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11.25.20 Grid Edge 3

IBM's Brad Gammons will discuss the global utility digital transformation at next week's virtual Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2020. (Credit: IBM)

Grid Edge Innovation Summit 2020: IBM’s Brad Gammons on Utility Digitalization in the Age of Decarbonization

IBM’s Energy, Environment & Utility industry lead explains how IT will enable the clean energy evolution.

by GTM Staff

11.24.20 Energy 2

President-elect Biden is expected to rejoin the Paris Agreement soon after his inauguration.

The US Will Rejoin the Paris Agreement. What Happens Next?

After four years without federal climate policy support, the U.S. must prove its commitment to the Paris Agreement and play catch-up on its targets.

by Emma Foehringer Merchant

11.18.20 Grid Edge 2

Patti Poppe, now CEO of CMS Energy, will take the helm of California's largest utility as it struggles to rebuild trust, improve safety and strengthen its finances. (Credit: PG&E)

PG&E Picks New CEO to Lead It Through Post-Bankruptcy Challenges

Patti Poppe, now CEO of Michigan utility CMS Energy, will seek to revamp PG&E’s safety programs, prevent wildfires and manage grid outages.

by Jeff St. John

11.11.20 Grid Edge 8

FirstEnergy's Fort Martin power plant, one of the two coal-fired plants that make up the majority of its owned generation fleet.

FirstEnergy’s Carbon-Reduction Pledge Lacks Clear Path to Cutting Coal Use

The Midwest utility faces scrutiny over its links to an Ohio scandal and its fossil-fuel dependence.

by Jeff St. John

10.22.20 Grid Edge 14

VPPs can include batteries, electric vehicles, smart appliances, flexible heating and cooling loads, on-site generators, and other grid-responsive assets.

So, What Exactly Are Virtual Power Plants?

GTM helps explain a growing grid resource that can mimic power plants without dominating the landscape.

by Jason Deign

10.19.20 Grid Edge 2

DOE's funding seeks to combine solar, batteries and smart appliances to match building loads with grid needs.

Funding the Next Generation of Efficient, Electric, Grid-Interactive Communities

Department of Energy provides $65 million for “connected communities,” expanding projects to embed clean energy and grid services in new buildings.

by Jeff St. John

10.09.20 16

EV flexibility could balance Norway's grid all by itself as early as 2025, according to Tibber CEO Edgeir Aksnes.

The Startup Helping EVs Balance Out the Renewables That Power Them

Digital energy supplier Tibber is bidding customers’ V2G-enabled electric vehicles into commercial grid-services tenders, shifting the tech from theory to practice.

by John Parnell

09.30.20 Wind 19

Cornwall's first smart grid-connected wind turbine is in place.

How a Single UK Turbine Could Prove a New Use Case for Wind Power

An Enercon turbine in Cornwall is trialing a concept that could smooth demand on the grid and boost revenue for wind farm owners.

by Catherine Early

09.15.20 Grid Edge 1

Renewable developers say Midwest transmission planning needs fixes to unlock wind and solar capacity.

Midwest Grid Operators Seek to Unlock Clean Energy Transmission on the ‘Seam’

Power lines crossing the border of Midwestern grid operators could help bring gigawatts’ worth of stymied wind and solar to market.

by Jeff St. John

09.03.20 Grid Edge 3

Overstory's satellite-imagery-based forestry analytics can help utilities prevent and mitigate wildfires.

AI Startups Raise Funding to Help Utilities De-Risk Dangers of Climate Change

Google backs Myst AI and Overstory raises a seed round as utilities grapple with energy forecasting and wildfire prevention on a warming planet.

by Jeff St. John

08.31.20 Grid Edge 0

OSI provides DERMS software to 14 utilities in North America, including SMUD and PSE&G.

Emerson Acquires OSI for $1.6B as Grid Edge Software Landscape Consolidates

OSI is expanding its portfolio of utility software to the growing market for integrating distributed energy into the grid.

by Jeff St. John

08.24.20 Grid Edge 4

‘First of a Kind’ UK Project Aims to Unleash Residential Grid Flexibility

Kaluza is combining V2G with near-real-time trading as it looks to open up the U.K.‘s largely untapped residential flexibility market.

by John Parnell

08.14.20 Grid Edge 34

Industry Perspective

The Current System of Electric Billing No Longer Makes Sense

Here are some suggestions for fixing it.

by Dan Seif

08.13.20 Grid Edge 6

Utilities at an ‘Inflection Point’: Portland General Electric CEO

PGE’s Maria Pope talks to GTM about COVID-19, net-zero targets and the evolution of the U.S. utility model.

by Karl-Erik Stromsta

08.07.20 Grid Edge 39

Industry Perspective

Why Doesn’t Load Flexibility Have the Same Incentives as Energy Storage?

Load flexibility can deliver the same value as behind-the-metter batteries at a much lower cost, the author writes.

by John Powers

07.30.20 Grid Edge 2

PG&E claims it's on track to meet its 2020 wildfire mitigation goals.

Post-Bankruptcy PG&E Claims Progress on Wildfire Safety, Blackout Mitigation

Fire-prevention blackouts will be “smarter, shorter and smaller” this year, CEO Bill Smith says, as the California utility reports its first post-bankruptcy earnings.

by Jeff St. John

07.24.20 1

Long-term renewables PPAs are becoming rarer in the U.S. market. (Image: Scout Clean Energy)

Industry Perspective

The Long and Short of It: When Planning Cycles Go From 20 Years to Next-Day

As long-term PPAs become scarcer, integrating renewables into wholesale markets requires new levels of flexibility, the author writes.

by Rahul Kar

07.17.20 Grid Edge 8

A bribery scandal has swallowed the Exelon subsidiary's legislative goals over the past year.

ComEd Agrees to $200M Fine on Federal Bribery Charge

The Chicago-area utility has struggled with key clean-energy and grid-modernization plans amid a scandal.

by Jeff St. John

07.02.20 Grid Edge 16

4 Things PG&E Must Do to Survive and Thrive as It Exits Bankruptcy

California’s largest utility has escaped from bankruptcy after 18 months. Its next challenges are the same ones that put it there in the first place.

by Jeff St. John

07.01.20 Grid Edge 15

Hitachi ABB Power Grids will combine high-voltage transmission with distributed energy assets and digital control systems.

Hitachi Completes Acquisition of ABB Power Grids to Tackle Renewable Energy’s Rise

The deal, worth up to $7.8 billion, follows moves by rivals GE and Siemens to refocus on clean energy integration and distributed energy digitization.

by Jeff St. John

06.30.20 5