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Newsletter August 2022

COVER STORY

Urgency To Mitigate Climate Change In Ireland

In the wake of the UN Climate Change Conference (COP 26) in Glasgow, it is clear that the urgency to mitigate climate change and reduce greenhouse gas emissions has never been stronger than right now. Against this backdrop, biomethane production from agricultural waste and residues not only supports...

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

Horizon Power Announces Distributed Energy Resources Management System...

Honda, LG to Build USD 4.4 Billion Electric Vehicle Batte...

Eaton Working on V2G Pilot Project in Switzerland

Chilean Utility Colbún Submits Plans for Co-located 1.2 ...

DOE launches $10.5B Grid Resilience and Innovative Partn...

FERC Approves ISO-NE Plan To Bypass The Grid Operator And Rely On Stat...

Tougher Seven-Star Energy Efficiency Standards for New Australian Home...

US-based ElectronEV to Enter Electric Vehicle Segment in India

Denmark Partners with Germany on 3 GW Bornholm Energy Island

Government of Canada Launches Second Round of Public Engagements To Es...

E-Newsletter
August 2022

Content

COVER STORY

Urgency To Mitigate Climate Change In Ireland

GLOBAL STORIES ON SMART GRID

MEMBER UPDATE

SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Role of Utilities in National Security

UPCOMING EVENTS

MEMBER UPDATE

ENERGY STORAGE ROADMAP: 2022

Energy storage is essential to a clean and modern electricity grid and is positioned to enable the ambitious goals for renewable energy and power system resilience. EPRI has released a significant update to the Energy Storage Roadmap in a recent release. The Energy Storage Roadmap describes in detai...

TENSE SITUATION FOR THE ELECTRICITY MARKET IN EUROPE

The European Union's energy ministers will meet on 9 September to deal with a backdrop of soaring gas and electricity prices. An "emergency intervention" is on the agenda to try to calm the fire, as well as the launch of works aimed at reforming structurally the functioning of the ...

MEASURES DECIDED IN GERMANY AND FRANCE TO AVOID POSSIBLE POWER CUT

In the context of the energy crisis in Europe, following the gas cuts implemented by Moscow, Paris and Berlin have decided on several measures: Two German nuclear power plants will be kept in reserve until spring 2023 given the energy situation in Germany, said Mr. Habeck, the vice chancellor...

SMART GRID OPPORTUNITIES AND CHALLENGES IN INDONESIA 2022

Indonesia electricity needs a smart grid for future support of Renewable Energy in Indonesia on PJCI 7th Anniversary July 2022. Indonesia, which is an archipelagic country, is in dire need of electricity interconnection. Electrical Interconnection is nothing without a smart grid- Internet of Things....

GSEF SMART GRID EDITORIAL

Role of Utilities in National Security

In the April 2021 GSEF Newsletter, I touched briefly upon the role of utilities as it related to energy security. Given recent global developments, I think this subject needs a revisit and the utilities need to be accorded a more important role which includes elements of national security. The current Russia-Ukraine conflict is seeing many contagions (a) regional energy dependency fallacy; (b) rising fuel prices and inflation; (c) military invasion of a nuclear power plant and attacks on utility assets; and (d) livelihood imperative on elec...

UPCOMING SMART GRID EVENTS

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

21-23 September 2022 Pittsburg, 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, 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 https://www.siew.gov.sg/

Future of the Grid

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

Enlit Europe

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

Asian Downstream Summit (ADS) & ARTC

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

Enlit Australia

22 – 23 March 2023 https://enlit-australia.com/