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Enel acquires eMotorWerks to provide grid balancing solutions and tap into US e-mobility market

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Through the JuiceNet platform, these facilities can be remotely controlled and aggregated for grid balancing purposes relying on unidirectional and bidirectional (vehicle-to-grid, V2G) electricity flows. Enel has installed around 5,000 charging stations in Italy, Spain, Romania, Greece, Chile, Colombia and Argentina.

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Enel enters public transit electrification market in US; partners with MassCEC for electric bus fleet

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Enel X will utilize its fully-networked, grid-responsive smart charging technology to enable Hopkinton Public School District to optimize charging sessions, thereby making a more efficient use of resources, while also providing energy services to the grid.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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To Nick de Vries, chief technology officer at the solar-energy developer Silicon Ranch , a transformer is like an interstate on-ramp: It boosts the voltage of the electricity that his solar plants generate to match the voltage of grid transmission lines. Their very durability shoulders the grid. The company isnt alone in its quandary.

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Shell and Sumitomo Corporation invest in LO3 Energy to develop blockchain-based community energy platform

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The way energy is produced and consumed is changing from the traditional model of large-scale power stations with long-distance transmission to one where more is produced at the ‘grid edge’ by distributed resources (DERs).

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Advancing Quantum Science: Hausi Müller’s Journey

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He was part of a team developing power control and supervision systems for Colombia, Singapore, and Sweden. For example, the quantum approximate optimization algorithm can optimize power flow distribution across a smart grid. Machine learning.

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IEA: power use to soar through 2027, but renewables will keep up

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In the US, electricity demand is set to grow so much that it will add the equivalent of Californias total power consumption to the grid over the next three years. Droughts in Ecuador, Colombia, and Mexico further strained hydropower generation. These events underscore the need for more resilient power grids.

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The Global Outlook of Electric Vehicles

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IEA states that cities that started adopting EVs early may also face electricity grid congestion as electricity infrastructure catches up to the new level of electricity demand. Chile is the market leader in Latin America , with Colombia and Costa Rica also providing government incentives and targets to help their EV markets expand.