The organization SolarPlaza is organizing an important summit on 11 –12 June in Copenhagen called the Energy Flexibility Forum that will be a platform for key stakeholders to specify their needs, showcase their solutions, find their renewed roles and collaboratively take on market and regulatory barriers to accelerate the transition towards a flexible energy system.
The 3rd Grid Modernization Forum is intended for network strategists at investor-owned, municipal, and rural utilities, as well as grid operations engineers and directors, service and network planners, system integrators, policy-makers, and technology innovators. Key utility and technology executives will share insights and updates on achieving the digital Utility of the Future.
The Hawaii public utilities commission is considering new performance-based rules that will encourage utility companies to focus more on efficiency and investments in renewable energy.
It’s often assumed that homeowners care more about energy efficiency opportunities than renters, but a new report, released October 30, 2017, from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC) shows that actually, homeowners and renters have similar feelings about efficiency.
Researchers at North Carolina State University have been using complex computational models to explore ways to make a “smart grid” a reality. Their recommendation? Solid state transformers.
We desperately need green NGOs and campaigners to campaign for time-of-day-electricity charging. Then we will get real smart meters, not the sham ones that are being installed now.
Islands present special challenges for utility companies, whether they are large like the Hawaiian Islands or small like Okracoke, a tiny spit of land that juts out into the Atlantic Ocean east of Cape Hatteras, North Carolina. They are also ideal for a microgrid — an electrical system that can generate, store, and distribute power even if it is disconnected from the central grid.
