Smart Grid Project Articles & Analysis
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Funding will help utility providers and electric cooperatives build and improve electric infrastructure, smart-grid technologies and renewable energy systems.The projects will ensure more than two million people in rural areas have access to reliable electricity, increasing their opportunities for economic growth and enhancing their overall ...
Landis+Gyr and Berkeley Electric Cooperative have agreed on a contract for an extensive smart grid technology deployment to connect advanced metering, load management and street light automation on a single network. ...
Billed as the first such community-wide utility effort in Canada, the Sault Smart Grid project for PUC Distribution Inc. – the local electricity distribution utility in Sault Ste. ...
The Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., this week announced a combined investment of over $900,000 for two smart grid projects in Alberta that will enhance the energy grid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E), supported by $200,000 funding from the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), have partnered on a project that informs the potential of leveraging modern Distributed Energy Resources to provision grid services like reactive power dispatch for ...
This collaboration will include questions of hybrid offshore wind projects, smart grids, energy system integration and digitalization. According to the Declaration, the countries will also develop coordinated approaches to maritime planning, taking into account other uses of the sea space and environmental protection. ...
Trade and Development Agency (USTDA)-funded Smart Grid Study project to support Côte d’Ivoire Énergies (CI-ENERGIES) in improvements to the Côte d’Ivoire grid.The Smart Grid Study will benchmark global best practices for reducing electricity losses globally, analyze the losses in the Ivorian electricity system, ...
Landis+Gyr and Grand Bahama Power Company, a subsidiary of Emera Inc., have reached an agreement covering advanced metering and intelligent grid technology to support the utility’s grid modernization strategy. ...
AutoGrid has won the 2019 Innovation Award for the Best Industry Smart Grid Project in India from the India Smart Grid Forum (ISGF).AutoGrid received the Platinum Award from ISGF’s Innovation Awards 2019 for Best Smart Grid Project in India by Industry on 15 ...
This program helps finance generation, transmission and distribution projects; system improvements; and energy conservation projects in communities with 10,000 or fewer residents.The loans include $7.9 million for smart grid technology. ...
Northern Powergrid has begun the next phase of work on a significant and technically challenging project to modernise and future-proof more than 860 of its substation controllers for the implementation of smart grid solutions and applications. This next phase will see investment of £15 million in the next generation of substation controller ...
Ralph Northam, finds an additional 5,500 megawatts of solar and wind projects in the public interest, including 500 megawatts for smaller scale projects of one megawatt or less. It also encourages smart grid projects to enable the integration of those resources. Dominion Energy expects to address the full scope ...
The global smart grid cybersecurity market is projected to grow at a CAGR of 13% by 2022, backed by increasing number of government initiatives towards modernizing power infrastructure and rising number of cyberattacks on Critical National Infrastructure (CIP) across the globe. ...
Following our successful Ontario Ministry of Energy Smart Grid Fund project, GRID20/20 has evolved to now include a services-based model to facilitate accelerated grid optimization achievements by Local Distribution Companies, said Alan Snook, President GRID20/20. “We realize the recently released Ontario Long Term Energy Plan ...
With this successful smart grid project, Alpiq is strengthening its position as an innovative energy services provider. ...
” One of the USDA awards is an $18.3 million loan to the Jemez Mountains Electric Cooperative (Espanola, N.M.) to build 58 miles, improve 28 miles of line and make other system improvements. Jemez will use $7 million for smart grid improvements. In Oregon, the Harney Electric Cooperative is receiving an $11.7 million USDA loan to build 53 miles of line ...
iemens and Allgäuer Überlandwerk GmbH (A ÜW), based in Kempten, Germany, have formed a joint venture named egrid to commercially implement the results from IRENE and IREN2, two joint smart grid research projects in Wildpoldsried. It was agreed that Siemens would acquire a 49-percent share in the AÜW subsidiary, egrid ...
The global electric power distribution automation systems market is expected to reach USD 23.7 billion by 2025, according to a new report conducted by Grand View Research, Inc. The rise in the adoption of smart grids & funding initiatives is projected to spur the demand for distribution automation systems. ...
India's power sector is undergoing rapid transformation as the country faces steep electricity demand growth rates, plans to incorporate large-scale renewable resources, and a government eager to modernize the country. Smart grid infrastructure is seen by stakeholders as fundamental to this transformation, but until recently projects have been ...
Today (2/17) EU Member States agreed on the Commission's proposal to invest 444 million in priority European energy infrastructure projects. The 18 selected electricity, smart grids and gas projects are seen as contributing to achieving the Energy Union's goals by connecting European energy networks, increasing security of energy ...