Credit to Author: Sally Jacquemin| Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:55:56 +0000
Most people, when they imagine a power plant, picture equipment like smokestacks that stretch hundreds of feet into the sky, massive, spinning turbines and the hum of electric transmission lines […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2024 12:31:28 +0000
The need for more reliability and resilience of power delivery, both in the U.S. and worldwide, has utilities and grid operators looking for solutions to the challenge of bolstering the […]
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Credit to Author: Janique Williams| Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2024 19:53:31 +0000
The transition to green energy is often seen through two different lenses: a burden or an opportunity. Grid modernization refers to a comprehensive transformation of the traditional power grid to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 14 Dec 2023 20:20:55 +0000
According to a guidebook issued by Sandia National Laboratories, a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) multi-mission laboratory, microgrids are defined as a group of interconnected loads and distributed energy resources […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Dominique Verhulst| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:54:13 +0000
We’ve come a long way since the first waterwheel in 200 BC. Renewable energy sources now make up about 30% of the world’s generated power and are set to more […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000
The post Report: Blockchain Not Well-Suited to Transactive Energy appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Blockchain—a distributed database technology that allows a network of parties to securely transact with each other—has been hailed as a game-changing innovation in the power sector for its potential to
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Read moreCredit to Author: POWER| Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2019 05:00:00 +0000
The post Unlocking Value at the Grid-Edge: Extending the Reach of the Utility Control Room appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Just 10 years ago, the magnitude of behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs) at the edge of the grid was not materially significant. All that has changed, and we’re now at an inflection point: by
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2019 23:38:36 +0000
Paul DeCotis, senior director in West Monroe Partners’ Energy and Utilities practice, was a guest on The POWER Podcast. West Monroe, in partnership with Greentech Media, conducted a survey of more than 1,700 utility customers, 140 utility executives and managers, and more than two dozen regulators in major markets across North America. Its findings were […]
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Read moreIt is safe to say that all electricity customers want reliable and resilient power service. One way that some end-users are ensuring they get it is by investing in distributed energy resources and building microgrids. But rather than simply using these systems as emergency backups, more and more owners are finding ways to capture economic […]
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