Domestic Power News
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Landis+Gyr and SPAN to Partner on Unlocking Electrification and DER Flexibility at the Grid Edge
SPAN and Landis+Gyr this week announced a strategic partnership to cost-effectively advance electrification, create grid flexibility, and build resilience. The collaboration brings together two energy industry leaders to help utilities improve utilization of existing assets, unlock Distributed Energy Resource (DER) flexibility management, and enhance customer engagement. The companies note that ...
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EnergyHub Helps Ontario’s IESO Build Canada’s Largest Residential VPP in Just Six Months
EnergyHub, a leading grid-edge flexibility provider, in partnership with Ontario’s Independent Electricity System Operator (IESO), has enrolled more than 100,000 homes in the Save on Energy Peak Perks™ program in just six months to create the largest residential virtual power plant (VPP) in Canada. It’s the fastest growing flexibility program in EnergyHub’s decade-plus working with over 60 ...
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Clean Sources of Generation are Set to Cover World’s Additional Demand Over Next 3 Years
Global electricity demand is expected to grow at a faster rate over the next three years as the clean energy transition gathers speed, with all the additional demand forecast to be covered by technologies that produce low-emissions electricity, according to a new report from the IEA. Electricity 2024 is the latest edition of the IEA’s annual analysis of electricity market developments and ...
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Battery on Wheels: BC Hydro Announces Vehicle-to-Grid Pilot Project
BC Hydro is announcing Canada's first vehicle-to-grid pilot project for medium and heavy-duty vehicles that will enable electricity to be pushed back to the grid from the battery of an electric vehicle (EV). "We are excited to provide CleanBC funding to pilot projects like this that pave the way for more innovative, climate conscious solutions for powering B.C.," said Josie Osborne, Minister of ...
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Bidgely and NISC Deliver AI-Powered Energy Insights to 17 Midwest Co-Op Utilities
Bidgely, an AI-powered SaaS company serving the clea energy industry, recenty noted that integration of the company's UtilityAI™ solution into National Information Solutions Cooperative’s (NISC) software platform continues to provide utilities with an unparalleled 360-degree view of the electric grid. Within the first year of collaboration, which began November 2022, the partnership has grown to ...
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Kohler Co. to Establish Energy Division as Independent Business with Platinum Equity as Majority Investment Partner, Accelerating Long-Term Growth Strategies for Both Organizations
Kohler Co. today announced the strategic decision to set Kohler Energy up as a separate, independent business with Platinum Equity engaged as the majority investment partner. Kohler will continue to stay invested in the Energy business following the closing and remains committed to supporting its upward trajectory built on a proven track record of strong performance in the global energy ...
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CPS Energy Launches Request for Proposal to Secure up to 500 MW of Energy Storage
CPS Energy, the largest municipally owned electric and natural gas utility in the United States, has formally launched a Request for Proposal (RFP) for up to 500 megawatts (MW) of energy storage systems, as part of its power generation plan approved by the utility's Board of Trustees earlier this year. Projects under this RFP may be diverse and responses are welcomed from both large-scale and ...
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GMP's Request to Expand Customer Access to Home Energy Storage Approved
Green Mountain Power (GMP) customers will have greater access to home battery backup power following an order by the Vermont Public Utility Commission late Thursday. In April, after the third devastating storm in less than twelve months, GMP filed a request to lift the enrollment caps on its popular Powerwall and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) home battery programs. Removing the cap allows more ...
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SEIA Report: $100 Billion Invested in US Solar and Storage
Since the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) passed one year ago, U.S. solar and storage companies have announced over $100 billion in private sector investments, helping bolster the American economy, according to new analysis released today by the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). Solar and storage manufacturing is now surging in the United States, as 51 solar manufacturing facilities have ...
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Success Story Putting Solar Energy Installation on Autopilot
On a bright, sunny morning, a team of machines settles in for a day of work. Their location: the construction site for a large-scale solar power plant. Their task: to install rows upon rows of solar panels, which will soon generate clean energy to power American homes, businesses, and communities. While that may sound like an excerpt of science fiction, Terabase Energy received a $1 million ...
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DOE Announces $46 Million for Commercial Fusion Energy Development
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (May 31) announced $46 million in funding to eight companies advancing designs and research and development for fusion power plants, representing a major step in President Biden's commitment to a pilot-scale demonstration of fusion within a decade. Fusion reactions power the stars, and research is underway to make fusion energy production on Earth possible, ...
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Kohler Co. Transforms its Power Businesses to Kohler Energy, Providing Customers with Energy Resiliency
Kohler Co. announces the evolution of its Power businesses to Kohler Energy, aligning with Kohler’s strategy of providing energy resilience to homes, businesses, and communities around the world. In its first 100 years, Kohler delivered light where there was none before, powered Admiral Richard Byrd’s historic Antarctic exploration, lit the way forward for industrial revolution in ...
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Clean Power Alliance (CPA) Expands Innovative Demand Response Program
Clean Power Alliance (CPA) this week announced the expansion of Power Response, an innovative demand response program that provides incentives for residents, businesses and public sector entities to reduce energy usage during periods of high energy demand. Last summer, an extended heat wave in California caused unprecedented high energy demand that threatened electricity outages across the state. ...
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Dominion Energy Utah Starts Hydrogen Blending
Dominion Energy Utah (DEU) launched hydrogen blending in Delta, Utah as part of an ongoing project to explore the opportunities this zero-carbon emissions fuel has to offer. Hydrogen is a clean emerging energy source that holds enormous potential. It can be used to heat homes and buildings, power manufacturing and fuel transportation – all with few or zero emissions. When combined with natural ...
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Piedmont Natural Gas, Duke Energy remind customers to call 811 before beginning spring digging projects
National Safe Digging Month recognizes the importance of calling 811 to mark underground utility lines prior to digging and excavating. B-roll here: Piedmont Natural Gas worker locating, marking and flagging utility lines before a yard project. Video here: Learn more about how the 811 process works. April is Safe Digging Month, and Piedmont Natural Gas and Duke Energy are reminding ...
By Duke Energy
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Piedmont Natural Gas reduces average residential customer bill in Tennessee by approximately $36 per year
The decrease will be reflected beginning with customers’ April 2023 bills Combined with January and March decreases, Piedmont has reduced average residential customers’ bills by $421 per year Video here: Learn how your natural gas bill works and what factors influence your monthly bill Piedmont Natural Gas has received approval from the Tennessee Public Utility Commission to ...
By Duke Energy
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Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas celebrate natural gas employees on Natural Gas Utility Workers’ Day
March 18 spotlights natural gas employees’ role in serving nearly 187 million Americans with safe, reliable natural gas Natural gas technicians play vital role in modernizing the natural gas delivery system for growing communities and to meet the company’s net-zero methane emissions goals B-roll: Natural gas employees Duke Energy and Piedmont Natural Gas celebrate the eighth ...
By Duke Energy
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Department of Energy Announces Partnership to Accelerate Commercialization of LDES
The U.S. Department of Energy and partners this week (March 8) announced progress toward a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at accelerating the commercialization of long-duration energy storage (LDES). Parties to the MOU, announced during CERAWeek, are the U.S. Department of Energy Office of Technology Transitions, the Edison Electric Institutes' Institute for the Energy Transition, EPRI, ...
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Piedmont Natural Gas reduces average residential customer bills in the Carolinas and Tennessee
The decrease will be reflected beginning with customers’ March 2023 bills Video here: Learn how your natural gas bill works and what factors influence your monthly bill Piedmont Natural Gas has received approval from the North Carolina Utilities Commission, the Public Service Commission of South Carolina and the Tennessee Public Utility Commission to reduce customer billing rates due ...
By Duke Energy
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Biden-Harris Administration Announces $74 Million to Advance Enhanced Geothermal Systems
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Feb 8) announced a funding opportunity of up to $74 million for up to seven pilot projects that will test the efficacy and scalability of enhanced geothermal systems (EGS). Directed by the landmark Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), the pilot projects will use innovative technology and a variety of development techniques to capture the Earth's abundant ...
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