Power grid

Natural Gas

California Relied Heavily on Natural Gas During Sept Heat Wave -EIA

During an extreme heat wave in early September, the California power grid relied on natural gas for almost half of its electricity generation to meet peak deman…

South Korea

New Energy Harvesting Tech Could Bring Power to Remote Regions

Piezoelectric could be quite the saver in the costs to generate a little remote power.

Australia

Australia’s AGL Energy Names Board Member McKenzie as Chair

AGL Energy said on Monday board member Patricia McKenzie would replace Peter Botten as chair, as part of an overhaul after the power producer scrapped plans to …

Smart Meter

New Cybersecurity Partnership to Safeguard Smart Meters

A new partnership is supplying a cybersecurity solution for smart meters as the energy industry faces the increasing threat of cyberattacks.

Smart Grid

Transgrid Interconnector Uses Smart Grid Tech to Unlock Network Capacity

Australian TSO Transgrid has announced its use of smart grid technology through an interconnector project to unlock additional renewable energy capacity.

Researchers at Sandia Lab Successfully Test New Power Generation Technology

Researchers at Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico announced they completed a successful test of a new power-generating technology.

France

Paris Plans to Turn off Eiffel Tower’s Lights Early to Save Electricity, Report Says

Paris plans to turn off the Eiffel Tower's lights earlier each night to save electricity.

Smart Meter

LV Support Room Uses Smart Meter Data to Expedite Fault Detection

Transmission and distribution network operator SP Energy Networks has opened a new low voltage (LV) support room, which leverages data from smart meters and sub…

Smart Meter

Siemens to Equip Alexandria with ADMS, AMI and 300K Smart Meters

Siemens has been awarded a contract to upgrade Egypt’s second largest city’s distribution management system, establish advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) …

Smart Grid

Project CARMEN: Joint Romania-Hungary Smart Grid

The Carpathian Modernised Energy Network (CARMEN) smart grid project is up for funding from the Connecting Europe Facility programme.

Smart Meter

Smart Meters Set to Transform Into Grid-Edge Computing Devices – Whitepaper

According to a new whitepaper from Guidehouse Insights, there is an extensive base of smart meters set for upgrade and replacement over the coming decade in bot…

Smart Grid

$10.5 billion programme for US grid upgrades launched

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is seeking input on a $10.5 billion programme for smart grids and other upgrades to strengthen the country’s electricity grid…

Octopus Energy and National Grid Demonstrate First V2G in Great Britain

Octopus Energy Group and National Grid ESO have announced the first successful integration of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology, using a test environment of the …

Smart Meter

EDF Looks to Pay as You Go Meters amid British Billing Crisis

Electric utility company Électricité de France (EDF) has announced support packages for British consumers, one of which involves using smart prepayment meters…

United Kingdom

Rolls-Royce and AVK Provide 3.5GW Emergency Power in the UK

Image credit: Rolls-Royce Power SystemsGerman-headquartered Rolls-Royce Power Systems has delivered the 200th mtu emergency generator to UK-based emergency powe…