Featured in Connections that count – 10-2022

Software to serve up more solar

Enabling future energy flows at the lower-voltage distribution level? Unlikely. Wide-scale hardware upgrades would cost billions if not trillions, especially in Australia’s far reaches. Software and digital solutions are identifying new cost-effective ways of letting more sun into the grid.

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Natalie Filatoff

05 Oct 2022

Image: GridBeyond

At its control center in Ireland, GridBeyond provides demand-response services in a unique way. It allows for specific processes or machines to be temporarily shut down to balance the grid, rather than taking a company’s entire facility offline.In early June, Australia’s new government committed to offering low-cost loans to boost the nation’s energy transmission system …

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