Energy Management News

NextEra Energy Resources and Salt River Project today announced the opening of Pinal Central Solar Energy Center (PCSEC), a universal-scale, integrated solar plant equipped with a battery system that will store energy and enable SRP to provide clean energy to customers when usage is at its highest and needed most. The 20MW solar photovoltaic generation facility, which ...

May 17, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

India's first floating storage and regasification terminal or FSRU could begin importing LNG as early as the fourth quarter of this year on the country's west coast, the project's developer H-Energy Gateway Private Ltd and France's Engie, said in separate statements this week.  The Norway-flagged FSRU, named GDF Suez Cape Ann, which is under long-term timecharter ...

May 2, 2018

By S&P Global Platts

Siemens Gamesa recently (5/17) inaugurated a new Gamesa Electric technology and manufacturing centre in the Madrid town of San Fernando de Henares. As a result, the company has expanded and upgraded the facilities previously operated in Coslada, evidencing its clear-cut strategic commitment to technology development and innovation.The new plant is equipped with two test benches for testing and ...

May 18, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Culminating a yearlong effort into grid modernization, today the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) issued the fifth and final paper in its white paper series, Improving Opportunities for Solar Through Grid Modernization.Through this series, SEIA staff has offered thorough analyses on the expanding ...

May 17, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

A new report by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) concludes that increased use of electric vehicles and increasing customer choice coupled with an expanded array of attractive electricity-powered technologies will help improve U.S. energy efficiency while reducing emissions in concert with substantial economic growth over the next three decades.  EPRI's U.S. National ...

May 17, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

This year XANT will broaden its product portfolio with the new XANT L platform, taking the XANT USP’s to the 250-330kW power level. The XANT L extends the suitability of the XANT turbines into the MW-size range and for larger off-grid projects that require more installed wind capacity, the XANT L will be a more obvious choice than its smaller brother. For behind-the-meter customers that ...

May 17, 2018

By XANT NV

When one of the biggest utility companies in the world turned to XANT to find a repowering solution for an older mid-size wind turbine, our design department gladly accepted the challenge. Raising the bar even higher, they wanted a gearless turbine as replacement of the current machine to be installed on the existing tower. And oh yes, OPEX had to be less than half and noise levels had to come ...

May 17, 2018

By XANT NV

Macclesfield-based Tidy Planet has partnered with Spanish energy generation specialists SUGIMAT to become the UK’s exclusive distributor of their industry-leading boilers. With 40 years’ experience, SUGIMAT is a company which is globally renowned for its commitment to innovation in the thermal and power generation arena. Their waste, biomass and cogeneration boilers create energy ...

May 16, 2018

By Tidy Planet Limited

REcently (5/15), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $72 million for new projects to advance high-temperature concentrating solar power (CSP) technologies. These projects will extend previous research on high-temperature components, develop them into integrated assemblies, and test these components and systems through a wide range of operational conditions. CSP technologies use ...

May 16, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

When Hurricane Maria struck the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico last September, it took the entire island's power grid with it. Today, over 95 percent of the island has its power restored, but the rebuilding process is far from finished. Over the long term, many challenges remain along with some ...

May 14, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

AlphaMERS Ltd, a Bengaluru based SME has designed, prototyped and tested a device to covert ocean waves into electricity. The device has a seabed unit and surface floats. The 5 kW model tested satisfactorily in artificial wave tank at IIT Madras. The system has a lot of flexibility in customising to wave heights, tidal ranges and depths. AlphaMERS believed this can be useful for ports and Islands ...

May 13, 2018

By AlphaMERS Ltd

A new report from Navigant Research examines the global intelligent buildings market in the era of digital transformation, providing forecasts, broken out by segment, subsegment, sector, and region, through 2027. Digital transformation is redefining business processes across industries, including in the intelligent buildings industry, where IT ...

May 11, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Community and district heating specialist Switch2 Energy has welcomed proposals to regulate the heat network sector by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA). This chimes with earlier recommendations for a new regulatory framework from the Heat Network Task force, which is supported by Switch2..   In its ...

May 11, 2018

By Switch2 Energy Limited

Open Systems International, Inc. (OSI) has been selected by the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) to supply a new Advanced Distribution Management System (ADMS) based on OSI's monarch  operations technology (OT) platform. This state-of-the-art solution will interface with SMUD's existing Energy Management System and Outage Management System, enabling ...

May 10, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Moving to cut energy use in new homes by more than 50 percent, the California Energy Commission today adopted building standards that require solar photovoltaic systems starting in 2020. The building energy efficiency standards, which are the first in the nation to require solar, will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by an amount equivalent to taking 115,000 fossil fuel cars off the road. The ...

May 10, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Owing to the massive investments being made in low carbon innovations, the revenue graph of combi boiler market has received a remarkable boost over the recent years. A marked increase in environmental concerns to lower the greenhouse gas emissions has compelled various regulatory authorities to prescribe stringent legislations regarding the installation of heating systems across commercial and ...

May 10, 2018

By Global Market Insights, Inc.

New data from IRENA shows that about 115 million people worldwide currently rely on the basic energy services provided by solar lights, while another 25 million obtain a higher level of renewable energy services through solar home systems or connection to a solar mini-grid. In addition to  ...

May 8, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

A new poll shows that Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly want to be able to choose their energy supplier, choose clean energy, and want more renewable energy in the Massachusetts power system. The poll commissioned by CleanChoice Energy, a renewable energy company providing 100% clean electricity, was conducted by SurveyUSA. SurveyUSA interviewed 550 Massachusetts adults who rent or own their ...

May 8, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Electric vehicles have lower global warming emissions than the average new gasoline car everywhere in the country, even when the electricity comes from the dirtiest coal-dominated electric grid, according to a new  ...

May 8, 2018

By Smart Grid Observer

Inprova Energy has launched an online third-party cost calculator to help business energy buyers estimate how rising non-commodity ...

May 8, 2018

By Inprova Energy