As solar and storage costs continue to decrease, at what point will having stand-alone power for customers of all types be a reality? What about microgrids that can use fuel cells and emerging green or even blue hydrogen technologies.

Factors in the Energy Utility Grid’s growth involve two facets of the Energy Industry, technology and energy consumer populations. Technology developments successfully applied to the Energy Utility Grid to expand efficiency, reliability, and stability include AI, SMART Grid platforms, and DERs.

Differing from VPPs, a Distributed Energy Resources Management System (DERMS) offers grid services that are closely tied to the specific location (grid connection) of each asset.

4G networks operated at megabit speeds, 5G pushed the network top speed to the gigabits range, and 6G has the potential to support terabit top speeds.

Google, long interested in clean energy and conservation, is spinning out its Google Nest Renew business and Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners (SIP) is combining it with OhmConnect to create a new company in which SIP will make an initial $100 million investment.

Digitalization in the energy sector entails automating business processes and workflows, resulting in increased efficiency and cost reduction.

By leveraging digital modeling technology, utilities can anticipate challenges, optimize performance, and seamlessly integrate renewable energy sources into the grid.

Divided into four operational areas—NAIRR Open, NAIRR Secure, NAIRR Software, and NAIRR Classroom—the NAIRR pilot is bringing private sector, non-profit and philanthropic organizations, industry partners, and nine Federal agencies together to provide access to advanced computing, datasets, models, software, training, and user support to U.S. based researchers and educators.

Next generation AI solutions are quickly making their way from the test labs into utilities. These new tools will make it simpler for mobile service teams and remote employees to complete their work, boosting productivity and improving energy company efficiency.

Blockchain's ability to enable peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions and operate a decentralized marketplace can facilitate consumers to be the producers of energy.

Funding and support are abundantly available for clean energy projects in America. The federal government has allocated billions in funding to incentivize Americans to move to clean energy.

The definition of a Smart City is “a municipality that uses information and communication technologies to increase operational efficiency, share information and improve both the quality of government services and citizen welfare.”

900 MHz private LTE is becoming the broadband wireless standard for utilities due to its ability to offer visibility, control, quality of service, reliability, and resiliency all the way to the grid edge which is essential for next level grid transformational solutions.

Private LTE Networks are a game-changer for utilities. They offer dedicated, secure, and high-performance connectivity that can be tailored to specific needs.

4G LTE and 5G NR are well-established technologies around the world. Utilities can future-proof their investments by taking advantage of a large, globe-spanning ecosystem of vendors, integrators and consultants that can support the deployment and operation of radios, core network elements and devices.