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A hurricane-proof Caribbean super grid

Smart Energy International

Modelling has been developed to estimate the impacts of shading on PV output during hurricanes and how a US-Caribbean-South America super grid could minimise these. Caribbean advances renewables potential Extreme weather pushes power grids to the brink – Is AI the answer? Have you read?

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Octopus Energy and Enphase Energy announce strategic integration

Smart Energy International

Energy technology supplier Enphase Energy and Octopus Energy have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their platforms, allowing UK retail customers to access low-cost residential energy rates, Octopus Energy clients to create VPPs, and support battery management to ease congestion on the power grid.

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A Blockchain-Enabled Smart Meter for Clean Power Trading?

GreenTechMedia

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. In the U.S.,

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China 2022 best system assembly solution schemes

Smart Energy International

Over nine hundred companies of production chain took part in the event, including industrial executive institutes, scientific research organizations, power grid enterprises, power generation firms, system assembly providers and financial institutes. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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SparkMeter Closes $12M Round to Expand From Metering Minigrids to Analyzing ‘Broken Grids’

GreenTechMedia

The idea, said CEO and co-founder Dan Schnitzer, is to expand from serving the estimated 1 billion people who live without grid access to the roughly billion more “who still suffer from low-level electricity access, despite having access to a grid — what you might call a weak or a broken grid.”

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Interview – Harnessing the potential of geothermal to scale up by 2030

ThinkGeoEnergy

There is wide recognition that this will take monumental effort in terms of technology advancement, financing, and policy. Another idea: in the same way that solar PV is helping geothermal plants, onshore wind plants could be supported by geothermal power from deep sedimentary basins—for example, in the wind belt of west Texas.

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