June 28
Duquesne Launches New Outage Management System
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Duquesne Light Company (DLC) announced the launch of its new Outage Management System (OMS), including a more interactive and detailed outage map on the company’s website and mobile app. DLC said the new system will enhance its outage restoration process, as it provides greater transparency and more real-time insight into outages across the company’s service territory along with improved outage-related communications.
Though the clean energy transition is underway, there is a need to expedite widespread change in our energy systems to head off the worst effects of climate change. New clean, large-scale energy resources, along with the requisite transmission interconnections necessary to keep up, must be built, but these clean, large-scale energy resource and transmission projects are only one piece of the puzzle.
Salt River Project (SRP) and Plus Power LLC this week celebrated two new grid-charged battery storage systems, Sierra Estrella Energy Storage and Superstition Energy Storage. Together, these facilities will add 340 MW/1,360 MWh of additional battery storage capacity to SRP’s system – enough to power 76,000 residential homes for a four-hour period. The batteries will absorb excess energy when customer demand is lower and store it for use during times of peak demand.
Over the next five years, Con Edison plans to install 100 new “interrupters” on underground electric delivery equipment in Brooklyn and Queens. An interrupter is a device that swiftly detects and “interrupts” problems within underground electrical systems. They function as circuit breakers, reducing the impact of electrical issues by keeping a portion of a cable in service when a fault occurs.
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By the end of this decade, global demand for oil will peak – and that’s largely thanks to the rise of electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, according to the International Energy Agency’s Oil 2024 report. In advanced economies, demand for oil has been decreasing for decades, but it’s still rising in China and India. As a result, IEA forecasts that demand for the planet-warming fossil fuel will grow, albeit slowly, until 2030.
U.S. energy storage capacity installations jumped 84 percent year-over-year in Q1 2024, marking the highest storage capacity installed in the United States in a first quarter, according to a report from the American Clean Power Association and Wood Mackenzie. The latest edition of the U.S. Energy Storage Monitor saw utility-scale storage installations increasing 101 percent from Q1 2023 to reach 993 MW.
Massachusetts is in the process of tripling the size of its first-in-the-nation vehicle fleet electrification program following a recent influx of federal money. “We are really looking at the barriers, the challenges, the things that we need to figure out to get decarbonization to happen at scale,” said Emily Reichert, CEO of the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
The New York State Public Service Commission approved a new framework for the state to achieve 6 gigawatts of energy storage by 2030. The framework is a set of recommendations to expand New York’s energy storage programs to grow renewable energy across the state and bolster grid reliability. It supports a buildout of storage deployments estimated to reduce projected future statewide electric system costs by nearly $2 billion.
