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Economic Times | February 21, 2020

The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission on Thursday issued a suite of orders that will require subsidized energy storage and renewable power resource providers to meet a price floor in New York state's capacity market, making it harder for them to compete with fossil fuel plants. The move, which environmental groups said effectively bolsters fossil fuel generators by forcing renewable resource providers to pay a premium in the capacity market, follows a similar FERC order in December that appli...

EDF Renewables | July 21, 2020

EDF Renewables announces two important advances in wind energy in Chile. The first refers to the 60 MW extension of the Cabo Leones I wind farm located in northern Chile. The second refers to the allocation of land that allows up to 300 MW of wind power capacity. These future developments are part of the EDF Group’s CAP 2030 strategy, whose objective is to double its global renewable capacity between 2015 and 2030, bringing it to 50 GW. EDF Renewables in Chile, with its Spanish partner Gru...

Venturebeat | June 18, 2020

In a paper published on the preprint server Arxiv.org, Microsoft and the University of Washington researchers propose an AI system that uses smartphone location data to forecast electrical load. They say their architecture, which takes into account data from geographical regions both within the U.S. and Europe, can outperform conventional forecasting methods by more than three times. The pandemic shows no sign of abating, and it’s made a striking impact on the global electrical grid. Stay-...

Solar+Storage

ConnectDER | February 24, 2022

ConnectDER, the innovative company that enables utilities and homeowners to expand access to distributed energy resources(DERs), is launching availability of its Solar Collar for new residential solar installations in Nebraska. ConnectDER's simple, affordable meter collar can now be used in solar installations throughout Nebraska Public Power and Omaha Public Power District areas. The ConnectDER Solar Collar is a UL-Listed meter collar that enables rapid interconnection of grid-ready r...