Power Factor News
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SRP Board Approves System Plan Strategies
SRP's District Board of Directors this week (Oct 2) approved power system strategies to be implemented between 2025 and 2035 that prioritize affordability, reliability, sustainability and customer focus. The strategies are outlined in SRP's new Integrated System Plan, which was developed as part of a two-year, data-driven planning process that incorporated perspectives from Arizona universities, ...
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Xcel Energy Proposes to Exit Coal by 2030
Xcel Energy this week (Oct 31) announced a proposal to advance the retirement of coal operations at Tolk Generating Station in Texas to 2028, more than four years earlier than planned. With this earlier retirement, along with accelerated coal plant retirements in other states, the company will exit the use of coal by the end of 2030 when the Comanche 3 coal unit in Colorado retires. The company ...
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UKCA and MID certified DDS353 series
In the context of #carbonneutrality and European #energyshortage, photovoltaic products are more widely used, and there is an urgent need for different measurement and display methods of energy meters. Responding to the opportunity, Yongtailong launched the DDS353 series products with MID and UKCA certified,which include a variety of metering methods and displays. For example, DDS353F+R+I 1 = kWh ...
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Enphase Energy and Swell Energy to Partner on Solar, Battery, and Virtual Power Plant Offerings
Enphase Energy, Inc., a global energy technology company and a leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, announced this week that it is launching a partnership with renewable energy and grid solutions provider Swell Energy Inc. The partnership enables Enphase® Energy Systems, powered by IQ™ Microinverters and IQ™ Batteries, to participate in Swell’s distributed, virtual ...
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Generac Grid Services Partners with California Utility on Virtual Power Plant Program
Generac Grid Services announced this week that it has been selected by Southern California Edison (SCE) as one of the Virtual Power Plant (VPP) providers for the company's Power Flex program. The initiative empowers SCE residential customers to extend the value and return on investment of their residential solar PV and battery storage systems by enrolling them in a VPP designed to alleviate ...
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300MW CSP?Golmud 3.82GW PV+CSP+ESS Multi-energy Complementary Project Commenced
The GolmudWutumeiren Multi-energy Complementary Project, which is developed and will be implemented and constructed by China Green Development Group Qinghai New Energy Company (CGDG Qinghai New Energy), was commenced today. The project is located in Wutumeiren PV&CSP Park, Golmud City, Qinghai Province, with total investment of 19.575 billion CNY (3 billion USD). The planned total installed ...
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APS Pilot Grid Services Program Participants Could Receive Up To $3,750 per Home
Enphase Energy, Inc., a global energy technology company that reports it is the world's leading supplier of microinverter-based solar and battery systems, recently announced its participation in Arizona Public Service’s (APS) residential battery pilot grid services program. The program offers homeowners with Enphase IQ Batteries in APS’s service territory two ways to participate and earn money ...
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Tantalus Deploys Data Analytics to Public Power and Electric Cooperative Utilities
Smart grid technology leader Tantalus Systems announced recently (Nov 2) that six members of its growing user community have subscribed to the TUNet® Grid Reliability Analytics (TGRA) solution in the first month since commercially launching these capabilities in September of this year. TGRA is a data analytics tool that leverages power quality data accessed through Tantalus' advanced metering ...
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Villara Energy Systems Teams up with Lumin to Provide High Power Battery Backup for Homes
Villara Energy Systems, maker of the high-powered VillaGrid energy storage system, announced this week its partnership with smart panel provider, Lumin. Lumin turns ordinary electrical panels into smart panels, protecting more circuits against power outages without allowing unintentional energy usage to drain batteries prematurely. Villara Energy Systems notes that its VillaGrid is the first home ...
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Enphase Energy and Sunpro Solar Expand Partnership to Include Battery Storage
Enphase Energy, Inc., a leading supplier of microinverter-based solar-plus-storage systems, recently (Sept 30) announced that Sunpro Solar, a rooftop solar provider and one of the fastest-growing residential solar-plus-storage service providers in the U.S., will now promote and install Enphase Encharge battery storage systems in addition to Enphase solar systems as its all-in-one home energy ...
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Hitachi ABB Power Grids Launches Next-Generation Grid Stabilization Solution
Hitachi ABB Power Grids today announced the launch of SVC Light Enhanced at CIGRE 2021 - its next-generation grid stabilization solution. SVC Light Enhanced is designed to enables the smooth integration of renewable energy into the world's rapidly evolving energy system, underpinning new and fast-growing uses for emission-free electrification, ranging from powering data centers to sustainable ...
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NREL Methods Assist Maui in Approaching 100% Renewable Operations
Maui is not waiting until 2045 to meet Hawaii's clean energy mandates: The island is likely to become the first interconnected electric transmission system anywhere to operate with 100% wind and solar PV power on an instantaneous basis.Through 2024, Maui is scheduled to bring online more than 175 MW of new solar-storage hybrid power plants. This, in addition to the almost 200 MW of wind and solar ...
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Riello UPS Sentryum uninterruptible power supplies: greater power availability with new 30 and 40 kVA/kW models
Riello UPS, a brand of the Riello Elettronica group, a world player among the top five companies in the world in the production of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), builds on the success achieved by the launch of the Sentryum (S3T) range with the release of two new models of 30 kVA and 40 kVA. When you need to protect the power supply of critical systems, it is essential to rely on products ...
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Riello UPS expands the NextEnergy range with the new 600 kVA model
Riello UPS, a brand of the Riello Elettronica group, a global player among the top five companies in the world in the production of uninterruptible power supplies (UPS), announces the release of the new 600 kVA model of the NextEnergy (NXE) range. Once again, the Italian company expands the NextEnergy range to power increasingly large critical loads such as Data Centers, Colocation, transport, ...
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Smarter Grid Solutions Runs Successful Reactive Power Dispatch Project With Rochester Gas and Electric in New York
Smarter Grid Solutions (SGS) and Rochester Gas and Electric (RG&E), supported by $200,000 funding from the New York State Energy Research & Development Authority (NYSERDA), have partnered on a project that informs the potential of leveraging modern Distributed Energy Resources to provision grid services like reactive power dispatch for local voltage support. The methodology was applied ...
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Sentryum passes Belfast International Airport test with flying colours
Replacing an end of life UPS with Sentryum by Riello UPS, the third-generation, transformer-free, high-efficiency UPSs, helped the Belfast International Airport reach a new milestone in space-saving and energy efficiency. The airport is Northern Ireland’s biggest and it is also the second busiest on the island of Ireland. Located 13 miles northwest of Belfast near Aldergrove village, more ...
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SimpliPhi Power and Heila Technologies Launch Customer-Cited Energy Storage Solution for Southwestern Electric Power Company
SimpliPhi Power, a leading U.S. manufacturer of safe, non-toxic, cobalt-free lithium ion energy storage systems, has partnered with Heila Technologies to deploy intelligent energy storage+solar systems at a demonstration project in Shreveport, Louisiana with the support of Southwestern Electric Power Co. (SWEPCO), an American Electric Power (AEP) company. “Behind-the-meter energy storage ...
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NextEnergy: new 500 kVA model.
Riello UPS announces the release of the new 500 kVA model in its NextEnergy family, capable of powering and protecting parallel systems up to 4 MVA of power. The new 500 kVA version, like the rest of the NextEnergy family, is a three-phase UPS that uses the most innovative transformer-free double conversion ON LINE technologies, with IGBT converters and three-level control. The NextEnergy ...
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Defying Expectations of a Rise, Global Carbon Dioxide Emissions Flatlined in 2019
Despite widespread expectations of another increase, global energy-related carbon dioxide emissions stopped growing in 2019, according to IEA data released today (2/11). After two years of growth, global emissions were unchanged at 33 gigatons in 2019 even as the world economy expanded by 2.9%. This was primarily due to declining emissions from electricity generation in advanced economies, thanks ...
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