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Agilent Technologies` N6700 modular power system family adds application-specific modules for battery test, mobile device manufacturing
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE: A) today announced the addition of two new application-specific modules to the N6700 Modular Power System (MPS) family, the N6783A-MFG mobile communications DC power module and the N6783A-BAT battery charge/discharge module. The N6783A-MFG module offers sourcing and measurement capabilities specifically designed to meet the challenges of battery-powered (mobile) ...
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Eaton Truck Business Now Supplying Electrical Power
Power management company Eaton has added a new DC to AC inverter to its lineup of products for the commercial vehicle industry. The new Eaton True Sine Wave Inverter produces either 1000 or 1800 Watts of AC power output from a standard Class 8 DC vehicle battery and can be used to power phone chargers, computers, heaters, microwaves, refrigerators, TVs, sleep apnea machines and more. “The ...
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Solar-Plus-Storage Solution for Homeowners
Ginlong Technologies, a specialist in photovoltaic string inverter manufacturing, announces that its Solis storage inverter is now compatible with LG home battery RESU. The Solis Residential Hybrid Inverter (RHI) now is fully compatible with LG RESU 48V line-ups to provide stable, reliable home energy storage. With this partnership, Ginlong is offering more choices to customers in the U.S., ...
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SMA Smartformer Enhances Design Flexibility of Sunny Island Systems
SMA announces the availability of its Smartformer, a transformer and distribution box that is compatible with SMA’s Sunny Island inverters. Available in the North American Market, the UL certified Smartformer facilitates easy application for off-grid or grid-tied battery backup single Sunny Island systems. With this product SMA continues its efforts to improve the performance of battery ...
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NREL Model Licensed to Improve Accuracy of Battery Simulations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has licensed its Equivalent Circuit Battery Model to software developer ThermoAnalytics for use in its recently updated RadTherm software package. The model is a part of the Battery Module within RadTherm, which is used by engineers to simulate the performance of battery cells and optimize multi-cell pack designs. Before ...
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New technique reveals lithium in action
Fundamental reactions behind advanced battery technology, revealed in detail by advanced imaging method, could lead to improved materials. Written by David L. Chandler, MIT News Office.You can read the original story in MIT News A solid-state lithium-air battery (highlighted in orange) is positioned inside a test chamber at the Advanced Light Source (ALS) at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, ...
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Overload on The Grid: What Is Happening?
Last month, Het Financieele Dagblad already wrote about the problems on the power grid: "expansion of the power grid is too slow, provinces warn". Urgent action needs to be taken. That this action is necessary is once again confirmed by DPG Media Nederland: "because countless wind and solar parks have been realized in recent years, the electricity grid is cracking." The Grid Capacity Action Team ...
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More than $10 billion to be spent on new generation worldwide—most of it on renewables
The world’s energy mix is continuing to evolve with wind and solar projected to account for 82 percent of the installed generation capacity by 2040, as the role of coal and even natural gas decline, according to a Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) forecast. Installed solar capacity will increase 14-fold and wind capacity fourfold by 2040, according to BNEF’s 2017 New Energy ...
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Massachusetts Electric School Bus Helps Power Electricity Grid in Vehicle-to-Grid Breakthrough
In a breakthrough for local clean energy, an electric school bus in Beverly, Massachusetts, successfully delivered power back to the electricity grid for more than 50 hours over the course of the summer. This is the first time an electric school bus has been leveraged as an energy resource by the regional utility National Grid in New England and among the first instances in the United States that ...
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NewsBreak - Solar generation, storage project near completion in Glenwood Springs
The company developing a solar array and battery facility at Colorado Mountain College’s Spring Valley at Glenwood Springs campus said the project is nearly complete and will be operational this fall. The 22-acre, 4.5-megawatt project is “Colorado’s largest solar array and battery storage facility of its kind,” said Ameresco, the Massachusetts-based renewable energy ...
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Overseas project of Namkoo--100KW off-grid photovoltaic system project is put into operation in Solomon Islands
First impression of Solomon Islands Where is Solomon Islands? It is located in the east of Papua New Guinea, about 2,000 kilometers from the northeast of Australia. There are 990 islands of all sizes. Besides, it is located near the equator, with a typical tropical rain forest climate. The population of the country is about 600,000. The local economy is mainly based on agriculture, forestry ...
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New SMA Multicluster Box Makes Rural Electrification Simple, Scalable
SMA is taking orders for its Multicluster Box, an off-grid AC distribution hub that manages a variety of renewable and combustion generation sources for large-scale Sunny Island multi-cluster systems. Now available for the North American market, the SMA Multicluster Box features a preconfigured design that simplifies the installation of off-grid renewable-energy systems, providing users with ...
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SMA Simplifies Off-Grid PV Design with New Configurator Software
SMA has introduced its Off-Grid Configurator, a customizable solution that helps solar professionals design the ideal off-grid photovoltaic (PV) system. This intuitive software analyzes each design aspect, from sizing the PV array to preparing a final cost analysis, thereby providing the user with comprehensive planning assistance that saves time and reduces costs. “Designing and ...
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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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Pu Neng Wins Contract for the Largest Vanadium Flow Battery in China
Pu Neng, a leading provider of vanadium flow battery technology, has been awarded a contract for a 3-megawatt (MW) 12-megawatt-hour (MWh) VRB as Phase 1 of the Hubei Zaoyang 10MW 40MWh Storage Integration Demonstration Project. This first phase will be installed in Zaoyang, Hubei to integrate a large solar photovoltaic system into the grid. Following this 10MW 40MWh project, there will be a ...
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Green Mountain Power Offers New “Bring Your Own Device” Program to Cut Energy Peaks
Green Mountain Power (GMP) has announced a new program to partner with customers to reduce costs during high energy use times. During peak times such as cold winter nights, GMP will share access with customers’ home or business battery storage systems, rather than purchasing expensive surplus power. In return, GMP will issue credits to customers based on the amount of energy transferred from the ...
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Sinamics DCP with power rating scalable up to 480 kilowatts
The Sinamics DCP DC power converter from Siemens extends the scalable power range achievable with a parallel connection up to 480 kilowatts. The high switching frequency enables smaller reactors to be used, giving the unit very space-saving dimensions. The integrated voltage control allows the DC/DC power converter also to be used as a high-power 0 to 800 V DC voltage source. The Sinamics DCP is ...
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Palm Energy Acquires Behind the Meter Microgrids from NRG Energy
Palm Energy recently announced the acquisition of several Behind the Meter (BTM) solutions from NRG Energy, a leading integrated power company in the United States. The acquired portfolio includes approximately 15 MWs of commercial and industrial customers located in PJM and New England which will increase Palm Energy's managed MWs in those markets. Palm Energy will own, operate, maintain, and ...
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SDG&E Flips the Switch on on Region’s First Vehicle-to-Grid Project
This week (July 27) San Diego Gas & Electric announced that it has successfully deployed an innovative technology that enables eight electric school buses to put electricity back on the grid when needed such as on hot summer days. A collaborative effort between SDG&E, the Cajon Valley Union School District and locally based technology company Nuvve, this is the first vehicle-to-grid (V2G) ...
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Nissan and EDF Group Partner to Accelerate Electric Vehicle Adoption and Grid Integration Across Europe
Nissan and EDF Group have signed a cooperation agreement to accelerate the delivery of electric mobility together - particularly through the smart charging of electric vehicles. This agreement applies to the United Kingdom, France, Belgium and Italy. The cooperation agreement focuses mainly on developing smart charging solutions (vehicle to grid, or V2G) by bringing together technologies ...
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