GreenTechMedia

JUNE 24, 2020

Distributed energy resources including rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them — and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their distribution grids. power grids.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2024

The uncertainties centre on Equinor’s backing for new “net zero” gas-fired power plants fitted with technology to capture carbon dioxide (CO2) billowing from their smokestacks, and bury the gas in disused oil and gas fields under the North Sea. Credit: Sabrina Bedford. percent of the UK’s current yearly emissions.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2023

James O’Toole explains how the UK’s Smart Energy Research Lab is enabling researcher access to smart meter data. With over 21 million smart gas and electric meters now in Great Britain’s homes, there is a growing wealth of half-hourly and daily domestic energy use data available to those who can access it.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 21, 2020

Over the past decade, London-based Kiwi Power has harnessed a gigawatt of flexible commercial and industrial loads in 10 European countries into behind-the-meter networks of energy flexibility, capable of serving wholesale capacity markets , reducing strain on distribution grids, or responding to second-by-second frequency regulation signals.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Swiss tech major Hitachi Energy has acquired eks Energy in a strategic move to add power and electronics and energy management software to their ever-growing portfolio. Hitachi Energy called the move part of its strategy to meet global demand for battery energy storage solutions.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Over the past decade, a new class of digital power electronics has emerged that can shape, shift and control the flow of electricity on the power grid in ways never before seen. based startup with devices that can alter the flow of power through high-voltage transmission lines. SP Energy taps Ermco, Gridbridge.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

energy storage industry smashed its quarterly installation record with an influx of major projects in the third quarter. The growth came in spite of the coronavirus fallout, which slammed the broader economy and conventional energy companies in particular. Energy Storage Monitor. market is expected to reach 7.5

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

In California, it’s not just vulnerable families and critical services that could use battery-backed solar systems to ride through wildfire-prevention power outages. CalCom Energy, a long-time solar and energy services provider for California’s agricultural sector, thinks it has a solution.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 18, 2019

residential solar market just experienced its best-ever quarter, with 712 megawatts (DC) installed. state markets, and there is opportunity across the solar value chain. residential solar sector. home solar market? But from 2015-2017, the company made a concerted effort to reduce its costs by 50 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 25, 2020

Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. “You really need the power of big data and machine learning to do this in a scalable manner.”

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

EDF Renewables has acquired PowerFlex Systems , a California startup with technology to manage one of the biggest challenges for scaling up electric vehicle charging: controlling the loads that lots of EVs charging at once can place on the power infrastructure of the sites hosting the chargers. European acquisition spree.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 6, 2020

Over the past decade, Geli has seen its software put to use to design, install and operate megawatts of grid-connected and behind-the-meter battery and microgrid projects. Batteries are becoming an increasingly valuable addition to distributed solar projects, and that's true both for homeowners and some commercial customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2020

There are fears for one of America’s last two remaining concentrated solar power developers as the embattled sector attempts to pivot to a new business model abroad. power-purchase agreement, with the Berkshire Hathaway-owned Nevada state utility NV Energy, last October, according to a lawsuit filed at the time.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 1, 2020

Whether booming off-grid power demand in emerging markets is met with grid extension or distributed renewables will be central to the growth story of the global clean-power sector. Wood Mackenzie's working definition of minigrids. Source: Wood Mackenzie.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Britain’s National Infrastructure Commission has called for further investment and upgrading of the electricity and water infrastructures among others. There should be increased adoption of electric vehicles, with a nationwide network of at least 300,000 public charge points across the country by 2030. But we need to get on with it.”

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 3, 2021

In December he set a 2030 wind and solar capacity goal of 1,200 gigawatts, up from around 450 GW today. As of 2020, it was responsible for the transmission of that 450 GW of installed wind and solar power. That solar surge saw the country’s cumulative installed PV capacity go from 6.5 Now it’s happening again.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Renewable energy sources generated more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. Chunky capacity additions, largely from offshore wind, alongside a spate of coal plant closures and an overall decrease in demand have all accelerated the trend. The growth of renewable energy capacity in the U.K. Policy vacuum.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

New Jersey looked like the promised land for energy storage. installed solar capacity , ahead of nearby New York and Massachusetts. Phil Murphy campaigned in 2017 on a clean energy platform that pushed for a 100 percent clean grid by 2050. The state already has the seventh largest U.S. Who’s the Boss?

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

Electric vehicles are going to be a major load on the grid, which makes them either a threat or an opportunity to utilities, depending on how their charging is managed. EV chargers can pull as much grid power as an entire home when charging at full, he noted.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

By Shelley Robbins, Clean Energy Group. In those states, where clean energy is now gaining a stronger foothold, valuable lessons can be found. Actions by these states to change the direction of energy policy are a powerful confirmation that clean energy is a viable, cost-effective alternative to fossil fuels.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Prisma Photonics, an Israeli startup utilizing optical fiber technology to monitor large-scale power-utility infrastructure, has opened its first U.S. Founded in 2017, Prisma Photonics works with utilities in the U.S. His career features stints with cleantech companies such as Orsted, NextEra Energy Resources and GE.

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Econaur

JANUARY 1, 2022

Energy Efficiency in Buildings. With the current rate of urbanization and the subsequent increase in energy demand, energy efficiency in buildings has a significant role to play in contributing to energy security in developing countries. In conventional Indian buildings, energy consumption is 200 kWh per sq.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. energy industry, with Koch Engineered Solutions (KES) serving as its engineering and project services arm. ” Consolidating the realm of grid edge controls.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 22, 2020

The world’s leading nuclear power generator is betting big on a future of small-scale, distributed energy. How it fares in the distributed space will be of great interest to other 20th-century energy giants feeling their way toward a transformed, low-carbon future. nuclear plants that it's now moving to sell.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Starting next year, offsite corporate deals are expected to become the largest source of business-led solar procurement in the United States. At the Solar Energy Industries Association’s recent Solar Goes Corporate event, Colin Smith and I shared new research on changes to C&I solar in the U.S.,

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

One of the nation’s largest coal plants permanently powered down this week after the owners determined it would be uneconomical to continue operating the facility as natural gas and renewable energy prices continue to drop. Other partial owners include Arizona Public Service, NV Energy and Tucson Electric Power.

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Green Market Oracle

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

China burns about half the coal used globally while at the same time it is the leading market for solar panels, wind turbines and electric vehicles. This duality is evident in Shanxi, which is both China's coal mining region and the location of some of the country's largest solar and wind power projects.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 19, 2022

The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has launched a new report on grid codes for renewable powered systems. The report contains the latest developments and good practices to develop grid connection codes for power systems with high shares of variable renewable energy (VRE) – solar photovoltaic (PV) and wind.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

That was the year the Deepwater Horizon oil platform exploded, a volcanic eruption in Iceland blinded part of the world’s air traffic and, once the ash had cleared, solar took off— on an airplane. The company has since changed hands a couple more times, most recently landing with LS Power for an undisclosed sum.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2020

Sheffield based Environmental Monitoring Solutions recently hosted a session between North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, and water industry stakeholders to present the case for AI to protect customers and the environment against recent extreme rainfall events. Held at the University of Sheffield’s new £9.2m Autonomous control.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 18, 2021

An intriguing aspect of electric vehicle (EV) charging is how it will change business models for vehicle energy. In this article, aspects of charging practices and impacts are discussed, in the context of consumer-driven electric vehicles. A connected car offers flexibility on how and when energy is delivered.

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Vote Solar

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Massachusetts lawmakers voted this summer that non-coincident peak demand chargers are inappropriate for solar customers, overturning the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) approval of Eversource’s proposal for the new charges last year. When Eversource filed their rate case on January 17, 2017 (Docket D.P.U.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year.

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The Verge: Energy

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Now, Ecobee is betting on expanding its ecosystem by launching a smart video doorbell , enhancing its affordable smart security system , and leaning further into smart home energy management. While Nest was the first to add radar-powered motion sensing to its thermostat, the other notable recent hardware upgrade was… a mirrored face.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Tech giant Google has today released a raft of data illuminating the level of progress towards its overarching climate goal of running the firm's global operations entirely on carbon-free energy. Data centres, which power cloud computing services, are critical for a host of low-carbon technologies and services.

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Grist

MARCH 9, 2020

Its distinction as the most-watched YouTube video of all-time suggests it was unavoidable when the song was released in 2017. billion — Fortune Magazine published a more-alarming statistic : Streaming the nearly five-minute video that many times required as much computing power “as 40,000 U.S. Curbing energy use.

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