Tag: utility

  • Grid Giants Contend for Dominance at the Distributed Edge [GTM Squared]

    Grid Giants Contend for Dominance at the Distributed Edge [GTM Squared]

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    SAN ANTONIO — The power grid company is more about integrating renewable energy and distributed energy sources at scale. Ask any grid seller at DistribuTech, the nation ’s annual utility industry trade show.  Just like years past, this year’s DistribuTech conference featured a dizzying variety of technology to monitor, manage and orchestrate electricity that’s progressively…

  • How is your utility’s strategic plan evolving?

    How is your utility’s strategic plan evolving?

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    It’therefore difficult to forecast the future. We ’re very, very bad. But, we keep striving. We must keep trying–and shifting, evolving and adjusting. The utilities sector has been attempting to forecast the future because the days of Tesla and Edison. Sometimes we win. Sometimes we must re-evaluate. These days, it’s a dance to reevaluate, and…

  • What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

    What a Year! 10 Stories That Propelled Energy Storage in 2019

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    For too long, the rhetoric around what storage can do for the grid vastly outweighed the actual doing. This year, the industry closed that gap more than ever before. Exceedingly few batteries actually live up to the vision of “storing clean power for when the sun isn’t shining.” Batteries perform miniscule adjustments to grid frequency,…

  • 3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019

    3 Trends That Shaped the Grid Edge in 2019

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    It isn&; rsquo;t simple to transform rsquo & into a century;s value of electricity infrastructure in the ground up, particularly in the face of firestorms.  In return in 2019’s most important developments about the grid border — GTM's term for the port of the traditional utility enterprise with rooftop solar panels, behind-the-meter batteries, plug-in electric…

  • Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small

    Eversource Wants to Back Up an Entire Rural Town With Batteries Large and Small

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    New England utility Eversource wants to deploy energy storage to rear an outage-prone New Hampshire city, while saving customers money. The 18,070 inhabitants of Westmoreland rely upon a single radial power line to provide electricity during the forested, urban environment. Ice storms and heavy snowfall often knock that line down, making the area an outlier…

  • U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments

    U.S. Storage Market Sets Power Capacity Record with Q1 Deployments

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    The U.S. energy storage industry installed a record quantity of power capacity in the first quarter of 2019. The 148.8 megawatts of new grid storage capacity represented a 232% growth over Q1 2018, according to the most recent edition of the Energy Storage Monitor report created by Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables and the Energy…

  • AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services

    AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services

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    Image Credit: Advanced Microgrid Solutions The competition for the title of”world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely been concentrated on residential solar-battery systems, like those being deployed by contenders such as Australia’s AGL or Vermont’s Green Mountain Power.  But according to AMS, previously called Advanced Microgrid Solutions, the world’s biggest VPP is already up and…

  • SolarEdge Adds EV Tech to Its Portfolio With Majority Stake in Italy’s SMRE

    SolarEdge Adds EV Tech to Its Portfolio With Majority Stake in Italy’s SMRE

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    SolarEdge has just taken another step to extend beyond its core solar power business into other grid border technologies — specifically, the electric vehicle space.  On Monday, the Israel-based company declared  intends to acquire a majority stake in SMRE, an Italian EV drivetrain, charging and telemetry technology supplier. Under the terms of the price, SolarEdge will…

  • California Community Solar Isn’t Working. SoCal Edison Wants to Redesign It

    California Community Solar Isn’t Working. SoCal Edison Wants to Redesign It

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    Southern California Edison is requesting authorities for permission to enhance clean energy supplies for customers that can’t even install rooftop solar. The utility connects between 3,000 and 5,000 solar roofs a month, but many of its 15 million customers don’t possess their houses or have access to some rooftop for solar energy generation. From rsquo…