distributed energy production News
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Grid Parity Vital to Ensure Higher Adoption of Green Semiconductors, Finds Frost & Sullivan
While solar power still reigns as the most favored alternate source of energy, this market is going through consolidation in terms of capacity and competition. As a traditional stronghold of solar photovoltaics (PVs), Europe has been battling a financially weaker eurozone, causing investors to shift their focus to other regions such as North America and Asia Pacific. New analysis from Frost ...
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NRG Begins Deployment of Preferred Resource Programs in Southern California
NRG Energy recently launched new offers for commercial and industrial customers to take advantage of more than 60 MWs of Preferred Resources under contracts executed with Southern California Edison (SCE). Through three new programs, NRG and its partners can provide SCE customers with innovative, cost saving commercial and industrial products and services. These products and services are expected ...
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SunTech Drive Announces Collaboration with Stanford University and Google for Energy Internet of Things ARPA-E Project
SunTech Drive has announced a new collaboration with both Stanford University and Google. The project is tied to the Department of Energy's NODES (Networks of Distributed Energy Systems) initiative. The objective is to coordinate and control consumer loads and distributed energy resources (DERs) out to the absolute edge of the grid. SunTech Drive's Pico family of universal variable speed motor ...
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mPrest and Vector to Bring Internet of Energy to Over a Million New Zealand Customers
mPrest, a provider of mission-critical Internet of Energy' software, announced that its Distributed Energy Resource Management product - mDERMS, will be deployed in Vector's intelligent grid. Vector is New Zealand's leading multi-network infrastructure company, which distributes energy and communication services to over 1.2 million homes and businesses. mDERMS will enable Vector to improve ...
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Clean energy for all: a global challenge
This week, key leaders from the policy, industry, government, NGO, banking, and civil society sectors are gathering in the Philippines for the 7th annual Asian Clean Energy Forum (ACEF). The event, organized by the Asian Development Bank and USAID, aims to foster discussions about how to scale up clean energy initiatives and curb climate change in Asian nations. One the forum’s key themes ...
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Decarbonathon winners announced
Four innovative projects have been declared the winners of the Decarbonathon, a competition created through a Young Global Leaders initiative of the World Economic Forum to find the most promising solutions to reduce CO2 emissions in cities. The competition was supported by the Centre for Carbon Measurement at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL), ENGIE, Climate-KIC and theNational Institute of ...
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Democratic Controlled Congress Shapes New Energy Policy
WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) - A bill to make permanent the current ban on drilling for oil in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, ANWR, was one of the first measures proposed in the House of Representatives, now controlled by a majority of Democrats. Bills to allow drilling in the refuge have passed the House 10 times in previous Congressional sessions, but these measures have all been turned back by ...
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Shifted Energy Expands Grid-Interactive Buildings and Virtual Power Plants with New Seed Funding
Shifted Energy, a leading distributed energy resources (DER) platform, this week (March 6) announced the closing of a $4.3M seed funding round that will help the company expand energy efficiency programs and distribute smart energy products. Co-led by EPIC Ventures and Kapor Capital, with participating investors Buoyant Ventures, Startup Capital Ventures x SBI Fund, and Hunt Development, the ...
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Iberdrola climaxes stellar year with net profit of €2,353.7m
The international growth strategy initiated by IBERDROLA at the end of 2006 began to bear fruit in 2007. The Group is the world’s 4th largest electricity group with a market capitalization of nearly €51.3 billion, and has secured a privileged position in the Atlantic Area. With the integration of ScottishPower, which consolidated accounts from April 23 last year, and investments of more than €25 ...
By Iberdrola
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Siemens to be climate neutral by 2030
CO2 emissions to be cut 50 percent as early as 2020 €100 million investment in improving energy efficiency Annual savings of €20 million expected Siemens aims to be the world's first major industrial company to achieve a net-zero carbon footprint by 2030. The company plans to cut its carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions – which currently total about 2.2 million metric tons a year ...
By Siemens AG
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Bekaert Clean Enclosed Burner now used for commercial waste to energy processes
Agilyx Corporation, the first company to economically convert difficult to recycle waste plastic into synthetic crude oil is building its first commercial waste-to-energy facility in the Upper Midwest. Over the next 6 months, three additional facilities will be installed in the Deep South and the Pacific Northwest. Each facility will be fitted with a Bekaert CEB 350, which has a maximum thermal ...
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On-board carbon capture for cars
Capturing carbon dioxide at source from vehicles in the transportation sector and small-scale power plants could significantly cut overall carbon emissions to the atmosphere in the short-term, while playing a strategic role in the development of a sustainable carbon economy in the longer-term. New research suggests that it is feasible to capture and store CO2 emissions at the point of generation ...
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ASU helps re-engineer power grid for renewable energy
Arizona State University researchers will help create a framework for re-engineering the nation’s power grid to make it adaptable to renewable electric-energy technologies such as solar and wind power. A team of faculty members in ASU’s Ira A. Fulton School of Engineering and School of Sustainability are part of a new National Science Foundation (NSF) Engineering Research Center formed to ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies Signs Teaming Agreement with Biomass Gasifier Technology Company, Enginuity Energy
Cyclone Power Technologies (OTCQB: CYPW) developer of the all-fuel, clean-tech Cyclone Engine, announced today that it has signed a Teaming Agreement with Enginuity Energy LLC, an innovator and manufacturer of biomass gasifiers. Under this agreement, the parties have joined forces to pursue government funding and commercial applications for distributed ...
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E.ON to Participate in European Smart Grid Project InterFlex
E.ON is part of the European smart grid project InterFlex that aims to explore new ways of using various forms of flexibilities to optimize electric power systems on a local scale. The project, which started on January 1st, 2017, will run for three years. During this time, 20 project partners will investigate the interactions between flexibilities provided by energy market players and the ...
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Enventure to streamline Material data management for a leading Electronics Manufacturing Services company in Europe
Portsmouth, NH; November 05, 2020 – Enventure has signed an agreement with a global leader in Electronics Manufacturing Services to enhance their inventory data across various manufacturing units in Europe. The client is a global leading electronic manufacturing services (EMS) company with a presence across four continents and is well-known for producing electronics for power technologies, ...
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Chevron announces natural gas find in Australia
Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX) today announced an additional natural gas discovery in the Greater Gorgon area's Carnarvon Basin, Australia's premier offshore hydrocarbon zone. The Achilles-1 exploration well, located approximately 100 miles (160 kilometers) off the coast of northwest Australia, was drilled to a total depth of 14,800 feet (4,500 meters) and encountered approximately 325 feet ...
By Chevron
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Storing the Sun for a Rainy Day
It's been a miserable winter in Germany. Parts of the country have had 60% fewer sunshine hours than normal. A series of cold snaps have swept the country, reminding all just how expensive heating has become. Germany's 'Energiewende' (Energy Transition) policy - an intent to be 60% reliable on renewable energy sources for the country's total energy consumption by 2050 - is helping cut costs. ...
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Chevron welcomes Western Australian EPA`s decision on Gorgon Project
Chevron Corporation (NYSE:CVX) welcomes today's recommendation by the Western Australian Environmental Protection Authority's (EPA) that the revised and expanded Chevron-operated Gorgon Project could meet the EPA's environmental objectives. The revised and expanded proposal adds a third 5 million metric-tons-per-year (MTPY) liquefied natural gas (LNG) train to the original two-train proposal ...
By Chevron
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NIB finances the Anholt offshore wind farm
The Nordic Investment Bank (NIB) and Danish energy company DONG Energy have signed a loan totalling EUR 240 million (DKK 1.8 billion) for financing the Anholt offshore wind farm. The loan has a maturity of 10 years and will partly finance the construction of what will become one of the world's largest offshore wind farms. The wind farm will be located offshore in the Kattegat between Jutland and ...
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