Smart Grid Program Articles & Analysis
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“Researchers from Argonne National Lab and the Illinois Institute of Technology were tasked with bringing the technology for this microgrid to life, and we now have a more resilient, self-sufficient, and cleaner grid. I’m happy to celebrate this achievement with the community and all the dedicated people who worked hard to make this microgrid a reality.”Defined as a small power ...
Quanta Technology - $400,000: To study how intelligent power electronic devices located at large renewable generation plants can be used to improve visibility and grid operator situational awareness. Switched Source - $1 million: To demonstrate a power electronics device's ability to improve the efficiency, increase renewable hosting capacity and improve reliability of the ...
The Future Grid Challenge is part of NYSERDA's Smart Grid Program included in the State's Clean Energy Fund (CEF) Grid Modernization Program, which is providing a total of $110 million through 2026 to further research, develop, and provide funding for innovative solutions that support the ...
Funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the Solar and Wind Grid Services and Reliability Demonstration Program will show how clean energy resources can address key reliability challenges facing the grid by developing and testing tools and plant functions that allow the grid to stay online amid disturbances and ...
With the addition of a new, clean renewable energy grid, we’ll be able to better reduce our baseline greenhouse gas emissions and create a more resilient future.” said Steven Myers, Minister of Environment, Energy and Climate Action. ...
This program will make the U.S. power grid more resilient to the impacts of climate change, increase access to affordable and reliable clean energy, and create good-paying American jobs across industry sectors - boosting transmission jobs which employs over one million workers across the country. ...
The New York Power Authority (NYPA), the country's largest state-owned public power organization, announced this week that it will deploy grid enhancing technology to help unlock additional transmission capacity to enable more renewable energy to reach the grid. ...
This expansion will ensure that all AEP Ohio customers benefit from smart grid technologies. The average residential customer using 1,000-kilowatt hours of electricity per month will see an average increase of $0.33 per month for the program. ...
One of the key objectivs of the infrastructure deal is to bring the U.S. electrical grid into the 21st century by delivering reliable, clean, and affordable power to more citizens. Among the numerous other provisions, the infrastructure deal will: Provide $11 billion in grants for states, tribes, and utilities to enhance the resilience of the electric infrastructure against ...
Late Friday (Nov 5), the House of Representatives passed the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, the bipartisan infrastructure package that includes major investments in modernizing the nation's electric grid. "The bipartisan infrastructure package includes a historic level of grid investments that will strengthen resilience and reliability, accelerate ...
Parties to the settlement include PUCO staff, the Ohio Consumers' Counsel, industrial user groups, the Ohio Hospital Association, competitive retail electric suppliers, the Smart Thermostat Coalition and Mission:data. AEP Ohio plans to invest more than $220 million over the next 7 years in smart grid equipment in the rural areas of its service ...
These innovative projects are helping to develop, pilot and test the smart grid technologies and solutions that will accelerate the transformation toward an advanced, digitally enhanced, and dynamically managed high-performing electric grid for New York ...
To help utilities meet this challenge, the 3rd Annual Utility Cyber Security Forum, October 6-7, 2021 in Chicago, organized by the Smart Grid Observer, will offer a unique venue in which utility professionals can network one-on-one with colleagues and share insights into best practices and lessons learned. ...
"Electrification of the transportation sector is a key strategy for AVANGRID and our commitment to achieving long-term climate goals," said Scott Bochenek, AVANGRID program director of smart grids innovation. "We want to leverage the latest technology and tools to help our customers electrify their fleet and reduce their emissions. ...
Landis+Gyr and Puget Sound Energy have agreed to a contract that adds street light control capabilities to the utility's smart grid and AMI program. Using Landis+Gyr's Gridstream AMI network, PSE plans to deploy 25,000 street light controllers over the next five years. The smart controllers will perform a variety of functions, ...
The Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., this week announced a combined investment of over $900,000 for two smart grid projects in Alberta that will enhance the energy grid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. ...
Itron, Inc. this week announced that Versant Power, an electric transmission and distribution utility serving nearly 160,000 customers in northern and eastern Maine, will deploy Itron's multi-purpose solution, including an IoT network and more than 160,000 distributed intelligence-enabled meters, to modernize its electricity grid. Versant Power plans to initiate some project ...
The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) awarded the funding through its Smart Grid Innovation program, as part of New York State's overall strategy to achieve Governor Cuomo's goal of a zero emission electricity sector by 2040. ...
Decarbonizing our electricity grid will introduce new localized challenges, and we'll need to fuse the latest technology with the right market incentives to unlock a clean grid. ...
Itron, Inc., which is innovating the way utilities and cities manage energy and water, this week announced that New Brunswick Power (NB Power) will deploy Itron's multi-purpose solution, including an IoT network and more than 350,000 Measurement Canada-approved distributed intelligence-enabled smart meters, to modernize its electricity grid. The project is a part ...