Grist

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

Lawmakers have called on officials with the PUC and the Electric Reliability Council of Texas, which operates the power grid that spans most of the state, to testify at hearings later this week. Another federal report released three years later made similar recommendations with few results. State officials are again promising reforms.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Washington has announced $13 billion in financing opportunities for the expansion and modernisation of the US electric grid. 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. The President’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law provides $10.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2020

Since 2018, hundreds of thousands of Pacific Gas & Electric customers and tens of thousands of Southern California residents have experienced blackouts as utilities de-energize power grids to prevent them from sparking wildfires. California Sen.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 7, 2024

The integration of microgrid and battery elements has also been proposed for the Morenci mine, adding reliability to the electrical distribution system and potentially the regional grid, and providing battery storage for backup during power outages. The money is part of the bipartisan infrastructure law that passed in 2021.

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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 By offering capacity contracts, DOE hopes to increase the confidence of additional investors, encourage additional customers to purchase transmission line capacity and reduce the overall risk for project developers.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

The funding, the largest single investment into the grid in over a decade since the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, which kickstarted the rollout of smart metering and a smart grid, forms part of the ‘Building a Better Grid’ initiative to upgrade the grid for a 100% clean energy future. Have you read?

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 16, 2021

And energy storage can increase local control of the power system and build resilience for communities, including by minimizing power grid disruptions. -based manufacturing industry and union jobs for storage products, DOE said. Energy storage technology holds great promise in the fight against climate change.

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Charged

APRIL 13, 2023

E-Bloc is a microgrid, a small-scale power grid that can operate independently or collaboratively with other small power grids. It can connect and disconnect from the grid to operate in grid-connected or island mode. Microgrids can improve customer reliability and resilience to grid disturbances.”

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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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AutoGrid

JUNE 5, 2023

In the dynamic and rapidly evolving energy landscape , where both resilience and sustainability increasingly matter, the integration and management of distributed energy resources (DERs) ranging from on-site rooftop solar photovoltaics (PV) to electric vehicles and even swimming pool pumps, have become paramount.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Closing, which is subject to the applicable employee consultation process in accordance with Dutch law, is expected by the end of 2023. A subsidiary of E.ON since 2020, Essent has over 90 years of experience generating, trading, transmitting and supplying electricity. Essent has 2.3

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. Renewed interest in cultivating native crops like taro helps restore local ecosystems and strengthen their resilience to threats like wildfires that feast on dry invasive grasses. That applies on land, too.

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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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Grist

MARCH 12, 2021

He knew that lithium is a key metal used in batteries for electric vehicles and the power grid, and he knew the United States is going to need a lot of it to transition off fossil fuels. Congress could also write a new law to replace the 1872 Mining Law. I was actually kind of excited about it,” Bartell said.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

This funding includes direct investments in technology, infrastructure, and other needs of communities that have been striving for better health, resilience, and access. The inclusion of drought response investments in the climate resilience plan is an important step in the right direction. . – Forest Frizzell, CEO of Shifted Energy.

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Business Green

MAY 1, 2020

It is an opportunity to build more sustainable and inclusive economies and societies — a more resilient and prosperous world.". If our world is to come out of this [coronavirus] crisis more resilient, we must do everything in our power to make it a green recovery.".

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 30, 2020

California, by far the country’s biggest market for DERs, has also come to epitomize the need to integrate them into grid operations to protect from the rising ravages of climate change. Pacific Gas & Electric’s 2019 bankruptcy revealed the threat of poorly maintained power grids combined with increasingly extreme weather.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2021

However, it also includes multi-billion dollar support for a range of clean infrastructure projects, including power grid, carbon capture, hydrogen, battery manufacturing, direct air carbon capture, electric vehicle (EV), and climate resilience initiatives. MEPs approve new EU Climate Law.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun. To get there, the grid requires constant attention to balance the flow of electrons. for grid upgrades as part of the Grid Resilience and Innovation Program (GRIP).

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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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Business Green

AUGUST 13, 2020

Building resilient cities that can withstand wildfires, floods and rising sea levels is part of Biden's plan. This incorporates roads and bridges, but also a green power grid and improved water infrastructure. In 15 years' time, those would all need to be electric if the 2035 deadline becomes law.

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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.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 8, 2024

In a continued effort to expedite the build out of a resilient and reliable electric. DOE Seeks Public Input on 10 Potential Locations, from Coast to Coast, That Present an Urgent Need for Expanded Transmission, Announces New Funding to Deploy Cleaner, Cheaper, Reliable Energy Across the Nation WASHINGTON, D.C. —

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 25, 2024

Grid WASHINGTON, D.C.— power grid, today the. continued] The post Biden-Harris Administration Announces Final Transmission Permitting Rule & Latest Investments to Accelerate the Buildout of a Resilient, Reliable, Modernized Electric Grid appeared first on CleanTechnica.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 10, 2023

Biden-Harris Administration Invests $26 Million to Support a Modern, Reliable, and Resilient American Clean Energy Grid Selected Projects Across 13 States and Puerto Rico Will Demonstrate How Solar, Wind, and Storage Can Protect and Strengthen America’s Power Grid As part of President Biden’s Investing in America agenda, the U.S.

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CleanTechnica

AUGUST 3, 2022

The Energy Department is planning on 100% renewable energy now, Inflation Reduction Act or not.

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