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Platte River Power Authority, the wholesale public power provider owned by Estes Park, Fort Collins, Longmont and Loveland, is working with Weld Energy Storage, LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources, LLC, to develop the electric utility’s first large-scale battery energy storage project. An agreement was signed earlier this year for a project capable of ...
Sentient notes that this innovation marks a first in the industry – a solution specifically designed to identify ground faults utilizing autonomous line sensors. This new feature significantly improves the accuracy of fault location, setting a new standard in outage management procedures.The capability was initially developed in conjunction with Alabama Power and ...
“Readying the Grid for Electric Fleets” puts readers in the shoes of a utility planner seeking to accommodate charging growth from over 400 electric trucks on one lightly utilized distribution line. ...
Itron, Inc. has announced that Western Power, a government owned utility located in the south west of Western Australia, will deploy Itron's standards-based network technology, connecting nearly 240,000 electricity meters to improve efficiency, reliability and customer service. ...
LumaSense Technologies, Inc. will host a complimentary webinar “Automated Thermal Imaging for Remote Substation Monitoring” to share knowledge on how others in the industry are deploying remote thermal imaging systems for automated monitoring of critical assets at remote locations. Most utilities have initiatives and investments to adopt ...
Landis+Gyr recently announced that Seattle City Light is deploying the company's advanced grid analytics (AGA) platform to support the utility's grid modernization program. Landis+Gyr's advanced grid analytics suite is designed to provide a big data platform with applications that utilize data from advanced meters, grid sensors, GIS and other sources to provide actionable information that ...
Raytheon Company and Utilidata have formed a strategic alliance to help power utilities proactively detect, defend against and respond to cyber threats. The effort will combine Utilidata's experience in the use of real-time data from the electrical grid to detect and respond to cyber attacks and Raytheon's expertise in proactive cyber threat hunting, automation and managed security services to ...
Using proprietary software and solutions, Viridity serves primarily retail energy providers, utilities, and large industrial and commercial clients. Viridity’s offerings enable its clients to optimize and monetize their energy management, demand response and storage facilities potential by interacting on their behalf with regional transmission organizations and independent ...
“EPA needs to address this threat to public health and support drinking water utilities in their efforts to meet the requirements of the Safe Drinking Water ...
Thus, the fixed costs of a utility that would otherwise be recovered from rooftop solar owners must now be recovered from other non-solar owning customers. ...
Hartwig argued that U.S. fusion research, which has been focused on physics for the past two decades, now needs to incorporate more attention to engineering, utility integration, and economics as it transitions to building devices that will produce energy — and that this can be achieved by leveraging the tremendous engineering and systems expertise of NSE. ...
He said it would be a disaster if fuel rods are pulled forcibly and are damaged or break open when dropped from the pool, located about 30 meters (100 feet) above ground, releasing highly radioactive material. ...
Furthermore, PSI's monitoring and control systems help energy companies reduce outage duration by detecting fault locations quickly and facilitating more efficient field force management. ...
Data collected from the stations will help the utility evaluate charging needs outside the home, impact on the grid and the costs and issues associated with installing public-access charging stations. These insights will help the utility better plan for the large-scale adoption of PEVs. Progress Energy Carolinas has now provided 36 public-access PEV charging ...
Itron, Inc. (NASDAQ:ITRI) announced today it acquired C&N Engineering’s GasGate™ technology to augment its gas solutions by adding remote gas shut-off capabilities to its product portfolio. This specialized shut-off valve can be used in conjunction with Itron’s gas technology around the world to improve gas distribution reliability and safety. ...
About DEMEC DEMEC was formed in 1979 as a public corporation constituted as a Joint Action Agency and a wholesale electric utility. DEMEC is headquartered in Smyrna, Delaware, and represents and serves the nine municipal electric distribution utilities located in the State of Delaware. ...
ASU began taking advantage of its geographic location to utilize solar energy in October 2004, with a 34-kW installation at the Tyler Street parking structure on its Tempe campus. ...
The free iPhone application provides users with a quick way of finding out how much energy—and revenue--a solar power system could produce at virtually any given location. The Solarchecker utilizes the iPhone’s GPS locator to determine the user’s location. ...
Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) annual conference with a Project of the Year Award for its Green Energy Center (GEC). The high Btu landfill gas utilization project, located near Columbus, Ohio is a public-private partnership with the Solid Waste Authority of Central Ohio (SWACO). ...
Delmarva Power is one of the first investor-owned utilities in the United States to have made contractual commitments that will enable it to meet such aggressive renewable energy goals. ...