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ABB and Sage Geosystems (Sage), a leading geothermal baseload and energy storage company, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreement to collaborate on developing energy storage and geothermal power generation facilities that utilize natural heat from the earth’s core to produce clean electricity. The collaboration will allow ABB to support Sage’s agreement with Meta, ...
The Honourable Jim Carr, Special Representative for the Prairies, on behalf of Canada's Minister of Natural Resources, the Honourable Seamus O'Regan Jr., this week announced a combined investment of over $900,000 for two smart grid projects in Alberta that will enhance the energy grid and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The first investment of $495,000 is for FortisAlberta Inc. to support the ...
Siemens Energy announced this week that it will design, build and commission a black-start system at Clearway's Marsh Landing Generating Station near Antioch, California. Black-start capabilities will allow the station to restart the flow of electricity to the facility's auxiliary systems without the support of an external power supply in the case of an outage or blackout situation. Siemens ...
The virtual ceremony of the second annual Diesel Progress Summit Awards was held on Tuesday, 20th October 2020. This event celebrates the major innovations in the automotive field across eight different categories for products already available for sale since the previous year. In the prestigious “Electric or Hybrid Application/Component of the Year” category, the innovative zero ...
NEC Energy Solutions (NEC) and Ambri today announced they have signed a joint development agreement (JDA) in which NEC will design and develop an energy storage system based on Ambri’s Liquid Metal Battery technology. NEC will employ its proprietary AEROS® energy storage operating system and controls to optimize system performance of the Ambri-based energy storage systems for NEC ...
Kiashke Zaaging Anishinaabek (KZA) / Gull Bay First Nation (GBFN) and Ontario Power Generation (OPG) have co-developed a community microgrid that uses solar, battery storage and automated control technology to help reduce diesel use at KZA in northwestern Ontario. This Indigenous-led micro grid project utilizes ground-mounted solar panels, lithium-ion batteries, and a sophisticated control system ...
Process control of biomass and waste-to-energy power plants is a complicated process, in which numerous process parameters have interactions with each other. Biomass and waste fuels are characterized to have various and sometimes unpredictable quality, heating value, moisture and even sudden changes to power generation demand. These fuel properties cause a lot of difficulties for the tuning and ...
Today's private wireless broadband networks enable secure, highly reliable, low latency communications that facilitate a unified platform to support the evolving digital, distributed and intelligent power system across a wide platform of use cases. Examples of how these networks can be leveraged include electric operations ...
Schneider Electric recently (3/14) announced a project with REC Solar to build an advanced microgrid at its Foxboro, Massachusetts facility. The microgrid will be funded by Schneider Electric’s innovative Microgrid-as-a-Service (MaaS) business model – it is the third MaaS project with Duke Energy Renewables and REC Solar – and will offer greater power resilience to help the ...
ABB technology is supporting the development of new smart solar power systems for the city of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Dubai Electric & Water Authority (DEWA) is using the ABB AbilityTM Electrical Distribution Control System to help develop data-driven strategies that maximize year-round solar energy production as part of the Smart Dubai initiative. Smart Dubai is the vision of HH Sheikh ...
The mDERMS platform will unify Vector's varied energy resources including solar photovoltaic systems, next generation storage and demand response onto a single distributed command and control system. mPrest will also integrate Vector's internal operations platforms, including GIS, distribution automation and ...
Emerson (NYSE: EMR) will provide control systems and project services for a new waste-to-energy power plant near Knaresborough Allerton, North Yorkshire, UK. The plant, which will also incorporate biogas and recycling facilities, will produce 28 megawatt-hours of electricity per hour from 320,000 tons of waste, exporting enough energy to the National Grid to power the equivalent of 40,000 ...
Taken together, the Eaton family of products affords a wide range of communication protocol support available for easy integration into any Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) or Distributed Control System (DCS). “Many customers face difficulties integrating to a single PLC/DCS without the use of gateways; and, while ...
Power management company Eaton today announced a $5.4 million contract from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wilmington District, to lead a life extension and electrical modernization project at Philpott Dam in Bassett, Virginia. The agreement includes the design, manufacturing, delivery, installation and commissioning of electrical powerhouse distribution and control systems, as well as ...
TeleControl Server Basic helps to monitor and control geographically distributed systems from one control center (remote control). ...
GE Technology Eliminates Ocean Water for Cooling, Reduces Emissions, Improves Reliability GE’s Advanced Gas Turbines Support Renewable Energy with Fast Startup The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) is losing the weight of old technology and exercising its right to use a more environmentally friendly approach. The utility is upgrading the Scattergood Generating Station ...
President Barack Obama today previewed an innovative plug-in hybrid electric utility truck with a power system developed by diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton Corporation (NYSE:ETN) and the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI). The President visited the Electric Vehicle Technical Center of Southern California Edison to view an array of advanced technology vehicles. The plug-in hybrid ...
“With solutions from 60MHz to 5.8GHz, the product line’s unique features help extend end-to-end network connectivity, easily integrating with our range of market-leading networking solutions designed to provide end users with a productive and safe solution and lower total cost of ownership.” The ELPRO 450U-E modem is designed to integrate with ...
AES Tietê, a subsidiary of AES Brazil, is the first power generator in Brazil to adopt a distributed control system automation architecture for its hydropower fleet. ...
GE (NYSE: GE) and its technology partner, Nanjing Turbine & Electric Machinery Company, Ltd., (NTC), will supply two 6F 3-series gas turbines to Chinese power company Guodian Dianli for the Nanxun power plant near Huzhu city in Zhejiang province, China. The new cogeneration plant will provide electricity and industrial heating for the Nanxun development zone while supporting the Chinese ...