Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:43:24 +0000
Nostromo Energy, provider of the IceBrick thermal energy storage (TES) technology, said the company has received a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee of up to $305.5 million from the […]
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Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:13:47 +0000
The virtual power plant movement is scaling up, powered by smart thermostats that enable utilities and ratepayers to collaborate on grid resiliency and affordability.
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Read moreCredit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2024 16:53:47 +0000
The Dell name is synonymous with technology and innovation, so perhaps it’s not surprising that a member of that famous computing family is working to solve the challenge of making […]
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Credit to Author: Contributed Content| Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2024 18:51:31 +0000
Platte River Power Authority’s board of directors approved the utility’s 2024 Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) on July 25, including the recommended “optimal new carbon” portfolio that adds 760 MW of […]
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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: Hannah Bascom| Date: Tue, 27 Feb 2024 20:24:06 +0000
To state it simply, current decarbonization goals cannot happen without deeper engagement between utilities and their customers, and utilities are not yet truly harnessing the potential that their customers bring. […]
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Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2023 17:30:00 +0000
The need for flexibility, sustainability, reliability, and resiliency in the electricity sector is bringing varied technologies together in the power generation mix. Hybrid power plants are increasingly part
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Read moreCredit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Fri, 03 Feb 2023 16:46:12 +0000
Virtual power plants were virtually unknown just a few years ago, and now the floodgates are open thanks in part to a Trump-era ruling.
Credit to Author: Derek Markham| Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2023 23:38:43 +0000
A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector. Virtual power plants, or […]