Energy Distribution News
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NYISO Implements Nation’s First Market Empowering Distributed Energy Resources
The New York Independent System Operator (NYISO) this week launched a first-in-the-nation program to integrate aggregations into the wholesale electric markets of distributed energy resources (DER), such as small-scale solar arrays, residential batteries, and electric vehicles. This follows approval of new market rules by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) to implement the ...
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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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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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NARUC Releases New Cybersecurity Baselines for Electric Distribution Systems and DER
The National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners, in collaboration with the U. S. Department of Energy Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Response, recently (Feb 22) released a set of cybersecurity baselines for electric distribution systems and distributed energy resources that connect to them. This joint initiative recognizes that cybersecurity is an integral ...
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Biden Administration Invests $2.3 Billion in Projects to Expand Clean Power in Rural Communities
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) ...
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Revolutionising Data Centre Energy
In an era where data centres are the backbone of global digital infrastructure, ensuring energy resilience is more critical than ever. With the demand for data processing capacity soaring and electricity networks under strain, developers and operators face the challenge of relying on local energy distribution systems. Data centres depend on electricity for essential processes such as cooling, ...
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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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Millionth Renewable Energy Plant Connected to E.ON Grid
E.ON, Germany's largest distribution system operator, recently connected the millionth renewable energy plant to its distribution system and celebrated an energy transition anniversary. The commissioned wind turbine is located in the municipality of Biesenthal in Brandenburg and will in future feed 6.8 megawatts (MW) of installed capacity into the grid of E.ON subsidiary E.DIS. E.ON's Chief ...
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Fort Moore EV Charging Project Provides Another Example of EVSE Solution
Fort Moore and Georgia Power, a Southern Company subsidiary, recently entered into a contract to install 63 electric vehicle chargers at 23 locations across the base, allowing up to 126 vehicles to be plugged in on the base simultaneously. The project is underway and expected to be complete by the first quarter of 2024. Georgia Power was awarded a task order to provide a turnkey electric vehicle ...
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PG&E Launches Microgrid Incentive Program with $79 Million in Project Funding
Pacific Gas and Electric Company this week (Oct 11) announced the launch of its Microgrid Incentive Program (MIP) and handbook, providing funding, expertise and guidance for building community, local and tribal government-proposed multi-customer microgrids. The MIP is a new, statewide $200 million competitive grant program which will fund clean-energy community microgrids in disadvantaged and ...
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DOE Finds Energy Jobs Have Increased in Nearly Every County in America
The U.S. Department of Energy this week (Aug 16) released county-level data on energy employment across the United States finding that energy jobs grew in nearly every county in 2022. This data builds on national and state-level data that was published in June in the 2023 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) a comprehensive summary of national and state-level energy jobs, reporting by ...
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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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Basic Energy Access Lags Amid Renewable Opportunities New IRENA Report Shows
A new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, and the World Health Organization (WHO), released this week, finds that the world is not on track to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 7 for energy by 2030. This year marks the halfway point for achieving SDGs by ...
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Biden Administration Makes $11 Billion Investment to Advance Clean Energy Across Rural America
The U.S. this week (May 16) announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities that will help rural energy and utility providers bring affordable, reliable clean energy to their communities across the country. This represents the single largest investment in rural electrification since President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed the Rural Electrification Act into law in ...
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$120 Million to Roll Out Community Batteries Across Australia
On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $120 million in funding will be made available for Round 1 of the Community Batteries Funding Program. The program aims to support the deployment of community batteries across Australia to lower energy bills, cut emissions and reduce pressure on the electricity grid. ARENA is now seeking ...
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Clarke Energy joins North East Clean Energy Council
Clarke Energy is pleased to announce it has joined the North East Clean Energy Council (NECEC). NECEC “leads the just, equitable, and rapid transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. NECEC is the only organization in the Northeast that covers clean energy market segments, representing the business perspectives of investors and clean energy companies across every ...
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Shifted Energy Expands Grid-Interactive Buildings and Virtual Power Plants with New Seed Funding
Shifted Energy, a leading distributed energy resources (DER) platform, this week (March 6) announced the closing of a $4.3M seed funding round that will help the company expand energy efficiency programs and distribute smart energy products. Co-led by EPIC Ventures and Kapor Capital, with participating investors Buoyant Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, and Hunt Development, the ...
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Duke Energy to mobilize first-of-its-kind microgrid-integrated fleet electrification center
Duke Energy has announced it will build a first-of-its-kind performance center that will model and accelerate the development, testing and deployment of zero-emissions light-, medium- and heavy-duty commercial electric vehicle (EV) fleets. The site will be located at Duke Energy’s Mount Holly Technology and Innovation Center and will incorporate microgrid integration. “Electric fleet ...
By Duke Energy
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DOE and FEMA Release One-Year Progress Report on Joint Effort to Modernize Puerto Rico's Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy and the Federal Emergency Management Agency this week (Jan 23) released a one-year progress report for the Puerto Rico Grid Resilience and Transition to 100% Renewable (PR100) Study. PR100, which launched in February 2022 with funding from FEMA, is a two-year study designed to help inform infrastructure investments that will provide Puerto Rico with clean, reliable, ...
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