Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 17, 2022

The European Commission announced on 18 May that it plans to make the installation of solar panels mandatory for all new public, commercial and residential buildings in the EU. It focused on three distinct pillars: energy savings, diversification of energy supplies, and accelerated roll-out of renewable energy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? You can shift a lot of the electric vehicle charging to line up with those times," Langton said.

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Solar Industry

MAY 1, 2024

Chaberton Energy and Pivot Energy are partnering on a Maryland solar project aimed at powering both commercial and community customers. A portion of the project supplies energy directly to the church, with the rest serving Loyola University Maryland and the surrounding community via subscription model.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

An important industry award in Germany has gone to direct current (DC) power technology firm Schaltbau for what’s described as the world’s first DC factory. Schaltbau’s NExT Factory is described as a pioneering leap in sustainable manufacturing and energy efficiency. Image credit: Thomas Köhler/photothek.

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Solar Industry

JANUARY 31, 2024

Aggreko has announced that its Energy Transition Solutions (ETS) division has acquired a 13 MW behind-the-meter solar power project site in Texas which the company will oversee construction of, own and operate. The post Aggreko Acquires Behind-the-Meter Texas Solar Project appeared first on Solar Industry.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

AUGUST 26, 2024

The automaker will be adding the renewable power generated in Arkansas to three plants General Motors recently announced that it would be using solar energy from a farm in Arkansas to power three of its assembly plants with clean electricity.  Trends saw a major change in 2019, when Act 464 passed. 

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Solar Industry

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Griffith Energy LLC, an affiliate of infrastructure investment firm ArcLight Capital Partners LLC , plans to construct a 2-MW behind-the-meter solar project at the Griffith Generating Station in Mohave County, Ariz. The project will serve to offset Griffith’s auxiliary electricity requirements, online or offline.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The UK’s first all-electric intercity bus service drove off with a top prize at the Scottish Green Energy Awards on 1 December. Among the winners were: Forth Ports, which picked up the Outstanding Project Award for building Scotland’s only custom-built renewables hub – a £40 million development at the Port of Dundee.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

million smart meters nationwide as part of the National Smart Metering Programme. The installation includes the connection of over 100,000 new builds to the network. With this the company is on track to complete the full, over 2 million, smart meter rollout in early 2025. “We Have you read?

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JULY 16, 2024

Hybrid solar inverters represent a significant advancement in solar energy technology, combining the functionality of traditional grid-tied inverters with battery storage capabilities. What is Hybrid Solar Inverters? What is Hybrid Solar Inverters? How Hybrid Solar Inverters Work?

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 2, 2023

subsidiary Boston Solar has integrated the SPAN Panel into its suite of home energy management systems. The SPAN Panel offers real-time monitoring and circuit-level control, allowing homeowners to maximize their energy savings. SinglePoint Inc.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The project involves attaching a generator and power converter to a buoy located off the Northumberland coast. A group at Newcastle University is preparing to install a prototype Wave Energy Converter (WEC) in the North Sea. Wave energy can be considered a concentrated form of solar energy, says the group.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 11, 2024

Utilita Energy and Cheshire College South and West have launched a new-style smart metering apprenticeship, designed to overcome many of the communications issues engineers face during a smart meter installation, namely smart meters being left in a ‘dumb mode’, whereby data is not sent to the supplier.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 5, 2023

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances – the first of 2023 – sees S&P Global downgrade Elia Group and Eurogrid’s outlook from stable to negative while Indian transmission company Adani Group announces BSML – a smart metering subsidiary. Adani launches smart metering arm. million prepaid smart meters, 4.9

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 5, 2022

San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has filed a $3 billion plan for the years 2024-2027 towards its ongoing clean energy drive. Among the major investments detailed is the implementation of the next generation of smart meters in order to give customers more control, access and insights into their energy usage.

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The Guardian: Energy

JULY 10, 2024

Country on track reach 1,200GW of installed wind and solar capacity by end of 2024 – six years ahead of Beijing’s target The amount of wind and solar power under construction in China is now nearly twice as much as the rest of the world combined, a report has found. Continue reading.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 11, 2023

Recently, some water companies in the Middle East have started to tender for the STS prepaid water meter, arousing new discussion on smart water metering, as a solution for improving billing efficiency, in African countries and beyond. Prepaid water meters are not a new thing, even in Africa, but most projects failed before 2010.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2024

Industry Voice: By taking more control of their electricity demand, businesses can contribute to a more sustainable energy future while also reaping major financial benefits, according to Bryt Energy As the UK moves closer to its target of net zero emissions by 2050, major changes are coming to the electricity system.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Energy bills for numerous businesses at a large industrial estate have been heavily reduced by peer-to-peer trading, says UrbanChain, a provider of peer-to-peer energy exchange services. It’s working and it has developed,” said Andy Oswald, who manages West Suffolk Council’s energy generation.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Energy Toolbase has expanded its solar-only ETB Monitor platform offerings. The platform is available as a standalone or an integrated solution with Energy Toolbase’s existing software suite specializing in solar and energy storage proposal analysis.

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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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Charged

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Power Integrations , which provides high-voltage integrated circuits for energy-efficient power conversion, has introduced a new product in its InnoMux-2 family of single-stage, independently regulated multi-output offline power supply ICs. Source: Power Integrations

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Networked Energy Services (NES), originally part of Echelon, started its smart metering journey over 20-years ago. In 2001, NES participated in the first large-scale smart metering project with Enel in Italy, where more than 30 million smart meters were deployed. Smart meters: The new generation.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Following earlier announcements of new electricity, water and hydrogen meters another pair of new meters are launched and the US Department of Energy launches an office to focus on emerging technologies in the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

This strategic approach enabled the effective provision of energy across various areas of the event, including performance stages, catering, and production. They feature a remote two-way connection to the machines and the grid available onsite, ensuring monitoring of the application to reach the highest efficiencies.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 18, 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced funding for Intellihub in a virtual power plant (VPP) project to leverage a network of 2 million smart meters and interface with over 140,000 customer energy resources for optimised load control. On behalf of the Australian Government, ARENA has announced AU$9.75

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 29, 2023

Fifteen start-ups deemed to have the most innovative business models in the field of energy transition and climate protection were celebrated at an award ceremony in Berlin on 28 March – recipients of The Start Up Energy Transition Award (SET Award) administered in part by the German Energy Agency ( dena ).

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 25, 2023

According to new research from Cornwall Insight, household flexibility, which can be enabled by smart meters, has the potential to substantially support reductions in peak energy consumption, equivalent to the capacity of four new gas-fired power stations. billion/year ($17.9 billion/year ($17.9

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 4, 2024

The Australia Energy Market Commission (AEMC) has issued a draft rule to start accelerating the deployment of smart meters from July 2024. The draft rule follows the March decision of the Commission to fast-track the process, to achieve a full rollout of smart meters across the country’s national electricity market by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Duke Energy and solar industry stakeholders have reached an agreement on net metering policy in North Carolina that will help expand distributed solar generation and benefit utility customers, the parties announced Tuesday. Follow @EngelsAngle. The policy would not be changed for 10 years.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

AutoGrid has expanded its partnership with Puget Sound Energy (PSE), Washington state’s largest utility, on a virtual power plant (VPP) solution built on the AutoGrid Flex platform. The AutoGrid Flex platform manages over 8 GW of virtual power plants in nine countries.

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Solar Industry

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

SOLRITE Energy has partnered with sonnen, a global market leader in smart energy storage and VPP technology, to launch the SOLRITE Virtual Power Plant Power Purchase Agreement (VPA). The post SOLRITE Energy Launches New Virtual Power Plant Power Purchase Agreement appeared first on Solar Industry.

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PV Tech

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday (16th November) voted to approve a ‘proposed decision’ changing the state’s virtual net energy metering (VNEM) scheme.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

Wind is China’s largest source of electricity after coal and hydropower, delivering 9.4% of the total electricity supply in 2023. The seeming enormity of the green energy shift taking place in China is given shape by what’s described as the most comprehensive English-language report on China’s energy transition.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 23, 2023

New energy resources in the form of renewables, new loads such as electric vehicles, new energy storage technologies and the new integrated service models to accompany these are characterising the evolving power networks of today. They lack the capacity, flexibility, as well as visibility of operators.

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Solar Industry

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Sunrun and Orange and Rockland Utilities (O&R) have activated what the companies call New York’s largest residential power plant, using 300 solar + storage systems. The systems also provide a source of backup power to the homes of participating customers. O&R is a wholly owned subsidiary of Consolidated Edison.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 17, 2024

Hungária Group is currently installing more than 165,000 new smart meters in Transdanubia and Pest County in west and central Hungary, including the capital Budapest. The smart meter installation forms part of a major rollout, with 650,000 smart meters installed to date. Two-thirds are operated by E.ON. Have you read?

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