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US Department of Energy announces $3.5bn for grid resilience

Smart Energy International

billion investment for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability, invest in microgrids and enable more renewable energy generation across America. These microgrids can stand alone or integrate with utility-owned electric grid infrastructure and backup generation assets.

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? The nuts and bolts of grid tech

Climate Tech VC

For a 2050 net-zero future, we’ll need an electricity grid large enough that its untangled cables would be long enough to stretch all the way to the sun.    Last week, we got in tune with power markets to set the stage for a reliable, resilient, and decarbonized grid.

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Policy Advocacy Fights the Risks of Climate Change

EDF + Business

In 2022 alone, extreme weather events caused $178 billion to the United States. ” Rising temperatures and extreme weather events are direct threats to companies’ facilities, employees, and use of renewable energy grids. Extreme weather events pose a great risk to a company’s physical assets and areas in which they operate.

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UK Government Launches Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The strategy aims to boost supply chain resilience of critical goods. The strategy forms part of a wider government initiative to back businesses and grow the UK economy by helping companies build resilient supply chains and maintain supplies of critical goods and raw materials. Davies , Michael D.

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Will PG&E’s Blackouts Catalyze California’s Microgrid Market?

GreenTechMedia

Bankrupt California utility Pacific Gas & Electric has come under fire on many fronts for the scope and execution of its self-imposed blackouts last month. Electric utilities bear the solemn mission of keeping the lights on, but PG&E's intentional shutoffs leave customers to fend for themselves. Solutions are coming.

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Top 10 Utility Regulation Trends of 2019

GreenTechMedia

Implementing 100% clean energy commitments. As renewable energy and energy storage resources become increasingly cost-competitive, states have become more ambitious in their clean energy targets. have now set 100 percent clean energy targets. At least 13 states plus Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C.

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Illinois’s NextGrid: What’s in it for Solar?

Vote Solar

The location of the event, at 1871, Chicago’s hub for tech start-ups, underscored NextGrid’s vision to open the grid as a platform for new technologies and third-party services. In September, Chicago hosted 500 people for the kick-off of a process to re-imagine the electric grid as a modern, interactive ecosystem?—?one