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AWEA Announces New Distributed Wind Association
Initiative reflects maturing market for small- to mid-sized wind energy turbines WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today announced the formation of the Distributed Wind Energy Association (DWEA), which will focus on advocacy and education to promote the on-site generation and consumption of distributed wind energy. The new coalition will have a national ...
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Cadmus Releases New Tool to Improve Siting Practices for Wind Energy Projects
The Cadmus Group, Inc. today announced the release of a new online tool designed to help companies choose the most effective site for their wind energy project. The Distributed Wind Site Analysis Tool (DSAT) allows users to predict the energy output and environmental benefits of wind energy projects at sites across the United States. “DSAT represents a step ...
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More Than 70 Associations Back Renewable Energy Extension Act
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) has announced that dozens of associations representing a broad array of interests are calling for an extension of the Section 48 and Section 25D Investment Tax Credit (ITC). More than 70 organizations representing farmers, homebuilders, environmental groups, electric cooperatives and a variety of other industries sent a letter to Congress urging them ...
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New supply partners for biggest wind energy distribution portal
Exactly on schedule to coincide with the beginning of the repair season, the online distribution platform WINDSOURCING.COM has further expanded its position as the leading global sales portal for product and service offerings in wind energy. Its product range from components, spare parts and repair equipment has further grown to around 15,000 items. Forming part of it now is the entire wind ...
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U.S. Energy Department: Wind Energy Continues Rapid Growth in 2016
The Energy Department recently (8/8) released three wind market reports demonstrating continued growth in wind energy nationwide. America's wind industry added more than 8,200 megawatts (MW) of capacity last year, representing 27 percent of all energy capacity additions in 2016. In 2016, wind supplied about 6 percent of U.S. electricity, and 14 states now get more than 10 percent ...
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Frost & Sullivan: The Future of Power Plant Services Lies in Emerging Economies
Power plant services represent a growing market that offers steady revenues and solid growth, in contrast with the much more cyclical market for new-build power stations. In the developed regions of Europe and North America, the main drivers are ageing power capacities that need replacing and, linked to this, the growing adoption of gas-fired generation. Key drivers in emerging markets are ...
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Alfen launches Cellular Smart Grid Platform
The rapid increase of intermittent renewable energy is putting an increasing pressure on global electricity grids. To make power grids more resilient to external influences, Dutch energy company Alfen is launching a new platform that allows local parts of the grid to disconnect from the central grid and self-heal. This new grid solution, the Cellular Smart Grid Platform (CSGriP), divides the ...
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ETI announces technology project to significantly reduce subsea cable costs for marine energy devices
A project which could considerably reduce the cost of cabling from offshore wave and tidal farms to the shore has been announced by the Energy Technologies Institute (ETI).This 18 month project, costing £1.1m and led by MacArtney, will develop an 11kV wet-mate connector, which will be tested and demonstrated under workshop and real-sea conditions.The connectors enable two power cables to be ...
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Department of Energy Releases Annual Wind Market Reports, Finding Robust Wind Power Installations and Falling Prices
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released annual market reports documenting data and trends in wind installations, technologies, costs, prices, and performance through the end of 2018 for three sectors: utility-scale land-based, offshore, and distributed wind."Onshore wind energy installation continues to grow across the country, and this Administration has proven that we can pursue ...
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ETI study to assess technological development needs for CCS by Mineralisation
The Energy Technologies Institute is to carry out a detailed study of the availability and distribution of suitable minerals across the UK and technologies that could be used to economically capture and store carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. These may arise from distributed sources such as small power plants and industrial facilities as well as large power stations. The leading technology for ...
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ETI planning to invest GBP 25m in CCS Next Generation Capture Technology Demonstrator for 2020
The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) is starting the search for organisations or consortia to bid for a major project which could establish an advanced CO2 Capture Technology demonstration project. The proposed project would see the development of world-leading next generation capture technology to a stage where it has completed full scale demonstration by 2015 and ready for adoption into ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Opportunities in Emerging Economies to Offset Declining Prospects for Coal-Fired Power across Mature Geographies
Over the next 25 years, the world will become significantly more dependent on electricity produced from various sources, including coal, to meet its energy needs. Global electricity generation is expected to grow from 21,224 Terawatt hours (TWh) in 2010 to 33,370 TWh in 2030. Coal will continue to hold an increasing share in the energy mix of emerging countries since it is one of the most ...
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DOE Awards $28 Million for Wind Energy Research, Development, and Demonstration Projects
Recently (10/22), the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the selection of 13 projects to receive a total of $28 million to advance wind energy nationwide. While utility-scale, land-based wind energy in the United States has grown to 96 gigawatts, significant opportunities for cost reductions remain, especially in the areas of offshore wind, distributed wind, and tall wind. The funding ...
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NREL to Advance Technologies for Microgrid Projects
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) is providing critical support to two new microgrid projects coordinated by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and General Electric Company (GE). The Energy Department recently announced its award of more than $8 million for seven microgrid projects-including $1.2 million each for the EPRI and GE projects-to help cities ...
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Australia one step closer to a new energy era: Smart Grid, Smart City
The Australian Government has announced the next crucial step in transforming Australia's energy grid, with the potential to reduce home energy bills, reduce carbon pollution and help tackle climate change. The $100 million Smart Grid, Smart City initiative will see Government and energy and communications sectors working in partnership to rollout Australia's first commercial-scale smart grid. ...
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Nepal to finalise national wind policy
KATHMANDU] Nepal is set to finalise a draft national wind policy in the coming months, to harness wind energy's potential as a solution to its current energy crisis. The policy, prepared by Nepal's national wind task force (NWTF), will be finalised in the next three months, said NWTF member Manoj Kumar Mishra at a national workshop on wind energy this week (31 January). It aims to attract ...
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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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Testing at NREL Aids Solar Power in Hawaii
Inverter load rejection overvoltage (LRO) tests completed by the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory as part of a cooperative research agreement with SolarCity have proven so successful that a testing partner, Hawaiian Electric Companies (HECO), has proposed to double its hosting capacity for solar energy. The inverter testing at NREL's Energy Systems Integration Facility ...
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ETI unveils plans to design world’s largest open access indoor test facility for offshore wind turbines
Plans to design the world’s largest open access offshore wind turbine drive train test rig have been announced by the UK’s Energy Technologies Institute (ETI). Two companies - Converteam and HORIBA Instruments - are delivering competing designs for an indoor test-rig capable of dynamically testing a complete wind turbine drive train and nacelle with input power up to 15MW. The rig, to be built ...
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Urgent Need for New Stationary Storage, According to IDTechEx
Starved of lithium-ion batteries and pumped storage sites, the stationary energy storage business is urgently looking for alternatives, according to a new report from IDTechEx.Tesla now sells its Powerwall house battery only to those buying the full solar house and, like its competitors, it has delayed electric vehicle launches also due to battery shortage. Metals shortages are taking over from ...
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