Google, PJM, and Tapestry announced a partnership to develop AI tools to speed interconnection requests through the queue.
Category: electrical grid
Batteries, Climate, electrical grid, energy storage, Global Security News, renewable energy storage solutions, Startups, XL Batteries
XL Batteries is using petrochemical infrastructure to store solar and wind power
The startup has commissioned a demonstration unit of its organic flow battery.
Climate, electrical grid, Fundraising, Global Security News, Heron Power, smart grid, Tesla
Former Tesla exec Drew Baglino’s new startup is rethinking the electrical transformer
Heron Power is raising between $30 million to $50 million for a Series A, according to a report.
AI, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate, data centers, electrical grid, Global IT News, Global Security News, Microsoft, nvidia
Nvidia thinks AI can solve electrical grid problems caused by AI
The Open Power AI Consortium says it will use domain-specific AI models to tackle problems in the power industry. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Climate, electrical grid, Global IT News, Global Security News, natural gas, renewable energy, renewable power, Solar Power
Solar crushed 2024, but emissions were up as industry used more natural gas
Solar and wind together now represent nearly a quarter of electricity demand and nearly 10% of all energy consumption in the U.S. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Climate, derivatives, electrical grid, electricity, ElectronX, Exchanges, Fintech, Global IT News, Global Security News, renewable power, Systemiq Capital
ElectronX is building a stock market for electricity trading
ElectronX has raised $10 million to build an exchange for electricity derivatives trading. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Climate, data centers, electrical grid, Global IT News, Global Security News, Government & Policy, hydropower, Trump Administration
Trump admin reverses hydropower layoffs that sparked grid stability fears
The layoffs slashed between 13% to 20% of the four Power Marketing Administrations’ workforces. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
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Amperesand targets data centers as the next big customer for its solid-state transformers
Amperesand’s technology replaces the iron cores that define old transformers with silicon carbide. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
Artificial Intelligence (AI), Climate, electrical grid, Exclusive, Fundraising, Global IT News, Global Security News, Gridware, Power Lines, Sequoia Partners
Gridware’s boxes literally listen to power lines to find outages
Gridware’s sensors listen for sounds that the company’s software has been trained to identify as different hazards to the grid. © 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.
AI, electrical grid, Global IT News, Global Security News, whisker labs
AI data centers could be ‘distorting’ the US power grid
The proliferation of data centers aiming to meet the computational needs of AI could be bad news for the US power grid, according to a new report in Bloomberg. Using the 1 million residential sensors tracked by Whisker Labs, along with market intelligence data from DC Byte, Bloomberg found that more than half of the…