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NREL Collaborates with Holy Cross Energy To Demonstrate New Control Paradigms and Models for Integration of Grid-Friendly Distributed Energy Resources
A cross-cutting team composed of NREL, Holy Cross Energy, Survalent, and the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association is studying approaches to integrating grid-friendly distributed energy resources (DERs).The collaboration will test the benefits of control algorithms as applied to data acquired from Holy Cross Energy's distribution management system.While most large, investor-owned ...
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California PUC Issues Draft Distributed Energy Resources Action Plan
The California Public Utilities Commission on July 23 issued a Draft Distributed Energy Resources Action Plan 2.0, intended to coordinate development and implementation of policy, and will host a public workshop to discuss the draft and solicit comments.Distributed energy resources include rooftop solar and other distributed renewable generation resources, energy storage, electric vehicles, time ...
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New supply partners for biggest wind energy distribution portal
Exactly on schedule to coincide with the beginning of the repair season, the online distribution platform WINDSOURCING.COM has further expanded its position as the leading global sales portal for product and service offerings in wind energy. Its product range from components, spare parts and repair equipment has further grown to around 15,000 items. Forming part of it now is the entire wind ...
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Hawaiian Electric Utilities Accelerates the Connection of New Distributed Energy Resources with GridUnity
GridUnity, a pioneer in distributed energy analytics software-as-a-service, recently announced Hawaiian Electric’s rapid expansion of its software to help the three electric utilities efficiently and reliably connect new distributed energy resources (DER) to the grid. The Hawaiian Electric utilities are methodically transforming and automating their operations to reach the target of 100% ...
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Renewable energy distributed through integrated Europe-wide grid
A new report makes recommendations on how to develop a fully integrated, pan-European grid that can secure reliable electricity for the future while incorporating more renewable energy. The EU has set a target which states that a 20 per cent share of energy should come from renewable sources by 2020 1. Electricity systems will have to incorporate more renewable energy from a variety of sources, ...
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New Primer Helps Regulators, Stakeholders Adopt New IEEE Standard for Distributed Energy Resources
This week, the Interstate Renewable Energy Council (IREC) published Making the Grid Smarter: State Primer on Adopting the New IEEE Standard 1547™-2018 for Distributed Energy Resources. IREC’s new resource will help states, regulators and other stakeholders navigate the related technical and policy issues they will need to address in the next few years. This important national standard ...
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Clarke Energy wins Decentralised & Distributed PowerGen Award for SAARC
Clarke Energy’s operation in India has won the “Decentralised & Distributed PowerGen Award for SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation)” for its contribution to the sector, operating in India & Bangladesh. The ceremony took place on Saturday 1st December 2018 in Surat, Gujurat and is India and South Asia’s awards for excellence in ...
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World Bank loans US$42m to improve energy services in Dominican Republic
The World Bank Board of Directors this week approved a loan of US$42 million for the Electricity Distribution Rehabilitation Project to improve service for customers of the energy distribution companies EdeNorte, EdeSur, and EdeEste in the Dominican Republic. “This project will help reduce both technical losses and energy theft on the EDEs’ rehabilitated power circuits, as well as improve the ...
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NARUC Releases Final Distributed Energy Resources Manual
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners has released the final publication of its manual, Distributed Energy Resources Rate Design and Compensation. The manual was an undertaking of NARUC's Staff Subcommittee on Rate Design. Work on the manual began at the November 2015 NARUC Annual Meeting, with direction to the subcommittee to draft a distributed energy resources manual to ...
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Voltus Exceeds Its Demand Response Commitment to MISO Grid During June Extreme Weather Event
Voltus, Inc., a leading distributed energy resource (DER) technology company and DER aggregator, this week reported that it delivered more than its commitment during the June 10th Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) Load Modifying Resource (LMR) demand response event. LMR was called by MISO in response to unplanned generator outages and higher than expected electricity demand linked ...
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FERC Proposes to Integrate Electricity Storage into Organized Markets
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on November 17 proposed to more effectively integrate electric storage resources into organized wholesale markets to enhance competition and help ensure that these markets produce just and reasonable rates. The proposal stems from concerns that electric storage resources may face barriers that limit them from participating in organized wholesale ...
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Itron and Schneider Electric Join Forces to Modernize and Simplify Energy Distribution
Itron, Inc. and Schneider Electric are collaborating to improve energy and grid management for utilities as homeowners and businesses increasingly adopt distributed energy resources (DER)—like rooftop solar, battery energy storage, electric vehicles and microgrids—at the grid edge. In a stepwise approach, the companies will integrate their intelligent grid and DER management solutions to ...
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Atlantic Canada to Invest in New Digital Grid Technologies and Expand Smart Grid Network
The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is undertaking a five-year research initiative to address the complex technical, regulatory, and social issues involved in moving from conventional electric power systems to digital, or smart, grids. The Atlantic Digital Grid project will result in a number of new tools and technologies for energy distribution, analysis, threat detection, infrastructure, and ...
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OMNETRIC Group Releases Research on Prospects for Community Energy Within The New Energy Economy
OMNETRIC Group has found that across Europe and the US, communities have a growing appetite and competence for managing their own energy distribution, in a trend coined "Community Energy", as detailed in a new research whitepaper released today. The company is urging utilities to respond to the interest from community energy leaders and apply reciprocal effort if the community energy economy is ...
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Bangladesh Customer Launch event success
This week Clarke Energy hosted a launch event for customers to be served by our new operations in Bangladesh. The event took place on the 3rd of October at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Dhaka. The event was a resounding success with a turnout of approximately 200 customers from the independent power producer and captive power plant segments, a number which was in excess of expectations. ...
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NewsBreak - Solar generation, storage project near completion in Glenwood Springs
The company developing a solar array and battery facility at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs campus said the project is nearly complete and will be operational this fall. The 22-acre, 4.5-megawatt project is “Colorado’s largest solar array and battery storage facility of its kind,” said Ameresco, the Massachusetts-based renewable energy ...
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Clean Energy Live & New Products
Evolving from Solar Energy UK’s previous energy+ brand and 6-years of continuous show growth, this year’s show heralds an exciting new era where Solar Energy UK evolves into a broader exhibition – Clean Energy Live, opening up new market segments and bringing whole building energy solutions and centralised to distributed energy to the mainstream. SolaX Power will be launching a ...
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CPower Clears Approximately 30 Percent of Demand Response Capacity Commitments in PJM Capacity Auction
CPower Energy Management on June 8 announced that it has secured more than 30 percent of the cleared demand response capacity commitments in PJM Interconnection's Reliability Pricing Model (RPM) Base Residual Auction for the 2022/2023 delivery year. The results represent a substantial increase for CPower, who has for the last few years cleared around 20 percent of PJM's available RPM demand ...
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CPower and EnergyHub Partner on Residential Virtual Power Plant for Ameren Customers
CPower Energy, a national Distributed Energy Resource (DER) monetization and Virtual Power Plant (VPP) provider, and EnergyHub, a grid-edge flexibility and VPP provider to utilities and markets, this week launched a new residential VPP partnership available to 1.2 million Ameren Illinois customers in more than 1,200 communities across Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO), the U.S. ...
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ScottMadden and Smart Electric Power Alliance Join in Reviewing California and New York Energy Markets
ScottMadden Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, and the Smart Electric Power Alliance (SEPA) released a joint report that focuses on approaches that California and New York are taking to integrate distributed energy resources (DERs) into the grid. The report describes key similarities and differences in the two jurisdictions in areas such as interconnection, hosting ...
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