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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) ...
Tantalus Systems, a smart grid technology company focused on helping utilities harness the power of data, this week announced the commercial launch of its data analytics capability, TRUGrid™ Transformer, which is being deployed by a growing number of utilities across North America. TRUGrid Transformer is an expansion of Tantalus’ TRUGrid Automation suite of AI-enabled data analytics. This ...
Most business leaders believe that responsibility for driving the green transition rests with the private sector rather than policymakers, with the vast majority anticipating more opportunities than challenges. However, rapid progress to a lower carbon economy is under threat from the failure of companies to develop and source sufficient green skills, according to the Green Skills Outlook – new ...
According to a new report (January 2024) from Technavio, the global market for smart grid technologies estimated at $49.8 billion in 2022, is projected to reach a revised size of $173 billion by 2030, growing at a CAGR of 16.8% over the analysis period 2022-2030. Software, one of the segments analyzed in the report, is projected to record 18.4% CAGR and reach $80 billion by the end of the ...
by Vida Rozite, Energy Policy Analyst; Jack Miller, Energy Efficiency Policy Analyst; and Sungjin Oh, Energy Analyst, IEA Power systems are becoming vastly more complex as demand for electricity grows and decarbonisation efforts ramp up. In the past, grids directed energy from centralised power stations. Now, power systems increasingly need to support multi-directional flows of electricity ...
FirstEnergy Corp. subsidiary Jersey Central Power and Light (JCP&L) filed a new infrastructure improvement program with the New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (BPU) on Nov 9 that would strengthen the backbone of its local electric system and provide the foundation for smart grid capabilities in the future. Known as EnergizeNJ, the five-year, $935 million proposal includes key investments in ...