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Newsletter July 2022

COVER STORY

APUA Celebrates its 50th CONGRESS in Dakar Senegal

The 20th Association of Power Utilities of Africa (APUA) Congress and Exhibition took place from July 17 to 19, 2022 at the Abdou Diouf International Conference Center of Diamniadio in Dakar with one thousand of participants from 150 utilities, international organizations (CIGRE, IEC, IFDD, GSEF, GS...

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

Georgia Regulators approve Georgia Power’s Plans to retire all C...

Senate Committee Probes FERC Regulation of Hydrogen, but Industr...

Central Delhi to Get 5000 EV Charging Points

Siemens Advanta Working on Smart Grid Transformation in Tunisia

India Plans to Buy 50,000 Electric Buses to Curb Pollution

Malawi’s First Battery Energy Storage System & Solar Plant G...

Canadian Solar and Gresham House Announce Transaction for a Renewables...

Innergex brings online 9 MW/9 MWh First Standalone Battery Storage...

Construction Begins in Brazil on World's Largest Green Hydrogen a...

Blockchain Peer-to-Peer Energy Exchange Launches in UK

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July 2022

Content

COVER STORY

APUA Celebrates its 50th CONGRESS in Dakar Senegal

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

MEMBER UPDATE

SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Inflationary Crisis and Impact on Decarbonization

UPCOMING EVENTS

MEMBER UPDATE

Welcoming Smart Grid Ireland

We are pleased to welcome back Smart Grid Ireland as a Utility Member of GSEF. SGI is an independent industry-led networking cluster influencing government and regulation, promoting good corporate citizenship, and actively driving technology solutions that accelerate the cultural and societal change...

EPRI's Incubatenergy Labs® Names 2022 Cohort Demonstration Startups

Electric Power Research Institute's (EPRI) Incubatenergy® Labs program recently announced the 15 early-stage startup companies that will conduct 20 accelerated technology demonstrations and deployment projects advancing decarbonization, electrification, and grid modernization as pa...

GSEF SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Inflationary Crisis and Impact on Decarbonization

In the October 2021 GSEF Newsletter (just prior to the COP26 meeting), I wrote about big issues that still required unpacking to achieve Net Zero 2050. Not only has this not been done, but pressing global issues such as the Ukraine conflict, high inflation, energy supply imbalance and agriculture commodity shortages makes Net Zero 2050 unlikely. Here are the nuances. Net Zero (in simple terms) means “we retrieve all the carbon emissions we put out” (personal, public, business, industry), by (1) using clean energy (renewables); (2...

UPCOMING SMART GRID EVENTS

CIGRE Session

28th August -02nd September, 2022 Paris https://session.cigre.org/

Mena Grid Evolution Summit

14th -15th September 2022 Dubai https://www.nispana.com/ges/

Enlit Asia 2022

20th -22nd September, 2022 Thailand https://www.enlit-asia.com/live-event/

13th Clean Energy Ministerial

21st - 23rd September 2022 Pittsburgh, USA https://gceaf.org/

17th IAEE EU Energy Conference

21st - 24th September 2022 https://globalenergyprize.org/en/2022/04/11/17th-iaee-european-energy-conference/

World Energy Storage Day (WESD)

22nd September 2022 https://energystorageday.org/

IEC 61850 Week 2022

17th- 21st October 2022 Cardiff UK https://www.smartgrid-forums.com/iec-61850-week

25th World Energy Congress

24th -27th October 2022 https://bit.ly/3y04r3X

15th Singapore International Energy Week (SIEW)

25th - 28th October, 2022 Marina Bay Sands , Singapore https://www.siew.gov.sg/

Future of the Grid

26th – 27th October 2022 Sands Expo & Convention Centre, Singapore https://bit.ly/3HjmDde

Enlit Europe

29th November - 1st December 2022 Frankfurt, Germany https://www.enlit-europe.com/

Asian Downstream Summit (ADS) & ARTC

26th – 27th October 2022 Singapore https://asiandownstreaminsights.com/events/asian-downstream-summit/

Enlit Australia

22nd – 23rd March 2023 Melbourne, Australia https://enlit-australia.com/