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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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

New analysis reveals that on May 24th over half of the continent's power came from renewables, as UK's coal-free run extends beyond 50 days. On a Sunday late last month, 55 per cent of Europe's power was delivered by wind, solar, and hydroelectric sources.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 9, 2024

V2G tech company Nuvve and battery specialist Guangzhou Great Power Energy and Technology Corporation have announced a strategic partnership to accelerate the deployment of stationary storage batteries and their integration with the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

As energy policy and politics shift globally, business flexibility will be a necessity for the success of the energy transition. Well, not quite, because anyone who has even briefly scanned the news over the last few months will have noted the shift in the political mood music around energy policy across the world.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 1, 2024

Although the electrification of road transportation represents a significant challenge to our energy systems, adding pressure on power grids at the national and local levels, V2G provides immense potential as a source of flexibility to support the energy system of tomorrow, explains Francesco Nobili of Charles River Associate (CRA) Energy.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Centre stage in this week’s Smart Energy Finances is the closing of an acquisition by CPower. CPower helps DER owners with flexible capacity across industries, including big box retail, commercial real estate, data centers, crypto mining sites, education, healthcare and government, and manufacturing. GW of #DER capacity!

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 29, 2022

Northeast German DSO Mitnetz Strom and Volkswagen subsidiary Elli have launched a nationwide electric vehicle (EV) grid integration pilot. 5 are participating in making their EVs part of the energy system and increasingly using green electricity from the region for charging. million EVs to drive for a year.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 11, 2023

EDF leads a proof-of-concept on automating renewable energy transactions and Eurelectric’s study on the benefits of matching energy consumption with clean energy on a (near) real-time basis are on the week’s technology radar. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2022

The Itron Inspire EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) 2022 virtual event highlighted the important work being done within the water and energy sectors in the face of pressing challenges. Electric vehicle charging impacts the power grid The EV industry has been experiencing a surge of interest and investment.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 25, 2022

New solutions for a digital grid are being pioneered by Gridspertise building on Enel’s positioning over two decades at the forefront of advances. Smart metering varies markedly across the country and among customer classes and many sources record North American utilities to be lagging in their maturity in supply reliability.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 6, 2024

The IEA has reported that grids investment is expected to reach $400 billion in 2024, with Europe, the US, China and parts of Latin America leading the way. In 2023, the investment in the grids was about $375 billion, up from less than $350 billion in the previous year. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

British distribution network operator Northern Powergrid has announced a flexibility initiative, tapping a virtual power plant and smart energy management programme to incentivise residential power consumption reduction at times of peak demand on the power grid.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 5, 2024

More than 30 million smart meters are now connected to Britain’s national smart meter network, the Data Communications Company (DCC) has reported. The 30 millionth meter was connected to the network at midday on March 1 by E.ON. million SMETS1 meters were connected to the network. Have you read?

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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. What is grid orchestration and why is it critical in 2024?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 23, 2024

Energy technology supplier Enphase Energy and Octopus Energy have announced a strategic partnership to integrate their platforms, allowing UK retail customers to access low-cost residential energy rates, Octopus Energy clients to create VPPs, and support battery management to ease congestion on the power grid.

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AutoGrid

JULY 24, 2023

Transmission upgrades are vital to help build the net zero carbon grid of the future by integrating large-scale solar and wind farms into the nation’s power grids. These dispatches delivered a large amount of capacity to energy markets worldwide. But building transmission lines is contentious and time-consuming.

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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. The stakes are particularly high because India is the world’s third largest energy consumer.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Bringing out the most from flexible systems can enable a valuable entry point for consumers into the power system and support power grid management. They will be able to avoid costly price peaks by mainly consuming electricity when it is sufficiently windy or sunny.”

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 10, 2024

Switzerland-based tech company Hitachi Energy has announced an additional investment of $4.5 billion doubles the company’s investments over the last three years and will also support the deployment of power electronics-based solutions, grid automation and software solutions, alongside services in line with the Hitachi Energy 2030 Plan.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Grid technology company Reactive Technologies has launched Tradenergy, a software tool and analytics platform with the aim of providing short-term energy traders real-time insights into grid events such as generation or interconnector trips. Have you read: European merit order energy trading: Obsolete?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

million) contract to explore using quantum computing to optimise energy grids. With building and maintaining grid connections costing up to £1.5 million per km of line, determining the optimal layout and usage of this growing infrastructure is important to minimise the costs. million ($1.5

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 19, 2024

The technologies, which can be integrated into existing wind turbine control systems, are aimed to address the two major issues identified with the rapid growth of wind farms globally – namely power system frequency control and forced oscillations, which can cause widespread disruption over entire power grids. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 7, 2022

The study from the University of Nottingham indicates that grid-tied small-scale renewables could cause power failures. Domestic renewable energy generation is growing rapidly in the UK, with just over one million small-scale solar PV systems installed. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The ‘domestic reserve scarcity’ trial with participants from among Octopus Energy’s smart meter customers will incentivise them to reduce their power consumption below their usual levels for pre-defined two-hour windows across several key periods during this winter, and which should enable them to save money on their electricity bills.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Vehicle to grid (V2G) has been a hot topic globally as grid management and resilience become a growing concern. The increasing prevalence of issues surrounding renewables integration and energy management illustrates how solutions like V2G are required to maintain the stability and efficacy of our energy supply.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Spanish utility Endesa’s project Resisto is aimed to reduce the impact of meteorological phenomena on the electricity grid. Electricity transmission key for reliability in extreme weathers – report Extreme weather pushes power grids to the brink – Is AI the answer? Grid protection solutions. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 17, 2022

The event aims to gather industry experts, colleagues and thought leaders from Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Itron Inspire EMEA 2022 , previously called Itron Utility Week, hopes to bring industry leaders together to drive business transformation, reimagine customer engagement and ignite innovation.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 14, 2024

billion) increase to its 2024-2028 investment plan, citing the need for continued grid expansion to connect an increasing number of renewable energy facilities. plans to boost its four-year investment plan from €33 billion ($36 billion) to €42 billion ($46 billion), focusing on energy networks and energy infrastructure solutions.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

One Energy Enterprises, an industrial power solutions company, announced that the first fully digital, plug-and-play, transmission-voltage substation in the US at One Energy’s Findlay, Ohio headquarters, has completed energisation and testing and begun commercial operation.

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AutoGrid

JUNE 5, 2023

In an era where artificial intelligence (AI) is impacting our lives across nearly every domain imaginable, its importance in the power systems sector cannot be overstated. Orchestrating armies of diverse, decentralized DERs poses significant challenges for power providers, utilities and other grid operators.

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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

JANUARY 19, 2023

NextGrid is a new research and innovation project that prepares those working in grid company operating centres to manage the complexity and automated processes needed for the future power grid. This will lead to an increasingly unpredictable power flow. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Talking about his journey from planning a large-scale regional smart meter rollout in Spain, to leading a company that is fully dedicated to transforming power grids on a global scale. 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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 21, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances looks at Enel SpA ‘s sale of 50% holdings in Gridspertise to CVC for a joint ownership scheme. Also on the financial radar this week, two separate green bonds have been announced in different parts of Europe. Enel signed, through Enel Grids S.r.l., million) on a 100% basis.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 29, 2024

Artificial intelligence was a central theme of the discussion among participants in the ‘transformative technologies’ panel at the World Energy Council’s 26th Congress in Rotterdam. Jason Li, Global President of Huawei’s Electric Power Digitalisation Business Unit, now in its third year, opened the proceedings.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2020

Energy Networks Association and National Grid reveal plans to harness green and flexible energy technologies through latest innovation strategies. The coronavirus crisis reminds us of electricity's indispensable role in our lives," he wrote in a blogpost.

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Business Green

JULY 3, 2020

Price and demand projections have been trimmed and there is a real sense that the clean energy transition that much of the industry has tip-toed around for the past decade could be about to accelerate. However, the contention that the new price projections are more realistic is contestable.

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