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Europe’s largest battery powers up in Blackhillock, in Moray

Envirotec Magazine

Deliberately located between Inverness and Aberdeen to address grid congestion from Viking (443 MW), Moray East (950 MW) and Beatrice (588 MW) offshore wind farms, the project is said to significantly reduce the amount of wasted clean energy and is an important milestone to achieving the UK governments mission to have a net zero power grid by 2030.

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Reactive Technologies: Pinpointing the Inertia of Renewable-Powered Grids

GreenTechMedia

Getting to 100 percent clean energy presents power grid operators with a major problem: what to do about inertia. Reactive Technologies says its novel technology for measuring this critical aspect of grid stability can help them find answers. An increasingly valuable measurement for clean-powered grids.

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Analysts warn of capacity concerns as EVs set to total 5% of UK power demand by 2030

Envirotec Magazine

TWh to the grid, up from just 7.05 TWh in 2025. Fintan Devenney, senior energy analyst at Montel, calculated the power increase by analysing data from the National Electricity System Operator. The government aims to build a clean power grid, with offshore wind projected to nearly triple by 2030.

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Iberdrola launches AI innovation project to optimise power grids

Smart Energy International

Iberdrola is leading the AI Innovation Data Space (i-DS) project to improve value extraction from data to optimise power grids. Specifically, the aim is to apply AI to speed up and enhance the extraction of value from the data to improve the service of distribution networks. With funding of more than €12.5

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Five Trends Shaping the Future of Demand Response in 2025

POWER Magazine

The energy grid is confronting unprecedented challenges, including surging demand, aging infrastructure, and the increasing frequency of extreme weather events. A deep freeze across the East Coast recently generated an […] The post Five Trends Shaping the Future of Demand Response in 2025 appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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DERConnect will enable researchers to test integration of renewable energy and EV batteries into the power grid

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The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We Source: UC San Diego.

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Solar, Hydrogen and Batteries Join Forces at Panasonic’s UK Facility

Hydrogen Fuel News

The system will officially begin operations by March 2025, enabling an efficient balance of energy generation and consumption. By integrating data from local weather forecasts, along with tracking internal power needs, the EMS will optimize resource use and reduce energy loss. Another compelling aspect is scalability.