Smart Green Energy Transition Episode 3 with Zach Caruso

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Smart Green Energy Transition

Smarter Grid Solutions

8 episodes

1 week ago

Just in time for COP26, Smarter Grid Solutions is pleased to release a new podcast. It will be our contribution to the search for impactful solutions to the climate challenge. We will focus on Distributed Energy which is a key part of the net zero carbon transition and explore topics such as decentralized renewable energy developments, smart grid integration solutions, the required system flexibility, customer and community enablement and local energy markets. We hope to shine the light on the most promising energy system technologies for communities, power grids and markets.

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Smart Green Energy Transition Episode 3 with Zach Caruso

Smart Green Energy Transition

23 minutes 13 seconds

4 years ago

Smart Green Energy Transition Episode 3 with Zach Caruso

In this episode, we speak with Zach Caruso, Lead Analyst at AVANGRID in the US. We hear from Zach about his personal motivation on climate change as well as AVANGRID’s progress on their ambitious carbon neutrality commitments and the role of AVANGRID networks in delivering that. Zach shares experience of deploying their Flexible Interconnect Capacity Solution (FICS) using Smarter Grid Solutions’ technology in line with the NY state regulator directive to create clean energy hosting capacity.

Collaboration and innovation with other utilities on smart interconnection solutions is highlighted as a means of increasing the distributed energy capacity connected to the distribution grid. Zach also shares his hopes for COP26 and his views on different types of solutions.

About our Guest

Zach Caruso is a Lead Analyst – Programs and Projects focusing on DER Management and Grid Modernization on the Smart Grids Innovation and Planning team at AVANGRID Inc. Zach has been the Project Manager on the Flexible Interconnection Capacity Solution REV Demonstration Project at AVANGRID since he joined the company in 2017. He has also managed demonstration and pilot projects addressing, Battery Storage, Voltage Optimization and DER Monitoring and Control in that time in addition to helping guide AVANGRID’s Grid Modernization efforts across its service territories in NY, CT, and ME. He received his B.S. and M.Eng. in Mechanical Engineering from Lehigh University in Bethlehem, PA.

About Us

Smarter Grid Solutions is a leading enterprise energy management software company operating internationally from bases in the UK and US.

Smarter Grid Solutions’ DERMS products are used by distribution utilities, energy service companies and microgrid operators to manage grid capacity and resilience and to seamlessly integrate energy assets to the grid and market. Its software already manages over 400 MW of distributed energy resources around the world and has saved customers over $300 million in grid upgrades.

If you’d like to find out how our smart energy management products help clean energy developers to add value and push towards net zero then visit us at: www.smartergridsolutions.com