GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 17, 2020

California was beset by its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis, as a heatwave slammed the Western U.S. But the blackouts were also a side effect of the state’s increasing shift to solar power and away from natural-gas-fired generators, according to state grid operator CAISO and Wood Mackenzie analysts.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

The New York Power Authority (NYPA) is requesting proposals to replace its small power, or ‘peaker’ plants with bulk-scale battery storage projects. The study noted based on historical output levels, the frequency and duration of NYPA’s peaker plant run-times would make full replacement with battery storage impossible.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. This indicates the potential for battery-equipped solar customers to help in offering grid support.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

About half of that is residential electric vehicle charging, just under one-third is residential, commercial, industrial and agricultural demand response, and about one-tenth of it is behind-the-meter batteries. GW, including more than 11 GW of EV chargers and distributed batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

SGIP was initially conceived of to provide customers with incentives to reduce their energy use during peak demand times and to promote energy self-sufficiency in response to California’s electricity crisis of 2001. What's new. Our most recent action regarding the program adopts several significant changes.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

In the era of artificial intelligence, the demand growth of the natural gas consumption market in China is bound to drive the continuous and rapid growth of the smart gas meters market. The overall market size will reach 60 billion Yuan in the future on the basis of the estimation that 60% of households in China use natural gas.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Those are the key findings of a long-awaited “ root cause analysis ” from California’s grid operator and utility and energy regulators into the causes of its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis, which shut off power to hundreds of thousands of customers for about an hour during the evenings of Aug.

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