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Happening in the first month of the Biden Administration, Texas’s massive electrical grid failure may have had one good outcome. Cascading effects of loss of power and heat, outrageous bills for the few who did have power, economic shutdown, flooding, fires, etc., provides the best argument possible for quickly developing the Smart Grid that would literally and figuratively power the president’s multi-trillion dollar infrastructure plan to revitalize the economy while reducing global warming.

Read More: https://www.industryweek.com/technology-and-iiot/energy/article/21156999/the-smart-grid-gets-its-moment

LF Energy and Sony Computer Science Laboratories (CSL) have announced Hyphae, a microgrid initiative to automate peer-to-peer distribution of renewable energy. The goal of Hyphae is to make microgrids more efficient and the overall grid more carbon-neutral.

Microgrids are segments of larger grids that can disconnect from the larger grid to operate independently. One of the biggest benefit of microgrids is seen to be the resilience they can afford in response to grid disturbances or failures. They also provide a mechanism for attaching renewable energy systems to the grid at large.

Read More: https://www.eetimes.com/lf-energy-and-sony-csl-to-collaborate-on-an-open-source-microgrid-project/#

"In the face of a looming recession and climate catastrophe, technology titans, service providers, and consumer giants are taking collaborative action and turning their technology to fight the effects of climate change and fundamentally transform practices that harm both people and the planet through sustainable innovation."

"In November, LF Energy launched a project to create an open source tool for managing energy demand across the electrical grid."

Source: https://www.sdxcentral.com/articles/news/can-open-source-technology-keep-our-planet-alive/2020/12/