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A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid

GreenBiz

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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EcoFlow’s Oasis could be a powerful tool for simplifying your home’s energy use

The Verge: Energy

EcoFlow is launching it Home Energy Management System at CES this week. Image: EcoFlow Smart energy solutions company EcoFlow is debuting Oasis, its new AI-powered Home Energy Management System , at CES in Las Vegas this week. With Oasis, EcoFlow is tackling at least two of those problems.

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Smart meter network passes 20 million milestone

Envirotec Magazine

The firm behind the telecommunications infrastructure underpinning the UK’s smart meters rollout, the Data Communications Company (DCC), says the 20 millionth smart meter has been connected to its national network. The group’s CEO, Angus Flett, said: “These 20 million meters have been added in less than 4 years.

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Residential energy is becoming companies' business

GreenBiz

Residential energy is becoming companies' business. In this crazy upside-down world, the line between residential and commercial energy is getting fuzzy. . Everything changed so quickly, it makes sense that climate and energy teams have yet to figure out how to account for the shift. Sarah Golden.

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Los Angeles case study: how to prepare the grid for electric medium- and heavy-duty trucks

Charged

Los Angeles is a hub of freight activityand (not coincidentally) the home of the worst ozone pollution in the nation. Fleet operators, CaaS (Charging-as-a-Service) providers and other stakeholders need data on where and when MDHD trucks currently operate, where future power demand will be, and how this demand will impact the grid.

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The Current System of Electric Billing No Longer Makes Sense

GreenTechMedia

Dan Seif is vice president for market development at 7X Energy, a Texas-based solar developer. Let’s stop pretending that we’re paying for “energy” via our home power bills and understand that we’re mainly paying for infrastructure.

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FERC Might Rewrite Solar Net Metering. Here’s What That Could Mean

GreenTechMedia

A recent petition to FERC could trigger nationwide changes to solar net-metering. On April 14, the New England Ratepayers Association (NERA) petitioned the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to assert jurisdiction over any on-site, behind-the-meter generation that injects energy onto the grid.