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Grid Modernization: New Black & Veatch eBook Navigates the Path Towards More Resilient, Reliable Electric Systems

3BL Media

Free download offers nine steps that utilities can take to embrace grid modernization. January 25, 2022 /3BL Media/ - Shifting generation profiles, climate change, aging infrastructure and cybersecurity continue to challenge the reliability and resilience of electric grids around the world. SOURCE: Black & Veatch.

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Countdown to 2045: Near-Term Priority Actions To Achieve Net Zero

3BL Media

Interconnection challenges have increased as more solar, wind and storage developments vie to connect to a transmission grid that must grow much faster. In particular, changes in the profile and magnitude of system demand will drive an increased requirement for firm generation capacity.

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UK’s largest battery ready to help balance the grid

Envirotec Magazine

50MW / 75MWh battery, located in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire, generating revenue for the site while helping National Grid ESO balance supply and demand. The BM is a key tool National Grid ESO uses to balance supply and demand on the electricity system in real time.

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What’s next: solar panels that work at night and regenerative ice cream

Corporate Knights

The scientists report that their process is simple, inexpensive and “can be used as a continuous renewable power source for both day- and nighttime in off-grid locations.” . Canada’s high-profile electronics company MDA (formerly MacDonald, Dettwiler & Associates) built the country’s first Earth-orbiting satellite.

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Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy Backs Sustainable HVAC Startup Blue Frontier

ESG Today

Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Blue Frontier’s system eliminates the use of Global Warming Potential (GWP) refrigerant, and also stores electricity when it is cleanest or at lowest cost, enabling reduced peak demand. Utilizing technology originally developed at the U.S.

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EPRI reflects on the year gone by

Renewable Energy World

Department of Energy to develop a national EV charging infrastructure blueprint to speaking at COP26 about numerous EPRI-led decarbonization research initiatives, it has been a whirlwind of a year. EPRI Staff. The past 12 months have been positively electric for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). From working with the U.S.

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The sea is full – a coordinated approach to off-shore energy is the only route to net zero, says IET

Envirotec Magazine

A strategy to effectively deploy new renewable energy and grid networks, while adapting current infrastructure, both offshore and onshore is vital. The IET’s landscaping report maps the UK’s offshore cable landing points and grid connection models, reiterating the importance that both must be considered in a coordinated energy system.