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The world’s power grids, 50 million miles’ worth, need a major overhaul

The Verge: Energy

Photo by Costfoto / NurPhoto via Getty Images Governments and utilities need to add or replace the equivalent of virtually all the world’s power grids by 2040 to reliably keep the lights on while cleaning up pollution from the power sector. But power grids aren’t keeping up, and it puts that 1.5-degree

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Managing power grid complexity: The 5 biggest priorities for utilities in 2024

Smart Energy International

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. This puts enormous pressure on power generation,transmission and the distribution network.

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SRP - Arizona's Largest Battery is Now Operating on SRP's Power Grid, Supporting Google along with Other Clean Energy Resources

Global Renewable News

Both organizations also. Summary SRP and NextEra Energy Resources commissioned Sonoran Solar Energy Center, a 260-MW solar plant with a 1 gigawatt-hour battery energy storage system.

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US regional TSOs team up on interregional transfer capability study

Smart Energy International

Driven by input received by each organisation from the Organization of PJM States (OPSI), the Organization of MISO States (OMS) and the Midwestern Governors Association (MGA), the study will aim to identify potential opportunities for near-term transmission enhancements along the seam shared by PJM and MISO.

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that. And another $100 million is going to support smart grids, which are better at taking advantage of renewable power sources (which can be more variable with changes in daylight and wind).

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Need to enable anticipatory investments for Europe’s DSOs – report

Smart Energy International

Moreover in Europe, current regulatory frameworks allow DSOs to invest in building out the power grid only after a connection request is made, raising the possibility of the grid hindering such connections and ultimately putting at risk the achievement of the net zero targets. Have you read?

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Smart grid – technologies for the future

Smart Energy International

Today’s power grid operators have a vital role to play in the successful transition to the clean and sustainable energy future that we all want, and our warming planet desperately needs. It is a responsible and diverse organization of over 360,000 team members in more than 50 countries.