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NeoVolta’s New Patent-Pending Technology Provides an Additional Power Option During Grid Outages Other OTC:NEOV
SAN DIEGO, April 20, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — NeoVolta Inc. (OTCQB: NEOV) – NeoVolta Inc., manufacturer of Smart Energy Storage Solutions, has developed a patent-pending technology for converting a backup generator’s 240-volt Alternating Current (AC) power output to Direct Current (DC). This device gives NeoVolta customers an additional generator option, further extending the charge of …
A small California city aims to break its dependence on PG&E
If California is lucky, our energy future could look like a small town in the rural Salinas Valley. The town in question is Gonzales, the California municipal version of the Little Engine That Could. Its small, working-class population of just 9,000 has ingeniously solved tricky problems, from broadband to health care access to child development. …
PG&E to Deploy New Risk Modeling and Fire Spread Technology to Further Reduce Wildfire Risk
PG&E’s 2021 Wildfire Mitigation Plan Also Aims to Continue to Reduce Wildfire Risk and Improve Public Safety Power Shutoffs In a proposal filed today with the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC), Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E or the Utility) detailed its ongoing strategy to reduce wildfire risk, increase situational awareness, and deploy new technology …
California Wildfires Rage Despite Break in Heat Wave
VACAVILLE, Calif.—Firefighters took advantage of a break in extreme heat wave conditions to gain more control over numerous wildfires that have prompted evacuations and blanketed wide swaths of the state in smoke. Still, many of the major fires in and around the San Francisco Bay Area are no more than 7% contained, according to the …
California Braces for More Blackouts as Heat Wave Scorches West
California was struggling to deliver enough power to keep the lights on for the first time in nearly two decades as a severe heat wave broiled the region, and officials warned of potentially more rolling blackouts if high temperatures persist. Residents across the state were blasting their air-conditioning units while sheltering at home as coronavirus …
PG&E, Tesla Break Ground on Landmark Battery Energy Storage System
SAN FRANCISCO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–On July 21, Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) and Tesla Inc. began construction of a 182.5-megawatt (MW) lithium-ion battery energy storage system (BESS) at PG&E’s electric substation in Moss Landing in Monterey County. The system will be designed, constructed, and maintained by PG&E and Tesla, and will be owned and operated by …
PG&E emerges from bankruptcy, pays $5.4 billion into wildfire fund
SAN FRANCISCO — Pacific Gas & Electric has emerged from a contentious bankruptcy saga that began after its long-neglected electrical grid ignited wildfires in California that killed more than 100 people. The nation’s largest utility announced Wednesday it emerged from Chapter 11 bankruptcy and paid $5.4 billion in initial funds and 22.19% of its stock …
PG&E Pleads Guilty to 84 Counts of Manslaughter in Camp Fire Case
Marie Wehe, a grandmother, widow and cancer survivor, died in her truck on Nov. 8, 2018, while trying to escape the Camp Fire, an inferno that started when a transmission line broke from a nearly-100-year-old Pacific Gas & Electric tower. She was one of scores killed in California’s most devastating wildfire. In a rare acknowledgment …
PG&E testing technology that could prevent wildfires its equipment causes
SACRAMENTO — California utilities are experimenting with a new technology that proponents say could help prevent both electricity shutoffs and equipment failure-related wildfires. The technology comes as the Pacific Gas & Electric faces intense criticism over its Public Safety Power Shutoff program, which has led to hundreds of thousands of Californians being left without power, …
ONLY ON ABC7NEWS.COM: PG&E testing technology that could reduce future Public Safety Power Shutoffs
Technology from half a world away could bring some relief to parts of the Bay Area and Northern California served by PG&E. PG&E is testing technology already being piloted in Australia that would de-energize a power line that falls and comes into contact with something like a tree limb or the ground. RELATED: Bay Area …
