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As Bulgaria accelerates its energy transition aligned with the European Green Deal and its national decarbonization strategy, the importance of renewable energy and advanced storage solutions has never been greater. Committed to achieving climate neutrality by 2050 and boosting the share of renewables in its energy mix, Bulgaria is actively pursuing reliable, scalable, and efficient technologies ...
Three universities are joining forces to tackle a critical engineering skills gap in the U.S. Their collaboration will address the efficiency, reliability, and resilience of electrical grid operations and safeguard stable electrical service for consumers.The collaborative effort among POWER Engineers, Inc. (POWER), POWER Foundation, Cleveland State University, Faculty of Technical Sciences, ...
A new study from The Brattle Group, with support from the Southern Renewable Energy Association (SREA), the Carolinas Clean Energy Business Association (CCEBA), and the Clean Energy Buyers Association (CEBA), reveals that the Southeast must modernize its approach to investing in its regional power grid infrastructure to support economic growth, energy affordability, and long-term resilience.The ...
Smart Wires this week announced it has raised $65 million to propel its growth and meet rising energy needs exacerbated by the appetite for electricity from data centers and the rise of artificial intelligence. The funding includes new investments from BP Energy Partners alongside significant contributions from Keystone Group.Smart Wires’ grid-enhancing technologies (GETs), such as the ...
This week, the U.S. Department of Energy announced $32 million for six selected pilot projects that will support new load growth through grid-edge innovations and the ability of energy providers to right-size grid investments for future load growth. These Connected Communities projects in eight states will also provide new strategies and tools for utilities, grid planners and operators, ...
New patents to integrate artificial intelligence into power grids have grown sixfold in recent years, with the United States and China leading the way in AI for smart grid development, according to a new study by the European Patent Office (EPO) and the International Energy Agency (IEA).The report, Patents for Enhanced Electricity Grids, shows how patents for electricity grid technologies have ...
This week marks the meteorological end of the very active 2024 Atlantic hurricane season. During this unprecedented storm season, Hurricanes Debby, Helene and Milton caused significant impacts across the state of Florida. Florida Power & Light Company (FPL) responded swiftly to each storm, restoring power to impacted customers in a matter of days. Additionally, FPL’s enhancements to the ...
DTE Energy this week announced the construction of three new electric substations as part of the company’s ongoing commitment to reducing power outage frequency by 30% while cutting outage time in half by 2029.The new substations will be in Northville Township, Pontiac and Shelby Township and represent a total investment of more than $100 million."We're not just building for today — we're ...
Trilliant, a provider of solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI), smart grid, smart cities and IIoT, has announced a North America partnership with Sense, a leader in embedded intelligence that transforms the relationship between people, homes, and the grid, to help utilities more efficiently deploy edge analytics at scale.Trilliant will embed Sense’s grid edge technology into their ...
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 ...
sonnen, a leader in smart energy storage and virtual power plant (VPP) technology and ES Solar, a contractor renowned for their leadership in establishing a grid harmonized VPP business model for solar and energy storage, this week announced initial results following the launch of their “Go Back” program, an innovative new VPP business model enabled by Rocky Mountain Power (RMP), targeting ...
Faced with the challenge of electric grid modernization, many have called for supporting utility managers and operators with artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools that can remove some of their decision-making burden. Understandably, utilities are cautious in adopting new technologies when the consequences of failure are costly and could affect customers. Additionally, the ...
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 ...
In support of the Biden-Harris Administration's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (Aug 6) announced a $2.2 billion investment in the nation's grid for eight projects across 18 states to protect against growing threats of extreme weather events, lower costs for communities, and catalyze additional grid capacity to meet load growth stemming from an increase in ...
Ericsson this week announced a landmark collaboration with NRTC, Southern Linc, and Anterix to deliver cutting-edge private network solutions to electric cooperatives of all sizes and service terrains across the United States. This strategic partnership aims to provide reliable, resilient, and secure network infrastructure, empowering co-ops to meet the challenges of modernizing the grid ...
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (July 16) announced its roadmap for the Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence for Science, Security, and Technology (FASST) initiative to help harness AI for the public good. The U.S. government must develop capabilities for this key technology, and through FASST, DOE and its 17 national laboratories aims to build the world's most powerful integrated ...
ComEd this week joined leaders from the U.S. Department of Energy, the City of Chicago and the community of Bronzeville to mark the completion of the Bronzeville Community Microgrid (BCM) – one of the nation’s first neighborhood scale community microgrids. The new technology was ceremonially switched on at the Chicago Housing Authority’s (CHA’s) Dearborn Homes property, which supports the project ...
As American consumers become more in tune with the household energy usage data that’s now widely available from smart home and smart grid technologies, the possibilities of what they can achieve with electricity become more top of mind, finds a new report from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC).According to the 2024 State of the Consumer report, a meta-analysis of SECC’s 2023 research ...
In a significant forecast that underscores the burgeoning demand for advanced electrical infrastructure, a new report from ResearchAndMarkets.com has projected the global switchgear monitoring system market to reach a valuation of $2.7 billion by 2028. This marks a considerable increase from $1.8 billion in 2023, reflecting a robust Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of ...
As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack this week (March 6) announced that USDA is moving forward on clean energy investments in 23 states to reduce pollution and strengthen rural America's power grid. The announcement includes the first five awards totaling $139 million under the Powering Affordable Clean Energy (PACE) ...