Tennet begins internet-of-things grid balancing project

Household heat pumps, EV chargers and rooftop solar panels will be able to earn their owners benefits in return for helping to balance grid networks struggling to accommodate new solar and wind power generation.Dutch electricity transmission system operator Tennet has begun a 12-month project to test how a network of household devices such as heat pumps, domestic batteries and PV arrays could ease grid bottlenecks. With the Dutch grid company struggling to match a rising tide of solar and wind power generation with customer demand, Tennet in January announced its intent to explore how groupings ...

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