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Oriden Helps Blue Ridge Energy Reduce Carbon Emissions and Stabilize Rates with Utility-Scale Solar Project

Blue Ridge Energy, a member-owned electric cooperative serving northwest North Carolina, has selected Oriden LLC to develop a utility-scale solar project as part of its Brighter Future initiative. This project will provide a local generation source and allow Blue Ridge Energy to work towards their low cost, low carbon future with two significant carbon reduction targets: to achieve 50 percent ...

Apr. 7, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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Centrica supports Army with first solar farm

The solar array is the first of four pilot sites delivered as part of Project PROMETHEUS to increase renewable energy across the defence estate. Spanning approximately four hectares, Centrica Business Solutions started construction of the 2.3MW solar farm earlier this year. Thirty employees are working on the project, installing 4,248 Trina Vertex panels, which is predicted to supply the DST ...

Apr. 7, 2021

By Centrica Business Solutions

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Adventist Health and ENGIE North America Announce Completion of Energy Resilient Medical Facility in Paradise, California

Adventist Health and ENGIE North America this week announced the completion of their solar and microgrid project in Paradise, California. The Feather River Health Care facility includes a one-megawatt hour energy storage system combined with 425 kilowatts of solar and new, permanent back-up generator. The new, integrated system is designed to deliver clean energy while ensuring energy resiliency ...

Apr. 6, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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Counting on the Sun for Another 400+ Megawatts of Energy In Wisconsin

Alliant Energy recently announced plans to add another 414 megawatts of solar in Wisconsin. This rounds out the company's previously announced plan to accelerate its transition to clean energy by adding more than 1,000 MW of solar while helping customers avoid more than $2 billion in long-term costs. Upon completion of their more than 1,000 MW of solar, Alliant Energy will own and operate the ...

Apr. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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Intertrust Launches CleanGrid Toolkit for Energy Data Applications

Intertrust this week announced CleanGrid -- a new Intertrust Platform toolkit that helps energy companies and their vendors develop data-driven energy applications. The toolkit leverages Intertrust Platform's innovative features -- including data virtualization and data interoperability, data governance and secure execution environments -- and helps energy companies support consumer protection, ...

Apr. 5, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

New York State on Course to Meet Aggressive Energy Storage Goals

The New York Department of Public Service this week issued the second State of Storage' annual report announcing progress in reaching New York State's statewide energy storage goal of 3,000 megawatts by 2030, with an interim objective of deploying 1,500 MW by 2025. "The development and introduction of energy storage will build flexibility into the grid and advance Governor Cuomo's ambitious ...

Apr. 12, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Lifetime of thin-film solar and mass customisation

Solliance is planning a four new webinars in the coming period. After a successful serie at the end of last years, we decided to come with a serie in depth webinars with experts from all our partners. In two of the coming episodes we focus on the research behind durability and lifetime of thin-film solar. On the other two episodes we focus on the developments and possibilities of mass ...

Apr. 11, 2021

By Solliance

World Adds Record New Renewable Energy Capacity in 2020

Global renewable energy capacity additions in 2020 beat earlier estimates and all previous records despite the economic slowdown that resulted from the COVID-19 pandemic. According to data released this week by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) the world added more than 260 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity last year, exceeding expansion in 2019 by close to 50 per cent. ...

Apr. 7, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Solliance will develop Quadruple tandem modules for local brewery

A large renovation project for the famous brewery Abdij O.L.V. Koningshoeven, known for their “trappist” beers with the brand name La Trappe is being drafted and will start in exactly one year. In their search for integrating innovative technologies and the need for sustainability they are interested in the development of flexible, light weight solar modules. Due to the status of ...

Apr. 1, 2021

By Solliance

Puget Sound Energy Selects Landis+Gyr for Smart Street Lighting Controls

Landis+Gyr and Puget Sound Energy have agreed to a contract that adds street light control capabilities to the utility's smart grid and AMI program. Using Landis+Gyr's Gridstream AMI network, PSE plans to deploy 25,000 street light controllers over the next five years. The smart controllers will perform a variety of functions, including control of lighting intensity to boost energy efficiency ...

Apr. 1, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Solving the Challenges of Integrating DERs into Grid Operations: An Interview with James Mater of QualityLogic

James Mater is the co-founder of QualityLogic, a provider of smart grid test tools and training for DER protocols. Founded in 1986, the company also specializes in providing software QA testing and engineering services. QualityLogic's customers include technology companies around the world in a wide range of industries. The below is from James' recent interview for SGO's energy insight podcast ...

Mar. 31, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

£20m funding granted for decarbonisation project in South Wales

Lightsource bp, a global leader in the development and management of solar energy projects, announces participation in the South Wales Industrial Cluster (SWIC) deployment project, which now includes funding of nearly £20m from UK Research & Innovation (UKRI). For Lightsource bp, this is an opportunity to contribute towards meaningful innovation and research into viable opportunities ...

Mar. 29, 2021

By Lightsource BP

Groundbreaking NREL Analysis Points to No-Regrets Pathways to Meet LA

Meeting Los Angeles' ambitious goal of reliable, 100% renewable electricity by 2045 or even 2035 is achievable with rapid deployment of wind, solar, storage, and other renewable energy technologies this decade, according to a years-long analysis by the U.S. Department of Energy's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). The combined effects of energy efficiency, electrification, and demand ...

Mar. 25, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Canada Invests in Smart Grid Technology in Alberta

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. The first investment of $495,000 is for FortisAlberta Inc. to support the ...

Mar. 24, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

Mass Customisation for solar integration in infrastucture

Solar energy everywhere. Producing tailor-made products on a large scale and affordably, this is the future of solar energy. New ways to integrate solar panels so that they are invisible or, on the contrary, become an aesthetic part of a suitable surface. Infrastructural works like noise barriers along motorways offer large areas and plenty opportunities to integrate thin-film solar cells, ...

Mar. 22, 2021

By Solliance

Packaging technologies for thin-film solar modules

Depending on the use and application, flexible solar cells need a fair life time. It is important to develop materials and processes that can protect the sensitive chemical and physical composition of thin-film solar cells, during the required lifetime. Although glass is an excellent inert barrier, it is not flexible enough. Therefore Solliance is focussing on flexible, polymer based ...

Mar. 22, 2021

By Solliance

Innovative ways to determine degradation modes and mechanisms in thin-film solar modules

Understanding material degradation and failure mechanismes of a solar cell is the holy grail for lifetime improvement and application of solar cells in environmentally harsh conditions. Mirjam Theelen (TNO) is researching deceased CIGS solar modules. She developed a method to isolate functioning cells from a full scale module. The electrical and physical properties from this individual cell ...

Mar. 22, 2021

By Solliance

From waste to energy - Processing of biomass

This week we shredded biomass with our single-shaft shredder M600/1-400. Check out the video on YouTube: Shredding of biomass Due to the rising prices for fossil fuels, their decreasing availability and negative effects on the climate, the generation of renewable energies plays an increasingly important role. The focus is not only on wind and solar energy, but also on energy generation from ...

Mar. 18, 2021

By Erdwich Zerkleinerungs-Systeme GmbH

Time for Action for 100% Renewable Energy Globally

Renewable energy organizations representing different spheres of the renewable energy community gathered earlier this week on the occasion of the tenth anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear accident to emphasise that renewable energies are not only available in abundance but ready to deliver a renewable world. The combination of all renewable technologies, be it ...

Mar. 18, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

DOE Announces $24.5 Million for Manufacturing Innovation to Build a Clean, Resilient Electric Grid

The U.S. Department of Energy this week announced up to $24.5 million to support improvements in domestic manufacturing to build resilient, modern electricity infrastructure and address the climate emergency. The two funding opportunities will back research and development for the materials and technologies needed to expand the grid with new, clean-energy sources, deliver affordable electricity ...

Mar. 18, 2021

By Smart Grid Observer

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