renewable power system News
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Chevron Energy Solutions awarded US DOE contract for energy efficiency and renewable power projects
Chevron Energy Solutions (CES), a unit of Chevron Corporation (NYSE: CVX), has been awarded a master contract by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to work with federal agencies to reduce energy and water consumption and increase the use of renewable energy at agency facilities. The Energy Savings Performance Contracts (ESPC), awarded to 16 qualified energy contractors, are intended to ensure ...
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£10m Milton Keynes AD contract awarded
Renewable Power Systems has won a £10m contract to build and operate a state of the art anaerobic digestion system for Milton Keynes Council. The facility will process all of Milton Keynes food and garden waste – more than 25,000 tonnes each year, as the council expects the amount of organic waste to rise to 30,000 tonnes in the next five to seven years. Biogas produced by the AD process will ...
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Fastest Racking System in the World
That was what a German based Solar Company showed up with at the SPI in Las Vegas. On the race to bring down the price of electric power from renewable systems, the companies here on the Solar Power International are exhibiting many new items. With higher efficiency of the solar modules and saving material on the structures, the investment to build up a solar farm goes down more and more and ...
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IEA: Global renewable energy growing faster than expected
The world will generate more renewable energy than previously expected in the next five years, with renewables surpassing coal for the first time last year, according to a new report by the International Energy Agency (IEA). About 28 percent of the world’s electricity will come from renewable sources by 2021, the agency said. That is a 3 percent increase from a previous forecast, which ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies and Phoenix Power Group Announce Launch of Waste Oil Power Generator
Cyclone Power Technologies and its licensee Phoenix Power Group will launch the first ever small-scale waste oil power generator at the Power-Gen International 2010 conference in December. Cyclone and PPG will be accompanied at the Orlando, Fla.-conference by master product distributor Clean Burn, the world leader in waste oil furnaces and boilers. The "Phoenix 10" prototype to be unveiled Dec. ...
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IEA book shows challenges of `variable` renewables in power systems are surmountable
A new book from the International Energy Agency<http://www.iea.org/index.asp> (IEA), Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge, presents a novel method of assessing the resources needed to balance supply and demand in power systems with large shares of ‘variable’ renewables, such as solar photovoltaic, wind and tidal energy. The report, which features ...
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Clarke Energy`s Irish operations win Public Sector Award
Clarke Energy’s Irish operations have been presented with an award from the Public Sector Magazine. The company has now supplied over 42 MW of low carbon and renewable gas-based power systems across the Island of Ireland. These systems vary from landfill and biogas CHP systems through to high efficiency cogeneration for the healthcare sector. Clarke Energy has also helped install one of the ...
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Wärtsilä Report: Accelerated Adoption of Renewables Can Reduce Electricity Production by 50%
The technology group Wärtsilä has issued a report ahead of COP26, the UN’s Climate Change Conference to be held in Glasgow this autumn, demonstrating the environmental and economic opportunities for states that decarbonise rapidly. The report was presented at the Economist Sustainability Week event on 6 October. The ‘Front-Loading Net Zero’ report states that electricity production costs could be ...
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Aura Systems Joins Forces With Cyclone Power Technologies to Develop Renewable Power Generation
Aura Systems, Inc. (OTCBB: AUSI) and Cyclone Power Technologies, Inc. (OTCQB: CYPW) announced today that the two companies have formed a technology development alliance to combine the all-fuel Cyclone Engine with the AuraGen induction motor and control unit. The partners anticipate that the integrated renewable power generation system will be able to provide a turn-key distributed solution for ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies` Modern Steam Engine Responds to President Obama`s Campaign Statement
Cyclone Power Technologies (OTCQB: CYPW) released this statement from the work bench at its shop: "I'm a 7-year-old American and do not have a political agenda. In the heat of the campaign trail and in response to Gov. Romney's statement that President Obama's position on fuel economy standards was 'extreme,' the President said: 'Maybe the steam engine is more his speed.' "I'm very proud to ...
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Energy Storage Ecosystem Offers Lowest-Cost Path to 100% Renewable Power
As states reach higher toward 100% renewable operation, energy storage will be key to enabling a more variable power supply. But no single technology will be a silver bullet for all our energy storage needs. Rather, a portfolio of storage solutions makes best economic sense for future energy systems, according to a recent National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) analysis titled "Optimal energy ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies Unveils its Scalable Waste Heat Power Generator in $200 Million GE Challenge
POMPANO BEACH, Fla. - Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW) has unveiled its scalable waste heat power generator, called WHE/GenerationTM, in connection with the $200 million GE Ecomagination Challenge. Cyclone’s renewable power system is currently ranked 25th of over 2,280 entries vying for funding and partnering opportunities in this worldwide search for unique green energy ...
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EPRI Joins International Consortium to Overcome Barriers to Renewable Energy Integration
The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) recently joined a major international project, the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST), to help remove technical hurdles to renewable energy integration. As a core G-PST technical team member, EPRI will work closely with several leading energy research organizations, a U.S. Department of Energy national lab, and more than 25 power ...
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Cyclone Power Technologies Receives Purchase Order for Two Waste Oil Gensets from Phoenix Power Group
POMPANO BEACH, Fla.- Cyclone Power Technologies (Pink Sheets: CYPW) has received a purchase order from its licensee Phoenix Power Group (PPG) for two waste oil power generators. The renewable power systems are scheduled to be delivered by the end of the year for field testing with PPG’s nationwide distributor, Clean Burn, the world leader in waste oil furnaces and boilers. The new Phoenix ...
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C-Power Expands Renewable, Autonomous Offshore Power System With RigNet’s Data and Communication Solutions
Columbia Power Technologies, Inc. (C-Power) and RigNet, Inc. (NASDAQ: RNET), a leading provider of ultra-secure telecommunications and intelligent networking solutions, today announced a collaboration in which RigNet will provide a comprehensive set of data and communications solutions for C-Power’s autonomous offshore power systems (AOPS). The solutions will provide upstream and downstream ...
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BNEF Report: New Forms of Flexibility Key to an Affordable, Renewables-Led Power System
Flexible energy options, such as energy storage, smart-charging electric vehicles, demand response and interconnectors, are needed to ensure that the energy transition proceeds on an optimal path. Our expensive power system would otherwise be reliant on fossil-fueled backup and installing excess wind and solar capacity.The four types of flexibility mentioned above can accelerate the transition to ...
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Greystar awards 25-year heat network contract to Switch2 Energy
Switch2 has also been appointed to provide metering and credit billing services to residents and businesses. Greenford Quay straddles the Grand Union Canal and includes 2,000 homes for rent and sale, and 185,000 sq. ft of commercial and community space. The low carbon district heating system includes two CHP engines and four gas boilers and is complemented by a renewable power generation system ...
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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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Wärtsilä Announces Engine+ Hybrid Energy Solution in Support of Storage and Renewable Energy Adoption
Wärtsilä’s Engine+ Hybrid Energy solution integrates standardised energy storage solutions and energy management systems with flexible engine power plants, leading to greater efficiencies, maintenance optimisation, emission reductions and a more streamlined addition of renewables into power systems. The solution serves load instantly, addresses step changes and intermittencies, ...
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IRENA and China State Grid Agree to Advance Transition Through Power System Enhancements
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), and the State Grid Corporation of China (SGCC), this week signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see the two organisations work closely to support grid enhancements, system flexibility and sector-coupling in China and IRENA's Clean Energy Corridor regions. The agreement aims to advance the global energy transformation towards ...
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