April 2
PSE Picks Landis+Gyr for Smart Street Lighting Controls
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Landis+Gyr and Puget Sound Energy have agreed to a contract that adds street light control capabilities to the utility’s smart grid and AMI program. Using Landis+Gyr’s Gridstream AMI network, PSE plans to deploy 25,000 street light controllers over the next five years. The smart controllers will perform a variety of functions, including control of lighting intensity to boost energy efficiency and metered billing of streetlights using the metrology in controllers.
Con Edison has installed some four million smart gas modules and electricity meters for consumers in New York with Itron. Some 25,000 methane detectors developed by Itron have also been deployed by the utility, a development which has led to the detection and mitigation of over 300 valid gas events. AMI is enabling Con Edison to improve outage detection and restoration and reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions by ensuring grid operation is at optimum voltage levels.
The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) has unveiled a 173 MW renewable energy project that would be the largest solar-plus-storage project in TVA’s Kentucky service area. The Logan County solar farm will provide Facebook’s regional data center operations with 145 MW of power and General Motors’ Bowling Green Assembly, exclusive home of the Chevrolet Corvette, with 28 MW of power.
Utility customers are engaging with digital communications from their energy providers more than ever before, according to Questline’s 2021 Energy Utility Benchmarks Report. The report shows that digital adoption was accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic. In its seventh year, the Energy Utility Benchmarks Report evaluates digital marketing data for Questline’s 450 energy utility clients, looking at more than 356 million email messages to analyze performance and trends across the utility industry.
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As much as 59 GW of battery energy storage will be in service installed by 2050, according to the most recent long-term energy outlook from the Energy Information Administration. The “significant” growth of battery storage installations is the result of falling battery costs, growth in non-dispatchable renewables, and the application of the Investment Tax Credit to co-located storage systems, the EIA said in its Annual Energy Outlook 2021.
A car-sharing program that combines EVs and income-tiered pricing has launched in one of Boston’s busiest and most diverse neighborhoods. The Good2Go service, one of the first of its kind in the country, aims to curb carbon emissions while giving low-income Roxbury residents access to reliable, flexible and affordable transportation. So far the service has deployed four 2019 Nissan LEAFs, and dozens of beta testers are using the cars to commute to work, bring their children to school and run errands.
In a major push to meet climate and renewable energy goals, the Biden administration announced that the Departments of Interior, Energy, Commerce and Transportation are joining in a push to power 30 GW of offshore wind deployment by 2030. “This offshore wind goal is proof of our commitment to using American ingenuity and might to invest in our nation, advance our own energy security and combat the climate crisis,” Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said.
To optimize charging of its EVs, Hawaiian Electric is partnering with AMPLY Power on a pilot to manage charging infrastructure for four of its vehicles, which are part of the passenger fleet that is set to be fully electric by 2035. The pilot program is unique for both AMPLY Power and Hawaiian Electric, as it utilizes the industry standard of OpenADR (Open Automated Demand Response) to optimize vehicles charging on the system.
