Grid Innovations

Technology developments, industry practices and regulatory drivers molding the power grid of the future.

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A model of an electrical substation. Net zero or real zero energy by 2050 has dramatic implications on the current planning, design, operations and maintenance of the electric transmission and distribution grid that delivers that energy. Photo 6794713 © Pavel Losevsky | Dreamstime.com
Grid Innovations

How Will We Get to Real Zero Energy?

July 25, 2024
How the power sector can reach net zero and eventually real zero carbon content, and how the transmission and distribution grid can help deliver on these goals.
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Distributed Energy Resources

Consider A Customer DER Interconnection Process

March 5, 2024
Policy changes in Illinois have spurred a surge in Ameren Illinois’ distributed energy resource interconnections, prompting the need for a process.
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Grid Innovations

Eaton Latest Electrical Supplier to Expand, Sees Gains in Industrial Electrification

Feb. 19, 2024
Power management firm Eaton's largest growth area is industrial electrification.
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Grid Innovations

DOE Funding Advanced Cybersecurity Tools to Protect Energy Infrastructure

Jan. 18, 2024
The $30 million funding for cyber tools is in support of CESER’s work to develop new technology to protect clean energy infrastructure from cyber threats.
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Smart Grid

Avangrid’s Central Maine Power Secures $30 Million To Deploy Smart Grid Technology

Oct. 23, 2023
CMP will install the distribution supervisory control and data acquisition switch program to help prevent system faults, especially in disadvantaged communities.

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Entergy Louisiana Announces Phase One of Grid Resilience Plan in Jefferson Parish

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Over five years, the company plans to invest about $233 million in Jefferson Parish to strengthen nearly 200 miles of transmission and distribution lines, upgrade around 7,400...
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EPRI Receives the U.S. Department of State Grant to Assess Small Modular Reactor Use in Ukraine

Nov. 20, 2024
EPRI will support FIRST's Project Phoenix program in Ukraine, conducting an assessment for the conversion of the country's existing coal plants to nuclear power generation with...
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$22 Million Now Available to Strengthen and Modernize New York’s Electric Grid

Nov. 20, 2024
New York also awarded additional $11.5 million in U.S. Department of Energy Formula Grant funding and is expected to serve municipal electric systems and rural cooperatives from...
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POWERing Through with An Innovative Strategy

Nov. 20, 2024
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