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FERC 2222 Drives Energy Transformation for Customers

Check out the not-so-obvious winners of FERC 2222. 👇

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Founder & Managing Director, EnerStream Ventures Inc.

A customer can now install various electricity supply and demand loads for greater values than they have had to-date. Essentially, energy is now turned into a commoditized asset for them to deploy when it makes sense for their business conditions. This is huge, because traditionally, customers have been at the whim of whatever local or system operator program with minimal options to...

"But my biggest excitement is that it has the potential to finally put energy back in the hands of customers," I'm curious what you mean by this statement, Frank. When has electricity ever been "in the hands of customers"?

Hi Bob, thanks for reading it and commenting. In working with customers, there has always been a feeling that the one-way delivery of electricity has led to very simplistic non-customer-centric relationships with utilities (not all, but my perspective is Ontario). The idea that a customer can turn an expense and liability into an asset is very appealing, and it means that they have more...

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What is a Nanogrid?

With power supply becoming the topic of conversation more often in these times, microgrids have taken center stage. The simplicity of a nanogrid can help protect more families and communities and speed up the adoption of microgrids.

President, Instant On

Hi Matt,

Can nanogrids and microgrids work together in a single neighborhood? Although they seem to have their differences when it comes to scale, it appears that microgrids would be useless in a world, community or neighborhood that fully embraces nanogrids.

Yes they can and from what we see that is an ideal situation for them to work together. We have a contract to build nanogrids on 1 million homes for US Veteran's and within these communities, we are setting up a microgrid on the community center consisting of solar, CHP, batteries and controls to support the community. (see link)

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Here’s Looking at You, Grid: Monthly Digest of the Top Content Submitted to the Grid Professionals Group in Energy Central- September 25, 2020

The grid is both the most complex engineering accomplishment we have across the country as well as potential the most important piece of infrastructure when it comes to ensuring the safety, health, and wellbeing of citizens in every corner. That..

Energy Analyst, Chester Energy and Policy

Post - Grid Professionals Group - Sep 23, 2020

Virtual Power Plant Source: Yale Environment 360

The Development of ‘Virtual Power Plants’ is Strengthening Electric Grids and Empowering Consumers

The traditional concept of a “power plant” is getting a makeover as the world pushes to decarbonize and increasingly integrate new resources and technologies in its energy grid.

Executive Director, Energy Choice Coalition

I've loved the shift towards VPPs in recent years, even as it's sometimes small step by small step. I would imagine most customers have no idea about the concept, and it's only the highly-engaged energy consumers who are buying into any sort of VPP assets for their homes. Is this a concept that will be able to be taken advantage of soon by those who aren't actively seeking them out?

Matt,

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White House authorizes $9.6B to rebuild Puerto Rico's grid, but how can it be spent?

“There's not a lot of precedence for this," said Lund. "There's never been an electric grid wiped out that has to be rebuilt from scratch. There's always been specific wires that need to be put back where they were." (Like at Entergy?)If you were..

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COO, Mike Beehler & Associates, LLC

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TVA building grid-scale battery energy storage system in Vonore

Good to see more utilities moving into energy storage... Over the next few years we will see most of the Top 100 utilities across the US implementing projects like this. The goal from ESA - Energy Storage Alliance - is 100GW of storage by..

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Partner, Deely Group

The Tennessee Valley Authority will be able to store enough energy to power more than 10,600 homes for three hours with its first battery storage system. Great size, and so soon, that will further solidify not only what energy storage can really bring today but how these assets will get more valuable in the coming years

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Energy Central Power Perspectives™ Podcast Episode #21: ‘Could DERs Have Prevented the Utility Turmoil in California This Summer?’ with Kyle Haas of K&A Consulting

Utilities in the Western United States have had a rough summer, to say the least. In a season that began with them continuing to manage as best as they could with the coronavirus pandemic and its economic implications, a massive heat wave ended..

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Sep 30, 2020

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Utility giant Xcel Energy to test private LTE network with Motorola Solutions

Xcel Energy – a massive gas and electricity provider across Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North Dakota, South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin – said it plans to test a private wireless LTE network in the 900MHz...

Sep 30, 2020

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Vestas wins 252 MW EPC order in Egypt

News release from Vestas MediterraneanMadrid, 30 September 2020The New and Renewable Energy Authority (NREA) has placed a 252 MW order with Vestas for the Gulf of Suez 1 wind project in Gulf of Suez, Egypt.Vestas has...

Sep 30, 2020

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How a Single UK Turbine Could Prove a New Use Case for Wind Power

A trial to test the concept of using a wind turbine to help smooth peaks and troughs in electricity supply and demand on the grid began earlier this month. Located in Cornwall in the southwest of England, the 2.3-megawatt...

Sep 30, 2020

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Siemens to build large CO2-free hydrogen production plant in southern Germany

Siemens Smart Infrastructure and WUN H2 GmbH signed a contract to build one of the largest hydrogen production plants in Germany. It will be built in Wunsiedel in the north of Bavaria. With a power intake of six megawatts in...

Sep 30, 2020

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Considerations for leasing land for solar development

Editor's note: The following was written by John Hay, University of Nebraska Extension educator, for the university's Crop Watch website. Renewable energy has increased significantly in recent years and the number of wind...

Sep 30, 2020

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UK taskforce proposes changes to grid charges

UK taskforce proposes changes to grid charges...

Sep 30, 2020

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Largest floating solar power plant in the Southeast coming to Fort Bragg

CHARLOTTE, N.C., Sept. 30, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- The U.S. Army's Fort Bragg in North Carolina will soon be home to the largest floating solar plant in the Southeast – a 1.1-megawatt (MW) system as part of a Utility Energy...