Via Week In China, a report on Shenzhen launches ‘virtual’ power plant in hunt for energy gains When electricity is in short supply, it’s even more important to optimise the usage of what you have. That, in a nutshell, is what virtual power plants (VPPs) can do – tracking the electricity supply from various sources and […]
Read more »Via Power Ledger, a look at how a peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading system can optimize energy trading in a grid-tied multi-microgrid system: This case study focuses on the implementation of P2P energy trading and planning of a grid-connected distribution system using an advanced optimization approach. The proposed network architecture consists of three microgrids and uses real-time […]
Read more »Via Power Ledger, an interesting case study of how a P2P-based local energy market can benefit both power grids and energy users: The increasing amount of renewable generation creates challenges for the energy providers. Variable renewable energy (VRE), as the name suggests, creates a varying or fluctuating electricity supply. A local energy market (LEM) helps […]
Read more »Via The Economist, a look at why a super-grid connecting Southeast Asia remains a long way off: It takes just three hours to fly to Singapore from Vientiane, the capital of Laos. To transmit electricity between them, however, has taken eight years. In June and July both countries undertook an experiment in energy exchange. Electricity […]
Read more »Courtesy of The Financial Times, a look at how new tech ventures want to use blockchain to clean up a messy carbon market: Last year, a British oil exploration company and a tech start-up joined forces on a project to permanently lock away untapped fossil fuel reserves in Greenland. The idea was simple: the energy […]
Read more »Via Input Magazine, a report on how Tesla Powerwall customers provided as much as 16 MW of power during a recent California grid overload: Tesla’s Virtual Power Plant program got its first workout this week in California. During a widespread strain on the power grid, Tesla reached out to the pilot program’s participants to ask that they […]
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