Category: Smart Grid News
USAID Adds Momentum to Sub-Saharan Off-Grid Solar with $4 Million of New SOGE Grant Awards
USAID will award Scaling Off-Grid Energy Development Grand Challenge grants of up to $500,000 each to Sub-Saharan start-ups that demonstrate commercially promising innovations and ...
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New Solar Cells, Supercapacitors, Blockchain Apps Expected to Drive Renewable Power Costs Down Further
Renewable power generation is now cost competitive with fossil fuels, and industry participants foresee further gains ahead in light of ongoing technological innovation, efforts ...
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Self-Driving Batteries, Virtual Microgrids, and Other Uber-like Future Energy Models
This new slideshare from Professor Damien Ernst describes microgrids, V2G (Vehicle To Grid), autonomous vehicle energy delivery, and other futuristic models for the ...
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Biggest Drivers Of US Electric Grid Transformation According to DOE
According to the 2nd Quadrennial Energy Review, here the key trends shaping the electricity sector today. It also reads as a list of opportunities for microgrids. Increasing ...
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Blockchain Underpins Germany’s NEW 4.0 100 Percent Renewable Energy Plan
Envisaged as a milestone on the path to a distributed, all-renewable energy infrastructure, Germany's NEW 4.0 project is to make use of a Blockchain-based platform that ...
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World’s First Open Microgrid Lets Commercial Zones Co-Invest and Optimize Energy Resources
Two new pilot projects, dubbed 'E-Cloud' seek to develop and optimize open microgrids in Belgium's industrial zones. E-cloud is funded by the local Wallonia government. The ...
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UK Blockchain Startup Aims to Revamp Energy Sector from the Top-Down
Electron is working with U.K. gas and electricity market stakeholders in a bid to convince them of the advantages and benefits to be gained from migrating from a hodgepodge of ...
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Can Blockchain Gain Traction in Power and Energy Markets?
Touted as the next ¨transformational¨ digital information and communications technology, interest and investment in Blockchain projects and ventures is diffusing out from banking ...
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Schneider Launches New EcoStruxure Energy IoT Architecture and Platform
Schneider is building bridges across the energy and IoT sectors with the latest iteration of its EcoStruxure architecture and platform, which offers an ¨industrial strength¨ ...
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Energy Industry First: Siemens, LO3 Energy to Link Blockchain Trading, Microgrid Management Technology
Brooklyn, New York's LO3 Energy is at the leading edge of a fundamental restructuring and retooling of energy production and distribution. A partnership with Siemens should give ...
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