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| UPCOMING EVENTS  Join us on February 6 in the inaugural GridTECH Connect Forum™ — speakers and attendees from utilities, developers, regulators, grid operators, and more will grapple with DER interconnection challenges facing the California market. |
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| | | The Aurora community will be the first Smart Neighborhood to be built in Illinois and will launch a three-year research study to examine how natural gas can be part of the solution toward meeting net-zero energy goals. |
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| | | With 80 percent of overhead faults occurring on lateral lines, customers at the grid edge are the most vulnerable during storms because they are the last to have power restored. |
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| | | The U.S. secretary of energy was scheduled to visit Puerto Rico on Nov. 1 for the second time in less than two weeks as the island struggles with a crumbling power grid and constant power outages worsened by recent hurricanes. |
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| | | Ukrainian authorities on Friday, October 28 announced further rolling blackouts in and around the country's largest cities amid ongoing Russian strikes targeting energy infrastructure. |
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