Energy Conversion News
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Arizona State, Idaho National Laboratory Team to Boost Clean Energy Research
Idaho National Laboratory (INL) and Arizona State University (ASU) have agreed to expand their joint efforts in clean energy research for the next five years. An agreement signed in October establishes a framework for both institutions to develop low-carbon processes for the energy and manufacturing sectors. One joint project works to improve and decarbonize methods to extract critical minerals ...
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Hawaiian Electric Finalizes 'Integrated Grid Plan' to Decarbonize Its Energy System by 2045
Hawaiian Electric has finalized a comprehensive plan that charts the lowest-cost pathway for creating resilient, decarbonized island grids to serve customers using resources from Hawaii, for Hawaii. The company filed its "Integrated Grid Plan: A pathway to a clean energy future" with the Public Utilities Commission (PUC), outlining steps the company will take in the coming years to ensure its ...
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Entropea at ECOS 2018
Lorenzo Tocci will be presenting his work and new paper at ECOS 2018. The paper entitled A Neural Network approach to the optimal design of radial inflow turbines for ORC applications will be presented Thursday 21 according to the technical program. Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) is widely considered as a promising technology for the exploitation of low grade thermal energy for the conversion into ...
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Inauguration of One of the World's Largest BESS Projects in Germany
November 18 2016 -- Nidec ASI and German utility STEAG have inaugurated one of the world's largest battery energy storage system (BESS) projects today (11/17). Nidec ASI's six large energy storage systems, with a total capacity of 90MW, are facilitating STEAG in its stabilization of Germany's power grid. The official commissioning of the project, attended by North-Rhine Westphalia Minister of ...
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The U.S. Virgin Islands: Promise, Problems, and Progress
Forty miles east of Puerto Rico[1] in the heart of the Caribbean lays an island group known as the United States Virgin Islands (USVI). Made up of three main islands (St. Thomas, St. Croix, and St. John) and dozens of smaller islands, the USVI is known for its white sandy beaches and the year-round temperate climate enjoyed by many a tropical location. Outside of tourism, locals earn a living ...
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OTE Receives Approval for an OTEC System in the USVI
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (“OTE” or “the Company”) (ISIN: SE0006028023, CUSIP: 675100101), a turnkey supplier of Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), Seawater Air Conditioning (SWAC), and Desalinated Water systems worldwide, announces that it has received an official order (Docket 659, Order 66/2016) from the Virgin Islands Public Services Commission approving ...
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How to make a “perfect” solar absorber
Original story at MIT News The key to creating a material that would be ideal for converting solar energy to heat is tuning the material’s spectrum of absorption just right: It should absorb virtually all wavelengths of light that reach Earth’s surface from the sun — but not much of the rest of the spectrum, since that would increase the energy that is reradiated by the ...
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Getting a charge out of water droplets
Original story at MIT News Last year, MIT researchers discovered that when water droplets spontaneously jump away from superhydrophobic surfaces during condensation, they can gain electric charge in the process. Now, the same team has demonstrated that this process can generate small amounts of electricity that might be used to power electronic devices. The new findings, by postdoc Nenad ...
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Launch of Small Scale Waste-to-Energy Converter receives a boost from the Government of Canada
Eco Waste Solutions (EWS), a manufacturer of thermal waste conversion and energy recovery technologies, is pleased to announce that it has received financial support from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). NRC-IRAP is Canada's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition to ...
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Launch of Small Scale WTE Converter receives a boost from the Government of Canada
Eco Waste Solutions (EWS), a manufacturer of thermal waste conversion and energy recovery technologies, is pleased to announce that it has received financial support from the National Research Council of Canada’s Industrial Research Assistance Program (NRC-IRAP). NRC-IRAP is Canada's premier innovation assistance program for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In addition to ...
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DOE Renews Two Energy Frontier Research Centers at MIT
Original story at MIT News The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced that two MIT-led Energy Frontier Research Centers (EFRC) received funding to continue their cutting-edge research. The centers are among 32 projects that were competitively selected from more than 200 proposals as part of a second round of funding for the program. The EFRC program aims to accelerate transformative ...
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A New Way to Harness Waste Heat
Original story at MIT News Vast amounts of excess heat are generated by industrial processes and by electric power plants; researchers around the world have spent decades seeking ways to harness some of this wasted energy. Most such efforts have focused on thermoelectric devices, solid-state materials that can produce electricity from a temperature gradient, but the efficiency of such devices is ...
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Ocean Thermal Energy conversion and the company bringing it to market: a catalyst for saving the environment
The awareness of human induced effects on the environment has been in the public domain for nearly 200 years. Dating back to 1824, French physicist Joseph Fourier brought to light the impact of greenhouse gases on our environment. Yet since Fourier’s observation of this basic scientific truth, global carbon dioxide (CO2) levels have grown exponentially, passing the 400 parts per million ...
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Tropical islands poised to benefit from ocean power
Island nations in the developing world are especially well placed to benefit from technology that exploits a new potential source of energy from sea water: ocean thermal energy conversion (OTEC), experts have said. The technology uses sea water from the ocean depths to generate electricity, and various pilot projects are already under way in the developing world. For example, French defence ...
By SciDev.Net
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How to tap the sun’s energy through heat as well as light
Original story at MIT news. A new approach to harvesting solar energy, developed by MIT researchers, could improve efficiency by using sunlight to heat a high-temperature material whose infrared radiation would then be collected by a conventional photovoltaic cell. This technique could also make it easier to store the energy for later use, the researchers say.In this case, adding the extra step ...
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Global Ocean Energy Report
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Ocean Energy Report http://www.reportlinker.com/p01094730/Global-Ocean-Energy-Report.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy This new report looks at the key market drivers for the global Ocean Energy market, developments and future projections. 2009 was a ...
By ReportLinker
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Global Renewable Energy Report
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Renewable Energy Report http://www.reportlinker.com/p01094731/Global-Renewable-Energy-Report.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy This global renewables market research report provides a full overview of all of the renewable energies, and ...
By ReportLinker
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Marine Power (Wave and Tidal) - Installed Capacity, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Profiles of Technology Developers and Key Country Analysis to 2030
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Marine Power (Wave and Tidal) - Installed Capacity, Levelized Cost of Energy (LCOE), Profiles of Technology Developers and Key Country Analysis to 2030 ...
By ReportLinker
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Secretary Roy A. Bernardi Joins Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation`s Advisory Board
Ocean Thermal Energy Corporation (OTE Corporation) today announced the appointment of former Acting Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Roy Bernardi to its advisory board. "Our Company is indeed fortunate to have someone of Secretary Bernardi's stature and talent as a member of our team," said Jeremy P. Feakins, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer at OTE ...
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NREL’s Bharathan honored by Geothermal Energy Association
Dr. Desikan Bharathan, a principal engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), has been recognized with a GEA Honors Award by the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA). The awards program gives special recognition to companies and individuals who have made notable achievements toward the advancement of geothermal energy technology, economic ...
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