The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 21, 2024

Image: Climate Central Climate Central collected data from the Department of Energy on outages that took place between 2000 and 2023. The South experienced more weather-related blackouts than any other region during warmer months, with 175 outages between 2000 and 2023.

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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. Build a resilient grid. Software underpinned with a strong data foundation is key.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 31, 2023

For Xcel Energy, the rollout marks the next step in the modernisation of its power grid, which so far has focussed primarily on boosting the capacity and reliability of the system through new and improved lines and substations. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

The US energy storage market broke previous records for deployment across all segments in the final quarter of 2023, with 4,236MW/12,351MWh installed over the period. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Distributed storage exceeded 2GWh in 2023, another first for the market.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 22, 2024

The US energy storage market broke previous records for deployment across all segments in the final quarter of 2023, with 4,236MW/12,351MWh installed over the period. These additions bring with them critical benefits to our power grid. Distributed storage exceeded 2GWh in 2023, another first for the market.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

The hard truth is that the majority of electric grids were not originally designed to accommodate DERs, writes Dominique Verhulst, head of the Energy Segment at Nokia’s Network Infrastructure Group. All this ratchets up the importance of transforming the power grid into a dynamic entity that can sense, think, and act.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Energy Market Authority (EMA) and Institute of Technology (SIT) in Singapore are funding a vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project, the largest in the country, to help ease congestion on the power grid. Starting November 2023, Strides will begin the pilot project in the Punggol region. from 2023 to 2028, states the SIT.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 27, 2023

The year 2023 has reaffirmed the position of electric and gas utilities as the epicentre of the energy transition. Transmission infrastructure needs If there is one key priority that 2023 has highlighted it is that, globally, the power grid requires colossal investment and attention to keep pace with decarbonisation targets.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 13, 2024

This technology offers a reliable and resilient power source that is independent of weather conditions and not reliant on wind or sunshine. At scale, this energy storage system will be paired with renewable energy to provide baseload and dispatchable power to the electric grid.

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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

MAY 9, 2022

Have you read: National Grid releases 2050 fossil-free plan and clean energy vision National Grid and Eversource propose plans for Boston’s energy transition Ofgem supports National Grid with £1.5m The full project is expected to be completed by the fall of 2023, ahead of the station’s retirement.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 27, 2019

Global investments of $374 billion a year will be needed to upgrade the grid with enough flexibility to account for the variable power generation profiles of renewable technologies like solar and wind. alone by 2023. Cost competitive and resilient, too. Thus it will help with predictability, reliability and resilience.

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Global Renewable News

AUGUST 24, 2023

Unreliable power, lack of robust connections to mainstream power grids, and threats from strengthening storms are among the energy challenges faced by remote and island communities. On July 25th, 2023.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Washington has announced $13 billion in financing opportunities for the expansion and modernisation of the US electric grid. It is also touted as one of the first down payments on an over $20 billion investment under the Administration’s Building a Better Grid Initiative. billion for fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

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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. Vista, on the other hand, is a global investment firm with more than $101 billion in assets under management as of 30 June 2023. ICYMI: AI software company raises $2.5m

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Smart Energy International

MAY 30, 2022

Changing climatic patterns are expected to bring operational challenges, while electrification for decarbonisation will result in more reliance on the grid as electricity demand increases in sectors such as transport and industry. Have you read? Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Charged

APRIL 13, 2023

E-Bloc is a microgrid, a small-scale power grid that can operate independently or collaboratively with other small power grids. It can connect and disconnect from the grid to operate in grid-connected or island mode. Microgrids can improve customer reliability and resilience to grid disturbances.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

“Handling this complexity and improving resilience against vulnerabilities is a significant computational challenge. Alongside power grid optimisation, another area the company has been working on is the discovery of new materials that can supply clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 11, 2020

The projects will deliver a combined 200 megawatt-hours of dispatchable energy capacity spread across about 14,000 solar-storage systems, to be completed by 2023. Multiple companies are bundling solar-battery systems to earn revenues from their flexibility as wholesale energy market capacity or utility grid services. GW today to 13.5

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Charged

OCTOBER 11, 2022

Power outages are a hot topic these days, and V2H capability, which allows an EV to power a house, is a big selling point. The reliability of the US electrical power grid has never been more important,” said Hester. “GM

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

A new partnership in the US combines a demand response programme with smart air conditioners, enabling a gamified reward system to incentivise consumers to lower consumption at times of peak demand on the power grid. ” LG and OhmConnect have plans to expand and enhance the service later in 2023.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2024

A new report shows that although wholesale electricity prices began to fall in 2023, transmission value remained high in certain areas – highlighting the “unique” value of transmission in delivering benefits to multiple regions, given its ability to connect areas of the country that are facing different circumstances.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

’s novel approach to enlisting rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and grid-responsive appliances as an integral part of its power grids. ” Getting from today’s grid to the U.K.’s ’s market-driven grid vision. Under the U.K.’s

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. in 2023, less than the 2.4% In 2023 the share of electricity in final energy consumption is estimated to have reached 20%, up from 18% in 2015. Have you read?

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2022

These same customers now have access to CPower’s solutions and AI-powered technology, EnerWiseTM Site Optimization, which automates energy assets across the energy market and utility programs simultaneously. The transaction is not subject to a financing condition and is expected to close in the first half of 2023. GW of #DER capacity!

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The System is being deployed by nine of ten domestic Japanese grid operators in the Transmission and Distribution IT & OT Systems LLC, a joint venture established in September 2023 by 10 domestic power transmission and distribution companies in the country.

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AutoGrid

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This past summer, dangerous levels of heat broiled the globe, and July 2023 became the hottest month on record. This heat feeds surging demand for electricity and increased strain on already taxed power grids. Mumbai – the large city on India’s west coast – saw its hottest day of 2023 in early March.

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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.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2024

The advance of the energy transition in both archipelagos poses a challenge for the system operator, which makes it necessary to reinforce the grid to maintain its balance and ensure reliable and resilient operations. According to data from Red Eléctrica, renewable energies exceeded 50% of the Spanish generation mix in 2023.

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Bidgely

JULY 23, 2024

The event will bring together utility executives, program leaders and technology experts from across the industry “Utilities are facing the urgent need to evolve with a dynamic power grid, and EmPOWER AI centers on demonstrating the viable solutions available now that utilities can deploy quickly and effectively,” said Abhay Gupta, CEO of Bidgely.

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Business Green

JANUARY 18, 2022

To deliver the government's vital commitment to have a fully decarbonised power grid by 2035, the continued and necessary growth of renewables will also need to come with a much more holistic approach to drive investment and innovation in co-ordinated networks, interconnection, storage and demand flexibility.

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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

JANUARY 30, 2023

Modeling grid operations Form Energy and Xcel Energy collaborated on extensive modeling with Formware, Form Energy’s investment and operational modeling tool for power grids. Learn more at: [link]. And Form’s iron-air, which was unveiled in July 2022, is one of the few with a claim to 100-hour, 1GWh efficiency.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Those locations are part of the National Electric Highway Coalition, a collaboration among electric companies who are committed to working together to build a vast network of charging stations by the end of 2023. This was originally published on Power-Grid. Streetlights and Microgrids.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2022

Five-year plan aims to frontload investment in boosting grid capacity and resilience while paving way for huge influx in renewable power sources. We know people are eager to use lower carbon, better options like EVs and heat pumps, and how quickly renewables can be deployed," he said.

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CleanTech San Diego

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Cleantech San Diego member Baker Electric Home Energy, a leading solar, battery, and home energy solution provider, has announced the launch of its ChargeOn Battery Rewards Program in partnership with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology. Customer enrollment is already underway.

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