Venezuela Sees Large-Scale Blackouts, Internet Shutdown – Monitoring Agencya – Sputnik International

https://sputniknews.com/latam/202001191078075139-venezuela-sees-large-scale-blackouts-internet-shutdown—monitoring-agency/

January 19, 2020

Venezuela Sees Large-Scale Blackouts, Internet Shutdown

Monitoring Agency

​According to Netblocks, a total of 16 out of 23 states in the country were affected, but Tachira, Merida, and Carabobo saw less than half of power supply restored.

Venezuelan human rights organisation Redes Ayuda said on Twitter that electricity outages in the country had also caused problems with internet connection in five states.

According to third-party observers and analysts, the power outages in Venezuela are caused by low investments in infrastructure and equipment deterioration.

After last summer’s power outages in Caracas, Venezuelan Communications Minister Jorge Rodriguez said that they had been caused by an “electromagnetic attack” targeting the country’s main hydroelectric system.

In March, an accident occurred at the Simon Bolivar Hydroelectric Plant, the country’s largest electricity supplier, which provoked an unprecedented blackout, with 20 of Venezuela’s 23 states affacted. Enterprises and government agencies across the country stopped working for almost a week.

MICRO GRIDS: Lessons Learned From California’s Pioneering Microgrids | Greentech Media

https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/lessons-learned-from-californias-pioneering-microgrids

Open the above link to read some of the interesting comments . . .
 
May 13, 2019

Lessons Learned From California’s Pioneering Microgrids

California is several years into a push to help commercialize microgrids in the state. Now, officials are taking stock of the performance of the first generation of microgrids supported under the effort.

 

Read more “MICRO GRIDS: Lessons Learned From California’s Pioneering Microgrids | Greentech Media”



MICRO GRIDS – UK energy storage – making the planning process easier . . .

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/uk-energy-storage-making-the-planning-77920/

UK energy storage – making the planning process easier

Summary: The UK’s energy storage industry is making huge strides – and the regulatory regime is having to catch up fast. This blog explores the latest proposals from the UK Government as to how energy storage schemes can be consented in the planning process.

The planning system in England and Wales is playing catch-up

Read more “MICRO GRIDS – UK energy storage – making the planning process easier . . .”

MICRO GRIDS: California Initiates Microgrid “Rule-making”

https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/california-initiates-microgrid-16516/

October 2, 2019

California Initiates Microgrid Rulemaking Proceeding

Morgan Lewis

Interest in microgrids is on the rise in the United States as over half of states explore ways to modernize the grid and promote distributed energy resources (DER), including innovative renewable energy, storage, and demand response technologies. However, microgrids are not defined by law or regulation in most states and are more complex than other types of DER because they involve both the generation and distribution of energy. This raises several policy questions, including who should pay for microgrid development and use and whether microgrid operators that technically distribute energy to retail customers should be classified as public utilities and subject to regulations ordinarily imposed on such entities. California is currently exploring the potential benefits of microgrids and the role of state regulation.

In September 2018, California enacted a new law, Senate Bill (SB) 1339, that requires the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to develop regulations, standards, and guidelines by December 1, 2020, to facilitate the commercialization of microgrids for customers of large electric utilities. To that end, SB 1339 directs the CPUC to address the following key issues: (1) how microgrids operate and their value; (2) improving the electrical grid with microgrids; (3) how microgrids can play a role in implementing policy goals; (4) how microgrids can support California’s policies to integrate a high concentration of distributed energy resources on the electrical grid; (5) how microgrids operate in the current California regulatory framework; and (6) microgrid technical challenges. SB 1339 builds on years of stakeholder research on whether microgrids may help California meet its future energy goals and increase the resilience of the energy grid, in part due to the increasing potential for extended outages/grid denergization due to extreme weather events and wildfires.

On September 19, the CPUC initiated a rulemaking to implement SB 1339. The CPUC invited comments on the regulatory actions prescribed by SB 1339, including development of guidelines to determine what impact studies are necessary for microgrids to connect to the distribution system operated by California electric utilities and separate rates and tariffs to support microgrids. The preliminary scoping memo for the rulemaking also solicits comments on how to ensure that actions taken by the CPUC to fulfill the requirements of SB 1339 do not discourage development of utility microgrids and are consistent with relevant state policy goals and existing CPUC responsibilities and policies. Comments and reply comments on the preliminary scoping memo must be submitted by October 21, 2019, and November 4, 2019, respectively. The approach California ultimately develops through the CPUC rulemaking may inform other states seeking to explore the potential for microgrids to increase renewable energy integration and provide opportunities for greater grid resiliency.

 

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Addressing the shortcomings of traditional integrations and system architectures.

Utility system architects working to maximize the potential of their existing systems and futureproof their operations are employing LiveData RTI Server to establish Operational Technology Message Bus (OTMB) architecture.

OTMB is a new category of software that delivers exceptionally efficient integration of grid automation devices, connecting OT and IT systems securely across networks of varying quality while utilizing diverse OT standards ranging from 40-year-old device protocols to state of the art large-scale streaming standards. OTMB is at work when we connect a single energy generating asset to an ISO and when we manage a complex network of 100,000 devices.

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RTI Stream for InfluxDB

Enable smart grid IIoT analytics, accurately recreate dynamic datasets, and leverage data across platforms.

RTI Stream for InfluxDB is a full featured, open source, time-series database (historian) that employs RTI Server as the communications hub for operational technology (OT) and Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) data from any source. RTI Stream provides a fully scalable, cost-effective, field proven solution that can be deployed on premise or in a public or private cloud. RTI Stream is integrated fully with the RTI Platform.

When RTI Stream is integrated into [/products/rti-generation-asset-manager]RTI Platform Generation Asset Manager (RTI GAM), the resulting application provides a single source of real-time operational intelligence with the ability to visualize the current state of generation assets as well as time-series data.

RTI Stream features:

  • Collect data from virtually any utility device or system
  • Supports a wide array of protocols including ICCP, Modbus, DNP3, OCP, and many more
  • Recreate historical, time series data and efficiently store that data with compression algorithms
  • Integrate smart grid applications with real-time and historical data
  • Utilize data for analytics tools like Hadoop, AWS, TIBCO, IBM, and Oracle
  • Easily scale from 100s of points to 1,000,000s of points

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  • Rapidly modify and create new transactional data flows

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