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Stronger powers for the EU Energy Agency
The Industry Committee is insisting that the Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators - proposed as part of the energy package - should have regulatory powers, contrary to the Commission's original plan. In Wednesday's vote on three related first-reading reports, overwhelming majorities on the committee backed a strong decision-making role for the Agency. The Commission, in its original ...
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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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Agilent Technologies introduces power integrity solution to solve key challenge in designing power distribution networks
Agilent Technologies Inc. (NYSE:A) today introduced its power integrity solution to quickly and accurately solve the perforated-plane power integrity challenge. Available in Agilent's Advanced Design System 2011 Momentum, the solution is used for designing a power distribution network with the heavily perforated power and ground planes found in modern printed circuit board designs. ...
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ABB cuts energy consumption in Shanghai metro
The solution consists of more than 200 active harmonic filters and reactive power compensation devices that are being deployed in part of the city’s rapid transit system to eliminate harmonic distortion, stabilize the power network and help reduce the subway system’s power consumption. Harmonics have long been a problem in the Shanghai metro system leading, among other things, to the early and ...
By ABB
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Clarke Energy Supporting World Cogeneration Day
Clarke Energy and our sister company Co-Energy America are pleased to announce our support of World Cogeneration Day, September 4th 2020 and highlighting key international cogeneration projects. Cogeneration or combined heat and power technology (CHP) plays an important role in providing efficient localised power and supporting carbon emissions reduction. Gas engine CHP plants can use renewable ...
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Galán believes the Spanish power system is capable of supporting 10m electric cars
The Chairman of IBERDROLA, Ignacio Galán, said this week that the electric vehicle must play a central part in the EU’s Energy Policy, as it can make a contribution to meeting the European Commission’s 2020 targets. In his talk at the informal meeting of EU Ministers of Competitiveness, held in San Sebastian, Galán argued that the electric vehicle is the most reliable alternative for improving ...
By Iberdrola
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Smart grid Development in Bosnia and Herzegovina
People and businesses in the Republika Srpska, one of the two entities of Bosnia and Herzegovina, will benefit from a more reliable power supply and improved energy efficiency thanks to a loan provided by the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) with the support of TaiwanICDF. The funding of 15 million will finance the reconstruction of the medium and low-voltage power network ...
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Department of Energy Announces $35 Million For Ultra-Efficient Power Management
The U.S. Department of Energy recently announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. The selected projects are part of ARPA-E’s Building Reliable Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely (BREAKERS) program, as well as the latest OPEN+ cohort, ...
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ABB and Enbala Power Networks To Co-Develop Grid Software
ABB announced it has invested in Enbala Power Networks, a leading developer of software for managing power distribution networks. The investment was made through ABB's venture capital unit, ABB Technology Ventures. Today's grid operators require digital solutions to deal with challenges posed by the increasing amount of intermittent renewable and distributed energy sources being integrated into ...
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ABB solution will monitor and manage dozens of hydro plants in North America
The solution will enable Brookfield Renewable Power, one of the largest generators of emission-free energy in the Americas, to monitor, control and manage its entire fleet of power generation facilities in North America. Brookfield Renewable Power operates 132 hydropower plants, one wind farm (one of the largest in Canada) and one thermal power plant in ten states and provinces of the United ...
By ABB
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Switch2 Energy appoints new heat network construction director
Simon has more than 25 years’ experience of developing and delivering clean energy infrastructure – from design and development of power transmission and distribution networks – to low and zero carbon decentralised community energy projects. He was previously Head of Delivery at both Vattenfall Energy Solutions and E.ON, where he led development and delivery of low and zero ...
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RTE and IEA Publish Study on the Technical Conditions Necessary for a Power System With a High Share of Renewables
While France and a growing number of countries around the world have been setting ambitious goals for reaching net-zero emissions, variable renewables like wind and solar energy are set to become the main building blocks in power systems worldwide as countries seek to decarbonise their economies. In a new joint analysis commissioned by the French Ministry for the Ecological Transition, the IEA ...
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Biogas First in Kenya for Clarke Energy & Tropical Power
Tropical Power, a developer of biogas and solar plants in Africa, has signed a deal with Clarke Energy to supply the first two containerised Jenbacher biogas engines in Sub-Saharan Africa. The units will be supplied to an agricultural biogas plant located at a farm near Lake Naivasha, in Kenya. Pioneering development for biogas in Kenya – First biogas engines supplied to by Clarke Energy ...
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Captive power plant efficiency for Africa
Power distribution networks across Africa are notoriously unreliable. Frequent power interruptions can be enormously costly for many of the continent’s factories. Not only do power outages disrupt production batches, they can also damage or reduce the life of important plant components such as kilns. This too has a knock-on effect on wider the country’s gross domestic product – ...
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Lightsource BP pioneers UK’s first night time solar service
Lightsource BP, one of the global leaders in the funding, development and long-term operation of solar projects, has become the first company in the UK to provide a reactive power service from a solar plant at night. Reactive power is the ability to maintain voltage levels on electricity transmission systems. This allows more energy to be transported down existing infrastructure and therefore ...
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Department of Energy Awards Xage Contract to Prevent Cyber Attacks During Extreme Weather Events
Xage, which notes that it is the first and only zero trust real-world cybersecurity company, this week announced a new contract with the U.S. Department of Energy to secure access to crucial energy delivery systems during contingency events, such as severe weather or other natural disasters. The DOE’s Office of Cybersecurity, Energy Security, and Emergency Responses awarded Xage with a contract ...
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Iberdrola Ingeniería heads the world’s largest research project into marine renewable energy
With a budget of €30 million A total of 19 companies and 25 research centres will take part in the Ocean Lider project over the next three years IBERDROLA INGENIERÍA, along with 19 Spanish companies and 25 research centres, is heading a consortium which will develop the world’s largest RDI project into marine renewable energy. The Ocean Lider initiative boasts a budget of €30 million. The ...
By Iberdrola
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World needs $48 trillion in investment to meet its energy needs to 2035
Meeting the world's growing need for energy will require more than $48 trillion in investment over the period to 2035, according to a special report on investment<http://palo.iea.org/publications/freepublications/publication/name,86205,en.html> released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA) as part of the World Energy Outlook series. Today's annual investment in energy supply of ...
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Advanced Energy Management Alliance: FERC Ruling Constitutes Win for Consumers in New York
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission recently issued an order eliminating a barrier to customer savings and better electricity system efficiency in New York. The order, announced on February 3rd, allows customers and companies to simultaneously participate in both state and federal programs that provide compensation for reducing energy usage in order to help alleviate different types of ...
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Major Power Markets in Eastern Europe to 2020 - Renewable Resources, Privatization, and Easing Barriers to Entry in Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Turkey
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Major Power Markets in Eastern Europe to 2020 - Renewable Resources, Privatization, and Easing Barriers to Entry in Russia, Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine and Turkey ...
By ReportLinker
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