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NREL Releases Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Power System Model Results for Long-Term Planning
The Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Power System Model Results for Long-Term Resource Plans is designed to improve decision-making in the electricity planning process by strengthening dialogue between system planners and relevant stakeholders. It focuses on interpreting scenario results generated by power system planning models. These results are often used to inform integrated resource plans, ...
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North American Electric Reliability Corporation and IEEE Sign Agreement to Cooperate on Bulk Power System Analysis, Standards, Cyber Security
The North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) and IEEE recently entered an agreement to identify and launch joint initiatives on key issues, including coordination on bulk power system analysis, cyber security and the interface between NERC Reliability Standards and IEEE equipment standards. With the transformation of the North American bulk power system, cooperation and ...
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Department of Energy Announces First-Ever Grid Software Competition
U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry this week announced the launch of the Department of Energy's first-ever Grid Optimization (GO) Competition. The GO Competition, created by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E), is a series of challenges to develop software management solutions for a reliable, resilient and secure American electricity grid. Today marks the beginning of GO ...
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Form Energy Contributes to LDES Council Report Detailing Global Requirement for Long Duration Energy Storage to Reach Net Zero by 2040
Form Energy announces the publication of the Long Duration Energy Storage report to which it is a leading contributing author and a founder member of the LDES Council that has produced the report. The LDES report documents how the world’s power systems could become carbon net-zero through the storage of renewable power such as wind and solar. Form Energy helped form and is a founder ...
By Form Energy
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Ambri, LDES Council Release Inaugural Report Detailing Importance of Long-Duration Energy Storage to Achieving Global Net-Zero Goals
Ambri, Inc. announced the publication of the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council report, which details how long-duration energy storage technologies will support net-zero goals around the world. Ambri is a contributing author of the report and a founding member of the Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) Council. The report concludes that 85-140 TWh of long duration energy storage (>8 ...
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Schneider Electric Takes a Controlling Stake in ETAP
Schneider Electric announced this week that it has acquired a controlling stake in ETAP Automation Inc., a leading software platform for electrical power systems modeling and simulation. Used by 10,000+ design and engineering firms globally, ETAP models, simulates, control, and optimizes customer electricity power systems based on their digital twin equivalents. Subject to normal regulatory and ...
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NREL’s Bobi Garrett Named Top Industry Executive
Bobi Garrett, deputy laboratory director for strategic programs and partnerships at the Energy Department's National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), was recognized by the Denver Business Journal as one of the region's top female executives in the energy industry. Garrett was featured in the Business Journal's second annual Women in Energy special publication and honored at an event in July. ...
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PJM and Argonne National Laboratory Collaborate to Study Guidelines for Solar Resources
PJM Interconnection has joined forces with the U.S. Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory to support the integration of distributed energy resources such as residential and commercial solar into the power grid serving 13 states and the District of Columbia.Under a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, Argonne is supporting PJM’s Distributed Energy Resource Ride-Through Task ...
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Fervo Energy Announces Technology Breakthrough in Next-Generation Geothermal
Fervo Energy, a leader in next-generation geothermal technology, this week (July 18) announced that it has successfully completed the well test at its full-scale commercial pilot, Project Red, in northern Nevada. The company notes that the successful well test confirms the commercial viability of Fervo's drilling technology and establishes Project Red as the most productive enhanced geothermal ...
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Eaton UPSs Earn ENERGY STAR qualification for high energy efficiency
Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton today announced Eaton 5P, 5PX and 9PX uninterruptible power system (UPS) models available in the Americas are ENERGY STAR qualified following stringent third party testing and verification of meeting the program’s energy efficiency requirements. The qualification means that the Eaton UPSs are among the most efficient on the market, and allow ...
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NREL Supercomputing Model Provides Insights from Higher Wind and Solar Generation in the Eastern Power Grid
A new study from the United States Department of Energy's (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) used high-performance computing capabilities and innovative visualization tools to model, in unprecedented detail, how the power grid of the eastern United States could operationally accommodate higher levels of wind and solar photovoltaic generation. The analysis considered scenarios of up ...
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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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NREL updates solar radiation database
The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and collaborators released a 20-year updated version of the U.S. National Solar Radiation Database, a web-based technical report that provides critical information about solar and meteorological data for 1,454 locations in the U.S. and its territories. The updated database covers 1991-2010 and includes data ...
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Micro Grid Focus 2013 Will Focus on Asia’s Islands on June 27-28 in Hainan, China
Renewable Energy Association of Hainan Province and CBI BIZ announced a call for papers, and will raise special symposium topics for the Micro Grid Focus 2013. The conference is scheduled for June 27th-28th at Pullman Sanya Bay Resort & Spa in Sanya City of China’s island province Hainan. Gathering senior engineers and managing directors, the Micro Grid Focus 2013 will cover microgrid ...
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NREL Unveils Open-Source Distributed Generation Market Demand Model
After years of development, the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released the open-source dGen model, marking a new era since the model launched in 2016. Public users can access model methodology and instructions, run the code, and receive technical support from the dGen team. dGen simulates customer decisions about adopting and using solar, wind, and storage technologies for ...
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PureCell® system to generate clean, sustainable power for the Busan International Finance Center Landmark Tower in Busan, Korea
ClearEdge Power, a manufacturer of scalable, distributed power systems, today announced that Samsung Everland Inc. has purchased a PureCell® Model 400 fuel cell system to be installed at the Busan International Finance Center's Landmark Tower in Busan, Korea. The fuel cell will be installed in the basement of the tower and will provide 400 kW of clean, efficient power to the building. ...
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Global Rechargeable Batteries Industry
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Global Rechargeable Batteries Industry http://www.reportlinker.com/p092504/Global-Rechargeable-Batteries-Industry.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Battery This report analyzes the worldwide markets for Rechargeable Batteries in US$ Million by the following Battery ...
By ReportLinker
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Reivax North America Supplying Excitation Systems to US Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) Dardanelle Hydro Station
REIVAX NORTH AMERICA, a leading provider of excitation systems and speed governors, has been selected to furnish four (4) static excitation systems, model RTX Power, to the USACE Dardanelle station through its partner, All Energy Solutions, a company that meets the small business set aside requirements of this contract. A specific challenge of this Dardanelle station is the high ambient ...
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New method prevents power grid instability
The power industry places specific requirements on a continuous balance between production and consumption. Hence it is particularly important to ensure stable and efficient system operation. In the event of imbalance the grid may oscillate, which may lead to failure affecting large areas, with serious technical, financial and social consequences. In the worst case, lives may be lost. Describing ...
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Hawaiian Electric Selects Open Access Technology International for Paradigm-Shifting Grid Services Project
Hawaiian Electric Company and OATI are pleased to announce they have signed a Grid Services Purchase Agreement and submitted it to the Hawaii Public Utilities Commission for review.The Grid Services Program creates a new model for power system operations through a unique design linking the utility, grid service suppliers, and end customers. In this project, OATI heads a team of industry-leading ...
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