How Can Communities Help Deploy Clean Energy & Build Up Local Economies?

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2024 18:00:12 +0000

The global urgency to decarbonize is captured by the rapid growth in new low-carbon infrastructure throughout the energy economy. As power systems around the world rapidly evolve to achieve decarbonization objectives, it is crucial that power system planners and operators use appropriate models and tools to analyze and address the … [continued]

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Virtual Power Plants: An Untapped Resource for Improving Grid Reliability

Credit to Author: Gisela Glandt| Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2024 18:02:13 +0000

Utilities are in a tricky spot. While reliability is one of three key focus areas for utilities as they navigate the clean energy transition, along with decarbonization and affordability, it’s […]

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Rooftop Solar & Virtual Power Plants Take Center Stage As Oil & Gas Wilt

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:08:23 +0000

The rooftop solar and home energy storage trends are pushing the case to replace gas peaker plants with zero emission “virtual” power plants.

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Virtual Power Plants May Hold The Key To An All-Electric Future

Credit to Author: Steve Hanley| Date: Thu, 12 Sep 2024 15:40:29 +0000

Virtual power plants can help us use electricity more wisely and reduce the need for expensive new generating resources.

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Unlocking the Benefits of Virtual Power Plants with Digital Technology

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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DER: Yet Another Reason Why Renewable Energy Wins

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 17:36:15 +0000

Small-scale solar arrays, wind turbines, and other distributed resources are turning ratepayers from consumers into renewable energy heroes.

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Deloitte Report Details Intersection of Decarbonization With DER Adoption

Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2024 12:38:33 +0000

Deloitte, a group providing a variety of services for business and industry, in a new report published June 12 notes the importance of distributed energy resources (DERs) to the future […]

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Communities Embrace Distributed Energy for Economic Uplift

Credit to Author: Emily Newton| Date: Tue, 11 Jun 2024 12:28:57 +0000

Global communities increasingly turn to distributed energy resources (DERs) to boost their local economies and enhance energy resilience. Generating and managing power locally cuts energy costs and fosters sustainable development. […]

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Study Finds Grid Transparency Behind-the-Meter a Challenge for Utilities

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2024 14:04:05 +0000

North American electric utilities continue to grapple with the challenge of managing behind-the-meter distributed energy resources (DERs), according to the results of a survey of utility decision-makers published Feb. 15. […]

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Interconnection Cost-Causer-Pays Model: Is It Fair or Antiquated in the Era of Grid Modernization

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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