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Accenture Acquires BRIDGE Energy Group to Advance Utilities’ Agenda for the Grid of the Future
Accenture has acquired BRIDGE Energy Group (BRIDGE), a Boston-based consulting and systems integration firm that provides grid modernization, analytics and security services to utilities in North America. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. BRIDGE serves North American electric utilities, and its experience and strong relationships with transmission and distribution leaders, managers ...
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Siemens Gamesa Inaugurates New Technology Center for Renewable Energy Systems in Madrid
Siemens Gamesa recently (5/17) inaugurated a new Gamesa Electric technology and manufacturing centre in the Madrid town of San Fernando de Henares. As a result, the company has expanded and upgraded the facilities previously operated in Coslada, evidencing its clear-cut strategic commitment to technology development and innovation.The new plant is equipped with two test benches for testing and ...
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ABB Signs Major Framework Contract with APG for Largest Ever Grid Expansion in Austria
ABB has signed a five-year framework contract with Austrian Power Grid (APG), Austria’s transmission system operator, potentially worth more than $100 million to supply gas-insulated switchgear (GIS), in the largest electricity grid expansion to date in Austria. ABB will be supplying GIS for the construction of a transmission grid that will help to strengthen the infrastructure in order to ...
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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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Recurrent Energy Acquires 400 MWh of Standalone Storage Projects in Development in ERCOT
Recurrent Energy, a wholly owned subsidiary of Canadian Solar Inc., this week announced the acquisition of two standalone energy storage projects from Black Mountain Energy Storage (BMES). The projects, which are in the South Load Zone of the Texas ERCOT market, are each anticipated to store up to 200 MWh of energy. Both projects are currently in development and are anticipated to reach notice to ...
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GE Introduces 2.5-120, the World’s Most Efficient High-Output Wind Turbine—the First Brilliant Wind Turbine
Today, GE (NYSE: GE) announced the 2.5-120, the world’s most efficient high-output and the first brilliant wind turbine. The 2.5-120 is the first wind turbine to bring together world-class efficiency and power output at low wind speed sites, capturing a 25 percent increase in efficiency and a 15 percent increase in power output compared to GE’s current model. The turbine’s high ...
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IEG: Key energy, the event dedicated to energy efficiency
The leading Italian event dedicated to technologies for the intelligent use of energy in industry and housing is back. A full programme of conferences, organized in collaboration with Enea, FIRE and Federesco. Anticipation for the Energy Manager of the Year Award Rimini, 6th November 2018. Businesses and citizens in Italy are paying ever increasing attention to energy efficiency. The eco-bonus ...
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Bosch to Invest $10 Million to Support Local Higher Education and Research Initiatives
As part of the company's 125th anniversary activities, Bosch is investing approximately $10 million (7 million euros) over eight years to support local universities and energy research projects in North America. Part of a global initiative, the Bosch Energy Research Network (BERN) is a project that works jointly with leading North American universities to achieve lasting developments in research ...
By Robert Bosch
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New APS Plan Addresses Growing Customer Energy Needs
APS filed its 2023 APS Integrated Resource Plan (IRP) at the Arizona Corporation Commission this week (Nov 1). The 2023 IRP provides a 15-year outlook on how much electricity APS customers will need and what investments are necessary to address those needs with around-the-clock energy amid unprecedented growth of people and businesses moving to Arizona. APS worked with its Resource Planning ...
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Compound Could Transform Energy Storage for Large Grids
In order to power entire communities with clean energy, such as solar and wind power, a reliable backup storage system is needed to provide energy when the sun isn’t shining and the wind doesn’t blow. One possibility is to use any excess solar- and wind-based energy to charge solutions of chemicals that can subsequently be stored for use when sunshine and wind are scarce. At that ...
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Cost of turning off UK wind farms reached record high in 2021
Investing in more long duration electricity storage, such as expanding Drax’s Cruachan pumped storage hydro plant in Scotland, would mean more excess renewable power could be stored and made available when required, cutting costs and carbon emissions. The cost of turning off UK wind farms to manage the electricity system rose from almost £300m during 2020 to over £500m in ...
By Drax Group
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California farm selects Emerson to help manage innovative microgrid power project
Stone Edge Farm has selected Emerson (NYSE: EMR) automation technologies to provide efficient and reliable operation of its new microgrid, a self-sufficient energy production and distribution facility relying on diverse sources of electricity including solar power, wind power, hydrogen power and advanced storage battery technology. Home to a farm, spa and vineyard in Sonoma, Calif., Stone Edge ...
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California Farm Selects Emerson to Help Manage Innovative Microgrid Power Project
Stone Edge Farm has selected Emerson (NYSE: EMR) automation technologies to provide efficient and reliable operation of its new microgrid, a self-sufficient energy production and distribution facility relying on diverse sources of electricity including solar power, wind power, hydrogen power and advanced storage battery technology. Home to a farm, spa and vineyard in Sonoma, Calif., Stone Edge ...
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New Report Shows that Solar, Wind, and Storage Can Competitively Power a Majority of Minnesota’s Electric Needs
Minnesota has been ambitious in meeting its renewable energy goals: the state hit its 25 percent renewable energy by 2025 goal early this year using wind, solar, biomass, and hydro power.A report released today finds that Minnesota could achieve 10 percent solar by 2025 at costs comparable to natural gas generation. Further, the report finds that expected cost decreases in solar, wind, 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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Infocast`s 2nd Annual Wind & Solar Integration Summit Returns
Infocast will hold the Second Annual Wind & Solar Integration Summit in Scottsdale, AZ on January 18 - 20, 2012. As wind turbines and solar panels pop up across the landscape, a new problem has emerged: how to integrate these assets into a power system designed to deliver power dispatched from traditional gas, coal and nuclear power plants to customers. This Summit will provide a unique ...
By Infocast
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Mass Megawatts Reports First Sale and Delivery of Low-Cost,
Mass Megawatts Wind Power, Inc. (OTC/BB: MMMW) reports that construction has completed on its first wind power system delivered for use at an agricultural or home-based location that is not connected to the utility power grid. The wind power system is located near Aspen, Colorado. The wind power system, in conjunction with a small solar photovoltaic system, is producing enough electricity to ...
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Is the Uk getting better at predicting future energy costs?
A new report published today by the UK Energy Research Centre's Technology and Policy Assessment (TPA) function asks why the cost of generating electricity in the UK has continued to rise, and why we keep getting it wrong when it comes to predicting future costs. Presenting the Future: an assessment of future costs estimation methodologies in the electricity generation sector has been produced ...
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Making the DOD more energy efficient. an op-Ed by Judy marks, CEO, Siemens government technologies
In 2011, the Department of Defense (DOD) was not only the single largest energy consumer in the U.S., but the largest in the world. The DOD spent roughly $20 billion on energy last year, including $4 billion at military installations. With multiple government initiatives introduced around energy consumption goals and policies in place like the Energy Policy Act of 2005, the DOD has very real ...
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Uk government cooperates with masdar to accelerate the development of renewable energy technologies
Masdar, and the UK Government today announced collaboration on the development of renewable energy and clean technology solutions. They will leverage each other's expertise, and influence to help accelerate adoption of technologies to make renewable energy scalable and affordable to the global community. UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown's official visit to Abu Dhabi marks a major step in ...
By MASDAR
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