Renewable Energy World

MARCH 25, 2021

The extra electricity that is generated from their solar panels is fed back to the power grid which reduces the need for utility companies to spend extra funds on infrastructure updates. It also helps reduce transmission-line congestion that can cause rolling blackouts and other inconvenient power outages for repairs and upgrades.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

This was highlighted by Gianni Armani, director of Enel Grids & Innovability, at Enlit Europe in Paris, who compared investing in the grid to maintaining one’s personal health. Not investing in the grid is like accumulating cholesterol – you find out you are in bad shape.” With plans to spend €35.8

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

. £145,000 for Otaski Energy Solutions Ltd and Syselek Ltd (Based in Gateshead and partnered with Costain): Trialling their cost and energy-efficient smart charge and bi-directional converter, which allows EVs to charge from any power grid source and discharge energy back to the grid or storage.

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 21, 2024

It’s a trend that raises health risks as the planet heats up. Climate change supercharges disasters like storms and wildfires that often cut off power. Soaring demand for air conditioning also stresses out the grid. But the Texas power grid has also been hit hard by extreme weather.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 4, 2020

But the bribery scandal has driven a wedge between the utility and state lawmakers, while the COVID-19 pandemic forced the legislature to curtail much of its work this spring and focus on responses to the public health crisis. “We think of good regulatory and political outcomes as being driven by good operational performance.”

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Yes, including public health and safety. RMI and several environmental and public interest advocacy groups recently published a report that surveys two decades of research into the links between combustion of gas indoors for cooking and negative effects to human health. “The grid could evolve to handle this.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

Last week, 37 employees of state grid operator NYISO — 33 grid operators and managers, plus two facilities workers and two food service staff — volunteered to sequester themselves at the state’s two grid control centers near the state capitol, Albany. Nuclear plants taking special precautions.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Targeted investments in solar and battery deployment for economically underserved groups can reduce household energy burden , lessen race and gender wealth gaps, and measurably improve families’ health and quality of life. Many additional benefits flow directly from job creation. million new American jobs by 2030.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

It can bring cost-savings through decreased utility bills and wastage, improve employee morale and health (and in turn, their commitment), and demonstrate to customers and partners that you’re taking strides to be environmentally and socially responsible. Go with no-VOC paints to protect employee health and limit airborne pollution.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 10, 2020

PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022. ” The inRG system consists of multiple power line sensors and data collectors located at substations on the transmission grid.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 25, 2022

Have you read: Network solutions to guide Peachtree Corners infrastructure communications Virginia Natural Gas to inspect natural gas infrastructure with UAVs The grid needs long-duration energy storage. “Solano County currently relies heavily on the power grid, and our rates went up eight percent this year,” added Greve.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 31, 2024

In this week’s edition of Smart Energy’s Power Playbook, Yusuf Latief revisits National Grid’s £66 billion ($76.5 Specifically, £66 billion was promised for the power networks to enable digitalisation and decarbonisation of the power system. In the UK, National Grid expects £23 billion ($29.3

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

APRIL 15, 2020

Credit: Ricardo Esquivel But the analysis of clean energy unemployment data by E2 partner BW Research shows the crushing impact of the COVID-19 health and economic crises on one of the biggest, fastest-growing job sectors in America?—?one According to one recent study, our power grid needs $30 billion to $90 billion in upgrades.

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Solar Industry

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Higher education institutions, healthcare systems and a group of public and nonprofit organizations in Greater Boston and the North Shore are adding two renewable energy projects to regional power grids by establishing the Consortium for Climate Solutions to address the carbon-free objectives of its members.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 4, 2024

The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has established the Research Centre for Grid Modernisation (RCGM). The Centre aims to foster innovations and applications for modernisation of the power grid and the development of novel electric power systems. Jin-Guang Teng, PolyU President (9th from right); Prof.

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Charged

AUGUST 6, 2023

If a hacker were to switch thousands, or millions, of chargers on or off simultaneously, it could destabilize an entire electrical grid. We’ve inadvertently created a weapon that nation-states can use against our power grid,” says Munro. Munro’s top recommendation: don’t connect your home charger to the internet.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 25, 2024

Tokyo motor majors Honda and Mitsubishi have announced plans to establish a new company, ALTNA Corporation, to create new businesses encompassing the full value chain of EVs, from battery recycling to their role as a power grid asset. ALTNA is also considering providing V2G services in anticipation of future market liberalisation.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

The idea, said CEO and co-founder Dan Schnitzer, is to expand from serving the estimated 1 billion people who live without grid access to the roughly billion more “who still suffer from low-level electricity access, despite having access to a grid — what you might call a weak or a broken grid.”

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

That’s because current market dynamics in the country “motivate the fossil fuel generators to continuously construct new plants and delay the phaseout of those that contribute little to the power grid,” Gyuri Cho of Solutions for Our Climate said last year. This could have dire health impacts.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

While India’s power grid is still dominated by coal, the country has been deploying wind and solar at a rapid pace to meet Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s targets of 175 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity by 2022, and 450 gigawatts of non-fossil sources by 2030. The rapidly evolving country of nearly 1.4

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

California is becoming a poster child for the risks utilities face from climate change, from power lines starting wildfires to heat waves forcing increasingly renewable-powered grids to the brink of system collapse.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 14, 2021

We’re only just now seeing a meaningful shift toward adaptation efforts under the understanding that power grids, utility assets, and other infrastructure will need built-in flexibility to cope with changing climate conditions. Many global efforts to halt or reverse climate impacts have squarely focused on resilience and mitigation.

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2020

Whilst Covid-19 has rightly caused our attention to turn to safeguarding our health and wellbeing, we cannot forget the other crisis unfolding: the climate crisis. The government, businesses and consumers are all singing the same tune on delivering a green recovery - we must seize this opportunity, argues E.ON UK CEO Michael Lewis.

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 17, 2024

“We think computers are not as empathetic as a human, yet the very first email I saw that had been written by gen AI was to a customer who was struggling to pay their bills because of ill health. First and foremost, I hope your health is improved’. And it ended with the same empathy.”

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. And while these upgrades will likely cost trillions, virtual power plants (VPPs), writes Autogrid’s Gisela Glandt , can curb these costs to the tune of $10B annually.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Longtime transmission guru Carl Zichella once called the American electric grid the “most complicated machine we’ve ever built”, and with $1T of IRA-driven renewable investments in the pipeline, it’s only going to get more complex. In the UK, there is one main grid covering England, Scotland, and Wales.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2020

Recovery measures could help install flexible power grids, energy efficiency solutions, electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, energy storage, interconnected hydropower, green hydrogen, and multiple other clean energy technologies, while avoiding greater accumulation of carbon intensive stranded assets, according to the IRENA report.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Proximity to power grids is another non-negotiable—without it, the solar farm’s potential remains untapped. Effortlessly blending these can optimize capital structure, mitigate risks, and ensure the robust financial health of a solar farm project – ultimately brightening the path to a renewable future.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Extreme weather is bringing down power grids — an especially large risk for tech companies promising 24/7 availability. (A The costs of clean technologies drop with scale, while the overall health of people and planet improves and, well, we save the world (which seems pretty valuable).

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

The investment marks a first for Prosus Ventures in the utilities domain, traditionally investing in tech growth opportunities in fields such as logistics, fintech, health, blockchain and more.

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AutoGrid

JULY 5, 2023

Grid-scale batteries offer access to nearly every available revenue stream across the energy dispatch market, ranging from fast-responding frequency regulation (sub-second response times) to filling capacity requirement gaps in the day-ahead or real-time markets. Merchant Model.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 4, 2022

In California alone, PG&E, Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric are expected to collectively spend more than $15 billion to reduce the threat of wildfires caused by their power grids through 2022, according to Greentech Media. Timothy Barat. CEO, Gridware. Tim Barat is the CEO and co-founder of Gridware.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 9, 2024

Despite the critical role of batteries in decarbonising power grids and the economy, the utilities and commercial and industrial (C&I) sectors are also currently seeing the slowest pace of adoption. Some BESS data comes with missing files or even timestamps.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wind power turbines and home battery systems might have a little more industry wiggle room. In some countries, entire power grids are being overhauled as market restrictions eliminate some methods of energy production in favor of cleaner alternatives. Here are some excellent examples.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

” Achieving India’s target to deploy 450 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2030 is critical if the country is going to succeed in displacing coal generation on the power grid as overall energy consumption grows. Notably, Power Minister R.K. ” All-of-the-above approach.

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Econaur

JUNE 9, 2023

The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids. The integration of solar power not only reduces carbon emissions but also enhances energy resilience and reduces dependency on conventional power grids.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Green surcharges such as renewables subsidies and warm homes discounts for vulnerable householders are likely to be gradually transferred over to gas bills over the course of the decade, with the PM set to argue that electricity has been kept artificially expensive despite the carbon intensity of the power grid dropping. "As

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