Through Order No. 34281, the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission directed the Hawaiian Electric Companies to develop "a detailed Grid Modernization Strategy will provide the comprehensive and holistic vision and context to inform subsequent review of discrete grid modernization project applications submitted by the Companies."
The Hawaii Public Utilities Commission directed the Hawaiian Electric Companies to make an initial draft of the Grid Moderniz...
EnerNex is supporting the development and implementation of the Hawaiian Electric Companies’ Grid Modernization Strategy which was filed with the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission (PUC) on August 29, 2017. As part of the Grid Modernization Strategy, the Companies proposed a new Integrated Grid Planning process that integrates the needs at all levels of the system: customer, bulk power resources, transmission, and distribution. The comprehensive, customer-...
EnerNex Announces Participation in the 2018 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition
The company’s leadership in helping utilities manage the changing energy landscape takes center stage at the event
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Knoxville, Tenn., USA, January 9, 2018 -- EnerNex, a leading electric power research, engineering and consulting firm, today announced its participation in DistribuTECH, one of the leading transmiss...
Vice President of Consulting Services, Jeremy Laundergan, contributes an article to T&D World covering the latest Grid Modernization efforts in Hawaii.
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"Many labels are being used to describe the technical evolution of electric utilities as multiple simultaneous changes are occurring across the industry.
“Smart Grid” is a term that initially tried to encompass a more customer-interactive utility — with sm...
By Kay Stefferud, Director of Implementation Services, EnerNex
How hot is the data center market?
In Q2 alone, businesses spent over $30 billion dollars building and expanding their data centers, according to Synergy Research Group.
Resilience is a major reason why they’re spending so much. The cloud lets businesses spread their applications and storage around multiple, geographically dispersed data centers, so their operations continue if a hurric...
The Hawaiian Electric Companies submitted their Grid Modernization Strategy to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission on August 29, 2017.
EnerNex, in partnership with Paul De Martini at Newport Consulting and the Electric Power Research Institute, is honored to be assisting the Hawaiian Electric Companies in developing this Grid Modernization Strategy, as well as support the Grid Modernization Workshop held on May 10.
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Update: Geomagnetic Disturbance Study entitled “A Comprehensive Study of Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD) system impact” is now available in the IEEExplore. Here is the link to the paper: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8273848/
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) had directed North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) to develop standards related to system operating during Geomagnetic Disturbance (GMD)...
As battery energy storage is becoming an important component of distributed energy resources (DER) and balancing the intermittent output from distributed generation, the performance of the battery systems needs to be assessed. EnerNex worked with Southern California Edison (SCE) to conduct thirteen tests with three industrial customers utilizing large (>1MW) capacity battery storage systems. EnerNex then measured and evaluated performance of the storage...
EnerNex managed an engagement to develop a smart grid roadmap, architecture, and business case for the LADWP.
Following an initial assessment of the organization's plans and readiness, EnerNex worked with the client to define a smart grid strategy that served as guidance for the development of the roadmap and architecture. The ten-year roadmap consisted of a prioritized set of defined projects including smart meter deployment, demand response for large ...
EnerNex developed business cases for the microgrids and performed cost benefit analyses for generation options including combined heat and power (CHP), natural gas and propane fuels.
EnerNex calculated the total electric load and wrote the generator specifications for the microgrids for multiple community microgrids.
We prepared the formal documents including project summaries and recommendations for presentation to senior management and the state’...
