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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear. The required return on equity capital is “notably higher than on debt capital, including non-investment-grade debt,” said Dennis A. But with $4.75

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

’s climate change laws. But it needed government “to create an investment framework that would provide the necessary confidence to Drax and its investors to commit capital to the project.” Investment is flooding into offshore wind and European solar. What is harder to put a finger on is investor appetite.

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AutoGrid

JUNE 5, 2023

By harnessing advanced analytics, real-time monitoring, and optimization algorithms, AI-driven software platforms empower energy market participants to deliver immense value while adhering to the physical constraints of our power grids. Gordon Moore of Intel himself predicted this “law” may be obsolete by 2025.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

The federal government has released a new paper, Powering Canada Forward , which lays out the federal government’s vision for a 100% clean power grid by 2035. Canada’s grid is already 84% emissions free, but as the energy transition progresses, more homes, vehicles, and industries will be plugging into the grid.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

The threat of power grid-sparked wildfires is forcing California utilities to invest billions of dollars in hardening and monitoring their grids and to institute grid blackouts affecting up to hundreds of thousands of customers to reduce the risk of live wires sparking conflagrations.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 29, 2021

Plus, when you combine solar panels with a battery you don’t have to suffer through a power outage whether it’s caused by a storm, overwhelmed power grid or cyberattack. The fact is that HOAs in most states cannot stop you from installing solar panels due to solar access laws. Solar panels can do both.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Over the last decade, Phoenix Contact has invested in new business fields as well, with a future vision of an all-electric society through the transformation of the mobility sector to electric mobility. When it comes to the general application of a point-of-use charger at the vehicle, larger electronics are needed for high-power sources.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 2, 2022

In this way, manpower can be invested in innovation and complex services, thereby improving operational efficiency. On the service side, production control and management should be centralised to support secure and reliable electric power systems and efficient generation-grid-load-storage collaboration.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

Among the many advantages of RNG use is that it can plug in to existing natural gas infrastructure – meaning we can use it without investing in costly infrastructure updates – and is a storable, dependable source of energy for communities. For farmers and families alike, a sustainable, reliable clean energy future depends on it.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

The new capital plan includes replacing aging power poles and lines and updating underground power cables, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in networked LED streetlights, distribution grid automation and other improvements to its multibillion-dollar smart grid investments enabled by the 2011 law that introduced the formula rate structure.

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EDF + Business

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Karine Kleinhaus and Andrew Howell, CFA Oil and gas companies, federal agencies, and ambitious start-ups are coming together around innovation in geothermal energy that could give it a foundational role in the emerging clean power grid. The FORGE initiative field site in Milford, Utah. Photo credit: FORGE. Recent U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

During this period the Environment Act - soon to be underpinned by environmental improvement targets - came into law and a host of critical strategies were published, such as the Net Zero Strategy , Heat and Buildings Strategy , Transport Decarbonisation Plan , Waste Prevention Programme and the Green Finance Roadmap.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Now FERC is being asked to put that authority to a new use: ending a decade-old provision allowing individual states to opt out of letting demand response companies enlist customers to turn down their energy use to support the power grid.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

  Lots of spice for clean investment this week. The US Clean Investment Monitor published its annual report for 2023, which saw clean investment total $239bn, up 38% from 2022. 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B 14% of total investment came from the feds, with $33.7B Happy Monday! 

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Business Green

JANUARY 5, 2023

As an example of how this could work in practice, Starmer reiterated Labour's plan to set up a new publicly-owned clean energy generation business that would deliver jobs and help the country to transition to a 100 per cent clean power grid by the end of this decade.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 17, 2022

President Joe Biden has signed into law the most significant piece of legislation supporting clean energy and climate change mitigation in US history. With this law, the American people won and the special interests lost,” Biden said at a bill signing ceremony on 16 August. By Jennifer Runyon and John Engel.

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

He said investments and taxpayers' money used to help reboot economies should focus on supporting and scaling up green jobs and businesses to "accelerate the decarbonisation of all aspects of our economy", and avoid "bailing out outdated polluting, carbon-intensive industries". Aker Solutions given green light for CO2 capture in Norway.

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Vote Solar

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

The location of the event, at 1871, Chicago’s hub for tech start-ups, underscored NextGrid’s vision to open the grid as a platform for new technologies and third-party services. In September, Chicago hosted 500 people for the kick-off of a process to re-imagine the electric grid as a modern, interactive ecosystem?—?one

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The initiative includes a $250 million Bipartisan Infrastructure Law grant from the US Department of Energy, coupled with a $250 million match from state partners. Focus on the grid GRIP Program The funding for this initiative is just part of the the DOE’s broader, recently announced $3.5 The announcements of up to $3.46

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Funded by the President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Grid Resilience Innovative Partnership (GRIP) programme and the Transmission Facilitation Program together represent the largest single direct federal investment in critical transmission and distribution infrastructure. GRIP Programme.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

This requires accelerating the roll out of low cost renewable technologies such as offshore wind, investing in the UK's power grid infrastructure and overseeing a much-needed mass insulation programme to upgrade UK's leaky housing stock. But it is not on track to deliver, and we are running out of time.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

We continue to invest in research and advanced development in hydrogen fuel cells as one of the various pathways toward our commitment to be carbon negative by 2030," said Christian Belady, Distinguished Engineer and VP, Advanced Development, Cloud Operations + Innovation at Microsoft.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 26, 2024

Through an investment of $331 million from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the Southwest Intertie Project (SWIP-North) will bring wind energy from Idaho to Southern Nevada and to customers in California. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed Originally published by Sean Wolfe on Power Grid International.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

billion programme for smart grids and other upgrades to strengthen the country’s electricity grid. Smart grid technologies funded and deployed at scale under this programme, envisaged as an extension to the previous Smart Grid Investment Grant programme, should demonstrate a pathway to wider market adoption.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 2, 2022

The i2X is a new partnership that brings together grid operators, utilities, state and tribal governments, clean energy developers, energy justice organisations, and other stakeholders to connect more clean energy to North America’s power grid.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

The #1 thing keeping infrastructure investment dollars on the sidelines is uncertainty. Drought response investments that can help advance technologies that can replenish water without generating carbon emissions. While this gets us close, it doesn’t get us all the way to our target of 50% emissions reduction by 2030. CarbonCure ).

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Transmission Facilitation Program Funded by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Transmission Facilitation Program is a $2.5 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. Join Enlit Europe in Paris.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Back in 2019, New York state passed a law to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change by 85 percent by 2050. So, in 2021, NYCHA and its partners announced a $263 million investment in electric heat pumps. A heat pump in an apartment-turned-office at the New York City Housing Authority’s Woodside Houses.

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The Verge: Energy

DECEMBER 22, 2023

The Clean Hydrogen Production Credit was established through the Inflation Reduction Act, the biggest investment the US has made yet to tackle climate change. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law also set aside $8 billion to create hydrogen production ‘hubs’ across the US. Industry groups aren’t so happy.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives. Here are some excellent examples. Finance and Startup Development.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

And power lines are just the rails — not to mention all of the accompanying hardware, software, and services that create a reliable, resilient, clean, and accessible grid. If reaching net zero means electrifying everything, investment in grid tech will be crucial. Why the hold up?

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 4, 2020

What’s more, Canadian miners can produce them with less pollution thanks to our nation’s relatively clean power grid, a feature that’s already caught the eye of Tesla. The federal government recently enshrined its national pollution targets into law. Today, the state is home to 275,600 EV-related jobs.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 6, 2022

Department of Energy (DOE) announced $26 million to fund projects that will conclusively show that electricity grid can reliably run with a mix of solar, wind, energy storage, and other clean distributed energy resources (DER). Secretary of Energy Jennifer M.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world. Seems like a smart approach.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 2, 2022

In Puerto Rico, Maria alone caused almost 3,000 fatalities and more than $120 billion in damages, destroying the island’s power grid and devastating other critical infrastructure like roads and health care facilities. It sends yet another signal to the financial markets that fossil is a bad investment.”.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

“Even the advocates of direct air capture technology acknowledge that they don’t anticipate that it would be at a scale to make any meaningful reduction in atmospheric CO2 levels until 2060, 2070 and beyond,” said Carroll Muffett, president of the environmental law nonprofit Center for International Environmental Law.

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