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Grid outages.
Hurricanes, wildfires, flooding, and other severe weather.
Ever-fluctuating energy prices.
Growing demand for fewer
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Centralized electricity production spurred huge progress in the early 20th century — enabling significant economies of scale and improved power plant
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Date/Time: November 4, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT)
California is facing power insecurity at levels unlike anything in its recent history:
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The opportunity to invest is massive, and new ownership models from subcontracting to cooperatives can help communities get in on the action.
by Sachi Graber
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The technology can help withstand catastrophic events and allow for quicker recoveries when the worst occurs.
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The fragility of the electric grid is on everyone's minds — it's time to make it a more resilient, reliable energy system.
by Sarah Golden
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The electricity system is about to experience a several-orders-of-magnitude increase in the number of vulnerabilities to cyber-threats.
by Jesse Morris
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Keep your eyes on the Energy Web Foundation, an open source technology initiative co-managed by the Rocky Mountain Institute.
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Where should our infrastructure spending go?
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One big obstacle to a distributed grid is the decades-old transaction model. Now, the cryptography behind the Bitcoin digital currency could rewrite the rules.
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Utility bill data or interval data? Utility-owned smart meters or building-installed meters? Parsing the advantages and disadvantages of various energy data types.
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Illinois utility develops a new tool to measure smart grid benefits. Is this a game changer for our power industry?
by Dick Munson
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It will take a combination of clean energy expansion, policy change and increased accessibility to take grid 2.0 from concept to reality.
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The maker of the Leaf electric car has unveiled a home energy storage system using recycled car batteries, plus a program allowing EV owners to sell power back to the grid.
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A U.K. initiative from Sainsbury’s, United Utilities and Aggregate Industries could make the local power grid smarter and prepare it for more renewable power.
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How utilities are taking advantage of customer-owned energy storage and demand flexibility.
by Mark Dyson
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The battle over the Pepco-Exelon Merger, which would create the nation's largest utility, reveals more consolidation and rate fights and on the horizon.
by Rachel Gold
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New research shows that it won't necessarily take super storage to scale renewable energy, but it will take a mix of locally-generated and utility-scale power.
by RP Siegel
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Utilities may not be happy about it, but breakthroughs in battery storage and declining clean energy costs are making microgrids more appealing.
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There's a new way for businesses and consumers to lower electric bills: demand flexibility.
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The Caribbean nation is one of several islands experimenting with ways to shift a way from a cycle of economic and logistical dependence on fossil fuels.
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The famously earthquake-prone California city is looking to mitigate unnecessary infrastructure risks.
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BMW and California utility PG&E are among the players sorting out the interconnected futures of the energy and automotive industries.
by John Gartner
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First-time energy customers in emerging markets will be served better and faster with efficient power systems, according to a new World Bank report.
by Mike Hower
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Ownership structures, size and grid integration are a few key microgrid characteristics to define sooner than later.