power distribution grid News
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Eaton forges ahead in solar power
Eaton’s Electrical Sector has further extended its strong presence is the solar energy sector by supplying and installing complete BoS (balance of system) solutions for three major new solar energy parks (developed and owned by Lightsource Renewable Energy). The largest of the new parks, at Chittering in Cambridgeshire, has an installed capacity of 5MWp. The other two parks, at Great Knowle ...
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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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Battery-powered Britain: Centrica’s Local Energy Market Trial Completes Battery Installation in 100 Cornish Homes
Centrica’s Cornwall Local Energy Market (LEM) is celebrating a major milestone, as the pioneering trial completes the installation of cutting-edge renewable technologies across its residential programme. Delivered by Centrica’s Distributed Energy and Power business, Centrica Business Solutions, the £19m Local Energy Market trial has been developed to support the stability of Cornwall’s grid, ...
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Joi Scientific and New Brunswick Power to Develop World’s First Hydrogen-Powered Distributed Electricity Grid
Joi Scientific, whose mission is to make clean and affordable hydrogen energy available to all, is to co-develop with New Brunswick Power a hydrogen production system to enable the world’s first electricity grid that uses hydrogen as a baseload. The major electric utility in Canada’s Eastern Maritime province, NB Power is re-architecting its operations to create a highly efficient and ...
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CleanSpark Enters EV Charging Market Through GridFabric Platform
CleanSpark today announced that it is entering the electric vehicle charging station space through its recently acquired, wholly-owned subsidiary GridFabric - an OpenADR (Automatic Demand Response) communications compliance and certification company. The new initiative will be focused on providing software solutions to aid in load management for EV charging stations and balancing the impact the ...
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Centrica to Build Pioneering Local Energy Market in Cornwall
Centrica plc has announced a trial to develop a local energy market in Cornwall, which will see the development of a virtual marketplace and the installation of new technology into over 150 homes and businesses. Working with partners, the £19m program will test the use of flexible demand, generation and storage, and reward local people and businesses for being more flexible with their ...
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Feds Consider Microgrid in Upgrade of Washington, D.C. Energy Backbone
The U.S. government says it will consider installing a microgrid as part of a massive energy upgrade planned for a large block of buildings in Washington, D.C. The General Services Administration issued a request for information (RFI) Friday in the first step to upgrade the 81-year-old district energy network and younger combined heat and power (CHP) system. The RFI is precursor to an energy ...
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New Project to Develop an Advanced Software Tool for Enhanced Outage Management
Smart Wires this week (Sept 14) announced a new project focused on developing advanced software that will identify the optimal use of mobile power flow control technology to support transmission system outage management. It will be funded through the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority's (NYSERDA's) Electric Power Transmission and Distribution Future Grid Challenges program ...
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New cogeneration plant commissioned in Czech Republic
Green Gas International (GGI), the international clean energy company, announces the completion of a new cogeneration unit (combined heat and power - CHP) at the Karviná coal mine in the Czech Republic. This latest cogeneration unit, Jan-Karel 2, is part of a project that will direct the heat from two cogeneration units to Dalkia CR's grid, the main heat supplier of the mine. Jan-Karel 2 ...
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BNEF: Global Net Zero Will Require $21 Trillion Investment In Power Grids
Electricity grids are the backbone of the energy transition, yet the networks we have today are not ready for the future. At least $21.4 trillion needs to be invested in the electricity grid by 2050 to support a net-zero trajectory for the world, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). The New Energy Outlook: Grids report, published today, provides a more detailed breakdown of the ...
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Independent Power Grid as a Milestone for an Energy Transition Project
For the first time, a portion of the low-voltage network has been decoupled from the main power grid. In the community of Wildpoldsried in the Allgäu region of Germany it was possible to provide uninterrupted and stable operation of the island grid. Siemens and its project partners implemented a regional, self-contained and intelligent power distribution grid there, a microgrid. As the share ...
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Frost & Sullivan to Present Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Sector with the Unique 2012 Global Frost & Sullivan Company of the Year Award for Leveraging on `City as a Customer`
Frost & Sullivan is proud to present the 2012 Global Award for Company of the Year in the 'City as a Customer' market to Siemens Infrastructure and Cities Sector. This prestigious award recognizes a company's best practices in identifying global Mega Trends and their implications, and subsequently pioneering products and services to take a competitive lead in servicing this new client base ...
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Infocast`s Distributed Solar East Finance & Investment Summit 2011
Infocast brings its highly acclaimed Distributed Solar Series to the East Coast in the form of the DistributedSolar East Finance & Investment Summit 2011 on June 8-10, 2011 at the Hilton Newark Penn Station Hotel in Newark, NJ. This Summit corresponds with a massive acceleration of distributed solar projects up and down the Eastern Seaboard, boosting the growth of these markets and unleashing ...
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New Milestone in power grid and renewable energy development on DEEP C Industrial Zones
During a signing ceremony held on the 29th of November 2018 at the Belgian Embassy in Tokyo, TEPCO Power Grid Inc. (TEPCO) and Infra Asia Investment (IAI, Rent-A-Port Group’s holding for industrial zone development in Viet Nam), entered into an agreement for TEPCO to become a shareholder of DEEP C Green Energy. DEEP C Green operates the distribution power grid (110 & 22 kV) and is the ...
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“Little Box Challenge” Inverters Arrive at NREL
Today, 18 finalist teams for the Little Box Challenge, presented by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society, converged at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to have their power inverters tested as part of a $1 million competition to build smaller devices for use in solar power systems. "We're very curious to see how the teams are tackling the different ...
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MHI Develops Japan`s First Easy-to-move Cargo Container-type Large-capacity Energy Storage System, Using Lithium-ion Rechargeable Battery
Tokyo, June 16, 2011 - (JCN Newswire) - Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd., (MHI), has developed Japan's first cargo container-type large-capacity energy storage system that uses a lithium-ion rechargeable battery. The system is capable of providing power of up to one megawatts (MW), and its mobility makes the system suitable for a wide range of applications, including emergency use. The actual ...
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NREL to Test Inverters for the “Little Box Challenge” Presented by Google and IEEE
The Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will test power inverters submitted to the Little Box Challenge presented by Google and the IEEE Power Electronics Society. The Challenge is an open competition to build smaller power inverters for use in solar power systems. The winner of the $1 million prize will have designed and built a kilowatt-scale inverter with 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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Is decentralisation the future of sustainable energy?
A team of German scientists has taken a look into the future in a unique evaluation of decentralised electricity generation. They found that there are a number of factors that affect the sustainability of decentralisation. These must be fully considered in order to properly evaluate proposed changes to the power grid. Decentralisation consists of small plants or even microgenerators that ...
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NREL`s Capabilities Boost a Wide Range of Innovative ARPA-E Research
The Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) will play key roles in a variety of projects recently funded by the Department's Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). NREL's innovative approaches have received five awards across three different ARPA-E programs for advancing transformational technologies to generate, store, and use energy more efficiently, at lower ...
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