NationalGrid Archives

Thanks for your flexibility: New integration techniques expanding interconnection options

Real challenges persist around flexible interconnection, but some of the industry’s brightest minds are collaborating on new ideas and techniques.

4 new offshore wind power projects proposed for New Jersey Shore; 2 would be far out to sea

The surge would more than double the number of wind farms built off the New Jersey coast if they are approved by regulators

Massachusetts school bus shaves peak demand in first V2G program for district

Highland Electric Fleets announced this week what it called a “historic breakthrough for local clean energy” in which an electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer.

ConnectedSolutions results: Massachusetts’ efficiency program for customer batteries

It appears that customer storage is a winner.

Geronimo contracts with J. Ranck to build 40-MW Michigan solar portfolio

Geronimo Energy, a National Grid company, announced the initial construction for two Michigan solar projects that has signed Power Purchase Agreements (PPA) with Consumers Energy. The projects, Bingham Solar and Temperance Solar, are part of the company’s MiSolar Portfolio, located in Clinton and Monroe counties in Michigan. Geronimo has contracted with Michigan-based engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contractor J. Ranck

Cleantech news site editors on emerging utilities model: Keep an eye on electric vehicles

We’re proud to have hosted the editors of six leading clean economy news sites last month. It was the first time they’d convened to discuss trends in the sectors they cover. In our most recent post, we summarized trends the editors followed pre-pandemic and their predictions for how clean economy companies emerge post-pandemic. However, the panel also focused on the emerging

Solar mini-grids for rural electrification to double within three years

Over 3000 mini-grids are expected to be built by end-2022 in Africa and Asia, according to a new report, Mini-grids for Village Electrification: Industry a…

Engie Africa brings off-grid power to more than four million people

ENGIE Africa is providing off-grid power to 4 Million people through the development of three off-grid energy companies: Fenix International, ENGIE Mobisol, and…

3.5-MW Rhode Island community solar project soon available to National Grid customers

Nautilus Solar Energy announced the acquisition of a 3.5-MW community solar project in Cranston, Rhode Island from ISM Solar Development. This solar proje…

What Greta should advocate: A federation of microgrids

Two kinds of voices were heard at the 2020 World Economic Forum at Davos. From the climate activists like Greta Thunberg and others: Do something. Cut fossil fu…

Envision Digital to develop first AIoT smart grid for PTT in Thailand

Envision Digital International Pte Ltd (Envision Digital), a global digital AIoT technology company headquartered in Singapore, has been appointed to develop th…

EWF and APG testing DER for frequency regulation on Austrian grid in new ‘Flex-Hub’ concept

New pilot project could be the first step along the path of understanding how to pay for flexibility in the electricity grid. Today Austrian Power Grid AG (APG)…

Forget DER aggregators, grid-edge intelligence will be the hallmark of the utility of the future

Suzanne Russo, CEO of Pecan Street, has a pretty good grip on the future of the electricity industry. That’s because her organization is designing, creating, …

Fast-responding 11-MW energy storage system to help stabilize Irish grid

When Ireland’s first-ever battery-based energy storage project goes online in the coming weeks, the 11-megawatt (MW) installation in Co. Kerry will be guarant…

UL acquires microgrid design software company HOMER Energy

Today UL announced the acquisition of Boulder, Colorado-based HOMER Energy, a company that produces modeling and optimization software for microgrids. The acqui…