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The trend for Silicon Valley startups applying advanced technologies to solve utility grid problems is clear: Go big or stay home. After a decade of eking out a niche in the world of advanced distribution grid power controls, Silicon Valley startup Varentec has sold its key assets for an undisclosed sum. The buyer is Sentient Energy, another Silicon Valley power-line-sensor startup that was acquired last year by Koch Engineered Solutions, an arm of industrial conglomerate Koch Industries. Varentec’s technology for sensing and altering voltages on low-voltage circuits will be folded i...
California already has some of the highest electricity rates in the country. Those costs could rise even faster over the next decade, as utilities harden their grids against wildfires, grow their share of net-metered rooftop solar and add other costs that will be passed through to utility customers. But recovering those costs by charging customers by the kilowatt-hour pushes too much of the burden on those least able to pay, according to a new report from the University of California at Berkeley. That’s not just unfair to the state’s most vulnerable residents, the report argues — i...
The nation’s electric power grid is vulnerable to manmade EMP threats and also a vulnerable to a natural EMP threat.
Issues to deal with. >> tom, it seemed like every time there's a storm or maybe some cyber threat or a national security crisis, we talk about doing something about the national grid, and then, of course, that conversation goes away, swallowed up by the news cycle and my sense is that this comes at a politically inconvenient time, we're going to go back to talking about the election inevitably over the next week. so if not now, when? when do we fix the national grid? do you expect that conversation to go away like it usually does? >> no, i don't expect it to go away. everybody understands the ...