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A combination of improved business outlooks, stabilizing rates and improved communications have helped business customer satisfaction with electric utilities significantly increase this year. According to the J.D. Power 2024 Electric Utility Business Customer Satisfaction Study, released this week, overall business customer satisfaction with electric utilities has increased 30 points (on a ...
Large-scale renewable energy and battery energy storage projects have a pivotal role as the United States moves to a clean energy system. Where and how these facilities are sited is a complex process that involves many considerations and parties.To further support state and local governments and Tribal nations with this process, the U.S. Department of Energy is seeking applications from ...
PA Consulting, the global innovation and transformation consultancy, announced Con Edison is the winner of its 2024 National ReliabilityOne Award for providing the most reliable electric service in the nation. PA Consulting also selected Con Edison for its for Outstanding Reliability Performance in the Northeast Region Metropolitan Service Area.“Con Edison has provided New Yorkers with reliable ...
This week, Reliant and GM Energy are rolling out a new electricity plan that will enable Chevrolet EV drivers to receive free nighttime charging. The collaboration will accelerate the clean energy journey for the two companies and their customers as Reliant and GM Energy work cross-industry to leverage their strengths.“With a reputation for bringing innovative new plans and products to market, ...
Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) is deploying Atomic Canyon's artificial intelligence-powered solutions for the nuclear energy sector at PG&E's Diablo Canyon Power Plant. This marks the inaugural commercial installation of the first on-site generative AI deployment at a U.S. nuclear power plant.Atomic Canyon's Neutron Enterprise generative AI solution, built and running on NVIDIA's ...
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 ...
Georgia Power leaders joined elected officials from the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC), Georgia legislature, and Talbot and Muscogee counties on Thursday to mark commercial operation of the company’s first “grid-connected” battery energy storage system (BESS). The Mossy Branch Battery Facility is capable of 65 megawatts of battery storage that can be deployed back to the grid over a ...
One year on from the historic global pledge at COP28 to double the rate of energy efficiency improvements by 2030, new analysis from the IEA shows that countries are not yet on track for this goal, requiring stronger action and cooperation to align with their stated ambitions. Energy Efficiency 2024, the IEA’s annual report on energy efficiency developments around the world, finds that ...
No two hydropower facilities are the same. They all work similarly by harnessing the power of rushing water to spin turbines and generators, which in turn creates electricity. But their differences—in size, age or mechanical parts—means there’s no one answer that can solve every problem that arises. “Hydropower facilities are like snowflakes; even individual turbines ...
A new report from Global Market Insights focused on the thermal energy storage (TES) market finds that the segment was valued at USD 47.5 billion in 2023 and is estimated to grow at a CAGR of 6.7% from 2024 to2032. The main driver for this is the growing adoption of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind. Thermal energy storage systems help mitigate the intermittent nature of these ...
ENGIE North America (ENGIE) and Meta announced they recently completed an Environmental Attributes Purchase Agreement (EAPA) for ENGIE to supply 260 MW of renewable energy and associated environmental attributes from its Sypert Branch solar project in Milam County Texas to support Meta’s growing power needs in line with its net zero goals. Meta will purchase 100% of the 260 MW ...
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 ...
The U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Electricity and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy this week announced selections for four groundbreaking high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission research and development projects that will help affordably integrate more renewable energy generation onto the grid via HVDC lines. The approximately $11 million program, called the ...
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 ...
Southern Company, Georgia Institute of Technology, Smart Wires, and other partners have announced that they are collaborating on a new U.S. Department of Energy-funded project. Scheduled for 2025, the project will jointly implement advanced power flow control (APFC) and dynamic line rating (DLR) technologies to support the connection ofrenewable energy sources and new demand more quickly.This ...
PSE&G this week announced the approval of its Clean Energy Future - Energy Efficiency II Program (CEF-EE II) by the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU). Spanning from January 2025 to June 2027, this next program cycle is designed to continue delivering energy efficiency programs and measures to help New Jersey residents and businesses save energy, reduce utility costs and lower ...
Geotherm-FORMA has released a report on the recent market developments in geothermal technologies and the outlook for the market in 2030. In the executive summary of this report, Geothermal-FORMA states that due to the war in Ukraine and the high level of inflation in the European economy (leading to higher interest rater and lower building construction and renovation rates), the energy ...
A final report and factsheet for ISO New England’s Economic Planning for the Clean Energy Transition (EPCET) study—the latest in a series of ISO initiatives examining the future grid—are now available online.The ISO issued a draft report on the study in August, and the final version incorporates additional stakeholder feedback. The factsheet summarizes the findings in a two-page format. EPCET ...
The Western Energy Imbalance Market (WEIM), which commemorates its 10th anniversary next month, is reporting that it has achieved $6.25 billion in cumulative economic savings for market participants, while also providing increasingly significant energy transfers to support reliability across the West.During the third quarter, which saw two significant heat waves that affected California and much ...
EPRI this week announced the launch of a new initiative—DCFlex—to explore how data centers can support the electric grid, enable better asset utilization, and support the clean energy transition. The initiative’s founding members include Compass Datacenters, Constellation Energy, Duke Energy, the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT), Google, Meta, New York Power Authority, NRG Energy, ...