How To Protect the Connected Energy Grid New digital tools are transforming the energy sector, connecting everything from household appliances to electric vehicles to smart sensors, and improving the efficiency of infrastructure from transmission lines to power plants to pipelines. These technologies promise smarter, cleaner, and cheaper energy. Unfortunately, they also leave the U.S. increasingly … Continue reading How To Protect the Connected Energy Grid→
California’s Controversial Energy-Grid Bill Advances LOS ANGELES (CN) – In an effort to transform California’s relationship to energy markets in the western region of the country, lawmakers on Tuesday advanced a bill that would merge California into a regional energy market. Under the terms of Assembly Bill 813, California would be lumped together with up … Continue reading #California ’s Controversial Energy – Grid Bill Advances→
SPP to offer reliability coordination in Western Interconnection power grid The Southwest Power Pool, an electric reliability council operating in the central Southern US roughly from North Dakota to the Texas Panhandle, will begin offering reliability coordination services in the Western Interconnection. The Western Interconnection is a wide area power grid that runs from western … Continue reading SPP to offer reliability coordination in Western Interconnection power grid→
US Grid Operators, Utilities Getting to Know their Duck Curves A phenomenon first observed in California around 2013, electricity supply-demand “duck curves” are emerging on grid systems elsewhere in the US. Utility grid customers across the New England region used more grid energy in the evening than they did during the daytime for the first … Continue reading US Grid Operators, Utilities Getting to Know their Duck Curve s→
Solar and wind power will drive the value of energy storage, remaking the power grid A much heralded report shows solar and wind will lower wholesale prices, but it also shows a coming evolution in the pricing profile of the grid. These shifts in timing, shape, regularity and length will drive energy storage demand. Despite … Continue reading Solar and wind power will drive the value of energy storage, remaking the power grid→
Cyberattack on U.S. power grid must trigger coordinated action With irrefutable proof in hand that hackers have penetrated the U.S. electricity supply system, and the tragic situation in Puerto Rico reminding us that life without electricity is harsh — not only no lights, but no banks, ATMs, internet or communications, limited food and water supplies, … Continue reading Cyberattack on U.S. power grid must trigger coordinated action→
NYISO says technology is rapidly changing electric grid The electrical grid as we know it is no longer, thanks to the rapidly changing role of technology in our lives. Officials at the New York Independent System Operator, who decades ago were focused almost exclusively on keeping the lights on, are now facing dramatic changes and … Continue reading NYISO says technology is rapidly changing electric grid→
In Illinois, blockchain startups seek to work with utilities on grid software Blockchain startups say utilities and regulators in Illinois have been more open to working with them than in other states. Revolutionary rhetoric around blockchain’s potential to make traditional utilities obsolete has fostered tense relationships in the energy world. Startup companies boasting about wanting … Continue reading In #Illinois, blockchain startups seek to work with utilities on grid software→
