Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has filed a $3 billion plan for the years 2024-2027 towards its ongoing clean energy drive. Among the major investments detailed is the implementation of the next generation of smart meters in order to give customers more control, access and insights into their energy usage.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following earlier announcements of new electricity, water and hydrogen meters another pair of new meters are launched and the US Department of Energy launches an office to focus on emerging technologies in the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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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

AUGUST 10, 2022

?Atlantic City Electric will start the broad installation of new smart meters for its nearly 565,000 customers beginning in September 2022, and continuing through 2024. According to the electric utility, there will be no upfront cost to customers for their new smart meters. Customers also will enjoy enhanced reliability.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 20, 2022

In the midst of wildfires, energy security concerns and grid reliability questions, two smart home solutions are providing respective approaches towards adaptability and resilience through smart technology. EcoSmart Home, which is being rolled out in the UK by GoodWe, is touted as a complete green energy solution.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission has called for further investment and upgrading of the electricity and water infrastructures among others. There should be increased adoption of electric vehicles, with a nationwide network of at least 300,000 public charge points across the country by 2030. But we need to get on with it.”

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

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. These microgrids can stand alone or integrate with utility-owned electric grid infrastructure and backup generation assets.

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Mosaic

JANUARY 3, 2024

Despite the headwinds of 2023, the US solar industry is expected to have grown 55% compared to 2022, amounting to nearly 33 GWdc of capacity. It was the nation's largest year of installed solar capacity. Energy efficient heating and cooling improvements are gaining in awareness and popularity. Additionally, 3.2 Additionally, 3.2

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Northern Powergrid is trialling the use of real-time smart meter data led voltage optimisation with 15,000 homes and businesses in Yorkshire. Northern Powergrid has estimated that trial participants should save an average £28 ($35) on their annual energy bills along with a carbon footprint reduction of 20kg per year. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 22, 2023

Puerto Rico utility Luma plans island-wide smart meters among smart grid and other initiatives to improve reliability and services for customers over the next three years. More than 64,000 customers with 396MW of rooftop solar PV were connected, with the number averaging 3,000 new connections per month. Have you read?

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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

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commemorated its first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County. The new remote grid will power Pepperwood’s Bechtel House, which houses overnight visitors.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

The study from the University of Nottingham indicates that grid-tied small-scale renewables could cause power failures. Domestic renewable energy generation is growing rapidly in the UK, with just over one million small-scale solar PV systems installed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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AutoGrid

JANUARY 25, 2024

One of the most energizing parts of my job is meeting with clean energy leaders to discuss where we are heading as an industry and how we can work together to achieve ambitious decarbonization, electrification, and resiliency goals. A view around the table of leaders from EV, utility, microgrid, and other clean energy companies.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Nexamp and Borrego have activated two solar-plus-storage energy projects within ISO New England Territory, namely the Nexamp community solar farms in Massachusetts, USA. They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Octopus Energy Group’s entech platform Kraken will control domestic assets such as heat pumps, smart meters and other energy tech to automatically reduce bills for Belgian households. This next partnership with Noven will allow the same benefits of cheaper, greener energy to be passed on to households. “By

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

New York State Electric & Gas (NYSEG) is to pilot overhead transmission line monitoring to increase capacity and accelerate renewable energy growth. Capacity optimisation is crucial for the large-scale integration of renewable energies , with their potential for congestion. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Friendly Technologies IoT platform for smart meter management, a Maryland microgrid for powering an electric bus fleet, solar harvesting to power IoT sensors and new Perovskite solar cell advances are on the week’s technology radar. The ‘Friendly’ platform for smart meters and IoT devices.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 5, 2023

From the analytical power of data, through to the introduction of AI and machine learning, digitalisation is becoming paramount in enabling the insights needed to make better decisions in all areas of the evolving energy landscape. Digitalisation plays a vital role in addressing this challenge.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The global energy landscape is on the cusp of transformational changes as the migration to clean power gathers pace. With world leaders about to gather in Dubai, United Arab Emirates for the COP 28 climate summit, the transition to green energy will be one of the key topics on the agenda.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2022

How is technology helping to address the challenges faced by power grids? According to the International Energy Agency, global electricity demand rose by more than 6% in 2021, the largest increase since the recovery from the financial crisis in 2010. The energy distribution model is becoming decentralised.

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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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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. Have you read?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. Natural gas vs. diesel vs. solar-storage.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Phil Thompson, CEO of UK-based Balance Power, explains how much GWh storage capacity is needed for a resilient and renewable energy system and how to get these much-needed projects off the ground. Energy storage, which can balance supply and demand, can come to the grid’s aid.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Even by the standards of the generally well-informed clean energy customers in California's Bay Area, Todd Karin is a savvy one. Karin works as a postdoctoral researcher in the energy storage and distributed resources division at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Not quite full resilience.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Itron’s 2023 industry insight report finds that half of utility executives cite grid modernisation and infrastructure upgrades as the top barrier to the energy transition. The report is based on a survey of 250 utility executives at electric, gas and water utilities and a cross-selection of 10 state utility respondents. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Contributed by Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. Four batteries are being installed at a North Minneapolis green jobs training center in one of the country’s first “virtual power plant” pilot projects. Each battery will simulate a household buying and selling power with neighbors. The North Minneapolis training center.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Twenty-four startups joined our community in Q1 2024, working on innovations ranging from biobased building materials, to sustainable rubber, to solar-powered flight. Electricity Active Surfaces develops an ultra-lightweight, flexible solar technology for the built environment. It’s participating in Year 2 of ACCEL.

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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

AUGUST 19, 2022

How can predictive data enable utilities to improve energy savings? Utilities typically have plenty of energy and it’s during peak hours or when they have commercial industrial loads, that they become concerned. By monitoring assets, energy consumption can be more readily controlled. They’re not monitored.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 18, 2022

Emera Technologies has announced that utility Tampa Electric Company (TECO) has purchased, installed and received regulatory approval for its BlockEnergy community microgrid platform. Participants will see 80% of their home energy come from the sun. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. Image courtesy of TECO.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 13, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances leads with two stories on smart energy acquisitions, specifically Badger meter’s acquisition of Syrinix and TE Connectivity’s acquisition of Kries’ grid monitoring portfolio. Learn more: [link] pic.twitter.com/UbAIDqBu25 — Badger Meter (@Badger_Meter) January 5, 2023.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 31, 2024

Space data is playing an increasingly important role in the energy sector, from grid balancing to permitting processes, the EU Agency for Space Programmes (EUSPA) highlights in its latest market report. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2024

The aim of the over $20 million project, which is being supported with $10 million from the Appalachian Regional Commission, is to develop and deploy services for utilities, energy tech startups and others to model and test smart grid scenarios prior to implementation. Have you read?

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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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