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Hiring for Hydro, Seattle – Apply Now!

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The Hydropower Foundation’s Hiring for Hydro 2020 event will take place on February 19, 2020, at the Hyatt Regency Downtown, in Seattle, WA.

Be part of the 4th annual Hiring for Hydro — a recruiting and educational event designed to attract and recruit new workforce entrants to hydropower in the Pacific Northwest.

At this event, selected students, educators, hydro companies and their recruiters will meet for a day of networking, educational sessions, learning about advances in hydropower and renewable energy, and information on industry scholarships and career opportunities.

Applications are being accepted now until January 3, 2020.

For more information about the event: Hydropower Foundation Hiring for Hydro

Learn more about the Hydropower Foundation.

Public Power Forward Summit, Nov. 2019

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The Pubic Power Forward Summit, held Nov. 21-22, in Nashville, is hosted by the American Public Power Association. The summit provides the opportunity for industry partners, strategic thinkers, and subject matter experts to discover new industry trends, technologies, and service expectations

It’s an opportunity to share your thoughts on public power’s future.

Read more and register at:
https://www.publicpower.org/event/public-power-forward-summit

Pursuing an energy career? DEED scholarship application opens Dec. 1

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The American Public Power Association’s Demonstration of Energy & Efficiency Development (DEED) program funds research, pilot projects, and education to improve the operations and services of public power utilities.

The DEED Program offers four types of funding for students to pursue energy-related careers: lineworker and technical education scholarships, student internships, student research grants, and technical design projects.

Applicants must be students attending or planning to attend a vocational institution, lineworker school or two to four-year college/university within the U.S. and must not be graduating within 12 months of the application deadline.

To apply, answer a few short questions on a questionnaire, which opens on December 1, 2019, for the Spring 2020 cycle.

For more information and to apply, see Deed Funding for Students, and view a Scholarship Guide for Students, career videos highlighting jobs in public power, and the Association’s online job board of current openings.

WA State and PSCAA moving forward on clean fuels policy

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Developments in clean fuels policy is moving forward in Washington State with the Puget Sound Clean Air Agency (PSCAA). This week’s clean air conference included discussion on regional health impacts and prospects for statewide policy in 2020.

PSCAA’s work will spur new clean infrastructure that increases access, affordability, and feasibility of cleaner transportation options like adding electric vehicle infrastructure, exploring electric vehicle car sharing programs, and clean diesel.

Read the full article at washingtonstatewire.com.

Hydropower utilization in Washington and the U.S.

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For more than 100 years, hydropower has translated energy from falling water into electricity at an efficiency rate that exceeds 90% on many projects. Hydro also provides more of the services necessary for reliability than any other resource, including operating reserves, frequency regulation and black start capability. It is a premier generating resource.

Hydropower represents 65% of electric generation here in Washington, but this issue is much bigger than the Pacific Northwest. As of last year, the U.S. had more than 100 gigawatts of hydropower capacity, including pumped storage. In its 2016 Hydropower Vision report, the Department of Energy found that this capacity has the potential to grow to nearly 150 GW by 2050. The report states that a combined $209 billion in savings from avoided global damages from greenhouse gas emissions is possible, including $185 billion in savings from continuing to operate the existing hydropower fleet through 2050.

Read the full article at publicpower.org »

Energy education experts participate in international renewable energy best practices

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Shoreline’s Director of Clean Energy Technology, Louise Petruzzella, traveled to Germany recently to take part in an international learning exchange sponsored by the National Science Foundation Center for Renewable Energy Advanced Technological Education (CREATE).

A committee of energy education experts nominated clean energy professionals from across the U.S. to take part in the exchange, with only ten participants selected. Petruzzella and her cohort spent 12 days examining lessons learned by their German counterparts in renewable energy and energy storage technology best practices.

The goal of the exchange was to advance the American renewable energy workforce and increase the technical competence of the U.S. in the energy storage sector. National Science Foundation Program Officers nominated Petruzzella to participate “based on her valuable contributions and expertise developing and implementing exemplary energy education efforts” at Shoreline.

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Next-Gen Grid Architecture: a breakdown of smart grid systems

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In a series of articles about smart grid systems, a primer explains grid coordination involving the different systems that make up grid distribution and delivery:

Next-Gen Grid Architecture: A grid coordination primer

One of the pressing issues facing the power industry is the integration and coordination of distributed energy resources (DER) to provide electricity delivery.

The issue was not well-recognized until recently, although some forms of coordination have been around a long time such as commercial and industrial (C&I) demand response (DR) and bulk generation in deregulated industry segments.

Learn about industry structure at Electric Light & Power.