PG&E leverages machine-learning and data science for asset management and DER integration Utilities house enormous datasets that defy traditional analysis, for which machine-learning could be of great benefit. When machine-learning is applied to IoT data, utility companies are able to realise the next generation power grid that can eventually handle billions of endpoints on utility … Continue reading #PG_&_E leverages machine-learning and data science for asset management and DER integration→
Ready For California’s Biggest-Ever Solar & Storage Exhibition? With over 18,000 visitors expected at this year’s solar industry networking events in San Francisco, the July 11 through July 13, 2017, Intersolar North America exhibition and conference will be the most-attended solar-plus-storage event in the United States. Since establishment in 2008, Intersolar North America takes place … Continue reading Ready For California’s Biggest-Ever Solar & Storage Exhibition?→
California PUC finalizes new 500 MW BTM battery storage mandate California has by far the most robust mandates for energy storage in the nation. Under AB 2514, passed in 2013, the state’s utilities are required to procure 1,325 MW of storage, split between the state’s three IOUs — Pacific Gas and Electric, Sand Diego Gas … Continue reading #California_PUC finalizes new 500 MW BTM battery storage mandate→
Inside Arizona’s Only Nuclear Power Plant Evvery six months, Arizona’s only nuclear power plant shuts down one of its three reactors for refueling and maintenance. The Palo Verde Nuclear Generating Station southwest of Phoenix recently underwent the process. Six words greet all who enter Palo Verde – visitors, staff, or one of the thousand contractors … Continue reading Inside #Arizona ‘s Only Nuclear Power Plant #Palo_Verde→
California ISO preps solar-heavy grid for total eclipse this summer California’s infamous duck curve will go into overdrive in August when a solar eclipse casts a shadow over the Pacific Northwest. The partial eclipse will occur between 9:02 am and 11:54 am and will obscure the sun by 76% in Northern California and by 62% … Continue reading #California_ISO preps solar – heavy grid for total eclipse this summer→
CAISO updates proposed rules for demand response, energy storage California leads the nation in distributed energy resources, but integrating those resources into the grid is not easy. On the regulatory front the integration process has resulted in a profusion of rules the CPUC is trying to tame with a DER Action Plan. CAISO is also … Continue reading CAISO updates proposed rules for demand response, energy storage→
How California pulled off the world’s fastest grid-scale battery procurement – Part II AES Energy Storage was the powerhouse behind the largest battery storage facility built to date. When combined with the other mammoth battery plants built by Tesla and AltaGas, the three constitute around 15% of the entire battery storage capacity installed across the … Continue reading How #California pulled off the world’s fastest grid-scale battery procurement – Part II→
TEP brings new energy-storage systems online in Tucson Tucson Electric Power Co. recently completed two big energy-storage projects aimed at taking advantage of new technologies and smoothing out the intermittent generation of renewable-energy sources like solar and wind. Chicago-based E.ON Climate & Renewables finished building a 10-megawatt capacity lithium-ion battery-storage facility and an accompanying 2-megawatt … Continue reading #TEP brings new energy – storage systems online in #Tucson→
Power restored after fire at NV Energy substation An electrical substation fire in the south Las Vegas Valley Monday morning briefly left thousands without power. A transformer at the NV Energy station at the corner of East Frias Avenue and Giles Street, near the South Point, burst into flames about 5:50 a.m., according to Metropolitan … Continue reading Power restored after fire at #NV_Energy substation→
Why nuclear power has no future in California or U.S. To those who have watched the nuclear industry collapse, the recent bankruptcy of Westinghouse Electric Corp. is nothing short of the industry’s death rattle and the final chapter in the 20th century’s deluded affair with nuclear power. The company’s demise can only be read as … Continue reading Why nuclear power has no future in #California or U.S.→
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