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| | | | | The chairman of the Public Utilities Commission of Texas said Houston's CenterPoint Energy "has to do better" after 2 million of the utility's customers lost power. | | Read more |
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| | | | | Only a few years ago, utilities were still kicking the tires on battery storage. Now, they want full control— from design to construction and everything in between. | | Read more |
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| | | | | A new interactive tool walks the user through the critical steps for holistic distribution system planning. | | Read more |
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| | | Although PJM will not formally file a compliance plan with FERC until next year, the legislators argued there are several actions that the regional transmission organization can take to align itself with the spirit of Order 1920. | | Read more |
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| | | To preserve the grid’s stability, researchers have begun developing grid-forming inverters, which aim to control voltage rather than current. | | Read more |
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| | | The lawsuit alleging mismanagement and lies is the latest legal action by shareholders against Florida Power & Light’s parent company. | | Read more |
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| | | As public outrage over prolonged power outages grows, CenterPoint said utility crews have faced violent threats, including guns pointed at them. | | Read more |
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| | | Customer actions reduced electricity demand by nearly 109 MW during peak demand hours on July 8 and 100 MW on July 9. | | Read more |
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| | | The Ampacimon FERC 881 Acceleration Program offers a package of professional services and software in a pilot program designed to inform operators’ FERC 881 strategy and accelerate the path to compliance. | | Read more |
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| | | Loosening or deteriorating connections can cause increases in ambient temperature, or hotspots', throughout the grid that are not visible to the naked eye. | | Read more |
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| | | Undergrounding power lines provides numerous resiliency benefits, but it comes at a cost. What's best for Houston? | | Read more |
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| | | EPRI’s Grid-Enhancing Technologies for a Smart Energy Transition (GET SET) initiative aims to support the testing and demonstration of technologies to learn and share lessons for operational cost reductions, life expectancy, and reliability. | | Read more |
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| | | Andrew Takhistov, 18, was arrested at the Newark Liberty International Airport, where he was headed to Paris before going to Ukraine to join the Russian Volunteer Corps, a pro-Ukrainian group fighting Russian forces, officials said. | | Read more |
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| | | The U.S. territory’s Electric Power Authority holds more than $10 billion in debt and other claims — the biggest of any of the island’s state agencies. | | Read more |
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| | | Customers now have an easier way to determine if their address is within the high-risk wildfire areas within the company's public safety power shutoff program (PSPS). | | Read more |
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| | | The process will allow the region to implement transmission system upgrades based on the results of longer-term transmission studies such as the recent 2050 Transmission Study. | | Read more |
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UPCOMING EVENTS | GridTECH Connect Forum - Northeast Registration is live! We are headed to Newport, Rhode Island, USA from October 28-30, 2024. New England has set ambitious clean energy goals and is well on its way to weaning off fossil fuels, but major obstacles remain along the path to 100% renewable energy, including the intermittent nature of wind and solar, lack of land for large utility-scale projects, and increasingly harsh weather. READ MORE |
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