Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

France has an abundance of nuclear power generation, while the UK's growing renewable energy capacity from offshore wind farms in particular is set to enable it to sell increasing amounts of its surplus generation to Europe in the coming years.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

This final 2023 edition of Smart Energy Finances Weekly looks into key deals from the last year and different trends to keep your eye on as we transition into 2024. Think AI-boosted investment platforms, moves to ease up grid connection queues and top tech players to watch.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2024

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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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The Indian scheme was awarded in fiscal year 2022 and covers the construction of a new 400/220kV substation at Koppal along with 144km of 400kV direct current transmission line with extension of the 40kV GIS Bays at the PGCIL (Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd) Narendra substation. Also from Smart Energy Finances: E.ON

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2023

Commented Skeleton Technologies’ CEO and Co-Founder Taavi Madiberk on the SuperBattery funding round: “Securing an investment from one of Europe’s largest tech companies is a significant milestone for Skeleton. million), ranking it among Europe’s top-financed deep tech firms.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

Green hydrogen is both an untested and a potentially vital way for renewable-energy-powered grids to store their intermittent power for later use, not just for hours at a time, but for days, weeks or even seasons ahead. gigawatt Okeechobee power plant, and it could be online by 2023.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The largest natural gas infrastructure firm in Europe has launched a new hydrogen business and increased its financing for low carbon projects. Snam, which runs the Italian gas grid and is active in France, Greece and the U.K., The company's recent strategic documents lean heavily on renewable gas, power-to-gas, and hydrogen.

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The Verge: Energy

MAY 10, 2024

By 2026, AI could gobble up 10 times as much electricity as it did in 2023 Giants like Microsoft and Google are throwing everything they’ve got into developing the best AI tools and inserting them into every conceivable platform, from gaming to social media , work apps , and search. That all comes with steep energy costs.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2024

Despite record investments into power grid expansion to accommodate demand, grid operators Alliander, Enexis and Stedin have reported inefficient capacity to prevent increasing network congestion. Said Koen Bogers, CEO of Stedin: “Stedin does everything within its capacity to expand the power grid…But that won’t be enough.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2024

Integrating EV charging into the power system remains a key barrier in the face of the e-mobility ecosystem, states the latest e-mobility report from Eurelectric and EY. According to Eurelectric, EVs are booming in Europe. Sales grew by 25% in 2023, with EVs accounting for more than one in five new cars sold.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

billion energy acquisition of Con Edison business assets, expansion into Europe of an online renewable asset trading platform, a new electric vehicle (EV) initiative from SMS to ease financial constraints for UK businesses and an IIoT acquisition by an energy tech designer. Renewables asset online platform expands into Europe.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

Across Europe, there are massive expansion plans for renewable energy facilities that will need to be connected to networks,” said E.ON That’s why we’re investing even more and even faster in our power grid infrastructure, which is set to continuously grow by an average of ten percent annually through 2028.” In 2023, E.ON

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 27, 2023

As the world transitions to more renewable energy sources, the global demand for battery energy storage systems (BESS) continues to surge and is expected to grow more than 20% per year through 2030, states Hitachi Energy, citing Bloomberg New Energy Finance’s (BNEF’s) 2023 Energy Storage Outlook.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2021

As with the rest of the growing fleet of UK interconnectors the cable is designed to expediate trade in power between different countries, making it easier for grid operators to balance grids across northern Europe that are increasingly reliant on intermittent renewable power generation.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

The Dutch companies are calling it the first ‘capacity restriction’ contract, which will see Eneco gear electricity supply from a wind project in Farmsum to meet the load on the power grid, a technique to avoid peak demand periods known as congestion management. The contract takes effect on 1 September 2023.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2023

Renewables has overtaken gas to become the biggest single source of power on the UK grid so far this winter, with power generated by wind, hydro and solar reaching a record 34TWh from 1 October 2022 to 13 January 2023.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With upgrading and modernising the power grid system gaining increased importance and recognition as a non-negotiable for net zero, the question abounds: do we know what the future grid system will look like? According to executives from across the energy sector, we don’t.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

In its National Quantum Strategy published in March 2023, the UK government identified the potential for quantum technologies to offer solutions towards the management and optimisation of the national energy infrastructure, among other areas in the energy sector.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Also on the radar is the launch of AI software company Rhizome, a climate resilience planning platform for the power grid. The company, known for its energy market simulation software, is calling the acquisition a move to scale up and improve its platform in support of grid reliability and the energy transition. “The

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2022

The system, which is expected to become operational by end of 2023, paves the way for the DSO to operate a smarter grid and make advancements in its digital transformation journey, according to a statement. The energy transition is putting tremendous pressure on power grids worldwide.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Closing, which is subject to the applicable employee consultation process in accordance with Dutch law, is expected by the end of 2023. A subsidiary of E.ON since 2020, Essent has over 90 years of experience generating, trading, transmitting and supplying electricity. Essent has 2.3

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Smart Energy International

JULY 22, 2024

The HNT tokens, for example, are currently trading at around $5 and appear to be averaging in the range $5-10 after a low in 2023 around $1 following a late 2021 peak around $50. For those interested, the full proposal is detailed as HIP 128 on github.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 5, 2024

The smart meter network is considered a critical part of the nation’s energy infrastructure and an important platform for digitalising the power grid, enabling real-time data delivery to customers, network operators and suppliers. As of November 2023 (the last data available), almost 11.6

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The company, which operates from Delaware, US, has said that, with pipeline growth to 6GWh in 2023, the company is doubling down on utility-scale battery energy storage systems (BESS) as a priority focus for 2024 and beyond. The company now aims to more than double its greenfield origination pipeline to more than 6GWh.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

PJM Interconnection members have voted to endorse plans to speed up generation interconnection requests, improve project cost certainty and improve the process by which new and upgraded generation resources are introduced onto the electrical grid in 13 states and the District of Columbia. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 17, 2023

In a bid to speed up the delivery and completion of critical power grid projects, Alliander, parent company of Dutch utility Liander, has signed a framework agreement with Twentsche Kabelfabriek (TKF) to ensure a steady supply of 50kV cables for Liander projects.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 13, 2024

billion), spurred by the call for grid expansion. In 2023, Tennet invested €7.7 year-over-year, over the course of 2023 underlying revenues decreased by €600 million ($655 million) to €9.2 In the Netherlands specifically, the power grid has continued to reach capacity, despite record investments from its operators last year.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 8, 2024

Utilities have increasingly recognised the increasing urgency of consumption management on the power grid as a high priority. However, says Garret Fitzgerald of the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA), although its importance is clear, this clarity is a recent phenomenon. This uptake was repeatedly cited as a key market focus.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2023

Regional grid operators Alliander, Stedin and Enexis are collaborating with Dutch-German TSO TenneT in the Netherland on the Open Innovation Programme, which seeks to develop solutions to help combat grid congestion and optimise use of the electricity grid.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

German grid operator E.DIS Netz has reported putting into operation its first radio site on the 450MHz radio network. The first radio site successfully started operation at E.DIS north of Berlin in late 2023, with the first use case for smart metering.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

“We now look forward to working constructively with Ofgem and other stakeholders to finalise the investment required, in a timely manner, to build this underwater superhighway of electricity transmission, unlocking the electricity generation capacity required to power two million homes.”

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 18, 2023

With a power grid that has been notoriously unreliable in the past, India’s goal to transform formerly passive consumers into prosumers would seem an uphill battle. Lower Energy Consumption: Energy consumption per individual may be lower per capita in India compared to Europe or the U.S.,

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2024

According to data from Red Eléctrica, renewable energies exceeded 50% of the Spanish generation mix in 2023. “The proposal for synchronous compensators made by ABB brings great added value with a fully integrated approach, based on an excellent technical solution and competencies.”

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Energy Networks Association (ENA) in the UK has set out an industry action plan to release enough grid capacity in the next year to decarbonise Great Britain’s power grid. With an additional 112GW of capacity already installed, the 139GW this action plan delivers exceeds the 225GW needed to decarbonise the grid, states ENA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

The poor progress is in stark contrast to the energy generation sector, where renewables have enjoyed a relatively good crisis, as projects have proceeded and clean power has commanded a higher than usual share of national power grids.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 8, 2022

In an exclusive conversation with Robert Denda, CEO of Gridspertise, he explains how digital grid solutions conceived in Italy, building on Enel Grids’ legacy, are supporting DSOs worldwide. The Italian giant had in fact pioneered in Italy the first country-wide smart meter deployment in Europe and among the first globally. “I

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