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The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy, this week announced up to a total of just under $10 million for six projects to improve state and regional engagement in wholesale electricity markets. The Wholesale Electricity Market Studies and Engagement (WEMSE) Program provides funding to states and regions related to developing, expanding, or improving wholesale ...
“New York’s grid infrastructure is the backbone of energy distribution and we must maintain its reliability and resiliency to withstand extreme weather events,” Governor Hochul said. ...
Last week, ATC published its new 10-year assessment, which identifies needs for electric grid improvements for the next decade throughout the company’s service area. ATC sees an increased need for electric grid infrastructure investment, based mainly on the evolving energy landscape, integration of renewable generation and large new load requests.The plan outlines needed investments of:$1.8 ...
BluWave-ai announced this week the company completed Canada’s first AI-Driven demand response events using a managed pool of connected electric vehicles charging in the utility grid during Q3 2024. This milestone was achieved using BluWave-ai EV Everywhere™ deployed at Hydro Ottawa, first announced in April 2022.Subscribed EV owners in the City of Ottawa actively participated in multiple weekly ...
NRG Energy Inc. this week announced it is partnering with Renew Home, a leading virtual power plant (VPP) company to boost its residential VPP capabilities. Together, NRG and Renew Home aim to distribute hundreds of thousands of VPP-enabled smart thermostats by 2035 and create a nearly 1 GW AI-powered VPP - enabled by Google Cloud technology - to improve the Texas grid's resiliency and help ...
This week's announcement underscores the State’s commitment to investing in and scaling up a variety of clean energy technologies to improve affordability, reliability, and resiliency of energy consumption and distribution across the ...
This First-of-its-kind 11.7Mwe Energy Asset plant in the U.S. will be powered by co-located LFG-to-Electric Plant Facility is designed to reduce 62,000 metric tons of carbon emissions annually while increasing energy resiliency and supporting California’s renewable energy and decarbonization goals Ameresco, Inc., (NYSE: AMRC), a leading cleantech integrator specializing in energy ...
RMP is also the only vertically-integrated utility in the U.S. that has directly integrated their specialized behind-the-meter battery VPP into their grid operating system, without a distributed energy resources management system (DERMS) solution in the middle, while dispatching the battery fleet every day, deploying up to eight genuine grid ...
Voltus, Inc., a leading virtual power plant operator and distributed energy resource platform, this week announced that its platform will save customers between $98,000 to $279,000 per MW-year in generation and transmission capacity charges in the PJM Interconnection. Last month, PJM published a nearly tenfold increase in capacity prices year-over-year, driving urgency for customers to actively ...
On July 22, 2024, the U.S. Department of Energy announced up to $65 million for Connected Communities 2.0, a funding opportunity announcement (FOA) to drive innovation to manage growing building, transportation, and industrial electric loads on the grid. This FOA seeks to validate grid-edge technology innovations in real-world situations and provide new tools for utilities, grid planners and ...
Sunrun, a leading provider of clean energy as a subscription service, is now operating the first vehicle-to-home power plant in the U.S. using a small group of customer-owned bidirectional electric vehicles. In partnership with Maryland’s largest utility, Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE), a subsidiary of Exelon Corporation, the regulator-approved initiative utilizes all-electric Ford ...
By Caitlin McDermott-Murphy, NRELThe grid needs to change.To electrify everything from vehicles to heating systems to stovetops, the U.S. grid must expand by about 57% and get more flexible, too. Solar and wind energy are the renewables most likely to dominate a future clean energy grid. But they are found primarily in remote areas, far from the hubs that need their power.And that is a problem. ...
“Solar panels, battery storage, and other energy resources located in homes and businesses can provide significant relief for Texans who are disconnected from the grid,” said Matt Boms, TAEBA’s Executive Director. ...
The U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) announced plans to award $3.15 million to 12 American component suppliers and manufacturers of small- and medium-sized wind turbines as a part of the 2024 Competitiveness Improvement Project (CIP). These selections will advance distributed wind turbine technology through testing and commercialization, providing more ...
In anticipation of the increasing digitalisation of the energy sector, SolarPower Europe have published a new position paper on cybersecurity (here). Alongside the position paper, SolarPower Europe has issued an accompanying statement. Dries Acke, Deputy CEO of SolarPower Europe (he/him): “The digitalisation of the energy sector is a no-brainer. It increases power plant efficiency and ...
The initiative underscores OE's commitment to ensuring a reliable, resilient, and secure electricity system amid growing integration of renewable energy sources and distributed energy resources (DERs)."These projects are essential for making our electric grid stronger and more secure," said Gene Rodrigues, ...
Con Edison and its customers continue to make progress in the transition to a clean energy future, according to the first quarter (Q1) update for 2024 released this week by the company. Among the highlights, in the last year, Con Edison customers have increased their rooftop solar capacity by 18 percent, adding 92 megawatts.Clean Energy CommitmentCon Edison notes that the company's major ...
As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more entrenched in our 24/7 digital economy, the demand for power could surge from the data centers processing AI. According to a new study released this week (May 29) by EPRI, data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030 more than double the amount currently used. This could create regional supply challenges, among other ...
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) and Wind Energy Technologies Office (WETO) recently announced the Solar Technologies’ Rapid Integration and Validation for Energy Systems (STRIVES) funding opportunity, which will provide up to $31 million for research, development, and demonstration projects to improve power systems simulation software tools. These tools are ...
In 2025, the BCM will be connected to the microgrid at the nearby Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) to create one of the nation’s first utility operated microgrid clusters, enabling a sharing of resources and enhanced resilience to grid disturbances.“This project is the culmination of nearly a decade of work with the Department of Energy, ComEd, and ...