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Siemens and Boeing strategic alliance secures DOD contract
The strategic alliance between Siemens and Boeing today announced that the alliance and a team of partners has been awarded a funded project by the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) Environmental Security Technology Certification Program (ESTCP). Using Siemens and Boeing’s leading cyber-secure energy savings technology, the DOD will realize up to 40 percent savings in energy costs at this ...
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The Mobility House Manages Charging for Microgrid-Powered EV Bus Fleet in Maryland
The Mobility House, in collaboration with partners including AlphaStruxure and Schneider Electric, this week celebrated the completion and energizing of Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot in Montgomery County, Maryland. This integrated 6.5 MW microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project uses onsite solar canopies, natural gas generators, battery storage, microgrid controls and ...
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NREL Announces Round Two Selections for the DOE Small Business Vouchers Pilot
The Energy Department's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will help 12 companies advance their technologies under the second round of DOE's Small Business Vouchers (SBV) pilot. "The Small Business Vouchers Pilot focuses on attracting small and mid-size businesses that can leverage the world-class capabilities of the national laboratories and bring their clean energy technologies ...
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Highview Power Contracts with Tenaska Power Services for US Cryogenic Energy Storage Projects
Highview Power, a global leader in long-duration energy storage solutions, has contracted Tenaska Power Services Co., the leading provider of energy management services to generation and demand-side customers in the U.S., to identify, model, optimize and provide energy management services for up to four giga-scale cryogenic energy storage plants in the United States over two years. The initial ...
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Plug-In Electric Vehicles Are Emerging as a Viable Enabling Technology for Microgrids and Virtual Power Plants within the Next Five Years
A new report from Navigant Research discusses how to develop a strategy to best extract grid services embedded in plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) batteries, charging loads, and charging infrastructure to help support microgrid and virtual power plant (VPP) deployments.The projected growth in PEVs offers both challenges and opportunities to distribution utilities. If not managed in an intelligent ...
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Morgan Stanley Energy Partners Announces Strategic Partnership with SolMicroGrid
Investment funds managed by Morgan Stanley Energy Partners, part of Morgan Stanley Investment Management, announced recently that they have completed an investment in Alpharetta, Georgia-based SolMicroGrid. This strategic partnership will support the growth of SolMicroGrid's business, which offers innovative microgrid solutions through an Energy-as-a-Service business model. SolMicroGrid is a ...
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EUR 4m energy project sets sights on slashing European emissions
He who says that saving on energy will compromise comfort and convenience is in for a surprise. The EUR 4 million EU-funded project IntUBE (Intelligent Use of Buildings' Energy Information) has set its sights on slashing the amount of energy we use in our homes and offices by half, without jeopardising our creature comforts. Energy is considered to be the main factor influencing climate change, ...
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Global Market for Microgrids Expected to Reach $30.9 Billion in 2027
A new report from Navigant Research examines the status and potential future growth of microgrid segments and business models, providing global market forecasts for capacity and implementation spending, broken out by segment and region, through 2027. Over the last decade, Navigant Research has tracked the global microgrid market as the number of vendors offering products and services increased. ...
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Poll: 84% of Massachusetts Residents Want the Freedom to Choose Clean Energy
A new poll shows that Massachusetts residents overwhelmingly want to be able to choose their energy supplier, choose clean energy, and want more renewable energy in the Massachusetts power system. The poll commissioned by CleanChoice Energy, a renewable energy company providing 100% clean electricity, was conducted by SurveyUSA. SurveyUSA interviewed 550 Massachusetts adults who rent or own their ...
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Nokia Modernizes the Smart Grid To Bring Power Distribution Networks Into The IoT Era
Nokia recently introduced the 7705 SAR-Hm, a purpose-built LTE/3G wireless router aimed at modernizing distribution networks for utilities, but with applications for other high growth vertical markets, like Smart Cities. The newest addition to the Nokia Service Routing portfolio merges IP/MPLS and LTE/3G technologies to provide utilities wireless connectivity for grid devices located deep in a ...
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Solar and Battery Storage to Participate in New England’s Wholesale Capacity Market
In a historic breakthrough for clean, distributed energy, Sunrun Inc.(Nasdaq:RUN), the nation’s leading home solar, battery storage and energy services company, this week won a bid to deliver home solar and batteries as a source of energy capacity to ISO New England, the grid operator for one of the largest electricity markets in the United States. Sunrun’s participation in New ...
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IBM Continues to Advance Smart Grid Developments in Korea
In conjunction with the semi-annual Global Intelligent Utility Network Coalition (GIUNC) meeting, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced its collaboration with Korea Electric Power Company (KEPCO), on the building of the Total Operations Center at the Jeju Smart Grid Test-Bed Demonstration Complex. The center will allow the 160 companies and 11 consortia members operating at the Jeju Complex to ...
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Deutscher Bauernverband (DBV) awards a prize to EnviThan biogas preparation
EnviTec Biogas AG has won this year’s biogas innovation prize in German agriculture for its biogas preparation technology EnviThan in the Economy category. The German Farmers’ Association (Deutsche Bauernverband) has awarded the innovative membrane process of EnviTec within the scope of the biogas innovation congress in Osnabrück. The congress dealt with the topic of increase in ...
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SPP Reports Show Billions in Annual Savings, Describe Grid of the Future Plans
At the quarterly meetings of its Regional State Committee (RSC) and Board of Directors and Members Committee (BOD/MC), Southwest Power Pool (SPP) presented reports that quantify its value to members, analyze its performance during the historic December 2022 winter storm, and cast a vision for long-term opportunities and challenges the electric industry should anticipate. SPP also published its ...
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Frost & Sullivan: Energy Storage is the Answer to Looming Power Shortages
The significant shortfall in electricity supply within the next three years highlighted by Ofgem in its latest report presents a strong case for energy storage technologies as they can de-couple production and consumption of electricity by creating a buffer. Electrical power generation in the UK has been facing many challenges in the last decade. Some of the most critical include: reduction in ...
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Innovation Paves Way for Next Stage of Global Energy Transformation
Countries at the forefront of the energy transformation are getting more than a third of their energy from variable renewables like solar and wind, and they’re doing it in a cost-effective manner. By making use of innovative solutions that allow to integrate a higher share of renewables into power systems, innovation holds the key to a cost-effective global energy transformation. These ...
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The Antenna Group Top 10 Cleantech Trends to Watch in 2013
Antenna Group is the nation's largest clean technology public relations firm, representing companies in sectors including renewable energy, energy efficiency, alternative fuels, energy storage, finance, waste management and water. Here, drawn from input provided by our client-partners, is Antenna's list of the top 10 cleantech trends to watch in 2013. According to these trends, 2013 is shaping ...
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Berkeley Lab study finds energy efficiency workforce training needs to ramp up to meet coming demand
A new study by scientists at the Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) examines the workforce needs of the energy efficiency services sector, and finds that the speed with which employment will grow will depend in part on how effectively the nation deploys training and education programs for the energy efficiency workforce. “There is a shortage of formal ...
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