Electrical Engineering News
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New Hampshire Utility is Using Residential Batteries to Create Virtual Power Plant
Caterpillar Inc. announced this week that Liberty - New Hampshire, a local electric provider, has selected Caterpillar to supply turnkey virtual power plant (VPP) solutions for Liberty’s battery storage pilot.Under the initiative, Liberty has installed 2,600 kWh of lithium-ion battery storage at 100 homes to charge overnight when demand and rates are low, reduce peak load during times of high ...
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Regulators Approve 5-year Grid Resilience Plan for Hawaiian Electric
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved Hawaiian Electric's $190 million Climate Adaptation Transmission and Distribution Resilience Program application, which will help defend against the increasing threat of wildfires and harden its five island electric grids against severe weather-related events fueled by climate change. The decision is an essential regulatory step enabling ...
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New 46-MW Pennsylvania solar array will support utility grants for LMI residents
Four Twelve Renewables is unveiling its inaugural utility-scale solar facility in Greene Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The 46-MWDC facility, known as BE Pine, is made up of approximately 98,000 bifacial solar panels. BE Pine is the first project in Four Twelve Renewables’ portfolio. Four Twelve is an energy developer seeking to use clean, abundant natural resources to generate ...
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Clarke Energy Offer Global Battery Energy Storage System Solutions, Enhancing Renewable Energy Utilisation
Clarke Energy prides itself on offering global energy solutions; including Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS). For BESS requirements, partnering with Clarke Energy allows customers to enhance their utilisation of renewable energy, establish a reliable backup power source, decrease their environmental impact, and realise significant cost ...
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JCP&L Unveils Largest-Ever Infrastructure Upgrade Plan to Modernize New Jersey Electric Grid
FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) filed a new infrastructure improvement program with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) on Nov 9 that would strengthen the backbone of its local electric system and provide the foundation for smart grid capabilities in the future. Known as EnergizeNJ, the five-year, $935 million proposal includes key investments in ...
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Biden Administration Announces $3.5 Billion for Largest Ever Investment in America's Electric Grid
As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, a key pillar of Bidenomics, White House Infrastructure Implementation Coordinator Mitch Landrieu and Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm this week announced $3.46 billion for 58 projects across 44 states to strengthen electric grid resilience and reliability across America. Funded by the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, ...
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SMUD Announces $50 Million Grant to Support Advanced Smart Grid Technologies
This week (Oct 18), SMUD announced it's been awarded a $50 million grant from the Department of Energy Grid Deployment Office's Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership program (GRIP) for new technologies to increase reliability, efficiency and flexibility of the electric grid. SMUD's Connected Clean PowerCity project includes a cost share of $100 million and encompasses a number of ...
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Ideal Energy Designs Groundbreaking 'Agrivoltaics' Solar Array
In a pioneering initiative, Iowa State University (ISU) is embarking on a research project to explore the combination of crops and solar power. The Alliant Solar Farm at Iowa State University is a groundbreaking agrivoltaics research project merging solar power generation and agriculture to study how best to optimize land use while providing local community benefits. A new 1.75-megawatt ...
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Entergy New Orleans to Pilot Vehicle-to-Grid Chargers in N.O. East
Entergy New Orleans is piloting the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project inside of Entergy's service territory, in partnership with First Student, the largest school transportation company in North America. Entergy New Orleans will provide new electric service to support the installation of five electric vehicle chargers with V2G capabilities, and First Student will provide five electric buses. ...
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Clarke Energy Delivers Jenbacher Training to Territory Generation
At Clarke Energy, we understand that the reliability of your equipment is vital to ensuring optimum operation and, most importantly, reducing maintenance ‘down time’. Continuing our commitment of providing the highest level of after-sales assistance, we offer specialised, customer-orientated training programs which are adapted to the training and learning requirements of individual ...
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ESS Commissions First Iron Flow Battery Deployment for Sacramento Municipal Utility District
ESS Tech, Inc., a leading manufacturer of long-duration energy storage systems (LDES) for commercial and utility-scale applications, this week announced that it has completed commissioning of six Energy Warehouse™ systems delivered to the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), the nation’s sixth-largest community-owned electric service provider. The six Energy Warehouse™ systems represent ...
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ORNL Demonstrates Power of New Modeling Approach to Understand Faults in the Electric Grid
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory are leading the way in understanding the effects of electrical faults in the modern U.S. power grid.Faults are abnormal conditions in an electrical circuit that interrupt the flow of power, with the potential to cause blackouts that affect thousands of customers. Faults can be caused by equipment failure, human error, weather ...
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Utility Scorecard: Energy Efficiency Efforts Stagnating Amid Climate Crisis
Energy savings from electric utilities' efficiency programs for customers have stagnated in recent years, according to the Utility Energy Efficiency Scorecard released this week (Aug 24) by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE). The Scorecard evaluates 53 of the largest U.S. electric utilities on their incentive and other programs for energy-saving improvements and finds ...
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$11 Million Now Available in New York for Solutions Addressing Grid Challenges
Governor Kathy Hochul this week (Aug 11) announced the availability of $11 million in funding through the fourth round of the Future Grid Challenge for projects that identify solutions to the technical challenges of integrating a changing energy resource mix into the electric grid. The announcement also included more than $5 million in project awards under the third round of the challenge. ...
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SMUD Named Nation's Most Sustainable Utility in 2023 J.D. Power Index
Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) ranked first in the 2023 J.D. Power Sustainability Index, a comprehensive evaluation of the nation's largest electric utilities' customer awareness, engagement and advocacy related to their local climate sustainability programs and goals. Drawing from established J.D. Power customer satisfaction and environmental metrics, the index includes 35 of the ...
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Clarke Energy Completes Commissioning and Controller Training in Papua New Guinea for ECM
To continue Clarke Energy’s commitment to learning and technical support, South Pacific Kohler Technical Support Manager, Ty Martin, recently delivered specialised training to our Papua New Guinea Channel Partners, ECM (Electrical Construction & Management) service technicians. ECM is a trusted electrical contracting company, which services all areas of electrical construction and ...
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Biden Administration Makes $11 Billion Investment to Advance Clean Energy Across Rural America
The U.S. this week (May 16) announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help rural energy and utility providers bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities across the country. This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in ...
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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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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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FPL Delivers Best Reliability Among All Major Electric Utilities in Florida
Florida Power & Light Company again offered the most reliable electric service of the state's major utilities in 2022, with customers seeing a 41% improvement since 2006. In annual reports filed Wednesday with the Florida Public Service Commission, FPL was best in the state in key industry metrics such as the average amount of time a customer experienced an outage; the average number of ...
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