Sunrun completes successful residential virtual power plant in New England
In the hot summer months, thousands of residents with solar-plus-battery systems networked together to reduce peak energy costs and provide grid stability for ISO-New England’s customers.
Electric buses to be deployed at community centers as emergency backup power
Schneider Electric announced a project with the California Energy Commission to demonstrate the value of bidirectional EV charging.
New York needs 20 GW of new renewables by 2030, plus transmission, says grid operator
Even adding 9.5 GW of renewables will increase transmission congestion, said NYISO, in a report that also called for development and commercialization of dispatchable emission-free resources.
8minute Solar Energy changes name, expands its vision
As Avantus, the company looks to deploy its proprietary power plant technologies and digitally connected delivery systems at the gigawatt scale.
Grid operator MISO is making progress on renewables interconnection, says trade group leader
The Midwestern transmission operator MISO is moving to increase transmission and otherwise facilitate interconnection, said a regional trade group leader, yet she also recommended further improvements by MISO and neighboring grid operators.
Solar Resilience: Keeping communities connected
Distributed solar energy systems can play an important role in increasing the resilience of the nation’s grid.
Sunrise brief: Are we educating enough power system engineers for the renewables transition?
Also on the rise: Fluke unveils the Solar Multifunction Tester 1000 at RE+ in Anaheim. Solar tariffs caused a year of uncertainty–could a U.S. solar supply chain help? And more.
Are we educating enough power system engineers for the renewables transition?
As key industry players flag the need for power system engineers to process solar interconnection requests, we reached out to Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and grid operators CAISO and SPP, for their insights on the supply and demand for these engineers.
Sunrise brief: SunPower residential solar now offered in IKEA California locations
Also on the rise: National initiative needed to transition to high-DER grid. RE+ announces three new co-located clean energy events. And more.
RE+ announces three new co-located clean energy events
The Center for Transportation and the Environment, the Center for Hydrogen Safety, and Idaho National Laboratory will be hosting events at RE+ 2022 in Anaheim California.
