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NorthWestern Energy Signs Contract with Itron to Modernize Energy Grid
Itron recently has announced that the company signed a contract with NorthWestern Energy (NWE) to modernize its electric and gas systems in South Dakota and Nebraska with Itron's OpenWay Riva IoT solution. NWE provides electricity and natural gas in the Upper Midwest and Northwest, serving approximately 718,300 customers in Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. With the solution, NWE aims to ...
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New IEA report provides practical roadmap to address Iraq’s current electricity shortfall and future energy needs
one of the world's biggest energy producers, can address its current electricity shortfall and growing power needs through immediate action to relieve pressure on the system, according to an in-depth report published Thursday by the International Energy Agency. It also provides a medium-term strategy that makes the best use of the country’s abundant oil and natural gas resources and solar ...
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New Reports Forecast Rapid Growth in the Electrification of Transport and Heat
SSE's networks business, Scottish and Southern Electricity Networks (SSEN) Distribution, has published two reports forecasting the impact of a net zero future in the north of Scotland and central southern England. In SSEN's distribution area alone the reports project that the number of electric vehicles will increase from 30,000 today to over 5 million, and heat pumps from 32,000 to over 2.47m. ...
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TINAs: Examining the potential of marine energy, carbon capture, electricity networks and storage
Low carbon technologies have been put under the spotlight with the publication of three in-depth reports into key areas of innovation. This new analysis, under the Technology Innovation Needs Assessments (TINAs), delves into marine energy, electricity networks and storage, and Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS). It examines the commercial potential and key economic benefits of these technologies ...
By Carbon Trust
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From power grids to heartbeat: Using mathematics to restore rhythm
When a rhythm stalls, the effect can be fatal – in a power grid it can mean a blackout, and in the human heart even death. An international team of scientists has now developed a new approach for revoking these undesired quenching states. They use an advanced mathematical methodology, building on complex networks analysis, and demonstrate it in experiments with chemical reactions. This ...
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Oracle Announces Oracle Utilities Network Management System 1.11
Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) News Facts Extending Oracle's smart grid capabilities, Oracle Utilities Network Management System 1.11 offers new modeling and analysis features to improve distribution-grid management for electric utilities. The new modeling enhancements provide real-time views of grid activity to help properly align electricity generation with demand. Understanding potential outcomes ...
By Oracle
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As India Recovers From the Largest Blackout In History, New Focus is Brought to the Potential of the Smart Grid to Help Meter, Forecast, and Control Power Demand and Distribution
Last week, northern India experienced two tremendous power outages, including one of the most widespread in history, with more than 620 million people losing power for several hours or more. While it will still be weeks or months before the whole story is told, an overstressed, outdated, fragile power grid is being described as an early suspect for the root of the problem. The nature of the ...
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