Credit to Author: Marcus McCarthy| Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2024 17:50:16 +0000
Meeting ambitious climate targets while transitioning from fossil fuels remains a key priority for businesses, policymakers, and society in general. The good news is that the grid can play a […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: US Department of Energy| Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2024 12:00:46 +0000
Offshore wind (OSW) in the United States has the potential to play a critical role in transitioning the nation to … [continued]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Brian Rock| Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2023 21:53:39 +0000
Spanning several regions of Cameroon where 55% of the population live in poverty, grid connectivity is limited and the power supply is unreliable. However, a new project, which will extend […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2023 10:08:03 +0000
Rooted in the birth of the UK’s energy industry, National Grid’s operations have traversed critical periods of the energy industry’s tumultuous history. While it is today one of the world’s largest
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2023 16:31:09 +0000
Three interregional transmission lines connecting six U.S. states will receive the first $1.3 billion tranche of $2.5 billion in federal funding designated under the Transmission Facilitation Program (TFP), a revolving […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2023 03:06:02 +0000
A Vermont utility has filed a plan with state regulators that would enable the power company to offer more customers battery energy storage to keep the lights on during outages. […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2023 18:37:23 +0000
The Southwest Power Pool (SPP) is poised to become the first regional transmission organization (RTO) to provide coordinated operation across the Eastern and Western Interconnections, bridging a historic gap to […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2023 20:04:31 +0000
Incremental unplanned generation outages triggered during Winter Storm Elliot spiked to 90.5 GW—significantly more than the 61.8 GW during Winter Storm Uri in 2021—representing 13% of the U.S. portion of […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Tue, 01 Aug 2023 20:41:26 +0000
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has approved key transmission reforms aimed at clearing a staggering backlog of more than 10,000 generation and storage projects—more than 2,000 GW—stalled in interconnection […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Vincent Thornley, EngD| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:00:33 +0000
The 19th century battle between Nikolai Tesla’s alternating current (AC) and Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) technologies had an undisputed winner. The vast majority of the world’s transmission and distribution […]
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