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Registration Opens For NASA Night Rover Energy Challenge

Registration is open for teams seeking to compete in the $1.5 million energy storage competition known as the Night Rover Challenge, sponsored by NASA and the Cleantech Open of Palo Alto, Calif. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20081007/38461LOGO ) To win, a team must demonstrate a stored energy system that can power a simulated solar-powered exploration vehicle that can operate ...

Apr. 4, 2013

By National Aeronautics and Space Administration - NASA

Special Report: Solar industry polishes its green image

EurActiv - The solar industry, backed by environmental activists, is promoting solar power for its light impact on biodiversity, highlighting the sector's anxiety to preserve its green image. Virtually no source of energy can claim to have zero impact on biodiversity. Fossils fuels are the obvious worst offenders, as their burning emits gases which contribute to climate change and ...

May 27, 2011

By GLOBE SERIES

Siemens Energy and Sun To Market Solutions to develop training simulator for CSP plants

Siemens Energy and Sun To Market Solutions are to develop a full-scope integrated test, commissioning and training simulator for concentrating solar power (CSP) plants. The objective of the full-scope integrated control room simulator is to provide a "virtual plant" for engineering tests, commissioning, and assessment for CSP plant operators. It will also offer training for plant startup and ...

Sep. 27, 2011

By New Energy Update

AMETEK Displays 3U Single Box PV Emulator at Solar Power International Show

DALLAS, Oct. 18, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Solar Power International -- AMETEK Programmable Power (www.programmablepower.com) announces a 3U single box PV simulator. The standalone Solar Array Simulator (SAS) leverages the same AMETEK Windows®-based software as the turn-key TerraSAS solutions. AMETEK is showcasing its TerraSAS solutions at the Solar Power International ...

Oct. 18, 2011

By AMETEK

SoCalGas and University of California Irvine Demonstrate Power-to-Gas Technology Can Dramatically Increase the Use of Renewable Energy

Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) earlier this week announced that new research on power-to-gas technology shows the technique holds the ability to dramatically increase the use of intermittent renewable energy. The finding came out of ongoing research conducted at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and funded by SoCalGas. Preliminary research findings, announced this week at UCI's ...

Mar. 31, 2017

By Smart Grid Observer

AWS Truepower, a UL Company, Contributes to Large-Scale Latin American Interconnection Study

AWS Truepower, a UL company and expert in renewable energy consulting and engineering services, participated in a continent-wide study that examined the viability of a low-carbon interconnected electricity system from Mexico to Argentina. The work was performed by employees of AWS Truepower, LLC which has since been acquired by UL. On behalf of the Inter-American Development Bank, AWS ...

Jan. 9, 2017

By UL LLC

Software developer doppelintegral launches Blockset for the Simulation of Solar Energy Systems

doppelintegral GmbH, located in Stuttgart, Germany, has released the software INSEL 8.2 including the Renewable Energy Blockset for MATLAB and Simulink. As the software has more than 300 blocks out of photovoltaics, solar thermal energy and energy meteorology, MATLAB and Simulink users can now professionally plan, monitor and control renewable energy systems. The blocks can be combined in any way ...

Jul. 17, 2014

By doppelintegral GmbH