Distributed Power

  • Xcel’s Latest Plan: Carbon-Free by 2050

    Xcel Energy has announced its plan to move to 100% carbon-free power generation by 2050, with the utility also saying it will reduce carbon emissions by 80% by 2030, from 2005 levels. Xcel, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota, serves customers in eight states and over the past two years has announced a significant number of renewable […]

  • Distributed Energy: A Burgeoning Market

    It’s not particularly easy to find reliable and detailed statistics on the deployment of distributed energy systems. One reason is that a lot of distributed energy is installed behind-the-meter. As a result

  • Australia’s Victoria State Ramps Up Renewables

    Victoria state in Australia continues to see dramatic growth in solar and wind power, as well as battery storage systems, as the region rapidly expands its power generation capacity, in large part to serve the

  • E.ON digitizes decentralized power plants

    Power plants will decide independently on their use and thus increase profitability and sustainability Pilot power plant in Grenzach-Whylen successfully launched Autonomous driving in the energy industry: the new industrial power plant in Grenzach-Wyhlen will in future decide for itself how much energy it produces and when. E.ON’s new ‘IQ CHP – The intelligent Power […]

  • Distributed Energy Is Disrupting the Power Industry: Is the Sky Falling?

    Utilities are faced with many disruptive changes in the power market. Customers are demanding cleaner energy and turning to distributed generation as a solution. One expert suggested power companies must react and evolve their business models to change with the times. During a keynote presentation at the Distributed Energy Conference in Golden, Colorado, on October […]

  • How Does the Western Energy Imbalance Market Work?

    The California Independent System Operator’s Energy Imbalance Market (EIM) is a real-time energy market, the first of its kind in the western U.S. EIM’s advanced market systems automatically find low-cost

  • Albert: The Smart Networking Monitoring Solution for Utilities

    Most network monitoring solutions are now offering next-generation threat detection methods that use machine learning to reduce false positives and detect anomaly network traffic. Albert is a passive IDS offered by CIS as a low cost and very effective network monitoring service for which threat detection is based on threat signatures.