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What Does Western Grid Regionalization Mean for California?

January 10, 2023 admin California, california independent system operator (caiso), demand response, energy efficiency, grid

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Sat, 07 Jan 2023 04:15:46 +0000

California’s grid reliability struggles have intensified in recent years as extreme summer heat strains the system and threatens power outages. The state’s grid reliability is also inextricably linked to issues of improving energy affordability and achieving California’s ambitious clean energy goals. With California’s power woes apparent, Western grid regionalization has been raised as a potential […]

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How To Keep The Lights On In Extreme Winter Weather

December 28, 2022 admin clean power, demand response, electricity transmission, Extreme weather, Fossil Fuels, grid, grid reliability, grid reliability renewables, research, Solar energy, utilities, wind energy

Credit to Author: RMI| Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2022 02:54:44 +0000

Clean energy and demand-side resources have proven track records of both reducing peak demand and keeping the lights on during extreme conditions.

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Shyft Group Shows Off Its Blue Arc Electric Last Mile Delivery Vehicle To Customers

October 22, 2022 admin batteries, blue arc, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, demand response, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, ev charging, ev charging stations, grid, grid storage, Michigan, microgrids, Off The Grid, proterra powered, Shipping, shyft group, Smart Grid, spartan motors

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 15:00:15 +0000

Shyft Group, formerly known as Spartan Motors, has nearly five decades of experience designing and building fleet vehicles of all shapes and sizes including half of all last mile delivery vehicles. These delivery vans are what you think of when you think about a standard FedEx or UPS delivery truck. In today’s dystopian pseudo post-COVID […]

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Rooftop Solar Recently Reached 72% Of Western Australia Electricity Output!

September 26, 2022 admin Australia, clean power, demand response, grid, rooftop solar, Solar energy, Western Australia, western australia solar, western australia solar energy

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2022 00:30:40 +0000

Once upon a time, it was a common assumption in the utility industry and among solar skeptics that solar power couldn’t provide more than 5% of grid electricity or the grid would break. And by common, I mean that was the conventional wisdom except among solar loons. How the times have changed! In the latest […]

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25,000 PG&E & Tesla Customers Invited To Form World’s Largest Distributed Battery To Support Electric Grid Reliability

July 13, 2022 admin batteries, clean power, demand response, drew baglino, Energy Storage, grid, lithium-ion batteries, PG&E, Solar energy, tesla, tesla energy, tesla powerwall, tesla virtual power plant, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 03:30:49 +0000

OAKLAND, California — Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. have launched a new pilot program that creates a virtual power plant, to help support electric grid reliability and save customers money. On June 22, Tesla invited approximately 25,000 PG&E customers with Powerwalls to join the VPP and help form the world’s largest […]

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Virtual Power Plants Do More Than Aggregate: They Empower

June 27, 2022 admin California, clean power, demand response, ercot, ev.energy, grid, mce, nuvve, renewable energy, richmond california, swell energy, texas, usa, vehicle to grid, virtual power plants

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2022 17:35:12 +0000

A new solar-enabled virtual power plant in Richmond, California, will not leave low- and middle-income households out in the cold

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Energy Security at the Edge of the Grid

June 7, 2022 admin Australia, batteries, clean power, demand response, desert knowledge australia, Energy Storage, grid, intyalheme centre for future energy, lithium-ion batteries, northern territory, Smart Grid, Solar energy, switchdin

Credit to Author: David Waterworth| Date: Tue, 07 Jun 2022 05:00:40 +0000

For many of Australia’s First Nations people living in the Northern Territory, Australia, consistent energy security is not a given. Drawing on his experience working in the Kalahari Desert with isolated communities and fresh from the success of Project Symphony in West Australia, Dr Andrew Mears has partnered with a project co-ordinated by the Intyalheme […]

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Renewables Become Leader in Grid Resilience: Decentralized Approach to Disaster Recovery

June 5, 2022 admin Aurora, clean power, demand response, grid, microgrids, national renewable energy laboratory (nrel), research, SCIENCE, Solar energy, us department of energy (doe), wind energy

Credit to Author: U.S. Department of Energy| Date: Sun, 05 Jun 2022 05:00:10 +0000

Grid-Forming Inverter Demonstration at NREL Shows Decentralized Approach to Disaster Recovery Following an outage, it could be far quicker to restore electricity with energy resources that are close to home rather than miles of transmission line away. In fact, many outages might be avoided altogether by configuring local resources into rugged microgrids. The National Renewable […]

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Helping US Utilities Target Grid Resilience With Digitalization

April 7, 2022 admin clean power, demand response, energy grid, grid, grid resilience

Credit to Author: Guest Contributor| Date: Thu, 07 Apr 2022 20:00:29 +0000

Building out the electrical grid is one thing, keeping it up and running is another!

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Your Journey Toward A Fully Electric Future Starts With A Single Step

February 29, 2020 admin batteries, buildings, California, cars, clean power, clean transport, cleantechnica, cleantechnica exclusive, climate change, consumer technology, demand response, Electric vehicles, electrify everything, energy efficiency, Energy Storage, ev charging, grid, home energy management, lighting, rebuild, rooftop solar, Solar energy, tesla solarglass roof, ventura

Credit to Author: Kyle Field| Date: Sat, 29 Feb 2020 15:00:05 +0000

Every journey towards a more sustainable lifestyle starts with a single step. It starts with a dissatisfaction for the status quo. With all that said, my encouragement to you today is to take your next step. Take the step that sits in front of you, whether that be to give up your car in favor of a bike, to purchase an electric vehicle, to install solar on your roof, to add a battery backup system, or even to upgrade your electrical panel if that’s what’s in the cards