Plus, CenterPoint responds to Beryl criticism
Plans to bring a data center developed by Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, xAI, to Memphis are pitting the local utility against its regulator, the city council.
CenterPoint Energy said it was proactive in preparing for Hurricane Beryl, which knocked out power to 2.6 million of the utility's customers in Houston. The utility is advocating for a $2.2 billion resiliency plan to limit the impact of future storms.
As Hurricane Beryl wiped out power for millions of Texans, an unlikely app got its time in the spotlight.
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Sense and Sensus are developing what they believe would be the first electric smart meter capable of capturing and processing 1 MHz data in North America.
Few, if any, interregional transmission projects have been built in recent memory. The energy transition requires a better approach.
The states are calling the collaborative a "first-in-the-nation" effort to explore opportunities to increase the flow of electricity between three different planning regions in the Northeast and assess offshore wind infrastructure needs and solutions. 
The forecast is part of Consumers Energy’s Transportation Electrification Plan that it is filing with state regulators.
During a major storm event that cut power to tens of thousands of homes, a fleet of EVs were able to feed power back into Australia’s grid.
IoT technologies not only offer predictive capabilities but also bring substantial economic and operational benefits that can help to transform utility management.
What took as much as 2 years before will now take 4 months or less, the DPU said.
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