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

MARCH 6, 2024

In a partnership between Enel North America and the largest state utility in Washington, Puget Sound Energy (PSE), commercial, institutional and industrial organisations are offered incentive payments for participating in a demand response programme. million electric customers in 10 counties, namely in Western Washington. .

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

US researchers have created a new method to predict electric grid stability in real time using signals from pumped storage hydropower facilities. Yilu Liu, UT-ORNL Governor’s Chair for power grids who has led the project, explains that when the hydropower facility pumps shut down, they almost always stop at a fixed power level.

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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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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

EIS, a distributor of electrical process materials and components in North America, announced the successful acquisition of Power Grid Supply (PGS), a supplier of transformer parts and components for the production, repair, and remanufacturing of transformers.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) has commemorated its first fully renewable remote grid in the utility’s growing fleet of standalone power systems, located in Pepperwood Preserve in Sonoma County. The fully renewable remote grid at Pepperwood replaces 0.7

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Consumers Energy and DTE Energy have filed five year grid modernisation with the Michigan Public Service Commission (PSC) to improve reliability. Consumers Energy also highlights its commitment that all communities should experience the benefits of the reliability roadmap and can participate in the clean energy transformation.

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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. Upon the close of the transaction, previous Centrica demand response customers will join CPower and will be able to tap the company’s industry expertise and technology to support their energy portfolios across the US.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 23, 2022

Nexamp and Borrego have activated two solar-plus-storage energy projects within ISO New England Territory, namely the Nexamp community solar farms in Massachusetts, USA. They aim to build momentum for a cleaner and more resilient regional power grid. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed. ”

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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

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Infravision, a company focused on power grid modernisation with drone-enabled power line upgrades, announced it has raised $23 million in Series A financing. “We’re confident Infravision’s proven technology is the solution for today and for the future of power line construction automation and grid efficiency.” .

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 6, 2023

US asset manager Blackstone announced that private equity funds affiliated with it have closed the acquisition of Power Grid Components, an electric grid components manufacturer. “The acquisition of Power Grid Components fits squarely within one of our favorite investment themes – the U.S.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Duke Energy, one of America’s largest energy holding companies, and Amazon Web Services (AWS), are entering a multiyear strategic collaboration to accelerate the utility’s development of smart grid solutions, including new smart grid software and an expansion of their Intelligent Grid Services.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 11, 2021

Nearly 30 startups joined our community in the final quarter of 2020, working on innovations as diverse as zinc-ion batteries, long-range weather forecasts, wave energy conversion, and replacements for petrochemical plastics. ELECTRICITY. This energy storage solution is low-cost, flexible, and long-duration. MANUFACTURING.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

The IEA’s Electricity 2024 report records electricity demand growth easing in 2023 but is projected to accelerate over the next three years through 2026. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2% Nuclear power generation also is expected to reach an all-time high, with growth averaging close to 3% per year.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Californian utility San Diego Gas & Electric (SDG&E) has unveiled four new microgrids with advanced remote operation capabilities and safety technologies to help enhance grid reliability.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) is being deployed by utilities across the US to give distribution grid operators better tools to manage the grid. APS, which serves 1.3 Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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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

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Puerto Rico utility Luma’s smart meters will replace the almost 1.5 million meters that were damaged by Hurricane Maria in September 2017. Other benefits anticipated include faster service response and restoration times, support for new energy savings and efficiency programmes and more accurate invoicing and billing control.

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AutoGrid

JUNE 20, 2023

With this comes a surge in electricity use, mostly from cooling systems. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) is predicting a historic demand of over 80,000 MW , putting immense pressure on the state’s power grid. Texas heat waves often result in slim reserve margins, where supply barely meets demand.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 18, 2022

Emera Technologies has announced that utility Tampa Electric Company (TECO) has purchased, installed and received regulatory approval for its BlockEnergy community microgrid platform. Participants will see 80% of their home energy come from the sun. Image courtesy of TECO. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 24, 2022

Duke Energy Florida, an American electric power and natural gas holding company, has a new programme that will provide credits to customers who charge their EVs during off-peak times. Duke Energy Florida will integrate the new solution into its existing Itron demand response platform to run a new managed EV charging program.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2021

” That’s how a range of clean energy advocates and demand response providers are describing the California Public Utilities Commission’s latest plan to prevent a repeat of the state’s August 2020 rolling blackouts this coming summer. “Disappointing.”

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 10, 2022

After years of nearly flat demand, the energy transition is generating a growing demand for electricity with the most inexpensive non-carbon alternatives being renewables such as solar and wind, which are reaching price parity with coal and gas in many areas of the world. IP/MPLS: Meeting the needs of the modern grid.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 6, 2023

Nostromo Energy, a US-based tech company, is developing an ice-based energy storage system that can operate as a Virtual Power Plant (VPP) to provide demand flexibility to the local power grid when needed. According to Nostromo, buildings, overall, account for 74% of all electricity consumption.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 9, 2024

Each is being tested by Orlando Utilities Commission (OUC) at their Gardenia Innovation Centre, with the potential outcome of being deployed for power grid management. A living lab Ushering in the energy transition has many implications, a major one being modernisation. Flywheels and battery testing grounds. With testing.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

Although the proposed ‘all-source’ procurement would allow existing natural gas-fired peaker plants to compete, it could also open a massive new market for renewable energy, energy storage, demand response and other preferred alternatives to fossil fuels. Fitch wrote in Thursday’s proposed decision. gigawatts by 2023.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 22, 2024

The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) has released the results of a research project that studied the relationship between electric vehicle (EV) driving and charging behaviors to understand how those behaviors impact the electric grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 2, 2024

Artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to significantly improve key areas of grid management, a new US Department of Energy report finds. However, it is crucial that new AI use cases do not introduce new risks to the grid, the report states. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 19, 2022

It is said that to protect from crime one needs to think like a criminal – and that is what the researchers at Red Balloon Security have done in a new investigation into protection relays, one of the commonly used embedded devices in power grids around the world. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In its biggest investment in the nation’s grid, the White House announced a $3.46 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.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

At the foundation of the smart grid is smart meters and AES Ohio expects to have deployed these to 95% of customers by June 2025. The smart grid phase 2 plan has three principal components – automation of distribution operations, advanced grid intelligence and telecommunications and cybersecurity. Have you read?

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AutoGrid

JULY 27, 2023

At the recent National Association of Regulatory Commission (NARUC) Summer Policy Summit, I saw up close the growing concern about grid reliability among state regulators, utilities and the industry at large. Electricity demand is expected to grow more rapidly with accelerated electrification across the building and transportation sectors.

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 3, 2022

Investor-owned utility, Consumers Energy has proposed a $272 million investment in Michigan’s electric grid in what it said is a bid to increase reliability and prepare the grid for more renewable energy. In the second half of 2021, Consumers Energy filed a five-year, $5.4 per month.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 27, 2023

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) are working to understand the effects of electrical faults in the modern US power grid. Understanding them enables electric companies and system operators to maintain reliable electricity service and reduce the number of outages.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

A new report by Grid Strategies for Americans for a Clean Energy Grid (ACEG) identifies 36 high-capacity transmission projects (HVDC) that could be ready to break ground in the near term. If completed, the projects would connect 187GW of renewable resources to the grid, create 3.3 Have you read?

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