Formerly Hitachi ABB Power Grids, the global technology leader recently announced its evolution to Hitachi Energy and renewed its purpose to ‘advancing a sustainable energy future for all’. Delivering on the promise of a carbon-neutral future will take passion, trust, and innovation, and the benefits will be for our generations and those to come. With our new name – Hitachi Energy – we are broadening our commitment to creating a real impact for our customers and partners, our people, and society.

Load shedding events of 2020 triggered a flurry of regulatory activity, as California’s energy agencies, and the California ISO, worked diligently to ensure that enough electric capacity is available to meet load, especially during extreme weather events and/or wildfire events. 

Yokogawa Electric acquired all outstanding shares of PXiSE, a San Diego-based distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) provider.

The DER program offers two options for homeowners in APS’s service territory with batteries from participating vendors to earn money through one-time, upfront incentives.

As we have learned from recent natural disasters, solar panels, operating on their own, provide no level of resilience. A microgrid can change that.

A recent annual winter forecast by the North American Electric Reliability Corporation, which oversees the reliability of the nation's electrical sector, projected Texas could have a nearly 40% shortfall in available power to meet demand in the event of another severe storm this winter.

The fire safety certification is a significant milestone that means Emera can now sell the solution to other utilities.    

Income-qualified SCE customers who buy or lease pre-owned electric vehicles may be eligible to receive a $4,000 rebate.

By connecting the batteries of parked electric school buses to the grid, a first-of-its-kind electric school bus charging hub aims to provide enough backup power to support up to 10,000 homes.

Con Edison, the New York utility company, is planning to build an electric transmission facility off the coast of New Jersey to connect multiple offshore wind projects and bring the power ashore.

To better manage grid operations, many utilities are turning to risk-based predictive asset maintenance and monitoring technologies. Yet some continue to rely on traditional scheduled or reactive asset management strategies, leaving a lot on the table. Zpryme has released an industry report – based on a survey of 100 utilities – showing how to move away from a break-fix model within an asset maintenance strategy and exploring the changing dynamic between utilities and customers.