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Itron, Inc. and Xcel Energy recently entered an agreement to secure smart meters that will allow for collaboration to improve customer experience and utility operations using the distributed intelligence capabilities of Itron’s IoT ...

Sep. 17, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

The saving, which amounts to over £5.6bn over a typical 15 year energy contract, is identified in a new study that aims to assess the economic opportunity of the healthcare, universities and defence estate adopting green technology such as solar panels and ...

Sep. 16, 2019

By Centrica Business Solutions

Astoria Generating Company and Siemens signed a contract for the turnkey construction of two SeaFloat power barges to be equipped with eight Siemens SGT-A65 gas turbines. The barges will replace four existing power barges located at Gowanus Generating Station in the Upper Bay of Brooklyn, New York City, resulting in cleaner, more efficient energy production.Siemens will preinstall the ...

Sep. 5, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Recently (9/4), the national business group Advanced Energy Economy (AEE) released a fact sheet showing that Colorado has 65,400 people working in advanced energy across the state. ...

Sep. 4, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Wind energy pricing remains attractive, according to a report released by the U.S. Department of Energy and prepared by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab). With prices averaging below 2 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) for newly built projects, wind is competitive with other generation sources.“Wind energy prices – particularly in the central United States, and supported by ...

Sep. 4, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Fault detection and diagnostic systems, advanced analytics, task management and advisory services help University of Iowa building managers proactively monitor for system faults and manage a large influx of data and complex building systems. -- University of Iowa used EcoStruxure Building Advisor to monitor 6.7 million square feet across 49 buildings, resulting in $900,000 in energy savings in ...

Sep. 4, 2019

By Schneider Electric

A pioneering Grid Services Purchase Agreement between the Hawaiian Electric Companies and Minneapolis-based Open Access Technology International, Inc. (OATI) has been approved by the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission, advancing a project to bring Hawaii customers more renewable energy choices.The approval allows the OATI Energy Alliance, a team of industry-leading companies, to aggregate, ...

Sep. 3, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

The University of New Brunswick (UNB) is undertaking a five-year research initiative to address the complex technical, regulatory, and social issues involved in moving from conventional electric power systems to digital, or smart, grids. The Atlantic Digital Grid project will result in a number of new tools and technologies for energy distribution, analysis, threat detection, infrastructure, and ...

Aug. 28, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Landis+Gyr is joining forces with Utilidata to provide groundbreaking grid management through the deployment of edge applications on Landis+Gyr advanced meters, planned initially for the North American market. Embedded software will enable utilities to gather, analyze, and synthesize data from a multitude of grid endpoints.In an energy climate of shifting consumer expectations, distributed energy ...

Aug. 27, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Starting from the example of Dublin overtaking London as Europe’s largest data centre cluster, we analize why modular uninterruptible power supplies are key to powering this processing revolution. Technology giants such as Amazon, Facebook, Google and Microsoft are always demanding more energy, and this growth is putting pressure on electricity supply in the countries that host them. If we ...

Aug. 27, 2019

By Riello UPS Spa

According to the requirements from the coal preparation plants, Zonel Filtech was developed several kinds of filter fabrics for coaling washing process so as to help them to concentrate the coal slurry and purify the waste water when coal washing processing, the filter fabrics from Zonel Filtech for coal washing works with the properties ...

Aug. 22, 2019

By Changzhou Zonel Environmental Technology Co., Ltd.

For all the advances technology has made throughout our lives, in many cases it stands behind what nature can do. Ants can carry 5000 times their weight, and spider webs are five times stronger than steel. Fuel efficiency is no different. In a new study seen in Angewandte Chemie International Edition, researchers from Nara Institute of Science and Technology (NAIST) report new details on the ...

Aug. 18, 2019

By ScienceDaily

TOP ONE Power’s Genset Testing Room: if you’d like to, we welcome our customers to monitor the testing of our diesel generators in a separate ...

Aug. 15, 2019

By Top One Power Limited

A new spectroscopic method developed by researchers at Heidelberg University could enable scientists to study the physical principles of organic photovoltaics with extreme precision to better understand how energetic losses occur. The new method combines ultraviolet photoemission spectroscopy and argon cluster etching to allow scientists to directly ...

Aug. 14, 2019

By Photonics Media

Electric utilities are navigating one of the industry's most dynamic times across diverse geographies and stakeholders, presented with a mix of opportunities as they work to meet changing customer demands along with the need to deliver reliable, resilient power, Black & Veatch's new 2019 Strategic Directions: Electric Report finds.The global engineering, ...

Aug. 13, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

Itron, Inc. has announced that Western Power, a government owned utility located in the south west of Western Australia, will deploy Itron's standards-based network technology, connecting nearly 240,000 electricity meters to improve efficiency, reliability and customer service. With Itron's solution, Western Power will enhance visibility into the operation of its electricity distribution network, ...

Aug. 12, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer

The Fife framework is used by local authorities and registered social housing providers across Scotland and England to ensure value for money, quality and compliance when procuring technologies and services for community and district heating schemes. Following a rigorous assessment process, Switch2 has now been approved to supply the complete long-term ...

Aug. 8, 2019

By Switch2 Energy Limited

Venezuelan state-owned PdV has retained Chinese contractor Wison Engineering under a barter contract to make critical repairs at the 940,000 b/d CRP refining complex on the Paraguana peninsula. PdV will pay Wison Engineering in refined products shipments, including diesel and fuel oil, to repair crude processing units at the 635,000 Amuay refinery and 305,000 b/d Cardon refinery that comprise the ...

Aug. 8, 2019

By Argus Media Ltd.

A large number of tons of oil sludge are generated from producing oil, its refining and in transportation. Besides this addititionally there is oil sludge made from leakage in tankers and rigs, which results in oil sludge which includes oil contaminated sand and water. This sludge is dangerous for the environment and it is necessary that means are located to treat this waste material, that it is ...

Aug. 7, 2019

By BESTON (Henan) Machinery Co., Ltd | BESTON Pyrolysis Machinery

Energy storage installations1 around the world will multiply exponentially, from a modest 9GW/17GWh deployed as of 2018 to 1,095GW/2,850GWh by 2040, according to the latest forecast from research company BloombergNEF (BNEF).This 122-fold boom of stationary energy storage over the next two decades will require $662 ...

Aug. 6, 2019

By Smart Grid Observer