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Enabling utility-grade AI and future grid resilience with Joe Matamoros from S&C Electric Company

Joe Matamoros from S&C Electric Company works directly with utilities to build a grid capable of handling tomorrow's challenges, which he will detail at DTECH Reliability &...

AI is reshaping the grid. Manufacturers need options that move faster.

Grid upgrades take years. Manufacturers need options that move in months.

How are redefinitions of reliability and resiliency impacting utilities and their customers?  

Exactly how different utility teams and project stakeholders are approaching the integration of multiple systems to enable reliability will be a focus of DTECH Reliability & Re...

From Legacy Systems to Smart Grids: How Consultants Are Bridging the Utility Infrastructure Gap

The post From Legacy Systems to Smart Grids: How Consultants Are Bridging the Utility Infrastructure Gap appeared first on UK Construction Blog. The utility sector faces an infrast...

The grid’s fastest-growing resource isn’t generation. It’s flexibility.

The technology is there. The institutions are not. FERC’s July 23 technical conference on the PJM Interconnection’s governance is where that gap gets addressed — or doesn’t, writes...

Senate Proposal Would Mandate New “Connect and Manage” Approach to Grid Interconnections

The electric meter is growing a brain: Why AMI 2.0 is the grid’s next big leap and what you should do about it

The first wave of smart meters are near retirement and new meters with edge computing capabilities are arriving. Utilities have crucial equipment decisions ahead.

AI is reshaping the grid. Utilities need capacity that can move faster.

New large loads arrive in months. Grid upgrades take years. Fast storage helps close the gap.

For Energy Systems That Power a Reliable Grid, the Future Is All About Location

For Energy Systems That Power a Reliable Grid, the Future Is All About Location Where new energy projects are built could be key to avoiding blackouts in an uncertain...

The US needs more electricity. Can the grid deliver?

Efforts to modernize the aging electric grid, amid surging demand for power, are running up against challenges, including bureaucratic delays.

Software-based initiative could unlock up to 20% more bulk capacity: OATI

OATI seeks federal funding for widespread deployment of dynamic line rating software, near-real-time inter-regional coordination and AI-enhanced resource dispatch — none of which r...

Retrofitting Old Buildings for Smart Grid Compliance: What Contractors Need to Know

A property manager calls about a 1958 mixed-use building downtown. The utility wants time-of-use metering installed by next quarter, the tenants want their AC to keep running throu...

Aligning wildfire mitigation with utility operations and planning

Utilizing advanced platforms like Firescape, utilities such as PNM are adjusting what it means for them to simultaneously evaluate wildfire risk and consider reliability.

The utility billing system is preventing rate and program innovation

Utilities are spending billions to modernize the grid but the system responsible for billing customers is not keeping up, writes GridX CCO Scott Engstrom.

FERC approves SPP ‘topology optimization’ plan for cutting grid congestion

The Midcontinent Independent System Operator’s power market has saved nearly $100 million this year under a similar approach for topology reconfiguration.

2 GW HVDC Is Becoming Standard. The Rest Of The Grid Isn’t.

High-voltage direct current transmission used to look like a specialist technology reserved for unusually long lines, subsea links or awkward grid problems. That is changing. In a...

From grid hardening to grid intelligence: The next era of wildfire resilience

Another summer of evacuation orders and smoke-filled skies across the country as hundreds of wildfires are burning. Technology is helping to mitigate grid impacts.

FERC eyes ‘grid-enhancing technology’ incentives: Chairman Swett

Data centers, competition in the transmission sector and PJM Interconnection governance reform were other key topics at the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing.

Smart Energy Management Research Could Unlock Grid Flexibility & Cost Savings

Partnership With Xcel Energy Reveals Solutions To Meet Needs of and Avoid Unnecessary Expenses for Grid Customers. As demand for electricity in the United States grows and evolves,...

The grid operates in seconds, but financial settlement still moves in months

Big Tech is allocating hundreds of billions of dollars for data center expansions; creating reporting frameworks for energy flexibility is the next step, writes Andrii Garanin at S...

Laing O’Rourke and HMJV lead £1bn Grid upgrade for AI boom

North London power capacity upgrade to support five new data centres

ComEd Commissions Two New Substations, Unlocking Up To 550MW of Wind Energy to the Grid

New transmission substations in LaSalle and Woodford Counties expand capacity to enable utility scale wind farms while enhancing reliability for surrounding communities. ComEd toda...

Relieving grid congestion with advanced transmission technologies | Factor This Policycast

This episode of the Factor This Policycast, presented in partnership with Advanced Energy United, explores the offerings of advanced transmission technologies (ATTs), including gri...