S&C Electric Company, a leader in smart grid and renewable energy solutions, has been awarded a turnkey energy storage project by Southern California Edison (News – Alert) (SCE)— which will use the new capacity to effectively handle peak power loads on Catalina Island, about 22 miles southwest of Los Angeles. Chicago-based S&C Electric will furnish a Continue reading →
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The Southern California Public Power Authority (SCPPA) and Ice Energy this week announced an agreement to develop one of the first utility-scale energy storage projects in the U.S. The 53 megawatt (MW) project, to be implemented by SCPPA member utilities throughout Southern California is expected to shift as much as 64 gigawatt-hours of on-peak electrical Continue reading →
Some projects are just too big to let the private sector handle them alone. Updating our aging one-way system of centralized power production to a smart grid is one of those projects. Left mostly to its own initiative, the energy industry has done very little in technology innovation during the past fifty years to make Continue reading →
PowerSecure International announced its smart grid enabled Interactive Distributed Generation systems were deployed 3,995 times to generate load management efficiencies on behalf of utilities and their customers during the first half of 2009. This result is up 21 percent over the first half of 2008, according to the company. These smart grid systems help utilities Continue reading →
