Energy Distribution Management News
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DOE Releases Report on Accelerating Grid Solutions to Lower Costs and Improve Reliability
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (April 16) announced the release of its latest Pathways to Commercial Liftoff report, focused on unleashing the potential of advanced grid solutions. "Pathways to Commercial Liftoff: Innovative Grid Deployment," marks the tenth installment in the Liftoff series which launched in March 2023. This report demonstrates how commercially available advanced grid ...
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Entergy Proposes Transmission Upgrades and a Comprehensive Resilience Plan
Entergy Louisiana recently announced it will begin executing a strategic blueprint for building new electric infrastructure that meets the burgeoning needs of businesses and industry to power job growth throughout the state.Louisiana has a generational opportunity that is set to create new jobs, new investment and additional revenues for local governments as local business and industries and new ...
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New Hampshire Utility is Using Residential Batteries to Create Virtual Power Plant
Caterpillar Inc. announced this week that Liberty - New Hampshire, a local electric provider, has selected Caterpillar to supply turnkey virtual power plant (VPP) solutions for Liberty’s battery storage pilot.Under the initiative, Liberty has installed 2,600 kWh of lithium-ion battery storage at 100 homes to charge overnight when demand and rates are low, reduce peak load during times of high ...
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EnergyHub and Toyota Collaborate to Support the Electrical Grid
EnergyHub announced this week that they are collaborating with Toyota Motor North America to improve the electric vehicle ownership experience. A direct integration with EnergyHub’s platform enables Toyota and Lexus drivers to take advantage of certain utility programs designed to reduce the cost of charging for EV customers, while helping utilities ensure grid reliability and accelerate ...
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Landis+Gyr and SPAN to Partner on Unlocking Electrification and DER Flexibility at the Grid Edge
SPAN and Landis+Gyr this week announced a strategic partnership to cost-effectively advance electrification, create grid flexibility, and build resilience. The collaboration brings together two energy industry leaders to help utilities improve utilization of existing assets, unlock Distributed Energy Resource (DER) flexibility management, and enhance customer engagement. The companies note that ...
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SMUD Announces $50 Million Grant to Support Advanced Smart Grid Technologies
This week (Oct 18), SMUD announced it's been awarded a $50 million grant from the Department of Energy Grid Deployment Office's Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnership program (GRIP) for new technologies to increase reliability, efficiency and flexibility of the electric grid. SMUD's Connected Clean PowerCity project includes a cost share of $100 million and encompasses a number of ...
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NASEO and NARUC Release Solar Cybersecurity Toolkit for States
The National Association of State Energy Officials and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, with support from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office, released the Cybersecurity Advisory Team for State Solar (CATSS) Toolkit. The CATSS Toolkit provides State Energy Offices and public utility commissions with actionable information on cybersecurity ...
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$11 Million Now Available in New York for Solutions Addressing Grid Challenges
Governor Kathy Hochul this week (Aug 11) announced the availability of $11 million in funding through the fourth round of the Future Grid Challenge for projects that identify solutions to the technical challenges of integrating a changing energy resource mix into the electric grid. The announcement also included more than $5 million in project awards under the third round of the challenge. ...
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Schneider Electric and PG&E Announce Solution on Microsoft Azure to Maximize Grid Resources
Schneider Electric and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) recently announced the deployment of a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) on Microsoft Azure to more effectively maintain grid reliability, and accelerate customer adoption of distributed energy resources (DER) such as electric vehicles, energy storage and rooftop solar. Maintaining reliable energy service has ...
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Leap Expands into New England, Launches Services to Drive DERs in Massachusetts and Rhode Island
Leap reports that the company's New England launch includes innovative new offerings and opportunities that help DER providers deliver more value to New England customers by participating in multiple grid revenue streams in the region. Leap is facilitating the participation of the first DERs in the Massachusetts Clean Peak Energy Standard (MA CPS) program, introducing an opportunity for its ...
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Biden Administration Invests $26 Million to Support a Modern, Reliable, and Resilient America
As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (May 10) announced $26 million for eight selected projects to demonstrate how solar, wind, storage, and other clean energy resources can support a reliable and efficient U.S. power grid. Funded by the President's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the projects will deploy innovative clean energy ...
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AutoGrid Launchess AutoGrid Flex EV, an AI solution for Improved Grid Performance
Virtual Power Plant (VPP) and Distributed Energy Resource Management Solution (DERMS) provider AutoGrid this week launched AutoGrid Flex EV, an AI solution aimed at enabling cleaner, more reliable, and cost-effective grid operations. Built on the AutoGrid Flex platform, the solution leverages the company's track record of more than 10 years of experience harnessing EVs and other distributed ...
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Duke Energy Places Advanced Microgrid into Service in Hot Springs, NC
Duke Energy has placed into service one of the nation’s most advanced green microgrids in the Madison County town of Hot Springs. The Hot Springs microgrid consists of a 2-megawatt (AC) solar facility and a 4.4-megawatt lithium-based battery storage facility. The microgrid is designed to provide a safe, cost-effective and reliable grid solution for serving the Hot Springs area, and also provide ...
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Address DER challenges on your grid
Controller confusion (sometimes called controller conschmoller disorder) arises when attempting to determine which controller will be most effective at curing DER challenges on your grid. Is a microgrid controller best? Or perhaps a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) would be better. Is your utility experiencing any of these issues caused by the rapid increase of DERs on your ...
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Breakthrough ANL Software Platform Supports Grid Services, Empowers Utilities, Consumers
Our already complex power grid is getting even more intricate, thanks to distributed energy resources (DERs) -- devices that generate power and store energy locally - such as solar panels, batteries, electric vehicles chargers, HVAC systems, smart water heaters and highly efficient heat exchangers. With these devices growing in popularity, more technologies are interconnecting with the grid, ...
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Generac Grid Services to Deliver Comprehensive, End-to-End DERMS Solution for Arizona Public Service
Generac Grid Services, a subsidiary of Generac Power Systems, a leading designer and manufacturer of energy technology solutions and other power products, announced this week that it has been awarded a multi-year contract from Arizona Public Service (APS) to deliver additional grid capacity from residential battery storage systems. The agreement leverages Generac Grid Services' Concerto™ ...
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Georgia Power Seeks to Invest Nearly $7 billion in Transmission, Distribution Over Next Three Years
Georgia Power this week filed a request with the Georgia Public Service Commission (PSC) that would enable the company to continue making investments in strengthening and further securing the electric grid, transforming its power generation to include cleaner and more economical energy resources and continue improving the customer experience. "We take our responsibility to plan, prepare and make ...
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GE Digital Announces New DERMS Solution
GE Digital announced this week the first solution resulting from its acquisition of Opus One Solutions to power the energy transition. Opus One DERMS™ is designed to be an end-to-end modular Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) that can help utilities on their Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) journey to keep the grid safe, secure, and resilient while enabling energy ...
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Itron and Duke Energy Florida Collaborate to Deliver Managed EV Charging Program
Itron, Inc. and Duke Energy Florida, which supplies electrical services to 1.9 million customers throughout Florida, are collaborating to deploy Itron's newly developed DER Optimizer solution, powered by its demand response platform, IntelliSOURCE®. Itron is expanding its IntelliSOURCE platform to be the foundation of a broader distributed energy resource management solution set, in recognition ...
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Finland's New Centralized Information Exchange System for Rretail Electricity Goes Live
Partnering with CGI, Fingrid Datahub Oy successfully went live with Datahub, Finland's new centralized information exchange system for the retail electricity market, on February 21, 2022. It represents a major step in Finland's journey toward a smarter, cleaner and more flexible energy system. Centralizing approximately 3.8 million energy data points on a single platform accelerates the speed of ...
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