Load Banks News
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Ambri Advances Collaboration with Xcel Energy for First Utility Deployment of Liquid Metal Battery
Ambri's Liquid Metal battery system has taken a major step on the pathway to commercialization, after the company signed its first agreement with a utility provider. Xcel Energy and Ambri will jointly test the 300kWh system at SolarTAC in Aurora, Colorado, for a period of 12 months, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of its capabilities and performance. Installation of the system is expected to ...
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Ambri Advances Collaboration with Xcel Energy for First Utility Deployment of Liquid Metal™ Battery System
Ambri’s Liquid Metal™ battery system has taken a major step on the pathway to commercialization, after the company signed its first agreement with a utility provider. Xcel Energy and Ambri will jointly test the 300kWh system at SolarTAC in Aurora, Colorado, for a period of 12 months, enabling a comprehensive evaluation of its capabilities and performance. Installation of the system ...
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Clarke Energy Completes Commissioning and Controller Training in Papua New Guinea for ECM
To continue Clarke Energy’s commitment to learning and technical support, South Pacific Kohler Technical Support Manager, Ty Martin, recently delivered specialised training to our Papua New Guinea Channel Partners, ECM (Electrical Construction & Management) service technicians. ECM is a trusted electrical contracting company, which services all areas of electrical construction and ...
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MGM Transformer gaining new customers: Simplex
Simplex designs and manufactures Load Banks and Fuel Supply systems for power generation and liquid automation for mission critical environments in manufacturing, technology, transportation, hospitals, schools, public utilities and the U.S. military. Simplex purchases highly engineered medium voltage open core/coil units for placement into Simplex enclosures. These have historically been provided ...
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EkkoSoft Critical Integrates Rentaload Loadbank Technology
EkkoSense, the software-driven thermal optimisation specialist, has added Rentaload load bank functionality into its EkkoSoft Critical M&E SaaS software. Rentaload offers a portfolio of smart electrical loadbank solutions for testing resistive loads for initial data centre commissioning (Level 4 and IST Commissioning Tests) and deployment. Designed for server room power acceptance testing ...
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Black & Veatch-designed Microgrid Actively Powering Shell Technology Center in Houston
A Black & Veatch-designed microgrid at Shell’s Technology Center in Houston, Texas, is actively powering part of the campus while serving as a critical research tool for Shell International Exploration & Production Company, Inc.’s work to explore the next generation of clean power and distributed energy technologies.Microgrids are integrated systems of multiple power generation sources ...
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Siemens Black-Start Technology to Provide Critical Back-Up for San Francisco's Power Grid
Siemens announced that it has installed an upgraded control system for the Trans Bay Cable (TBC) project, a high-voltage direct current (HVDC) transmission system with voltage-sourced converter (VSC) technology realized in a modular multi-level converter (MMC) topology. The project includes a 53-mile HVDC cable that runs under the San Francisco Bay. The upgraded system will enable Trans Bay ...
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Accenture and OGE Energy Corp Announce Success of Smart Grid Program with Automated Equipment to Reduce Network Distribution Demand
Accenture and OGE Energy Corp., the parent company of Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E), Oklahoma’s largest electricity provider, announced recently that a seven-year smart-grid program contributed to demand reduction targets by automating control devices using digital technology. The Integrated Volt Var (IVVC) program is part of OG&E’s strategy to drive efficiencies and ...
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Crestchic publishes NEW Rental sector brochure
A new brochure focussed at the Rental market has just been published by load bank experts at Crestchic. It is available to download on this site from the Rental page: http://crestchic.co.uk/loadbank-rental/ and the Downloads page: http://crestchic.co.uk/downloads/ We welcome you to take a look ...
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Energy Systems Integration Facility Named Lab of the Year
The editors of R&D Magazine have named the Energy Department’s Energy Systems Integration Facility (ESIF) as the 2014 Laboratory of the Year. Located on the campus of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colo., research at ESIF transforms how the nation generates, delivers and uses energy by modernizing the interplay between energy sources, infrastructure, and ...
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Aggreko and ComRent Combine for Wind Energy Agreement
Focusing on wind energy, Aggreko the global leader in temporary power generation, temperature control and oil-free compressed air solutions, and ComRent International, the leading global provider of load bank rentals and services, have signed an agreement to provide a specialized temporary power and load bank solution to the wind turbine industry. The agreement which covers the continental ...
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