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Counting on the Sun for Another 400+ Megawatts of Energy In Wisconsin

Alliant Energy recently announced plans to add another 414 megawatts of solar in Wisconsin. This rounds out the company's previously announced plan to accelerate its transition to clean energy by adding more than 1,000 MW of solar while helping customers avoid more than $2 billion in long-term costs. Upon completion of their more than 1,000 MW of solar, Alliant Energy will own and operate the ...

Apr. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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Intertrust Launches CleanGrid Toolkit for Energy Data Applications

Intertrust this week announced CleanGrid -- a new Intertrust Platform toolkit that helps energy companies and their vendors develop data-driven energy applications. The toolkit leverages Intertrust Platform's innovative features -- including data virtualization and data interoperability, data governance and secure execution environments -- and helps energy companies support consumer protection, ...

Apr. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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North Sea Power: New GE Plant Will Make 107-Meter-Long Wind Blades In The U.K.

A new GE plant in northeast England will make the world’s longest wind turbine blades to date. Measuring 107 meters from tip to root, the blades are a key component of GE’s Haliade-X, the most powerful offshore wind turbine in operation. LM Wind Power, a subsidiary of GE Renewable Energy, will build the plant in Teesside, an industrial port on England’s North Sea coast. Workers ...

Mar. 11, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Results from the Energy Transition Project DESIGNETZ Presented

After more than four years of research and development work, the DESIGNETZ project (part of the SINTEG funding program), funded by the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy and led by E.ON, presented its results today. 46 project partners have been working together since the beginning of 2017 in the model regions of North Rhine-Westphalia, Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland to ...

Apr. 12, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020

Global renewable energy capacity additions in 2020 beat earlier estimates and all previous records despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data released this week by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) the world added more than 260 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50 per cent. ...

Apr. 7, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Puget Sound Energy Selects Landis+Gyr for Smart Street Lighting Controls

Landis+Gyr and Puget Sound Energy have agreed to a contract that adds street light control capabilities to the utility's smart grid and AMI program. Using Landis+Gyr's Gridstream AMI network, PSE plans to deploy 25,000 street light controllers over the next five years. The smart controllers will perform a variety of functions, including control of lighting intensity to boost energy efficiency ...

Apr. 1, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

MGM Transformer gaining new customers: Simplex

Simplex designs and manufactures Load Banks and Fuel Supply systems for power generation and liquid automation for mission critical environments in manufacturing, technology, transportation, hospitals, schools, public utilities and the U.S. military. Simplex purchases highly engineered medium voltage open core/coil units for placement into Simplex enclosures. These have historically been provided ...

Mar. 26, 2021

By MGM Transformer Company

Groundbreaking NREL Analysis Points to No-Regrets Pathways to Meet LA

Meeting Los Angeles' ambitious goal of reliable, 100% renewable electricity by 2045 or even 2035 is achievable with rapid deployment of wind, solar, storage, and other renewable energy technologies this decade, according to a years-long analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The combined effects of energy efficiency, electrification, and demand ...

Mar. 25, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

C-Power Expands Renewable, Autonomous Offshore Power System With RigNet’s Data and Communication Solutions

Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. (C-Power) and RigNet, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNET), a leading provider of ultra-secure telecommunications and intelligent networking solutions, today announced a collaboration in which RigNet will provide a comprehensive set of data and communications solutions for C-Power’s autonomous offshore power systems (AOPS). The solutions will provide upstream and downstream ...

Mar. 23, 2021

By Columbia Power Technologies, Inc

Legend Power Secures 10 SmartGATE Insights Engagements in Manhattan, New York

Legend Power Systems (TSX-V: LPS and OTCQB: LPSIF), a global leader in commercial electrical system solutions, today announced that a major multifamily residential property owner has engaged Legend Power® to perform 10 Insight Assessments at a 1,200 unit apartment complex in New York City. The multi-building complex is operated by one of New York City’s largest privately-owned ...

Mar. 18, 2021

By Legend Power Systems Inc.

EV Connect Pilots First Vehicle-to-Grid Charging Project in the Midwest

EV Connect, a California-based software-as-a-service company, announced its collaboration with the Indiana-based Battery Innovation Center (BIC) and Energy Systems Network (ESN) to deploy Indiana's first large-scale Vehicle-to-Grid capable charging system to support school bus fleet, HD truck, and other customer segment applications. EV Connect will provide its electric vehicle charging ...

Mar. 17, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Quitting Coal – Centrica set to replace one of final NHS coal fired boilers

The £2.7m project will see the installation of a new super-efficient Combined Heat and Power (CHP) unit to replace the existing coal fired boiler plant and redundant CHP unit at Goole Hospital. The new 150kWe CHP will provide the power needs for the hospital, while upgraded pumps, controls, LED lighting and improved insulation will see carbon emissions at the Trust reduced by around 1,700 ...

Mar. 17, 2021

By Centrica Business Solutions

Wärtsilä to Supply and Maintain Two Major Interconnected Energy Storage Systems for Texas Grid Services

The technology group Wärtsilä will supply its advanced energy storage technology for two major projects in southern Texas, USA. The interconnected stand-alone systems will have a combined rated capacity of 200 MW. Wärtsilä has also signed ten-year guaranteed asset performance agreements for the installations. The order was placed by Able Grid Energy Solutions, a utility-scale ...

Mar. 16, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Legend Power Systems Emerges as a Top Provider of Active Power Management in Recent 3rd Party Study

Legend Power Systems (TSX-V: LPS, OTC: LPSIF), a global leader in commercial electrical system solutions, today announced that the Company is recognized as a top provider of Active Power Management Systems in a recent study published by Emergent Urban Concepts and Integral Energy, with contributions from the Building Electrification Institute. The whitepaper, Active Power Management at the Grid ...

Mar. 16, 2021

By Legend Power Systems Inc.

California Releases Report Charting Path to 100 Percent Clean Electricity

The California Energy Commission (CEC), California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and California Air Resources Board (CARB) this week (March 15) released the first joint agency report and a summary document examining how the state's electricity system can become carbon free by 2045. The report is the initial analysis called for in Senate Bill 100 (SB 100, De León, Chapter 312, ...

Mar. 16, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Legend Power Secures 15 SmartGATE Insights Engagements and Follow-on Sale of SmartGATE Platform to Large Ontario Multifamily Residential Property Owner

Legend Power Systems (TSX-V: LPS and OTCQB: LPSIF), a global leader in commercial electrical system solutions, today announced that a major multifamily residential property owner has engaged Legend Power to assess 15 additional properties with SmartGATE Insights, including new properties under construction. The customer also ordered another SmartGATE™ Platform, representing the fourth of ...

Mar. 10, 2021

By Legend Power Systems Inc.

SolarWindow First-Ever: Electricity-Generating Flexible Glass Using High-Speed Manufacturing Process

SolarWindow Technologies, Inc. (Symbol: WNDW), today announced that for the first time ever, the Company has successfully produced its electricity-generating flexible glass using roll-to-roll processing, a high-speed method typical to commercial manufacturing of tinted window films, digital displays, printed electronics, and semiconductors. As thin as a business card, flexible sheets of ...

Mar. 10, 2021

By Solarwindow Technologies Inc

AutoGrid Deploys AutoGrid Flex for Total

AutoGrid, a provider of AI-powered flexibility management software for the energy industry, has deployed the company's AutoGrid Flex Virtual Power Plant (VPP) platform to provide frequency regulation capabilities to Total SE for its largest battery-based energy storage project in France, a 25MW/25MWh lithium-ion system at the Flandres Center in Dunkirk's port district. The AutoGrid Flex ...

Mar. 8, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Switch2 launches new compliance service for updated heat network regulations

Switch2 Energy has launched its new Meter2Bill service to help district heating suppliers comply with major updates to the Heat Network (Metering and Billing) Regulations. The updated legislation, which came into force on 27 November 2020, introduces a new legal requirement to install final customer meters on existing unmetered networks, where demonstrated to be viable. This is already ...

Mar. 8, 2021

By Switch2 Energy Limited

CPUC Proposal Would Continue Efforts To Help Ensure Grid Reliability This Summer

The California Public Utilities Commission recently (March 5) issued a proposal that would require utilities to implement a suite of programs to decrease energy demand and increase energy supply during critical hours of the day. The goal is to ensure reliability in the case of an extreme heat event in the summers of 2021 and 2022. The proposal is the most recent action in a proceeding the CPUC ...

Mar. 8, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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