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Bring-Your-Own-Batteries and EV Chargers: The Future of Distributed Energy Integration?

GreenTechMedia

Distributed energy resources including rooftop solar, smart thermostats, behind-the-meter batteries, smart inverters and electric vehicle chargers have value for the customers installing them — and for the utilities seeing them proliferate across their distribution grids. power grids.

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How the utilities industry is building a sustainable future

Smart Energy International

The energy and utilities industries play a significant role in carbon emissions. In the US, 25% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions come from electricity generation. This is not surprising, with coal and natural gas representing about 60% of electrical supply. Energy Transition for Sustainability. Have you read?

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The Caribbean Shows the Way to a Renewable Future

GreenTechMedia

In just a few short years, the focus at the annual Caribbean Electric Utility Services Corporation conference has shifted from issues around producing electricity from thermal capacity — usually oil — to what blend of renewable options are the best path forward. Beyond pilot projects.

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4 Big Challenges Facing FERC’s Plan to Open Up Power Markets to Distributed Energy

GreenTechMedia

Last month, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approved Order 2222 , a groundbreaking effort to open up U.S. wholesale energy markets to aggregated solar systems, smart inverters, batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, grid-responsive building controls and other distributed energy resources (DERs).

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Ready to embrace IEC 61850 everywhere in your power grid?

Smart Energy International

But if Thomas Edison, who opened the first investor-owned power utility in New York City 140 years ago, were to tour the switchyard of a modern substation, he would still recognize the transformers, circuit breakers, switches and capacitors. To the naked eye, it might appear that the power grid hasn’t changed.

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Puget Sound Energy’s VPP Expansion Points the Way for C&I Prosumers

AutoGrid

Puget Sound Energy’s (PSE) recent announcement of its partnership expansion with AutoGrid to develop virtual power plants (VPPs) is noteworthy for several reasons. First, PSE is the state of Washington’s largest utility, serving more than one million residential and commercial and industrial (C&I) electric customers.

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Empowering India’s Energy Revolution with AI and Prosumers

AutoGrid

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.