How China is turning to grid flexibility in its drive to increase renewables

It is hard not to turn our attention to China because of its impact on global energy and climate objectives. Barbara Finamore has a good blog on Switchboard, the Natural Resource Defense Council Blog describing latest developments. Big plans for integrating renewable energy into China's electricity grid The world's biggest investor in renewable energy. … Continue reading How China is turning to grid flexibility in its drive to increase renewables →

Norway wants to play role of balancing Europe’s electricity supply and demand

Paul Brown writes a good article on the Climate New Network website about how hydraulic engineers in Norway aim to use surplus power from wind and sun to cut the need for fossil fuel plants to boost European electricity supplies. This is an important role as Europe increases its generating capacity based on renewables. Norway pumps up … Continue reading Norway wants to play role of balancing Europe’s electricity supply and demand →

How utilities are ensuring that hacking will not disrupt our power supplies

Cyber attacks are a real concern and, as Gillian Tett writes in the Financial Times, power companies are anything but calm about the concerns, investing more in cyber surveillance. Will cyber attacks switch off the lights? ‘Power companies are now under constant, accelerating attack from troublemakers or state-sponsored players’ A couple of months ago … Continue reading How utilities are ensuring that hacking will not disrupt our power supplies →

New survey on developments in integrating renewable energy into our grid systems

The Renewable Energy Focus website provides the results of a recent survey undertaken by DNV GL showing that 82 per cent of global industry respondents say electricity system can be 70 per cent renewable by 2050 DNV reports results of 'electricity grid' survey In ‘Beyond Integration: Three dynamics shaping renewables and the grid,’ a … Continue reading New survey on developments in integrating renewable energy into our grid systems →