PG&E puts a $22.5B price tag on San Francisco public grid takeover proposal ow.ly/s34B106H5uU #Business #News #PolicyRegulation #PowerGrid #PGEPacificGasandElectric

California left the nation’s largest VPP in limbo. What’s next? | Factor This Policycast ow.ly/jETW106H48A #Battery #Business #EnergyStorage #News #Podcasts #PolicyRegulation #Residential #Solar #DTECH #FactorThisPolicycast #ReliabilityandResilience #Renewables

It's the edge of the world and all of Western civilization, and someday soon it may be powered entirely by renewable energy. Is that Californication? United's California director, Brandon García explains how the accomplishments of virtual power plant-enabled demand response programs are underrated. Recent demonstrations of VPP-directed demand response using distributed energy resources dispatched record-setting 669 and 745 megawatts to the California grid. Entire cities can run on the amounts of energy these systems can dispatch. We learn about California's Demand Side Grid Support program, what it can accomplish, and its uncertain future, in this episode of the Factor This Policycast, produced in partnership with Advanced Energy United. Watch: 🔗ow.ly/GG7M51003YR @AdvEnergyUnited ; @Sunrun #FactorThis #Policycast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #BrandonGarcia #VirtualPowerPlants

The Arizona Department of Water Resources has filed a motion to join in a lawsuit against the federal government’s plan for Colorado River operations over the next 10 years. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/Hwyj50ZZyFg @azwater ; @insideclimate #Arizona #ArizonaDepartmentOfWaterResources #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #WaterManagement

Canada’s Tim Hodgson, Minister of Energy and Natural Resources, recently announced an investment of almost $270 million for hydropower development and transmission in New Brunswick. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/Hy2S50ZZyF3 @cib_en ; @NB_Power #TimHodgson #NewBrunswick #Hydropower #TransmissionInfrastructure #EnergyInvestment

New research from the Smart Energy Consumer Collaborative (SECC), based on a nationally representative survey of more than 4,000 Americans, and an analysis of 1,199 U.S. utilities from BlastPoint reveal the extent of the affordability crisis and its effects on households and electric utilities. Dive in: 🔗ow.ly/bArU50ZZyEt @seconsumer ; @blastpointinc #SECC #SmartEnergyConsumerCollaborative #BlastPoint #EnergyAffordability #EnergyAffordabilityCrisis

Our top article of last week is contributed by Brandon García, Advanced Energy United's California Director, covering new legislation in California set to make energy more affordable and reliable within the state's borders. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/JOsH50ZZavc @AdvEnergyUnited #AdvancedEnergyUnited #BrandonGarcia #CaliforniaEnergy #CaliforniaLegislation #EnergyAffordability

Is it a wonder men can eat at all, when things are big that should be small? Our continuously clued-in Paul Gerke weighs in on the virtual insanity of virtual power plants (VPPs). VPPs can put downward pressure on real-time energy prices, and Sunrun and Tesla recently dispatched a record-setting 669 megawatts (MW) and 745 MW, two nights consecutively in California, in one of the largest VPP-enabled power dispatches in history. Who can tell what magic spells we'll be doing for us? Here's the Brief: 🔗ow.ly/Vngg50ZZauY @Sunrun ; @Tesla #FactorThis #FactorThisBrief #PaulGerke #Sunrun #Tesla

Affordability pressure is rising for utilities and households ow.ly/LZP5106GTEo #Business #News #PowerGrid #affordability #DTECH

Canada invests $270M for New Brunswick hydro, transmission development ow.ly/RNfi106GRrz #Hydropower #News #Renewables

Arizona joins lawsuit challenging the federal government’s plan for the Colorado River ow.ly/FY12106GRry #Business #Hydropower #News #PolicyRegulation #Renewables

Reliability in action: Littleton’s Hendrix ACS success story ow.ly/bMro106GNQ0 #Distribution #FactorThis #News #Podcasts #PowerGrid #DTECH #GridModernization #ReliabilityandResilience

Virtual insanity | Factor This Brief ow.ly/WQQE106GNPY #Business #EnergyStorage #Finance #News #ProjectDevelopment #Solar #Brief #DTECH #ReliabilityandResilience #Renewables

Courtesy of ABB's Khalid Mandri, we learn about how the versatility of microgrid technology, particularly temporary microgrids like the ones deployed at NASCAR San Diego. The microgrid sector is valued roughly at $36.4 billion and projected to reach nearly $166 billion by 2035 according to Global Market Insights Inc. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/svIW50ZYTFu @ABBNorthAmerica ; @NASCAR ; @GMI_US #ABB #KhalidMandri #Microgrids #TemporaryMicrogrids #MicrogridTechnology

In this episode of the Factor This Podcast, we hear from David Ketchen of Littleton Electric Light & Water Departments, on how Marmon Utility's Hendrix Aerial Cable Systems (ACS) allows a variety of responses to grid hardening challenges. Versatile tools like Marmon Utility's Hendrix ACS are expanding the possibilities for grid hardening and resilience at a time when all possible approaches are on the table to steel infrastructure against changing weather patterns and new economic pressures. Watch the full conversation: 🔗ow.ly/QcRE50ZYTiq #FactorThis #FactorThisPodcast #MarmonUtility #HendrixACS #AerialCableSystems

Avista has selected Heddian to support its field communications modernization. Content Director Jeremiah Karpowicz caught up with Heddian CEO Joe Walsh to talk about the agreement between the two companies and the lessons industry stakeholders can learn. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/JS6X50ZYSYB @AvistaUtilities #Avista #Heddian #JoeWalsh #JeremiahKarpowicz #FieldCommunications

Temporary microgrids provide a blueprint for a flexible, resilient power grid ow.ly/KzcR106GGkR #Microgrids #News #PowerGrid #Renewables

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced plans to support the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in funding 84 transmission and distribution projects across eight states, which are expected to add approximately 2.5 gigawatts (GW) of grid capacity. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/bFi850ZYq3c @ENERGY ; @TVAnews #USDOE #DepartmentOfEnergy #TVA #TennesseeValleyAuthority #TransmissionInfrastructure

Contributors Skip Newberry of the Technology Association of Oregon and Robert W. Cross of Outfit, a cleantech marketing agency, explain how distributed energy resource adoption could be the answer to the problem of large load data centers. Learn more: 🔗ow.ly/9BRm50ZYpNU #SkipNewberry #RobertWCross #TechnologyAssociationOfOregon #Outfit #DistributedEnergyResources

PJM Interconnection, the United States' largest single grid operator, is reforming its interconnection process again. PJM's new reforms are aimed at increasing the speed at which new generation can be brought online, and making electricity in the grid operator's territory more affordable, but the industry is skeptical that PJM's time in the wilderness will come to an end as a result of another, new set slate of reforms. Clearway Energy Group's Adam Stern explains in this full episode of the Factor This Podcast, produced in partnership with Advanced Energy United. Watch: 🔗ow.ly/UI6T50ZYpwa @AdvEnergyUnited ; @ClearwayEnergy ; @voltusinc #FactorThis #FactorThisPodcast #AdvancedEnergyUnited #ClearwayEnergyGroup #AdamStern