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NASA Invites Media To Space Weather Enterprise Forum
NASA Administrator Charles Bolden will deliver the keynote address at the annual Space Weather Enterprise Forum Tuesday, June 4, at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Auditorium and Science Center, located at 1301 East-West Highway in Silver Spring, Md. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO) Media representatives are invited to attend the forum, which ...
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Siemens to connect Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid
Siemens Energy and consortium partner Prysmian Cables & Systems, have been awarded an order worth approximately EUR 87 million by Thanet Offshore Wind Ltd. to connect the Thanet offshore wind farm to the British power grid. Generating enough electricity to power over 167,000 homes, the wind farm with an installed capacity of 300 megawatts (MW) will be constructed in the North Sea, eleven ...
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Pioneering Smart Grid Technology Solves Decades Old Problematic Power Grid Phenomenon
Picture a teeter-totter gently rocking back and forth, one side going up while the other goes down. When electricity travels long distances, it starts to behave in a similar fashion: the standard frequency of 60 cycles per second increases on the utility side of the transmission line while the frequency on the customer side decreases, switching back and forth every second or two. This phenomenon ...
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ENBALA Power Networks(R) Named to the 2012 Global Cleantech 100 List
ENBALA Power Networks has been named to the 2012 Global Cleantech 100 list as a Smart Grid company that engages large electricity users (commercial, industrial and institutional organizations) to deliver real-time grid balancing services to the electric power system. ENBALA's innovative platform balances the real-time supply and demand for electricity - improving the grid's reliability and ...
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World Energy Congress - Global carbon market key to attract private sector investments
The creation of a global carbon market is the key to attract private sector investments needed to develop the electricity sector, was the conclusion of a round table at the 20th World Energy Congress. “A global market where companies can exchange CO2 credits is essential”, said Kurt Yeager, chair of Wec Energy and climate change. But in the short period, the creation of such a global market is ...
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DOE Funding Notice: $30M Available to Enhance Benefits of Renewable Power on the Electric Grid
The U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) has announced the Operation and Planning Tools for Inverter-based resource Management and Availability for Future Power Systems (OPTIMA) funding opportunity, which will award $30 million in funding for projects that address emerging challenges and opportunities for grid planning and operations engineers and technicians arising ...
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Geothermal energy set to double across western states
The amount of new geothermal power now under development in the United States will roughly double U.S. geothermal capacity, according to a survey that will be released Wednesday by the Geothermal Energy Association, GEA. These projects, when developed, will provide up to 3,368 megawatts of new electric power capacity for the grid, more than doubling U.S. geothermal power capacity from 2,936 ...
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EPRI, NREL, and the University of Washington to Advance Electric Grid Decarbonization
This week (Sept 7), the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE's) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), and the University of Washington announced the creation of the industry-wide Universal Interoperability for Grid-Forming Inverters (UNIFI) Consortium to advance research on grid-forming inverters supporting variable renewable energy growth across ...
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Report Shows New Transmission Can Help Wind Energy Supply a Third of U.S. Electricity
The Energy Department earlier this week released a report which confirms that adding even limited electricity transmission can significantly reduce the costs of expanding wind energy to supply 35% of U.S. electricity by 2050. The report, titled Reducing Wind Curtailment through Transmission Expansion in a Wind Vision Future and authored by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), affirms ...
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US Nuclear Signs Agreement to Acquire an Interest in a Leading Fusion Power Developer & Rights to Manufacture & Sell Fusion Power Generators for Electric Power Grid
US Nuclear Corp. (OTC-UCLE) and Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. (MIFTI) have now signed an agreement which grants US Nuclear 500,000 shares of Magneto-Inertial Fusion Technologies, Inc. (MIFTI) stock, the option to acquire up to 10% (ten percent) of MIFTI, and non-exclusive worldwide rights to manufacture and sell MIFTI’s patentedthermonuclear fusion power generator. ...
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White Paper: Why (and How) America Should Upgrade Our Vulnerable Electrical Grid
A new white paper from IEEE-USA, written by the nation's leading power engineers, addresses challenges and suggests solutions to current electrical grid shortcomings that are both technically feasible and economical. Challenges facing the U.S. electric power grid include aging equipment, physical and cyber security threats, transmission losses, wildfires and extreme weather, interconnection ...
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The Artemis Project(TM) Names ENBALA Power Networks Top 5 Water Technology Company
For a second year in a row, ENBALA Power Networks has been identified as the 2012 Artemis Top 50 Water Tech Listing?. This year, the jury voted ENBALA Power Networks as one of the Top 5 Water Technology Companies. The Artemis Top 50 is dedicated to helping water technology companies emerge into the world market. The award recognizes start-up companies that provide innovative technologies that ...
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College Students Lead the U.S. towards a Greener Future
(Washington, D.C.) Students from Western Washington University drove from Washington State to Washington, D.C., in a car entirely powered by biodiesel fuel made from recovered landfill methane. Northwestern students built a solar powered system that provides electricity to a rural town in Panama, miles away from any electric power grid. The University of Virginia team designed and built a ...
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NREL’s DeBlasio honored by American National Standards Institute
Dick DeBlasio, a research engineer with the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory, has been named the 2011 winner of the Finegan Standards Medal by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The award is given once a year by ANSI for extraordinary leadership in the development and application of voluntary standards. DeBlasio will received this ...
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IRENA Analysis Explores the Potential and Impact of Smart Charging Electric Vehicles on the Energy Transition
Today the average car runs on fossil fuels, but growing pressure for climate action, falling battery costs, and concerns about air pollution in cities, has given life to the once "over-priced" and neglected electric vehicle.With many new electric vehicles (EV) now out-performing their fossil-powered counterparts' capabilities on the road, energy planners are looking to bring innovation to the ...
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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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NREL team investigates secondary uses for electric drive vehicle batteries
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), industry and academia are teaming to give batteries from electric drive vehicles (EV) a “second life.” NREL’s partner is an industry-academia team led by the California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE). Possible secondary uses for lithium ion (Li-ion) batteries include residential and ...
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AEG power solutions join CSP today Sevilla exhibiting innovative CSP solutions
Experts in the power sector, AEG Power Solutions, will be showcasing their CSP solutions at CSP Today Sevilla’s focused exhibition in November. AEG Power Solutions have confirmed that they will join the 5th International Concentrated Solar Thermal Power Summit as an exhibitor in CSP Today’s solution zone. The event, widely known as CSP Today Sevilla, will take place on the 29th and ...
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SwRI opens Energy Storage Technology Center
Southwest Research Institute has opened a new Energy Storage Technology Center, amassing its diverse scientific research, development and evaluation of energy storage systems under one roof.The facility houses SwRI technology to evaluate and develop battery and energy storage systems for electric, plug-in and hybrid electric vehicles; grid storage; flywheels; and stationary systems such as flow ...
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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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