This Is How Electric Vehicles Win, One School Bus At A Time

Credit to Author: Tina Casey| Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 02:57:33 +0000

Electric school buses and other electric vehicles with vehicle-to-grid capability can help improve grid services for the whole community, by sharing the kilowatts stored up in their batteries.

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Ice Energy Reaches Big California Virtual Power Plant Milestones

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Sat, 19 Oct 2024 01:13:42 +0000

Thermal energy storage company Ice Energy has a 25.6 MWh utility-scale energy storage program in the Southern California Edison (SCE) utility district. It’s been in operation for five years and is spread out across 100 customer sites. It’s part of the Southern California Virtual Power Plant (“VPP”) Thermal Storage Project. … [continued]

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3 Steps for Utility Companies to Get Started with Undergrounding

Credit to Author: Jack Bellissimo| Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2024 17:32:42 +0000

The U.S. electric grid is under more strain than ever to support exponential electricity demand due to artificial intelligence (AI), data centers, electric vehicles, and hotter temperatures. Its infrastructure is […]

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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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For Power & Profit: The Retreat From Renewables Has A Dark & Dangerous Underside

Credit to Author: Carolyn Fortuna| Date: Sun, 15 Sep 2024 17:29:03 +0000

The existential climate crisis that confronts us requires political and policy solutions that disempower the fossil fuel industry and their state allies. Unfortunately, the current US presidential election season is filled with hyperbole, controversy, and disinformation. Such discourse threatens to spawn a retreat from renewables in favor of continued burning … [continued]

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Ford EV Owners Can Now Get Paid To Support Southern California Grid

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 22:26:32 +0000

If you own or lease a Ford electric vehicle, you can now get paid to support the electricity grid in Southern California, and you don’t even need vehicle-to-grid technology. This is specifically in the Southern California Edison utility district, and it is initially only an option for Ford EV owners … [continued]

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The POWER Interview: How Unified Endpoint Management Can Help Secure the Power Grid

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 00:13:14 +0000

Digital technology poses critical challenges for the power sector. As the backbone of modern society, any disruption to power infrastructure can have far-reaching consequences. To learn steps leading power companies […]

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The power sector’s relentless pursuit of an increasingly connected power paradigm amid an escalating cyber threat landscape demands an urgent, multifaceted strategy for cybersecurity. Recently, the sector has embarked on innovative methods to tackle inherent challenges in its evolving quest for a robust cybersecurity posture. Source: POWER

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Biggest Mistakes Homeowners Make While Trying to Optimize Solar Energy

Credit to Author: Svetlin Todorov| Date: Tue, 27 Aug 2024 14:31:15 +0000

Solar energy is one of the main ways to curb greenhouse gas emissions and take action against the impact of climate change. Solar power offers security that homeowners can continue […]

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China Now Doing “Extensive” Vehicle-to-Grid Trials

Credit to Author: Zachary Shahan| Date: Fri, 16 Aug 2024 17:43:28 +0000

Vehicle-to-grid discussions have been around for as long as I’ve been reading about electric vehicles. The concept is simple: electric vehicles have big batteries, cars are parked most of the day (about 95% of the time), and those batteries could be used to help the grid deal with fluctuations in … [continued]

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Vietnamese Distribution Grid Automation System a Winning Project

Credit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2024 11:46:56 +0000

Vietnam Electricity Group’s Ho Chi Minh City Power Corp. (EVNHCMC) deployed a distribution automation system that facilitates automatic—and very quick—fault detection and handling with a success rate of

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