (MPSC) recent State Energy Assessment , Michigan's energy system is not as resilient as it could be. By shifting electric demand to off-peak times and keeping the grid stable, storage can serve as an alternative to old ways of upgrading the grid.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

This means that in the event of a heatwave, a spike in electricity use would ultimately test the power grid’s ability to meet supply with demand, potentially resulting in summer brownouts or blackouts. This enables a more environmentally prudent supply of electricity to meet peak power loads, while also containing costs.

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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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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

In addition to remote grids, PG&E’s system hardening efforts include undergrounding, installing stronger and more resilient poles and replacing bare powerlines with larger, covered lines. The new remote grid will power Pepperwood’s Bechtel House, which houses overnight visitors.

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