The Grid Gets Managed By. In my work I have gotten to see and read about all different ways that electric regulators go about managing the grid infrastructure. France is going back to pre-monopoly days of making it the State’s business to run the grid. Meanwhile deregulated markets are seeing the most innovation coming in from energy storage with investor owned utilities really picking up the resilience focus as well. One of the hardest aspects of the planning work comes from the other end of the wire, demand response and distributed resources. When the grid was built there was very little focus or opportunity for shaping demand, only generation could be shaped against the potential demand. One thing is for sure, both ends of the wire will get focus from regulators and no one way of managing a grid will be used everywhere.
Programming Note. SolarWakeup will be offline for the week of July 10th, returning on July 17th.
- Solar Power World: Over 100 California city, county government leaders ask CPUC to reject new solar fees
- New York Times: France, Hoping to Weather Energy Crisis, Will Renationalize Electricity Giant
- Reuters: Texas power use to keep breaking records as heatwave lingers
- Utility Dive: Voltus presses FERC to end state opt-outs from aggregated retail demand response in wholesale markets
- Bloomberg: Shanghai Cases Double in a Day, Fueling Lockdown Fears
- PV-Tech: Shell to build green hydrogen project in the Netherlands
- PV-Magazine: Entergy seeks to grow renewables up to 2500% over next decade
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Best, Yann