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Tesla CEO Plugs into New Market with Home Battery System
Never lacking daring ideas, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk is determined to jolt the electricity market. The CEO of electric car maker Tesla Motors hopes to park hundreds of millions of large, solar panel-connected batteries in homes and businesses so the world can disconnect from power plants - and he can profit. On Thursday night, before an adoring crowd and a party-like atmosphere, Musk ...
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Larson Electronics' Magnalight.com Announces Release of Solar Powered LED Beacon
Magnalight.com announced today the release of a solar powered Class 1 rated LED beacon that offers maintenance free operation and 30 different strobing flash patterns. Powered by a 14.3 volt lithium poly battery and recharged via an included solar panel assembly, the SPLED-CL1B-M Class 1 LED beacon is visible for over a mile and can run for over 5 hours on a full charge. This LED beacon is ...
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Accenture and SAP Accelerate Delivery of Multi-Channel Customer Engagement Platform
Accenture has announced plans with SAP SE to accelerate the development of solutions, based on a digital customer engagement platform, for utility companies to engage with customers through virtually any channel, improving customer operations efficiency. Alongside simplified customer service and operations, the customer engagement platform is intended to help enable utilities to offer customers ...
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PURETi partners with Northwestern on DOE Solar Decathalon entry
The Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern (ISEN) is the primary University supporter of House by Northwestern. Article originally appeared in The Daily Northwestern. After months of planning, Northwestern’s first solar-powered home is set to break ground in May. “We’ve spent a lot of time putting things together on paper and now we actually get to put things ...
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ABB: Breakthrough Order for DC Technology
ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order from ship owner Myklebusthaug Management to supply the first ever direct current (DC) power grid on board a ship. The equipment will allow a new offshore platform support vessel, under construction in Norway, to operate at the highest energy efficiency level to minimize emissions. Image of a ...
By ABB
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The first solar-powered electric Car charging stations in Sofia, Bulgaria
A1 Co., Ltd. and BIES Ltd. opened the first Solar-Powered Electric Car Charging Stations in Sofia on 06.1.2012. The principle of operation of the station is simple - use of solar panels to collect solar energy. The connection between electric cars and batteries is performed by a special module. Electric cars in Bulgaria are still very few. According to experts, however, in 2012 a boom in the ...
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The UN will install Ampere Energy storage systems for self-consumption in its telecommunications structures
The United Nations (UN) will have energy storage systems in its telecommunications areas, equipped by Ampere Energy, a Spanish multinational provider of solutions, products and services for the management of the energy transition. The organization will install several Ampere systems, adapted and prepared to withstand aggressive climates and environments. The above-mentioned systems will be in ...
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The Lac-Megantic Microgrid: A Window on the Technologies of the Future
Hydro-Québec and the city of Lac-Mégantic are inaugurating the energy microgrid in Lac-Mégantic's new downtown. In the wake of the July 2013 rail disaster, the city of Lac-Mégantic looked to the future and chose to rebuild its central district by positioning itself as a leader in the energy transition. The microgrid is the outcome of a collaborative effort initiated ...
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Solar power for the poor: facts and figures
Solar power could help alleviate rural poverty. David J. Grimshaw and Sian Lewis shine a light on its progress, potential and pitfalls. Increasing access to energy is critical to ensuring socioeconomic development in the world's poorest countries. An estimated 1.5 billion people in developing countries have no access to electricity, with more than 80 per cent of these living in sub-Saharan ...
By SciDev.Net
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