The Impact of Excessive Heat on the Power Grid
CleanTech Alliance
JULY 14, 2021
Commentary Public Policy batteries climate change grid modernization heat waveIn June 2021, the Pacific Northwest suffered the worst heat wave in recorded history.
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China Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon
Jim Conca
JUNE 25, 2020
China now has a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and super-EMP weapons that could melt down our electric grid, fry critical communications, and even takeout the ability of our aircraft carrier groups to respond.
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Artificial Intelligence Platform Detects Power Grid Flaws And Wildfire Dangers Better And Faster Than Humans
Jim Conca
JULY 26, 2020
Powerlines and equipment problems have been the cause of most recent wildfires. But a new AI and machine vision technology can analyze millions of images of powerlines and towers to find dangerous faults and flaws to help utilities identify problem areas and repair them before a fire starts.
Heat, Wildfires And Power Grid Challenges – Even The Pacific Northwest Begins To Worry
Jim Conca
JULY 7, 2021
Heat waves are stressing the electrical grid in the Pacific Northwest, making regional system operators prepare for rolling blackouts.
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 16, 2019
Data Electricity Grid Energy & ClimateAs renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting an extreme makeover.
Was the power grid in Puerto Rico built to fail?
Inhabitant
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
The residents of Puerto Rico have found themselves engulfed in darkness after power supply systems were destroyed by Hurricane Fiona. By Wednesday, some of the power had been restored but at least 1.1 The Category 4 hurricane has caused 3.1 million residents left in darkness. million people were still in darkness
Reactive Technologies: Pinpointing the Inertia of Renewable-Powered Grids
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 4, 2021
Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. National Grid, the U.K.’s
Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches charging system for EV fleets
Charged
SEPTEMBER 16, 2020
Hitachi ABB Power Grids, a newly formed joint venture between the two electronics giants, has launched a new “grid-to-plug” EV charging system for public transport and commercial fleet operators. It uses DC technology and can connect to any type of power network.
An equitable and reliable solar power grid for farmers
Solar Power World
MARCH 29, 2021
By Praveen Jain, IEEE Medal in Power Engineering recipient Born in rural India and being at the global forefront of technology over the past 40 years, I can say with certainty that farmers in many countries are not seeing the true benefits of solar power.
PG&E Outlines Path to Easing Future Power Grid Outages
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 22, 2019
Pacific Gas & Electric's top executives and members of its post-bankruptcy board of directors faced a nearly five-hour grilling from the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday over the communications, planning and execution failures of its massive fire-prevention power outage earlier this month. Still, it’s going to take years to trim trees, harden poles, shield power lines, underground select circuits, and otherwise limit its fire risk profile to reach that goal.
Hitachi Completes Acquisition of ABB Power Grids to Tackle Renewable Energy’s Rise
GreenTechMedia
JULY 1, 2020
Japan’s Hitachi has completed its acquisition of a majority stake in ABB Power Grids worth up to $7.8 billion, creating a new business aimed at tackling the renewable and distributed energy frontiers of the power industry.
Texas Blackout Hearings Highlight Intertwined Risks of Natural Gas, Power Grid and Deregulated Market
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Instead, “it’s all of us” in Texas “not pushing our regulators and politicians” to take steps to protect the grid and natural-gas network from temperature drops that, while rare in the past, may be far more prevalent in a future of climate-change-driven weather extremes.
Hitachi drops ABB Power Grids and is now officially Hitachi Energy
Renewable Energy World
OCTOBER 14, 2021
This summer Hitachi announced its intention to change its name to Hitachi Energy and drop the joint venture name it adopted when it purchased the grid business from ABB.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids is supporting world’s largest wind farm with third interconnect contract
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Hitachi ABB Power Grids announced that the owners/developers of the 3.6-GW Dogger Bank Wind Farm have selected it to connect the third transmission link from Dogger Bank to the UK mainland. Hitachi ABB Power Grids has delivered more than half of the world’s HVDC projects, it says.
Electric Vehicles and the Power Grid: Roadmaps from California and New York [GTM Squared]
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 14, 2020
As It Undergoes Transformation, U.S. Power Grid Embraces AI
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 29, 2021
With its ability to process large volumes of data to come up with solutions to complex problems, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is helping to guide the transformation of the electric grid.
FERC’s Role in Enabling Transmission to Help Decarbonize the US Power Grid [GTM Squared]
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 1, 2020
Hitachi ABB Power Grids commences operations
altenergymag
JULY 1, 2020
Complementary portfolios and technology strengths to ensure continuity, enhance customer value and bring growth opportunities
Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches open and scalable ecosystem for digitalization of transformers
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 21, 2020
The manufacturer-agnostic, TXpert™ Ecosystem to enable millions of dollars in savings through greater flexibility, efficiency and resilience in electricity networks
WoodMac: Wind, Solar and Storage to Dominate Europe’s Power Grid by 2030
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 3, 2020
Europe's power system will look very different in 2030, with energy storage supporting the “dominance” of wind and solar generation, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Coal and nuclear power will be the biggest losers in Europe's energy system by 2040.
Gridware aims to monitor the power grid to prevent power failures and wildfires
Impact Alpha
MAY 26, 2021
The post Gridware aims to monitor the power grid to prevent power failures and wildfires appeared first on Impact Alpha. ImpactAlpha, May 26 — More than 4 million acres burned during California’s wildfire season last year, which included the first ‘gigafire’ of more.
DERConnect will enable researchers to test integration of renewable energy and EV batteries into the power grid
Charged
NOVEMBER 16, 2020
The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We
Experts to Assess How to Adapt the Power Grid to High-Penetration Renewables
altenergymag
OCTOBER 30, 2020
Register Now for the Virtual 2020 ACORE Grid Forum on November 17-18
'Greenest ever': Britain's power grid CO2 falls to record low on Easter Monday
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2021
Low demand for power sees carbon intensity on grid plummet to lowest ever level, National Grid ESO confirms. In total, Britain's grid went coal-free for over 5,000 hours in 2020, compared to almost 3,700 hours in 2019, 1,850 in 2019, and 624 in 2017, National Grid ESO said.
THE ENERGY TRANSITION: WEATHER AND YIELD FORECASTS SUPPORT SMART POWER GRIDS
altenergymag
NOVEMBER 3, 2020
The energy sector is undergoing a fundamental transformation. Decentralization, a rise in the number of electrical loads such as e-vehicles and heat pumps, and the growing share of volatile renewable energies are increasing the complexity of the energy system
Texas leaders failed to heed warnings that left the state’s power grid vulnerable to winter extremes, experts say
Grist
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
Millions of Texans have gone days without power or heat in subfreezing temperatures brought on by snow and ice storms. left power system unprepared for the winter crisis. Instead, huge portions of the largest cities in Texas went dark and have remained without heat or power for days.
NH Research Launches Next Generation Regenerative Grid Simulator for Testing High Power Grid-Tied Applications
Alternative Energy Mag
JANUARY 20, 2022
New Regenerative Grid Simulator emulates real world conditions for testing electric vehicle charging and grid-tied applications
Renewables overtake fossil fuels in 2020 as Britain's power grid enjoys 'greenest year' yet
Business Green
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Nuclear power, meanwhile, provided 17.5 per cent of Britain's power supplies, with coal supplying just 1.6
Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner
Clean Energy Canada
AUGUST 23, 2019
The electricity that powers our country. Not only that, it’s the electricity that will power much of the transition to a carbon-free future. All of them incentivize plugging more things — from our cars to our homes — into our electricity grid. Relative to most countries, we have a head start: Canada’s electricity grid is already 81 per cent non-emitting. Strategic investments in cleaning up government operations, innovation and off-grid communities.
'Progress can be both quiet and spectacular': Britain's power grid emissions hit record lows
Business Green
MAY 26, 2020
Electricity grid smashed several records over the bank holiday weekend, with low demand and high renewables output cutting both CO2 and flexible tariff prices. At the time, 65 per cent of power was sourced from renewables.
Could the UK run a net-negative emission power grid by 2033?
Business Green
JULY 27, 2020
National Grid's Future Energy Scenarios analysis paints a compelling picture of the potential for an energy system replete with hydrogen, CCS and millions of EVs.
Helping Communities Hit by Climate Change
Green Living Guy
MARCH 4, 2022
Residents lost electricity for at least two weeks, and some areas of the city are still out of power. Last year, New Orleans experienced the most severe hurricane since Katrina.
Hitachi ABB Power Grids joins effort to protect power utilities from cyber threats
altenergymag
AUGUST 25, 2020
Global leader and pioneer in power technologies will share cybersecurity information with utilities through the Fortress Asset to Vendor Network
Looking for Fixes to What Broke the Texas Power Grid
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
After a week of the country’s worst power grid collapse in decades — an event that's taken a dreadful toll in dozens of lives lost and billions of dollars in economic damage — the lights are back on in Texas. electric grid away from coal-fired power plants.
The Brief: Legacy of Black Wall Street, LISC’s catalytic capital, power-grid sensors, Exxon’s endgame, a retirement plan for Jeff Bezos
Impact Alpha
MAY 26, 2021
The post The Brief: Legacy of Black Wall Street, LISC’s catalytic capital, power-grid sensors, Exxon’s endgame, a retirement plan for Jeff Bezos appeared first on Impact Alpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact!
How The Future Of California’s Power Grid Hangs On The Constitutionality Of ‘Inverse Condemnation’
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 30, 2019
PG&E, in court documents filed last week in its ongoing bankruptcy case, made clear its position that until courts and lawmakers change what the utility sees as unconstitutional state laws, northern Californians will have little choice but to suffer more forced power outages when the wind gusts
A deluge of batteries is about to rewire the power grid
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 5, 2019
They stir silently into action—powering the appliances in the five-bedroom home’s twin kitchens, recharging a $100,000-plus Model X SUV, driving a filter pump for an 18-meter swimming pool sparkling in the shade of a century-old native black bean tree. News DER Off-Grid Grid ScaleA pale orange-and-gold sunset bathes the macadamia plantations and avocado orchards that sweep down to Australia’s Byron Bay.
Texas repeatedly failed to protect its power grid against extreme weather
Grist
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
In January 2014, power plants owned by Texas’ largest electricity producer buckled under frigid temperatures. Its generators failed more than a dozen times in 12 hours, helping to bring the state’s electric grid to the brink of collapse.
Smart Hot Water: New project to help balance UK power grid
Business Green
MARCH 24, 2020
USER Project to integrate AI technology with hot water cylinders to help manage grid demand. The humble immersion heater is being reinvented as an artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled smart grid technology, as part of a cutting edge trial that was unveiled this week. At almost 100GWh, this capacity is equivalent to six million Tesla Powerwall units, the group said, adding that it could play a role in managing the increase in variable renewables coming onto the grid.
How the U.S. power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind
AGreenLiving
OCTOBER 16, 2019
power grid is evolving to handle solar and wind. Business Green data electricity grid energy & climate extreme-makeover- generation-and renewable energy sources-move systems-areAs renewable energy sources move mainstream, electricity generation and distribution systems are getting an extreme makeover. See the original post here: How the U.S.
BNEF finds that hydrogen’s plunging price could boost its role in a carbon-free future
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 26, 2019
News Wind Power Grid Scale Solar InfrastructureThe cost of producing hydrogen gas with renewables is likely to plummet in the coming decades, making one of the most radical technologies for reducing greenhouse gases economical.
Siemens inaugurates world’s largest electrothermal energy storage system
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 12, 2019
News Wind Power Grid Scale Storage Utility IntegrationSiemens Gamesa Renewable Energy (SGRE) said that is has begun operation of its electric thermal energy storage system (ETES), a milestone in the development of energy storage solutions, according to the company.
In quest for bigger batteries, California mulls pumped hydro
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 10, 2019
News Hydropower Wind Power Grid Scale Storage SolarAs the sun sets on California’s solar farms, a backup energy source deep in the Sierra Nevada Mountains springs to life.
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