distributed energy system News
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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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Utilities cite 3 areas of fundamental interest in New York’s Distributed Energy System planning
Katherine Tweed reports in GreenTech Media that in response to the Reforming the Energy Vision (REV) Plan, New York utilities are planning to spend hundreds of millions of dollars in the next five years to prepare for a distributed energy future and cites three areas of primary importance: non-wires alternatives, smart metering, and advanced distribution management systems. For more than two ...
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NREL Positions for Growth in Cybersecurity for Renewables, Launches New Program Office
The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently announced the launch of the new Cybersecurity Program Office (CPO). The CPO was established to accelerate NREL's leadership in securing renewable energy technologies and distributed energy systems. The new office will be led by Jonathan White, former manager of NREL's Secure Cyber-Energy Systems Group. White has significantly increased ...
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Clarke Energy joins North East Clean Energy Council
Clarke Energy is pleased to announce it has joined the North East Clean Energy Council (NECEC). NECEC “leads the just, equitable, and rapid transition to a clean energy future and a diverse climate economy. NECEC is the only organization in the Northeast that covers clean energy market segments, representing the business perspectives of investors and clean energy companies across every ...
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Siemens Further Expands Its Leadership Role in Industrial Digitalization
Siemens is gaining further momentum in digitalization and is the first company worldwide to set up 20 centers for digital customer applications in the industrial sector. Each of these MindSphere Application Centers for digital offerings from Siemens spans multiple locations in different countries and specializes in a particular industry in which Siemens is active. Today, around 900 software ...
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New Energy Study Finds Businesses Strongly Concerned about Resiliency but Lack Course of Action
A new study released by Harvard Business Review Analytics Services, sponsored and created in part by Siemens, surveyed leaders from organizations including businesses, hospitals and higher education institutions from across the U.S. on their efforts to address business resiliency and energy innovation. The study was released in conjunction with a Harvard Business Review and Siemens series in Los ...
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Address DER challenges on your grid
Controller confusion (sometimes called controller conschmoller disorder) arises when attempting to determine which controller will be most effective at curing DER challenges on your grid. Is a microgrid controller best? Or perhaps a distributed energy resource management system (DERMS) would be better. Is your utility experiencing any of these issues caused by the rapid increase of DERs on your ...
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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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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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sonnen Collaborates with Stanford on Intelligent Energy Storage Hardware and Load Management Software
sonnen recently announced a research collaboration with Stanford University's Sustainable Systems Lab (S3L) within the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering to deploy sonnen's intelligent energy storage hardware and load management software in 15 Fremont-area solar-powered homes and in a commercial agricultural facility in El Nido, California. The deployment and continued operation of ...
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VinFast deploys Siemens’ full portfolio to deliver cars ahead of schedule
VinFast completed its automotive production within only 21 months Siemens’ Digital Enterprise portfolio ensures VinFast’s high manufacturing efficiency and product quality VinFast uses Xcelerator portfolio of software and Totally Integrated Automation (TIA) VinFast, Vietnam’s first volume car manufacturer, has successfully produced its first cars ahead of schedule using ...
By Siemens AG
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NYISO Announces Distributed Energy Resource Pilot Projects
The New York Independent System Operator, Inc. (NYISO) recently (7/26) announced the selection of three pilot projects to demonstrate the capabilities of Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) and options for their integration into its wholesale markets. These pilot projects support the NYISO's DER Roadmap, which establishes a clear path for integrating DERs and, in so doing, will help the state of ...
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Alliance To Help Utilities Develop Private Wireless Broadband Networks to Support Grid Modernization
pdvWireless, Inc. announced recently (1/17) that Southern Company subsidiary Southern Linc will serve as a founding member of an alliance of utilities and vendors that will become a hub of information sharing, collaboration and planning to assist the development of private wireless broadband networks owned by and dedicated to utilities. The alliance will aim to drive scale and innovation for the ...
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GridPoint Launches Grid-Interactive Electric Vehicle Charging Solution for Small and Mid-Sized Commercial Buildings
Intelligent energy network provider GridPoint this week announced the launch of its new building-centric electric vehicle charging solution. GridPoint takes a whole building approach to managing customers' peak demand charges by analyzing and managing load across several controllable, grid-interactive assets from a single platform, including HVAC, lighting and now EV chargers. Customers can also ...
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Siemens and Lempäälän Energia to Build Microgrid in Finland
Lempäälän Energia has awarded Siemens a contract to implement a self-sufficient smart grid system in the industrial area of Marjamäki, Finland. Siemens' scope of supply encompasses design and engineering of a smart medium-voltage microgrid, the corresponding grid automation system and an electrical storage system. The purpose of the project LEMENE is to provide a cost-effective and ...
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Intelligent grid for Australia’s future power supply
The Intelligent Grid Cluster – officially launched in Sydney by Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research - is a major collaborative research venture between the CSIRO and the university sector under the CSIRO Energy Transformed Flagship. The Federal Government, through CSIRO and the Flagship Collaboration Fund, has contributed more than A$3 million to the ...
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Siemens plans the acquisition of Edge technology from Pixeom
Siemens further expands its digitalization portfolio for industry Technology basis is the Docker IT standard Siemens Industrial Edge ecosystem enables easy and flexible use of Edge apps Siemens is planning the acquisition of Edge technology from the US company Pixeom. With this action, Siemens is strengthening its Industrial Edge portfolio by adding software components for Edge runtime and ...
By Siemens AG
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NREL Expert Honored for Energy Systems Innovations
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently won several prestigious awards, including honors for innovations in window air-conditioning efficiency, data sharing, and its energy-efficient computer data center. Ben Kroposki Named 2014 IEEE Fellow Dr. Ben Kroposki, director of Energy Systems Integration at NREL, has been named an IEEE Fellow, recognized for ...
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Colorado Utilities Commission approves Xcel grid modernization plan and revenue decoupling
The Colorado Public Utilities Commission (PUC) took two steps toward modernizing the state’s electricity system June 21 by “decoupling” Xcel Energy revenues from the sale of kilowatt-hours and approving a $612 million grid modernization program. The commission endorsed a five-year decoupling pilot under which the PUC will set an annual revenue target for Xcel, the state’s ...
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Itron Receives OpenADR Certification for its Distributed Energy Resource Management System
Itron, Inc. recently announced that its IntelliSOURCE-DERMS solution has received OpenADR certification from the OpenADR Alliance, which fosters the development, adoption and compliance of the OpenADR Smart Grid standard. By integrating open standards into Itron’s IntelliSOURCE-DERMS solution, Itron is helping utilities and cities to leverage more types of distributed energy resources (DER) ...
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