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Newsletter September 2021

COVER STORY

Carilec Successfully Conducts its First Virtual Conference “Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Conference 2021”

CARILEC successfully conducted its “Renewable Energy (RE) and Smart Grid Conference and Tradeshow” virtually on the theme: “Remodelling the Future: Stronger, Greener, Smarter” on September 29th & 30th, 2021. The RE and Smart Grid Conference and Trade Show of...

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

Rollout of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in the UK

Bangladesh on the road to an Electric Future

Washington state provides funds for Nine Microgrids

Thailand Carbon Neutrality Energy Plan

Tying Quantum Computing to AI Prompts a Smarter Power Grid

Dubai Taxi and BluWave-ai Launch Innovative Partnership for AI-Enabled...

Sunnova, AutoGrid Create Residential Virtual Power Plant For Cal...

California Regulators Predict 100 Hydrogen Fueling Stations by 2023

Solar Microgrid Proposed for Southern California Army Airfield

Willdan to Install Smart City Upgrades in Dublin, California&com...

E-Newsletter
September 2021

Content

COVER STORY

Carilec Successfully Conducts its First Virtual Conference “Renewable Energy and Smart Grid Conference 2021”

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

MEMBER UPDATE

SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Climate Change: Expanding Roles for Energy Associations

UPCOMING EVENTS

International Events

MEMBER UPDATE

Metro Detroit blackouts reveal Power Grid's Vulnerability | Opinion

Over the summer, Southeastern Michigan has seen hundreds of thousands of residents lose power due to high winds, storms, and flooding. Recurring storms have led to multiple blackouts — and even prevented Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) teams from assessing damage fr...

PLN’s Electricity Infrastructure Expansion Plan

On 28th September 2021, Government of Indonesia (GoI) endorsed the Business Plan (RUPTL) 2021-2030 of PLN, Indonesia’s Government owned State Electricity Company, that map the electricity infrastructure expansion plan for the next 10 years. GoI label it as a Green RUPTL. For the next 10 years,...

What skills are needed for the Electricity Networks of Tomorrow?

As the energy transition and the digitalisation of networks accelerate, accompanied by strong growth in global electricity demand, the challenges in terms of recruitment and training are high. On the occasion of CIGRE’s centennial session, Think Smartgrids organised a webinar on the Theme &ldq...

GSEF SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Climate Change: Expanding Roles for Energy Associations

Last year, I contributed five newsletter articles on climate change issues (Managing Energy Risk, Flex-Fuel Policies, Upcoming Cooling Crunch, Clean Fuels, and Policy-Regulation Nexus). This year I have written four more (Texas Outage, National Energy Security, “Karmic” Utility Role and City Island Grids). I am adding one more (below) drawing attention to a potential wider role for energy associations. The last decade saw dramatic increases in extreme weather events (hurricanes, flash floods, forest fir...