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Consumers Energy’s investment in smart technology for Michigan’s electric grid is paying off, keeping the lights on for over 72,000 customers who would have otherwise lost power at some point this year.Devices known as automatic transfer reclosers, or ATRs, have provided this benefit to customers. They’re an example of a leading-edge technology that detects a power outage remotely and, like ...
SolaX Power (SHA:688717) has announced plans to invest USD 1.498 billion (EUR 1.351bn) in constructing a research and manufacturing facility in Zhejiang, eastern China, focused on utility energy storage and integrated smart energy systems that combine solar power, storage, heating, and electric vehicle (EV) charging. The investment is motivated by the increasing demand for efficient energy ...
DTE Energy announced this week a significant milestone in its commitment to improving energy reliability for its customers. Through the implementation of smart grid technology, DTE has prevented nearly 5,000 power interruptions and more than 1.8 million minutes without power for customers so far in 2024.“We're dedicated to reducing power outages by 30% while cutting outage durations in half by ...
Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) are fast becoming essential components of overall smart energy approaches, not only inside public grids and at consumers’ premises, but they are now also adopted by Commercial and Industrial (C&I) enterprises as key building blocks of their smart energy strategies. According to a new report from ABI Research, the worldwide aggregated battery storage ...
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Jan 4) announced up to $70 million in funding to support research into technologies designed to increase resilience and reduce risks to energy delivery infrastructure from a variety of hazards, including cyber and physical threats, natural disasters, and climate-change fueled extreme weather events. This new competitive funding opportunity will be ...
Clarke Energy is pleased to announce it has joined the North East Clean Energy Council (NECEC). NECEC “leads the just, equitable, and rapid transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. NECEC is the only organization in the Northeast that covers clean energy market segments, representing the business perspectives of investors and clean energy companies across every ...
Approved by Cabinet yesterday (6 December), the council will enter a joint venture with Ameresco Limited, and Vattenfall Heat UK as an essential subcontractor, to transform the way the city generates, distributes, stores and uses energy. The ground-breaking venture, known as Bristol City Leap, will rapidly increase the scale and pace of investment in low carbon energy infrastructure such as wind ...
The Mobility House, in collaboration with partners including AlphaStruxure and Schneider Electric, this week celebrated the completion and energizing of Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot in Montgomery County, Maryland. This integrated 6.5 MW microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project uses onsite solar canopies, natural gas generators, battery storage, microgrid controls and ...
Delta Electronics (Americas), Ltd., a subsidiary of Delta Electronics, Inc. and a leader in power and thermal management technologies and provider of smart energy-saving solutions, this week demonstrated a next-generation SiC MOSFET solid state transformer (SST)-based 400kW extreme fast EV charger to its U.S. DOE grant program partners General Motors (GM), DTE Energy, NextEnergy, Virginia Tech's ...
Enphase Energy, Inc., a global energy technology company that notes it is the world's leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, announced this week a new agreement with Home Connect, an open digital platform that allows home appliances of various brands to be managed with a single app. ...
Judges of the prestigious H&V News Awards nominated Switch2's Greenwich Millennium Village heat network retrofit as 'District Heating Project of the Year', while the company's ICON connected heat interface unit (HIU) has been shortlisted for 'Domestic Heating Product of the Year' award. Switch2's design, build and operate ESCo partnership with Greenwich Millennium Village Limited (GMVL) is ...
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) this week announced up to $30 million in funding is being made available in the third round of the Future Grid Challenge for projects that identify solutions to the technical challenges of integrating renewable resources into the electric grid. Up to $3 million per project is available for single or team providers that propose ...
Eco Wave Power Global AB (publ) (Nasdaq Capital Market: WAVE) (“Eco Wave Power” or the “Company”) is pleased to announce that the U.S. President Joe Biden and Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer are promoting a $369 billion renewable energy bill. The proposed legislation, under the name the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, would mark the nation’s largest federal ...
Nuvve Holding Corp. and Swell Energy Inc. this week announced they are launching a strategic engagement to advance opportunities for electric vehicle participation in Swell's virtual power plant (VPP) network. Together, the companies aim to advance distributed energy resource (DER) management technology in both residential and commercial markets. Nuvve notes that this collaboration will expand ...
National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) and Octopus Energy are launching a pioneering real-time project in the UK to determine if flexibility in household electricity can help better match supply and demand on the electricity grid this winter.The domestic flexibility trial will assess the role households can play during periods of high demand. It will run for almost 2 months from February ...
Honeywell and FREYR Battery announced this week they have signed an agreement pursuant to which FREYR will, subject to viability, leverage Honeywell's leading technology offerings, including integrated automation, field instrumentation and security integration solutions in their manufacturing process. As part of the collaboration, Honeywell will purchase 19 GWh of battery cells produced by FREYR ...
Flexible energy provider, PearlX Infrastructure LLC, and global leader in smart energy technology, SolarEdge Technologies, Inc., are collaborating on a series of first-in-kind residential clean energy projects for renters throughout Texas. Dubbed "Project TexFlex", the program deploys innovative community solar & storage virtual power plants (VPPs), enabling communities in the region to ...
As the energy transition accelerates, the residential sector is investing in smart energy management technology to help homeowners manage their power usage, lower their energy costs and lessen their impact on the environment. ...
Virtual Peaker, a cloud-based energy management platform, has partnered with Enel X, the Enel Group's advanced energy services business line, to offer smart home energy solutions to utilities and their customers from coast to coast. ...
REA welcomes the 2021 update to the Smart Energy System and Flexibility Plan; REA’s calls for longer duration energy storage call for evidence and reform to grid governance systems successful; Plan must be refined and implemented as soon as possible to help meet UK’s Net Zero targets. The Association for Renewable Energy and Clean Technology’s (REA) has welcomed ...