Smart Grids Articles
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Could Grid Modernization Provide the Path to a More Equal Society?
Smart grids have been in the headlines for over a decade. Today we’ve finally reached an impasse: our existing energy infrastructure is no longer fit for purpose. It is crumbling under the weight of abnormal weather conditions, demand fluctuations, and momentous changes to baseloads, historically supported by fossil fuels. Just a few short months ago, flash flooding across Europe left many ...
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Hello, Grid Edge. Goodbye, Smart Grid?
Depending on what part of the world you live in, you are continuously exposed to terms like Grid Edge and Smart Grid. But the narrative is not the same everywhere – some regions speak of supply and demand real time optimization, and others are concerned with reliability and generating useful energy data. Are we all living different electrical grid realities? Possibly. Let’s discuss ...
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How power monitoring can improve sustainability, efficiency, and resilience
Earlier this year, U.S. President Biden announced “a new target for the United States to achieve a 50-52 percent reduction from 2005 levels in economy-wide net greenhouse gas pollution in 2030.” While governments around the globe make stronger sustainability commitments, more businesses are strengthening their own. This is confirmed in a 2020 KPMG survey that found 90% of “top ...
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Legacy energy infrastructure: The hidden threat to our climate
It’s easy to identify the biggest climate threats: coal and oil-fired power stations pouring emissions into the atmosphere, heavy industry smoking up the sky, and the seemingly endless traffic jams of petrol and diesel polluting vehicles. But another enemy is standing in the way of a greener future; one rarely mentioned because it’s effectively invisible: our legacy energy ...
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Energy saving solution from YTL metering
Smart meters have been around for a while, and there are more and more application scenarios. Commonly used scenarios include ordinary metering, electric vehicle charging piles, industrial automation, power quality, in addition to electrical protection, process detection and control, and so on. And today’s focus is on the role of smart meters in energy saving and consumption reduction. ...
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Distribution Sector Reforms – Time is no Longer a Luxury
The Covid-19 pandemic brought the power distribution sector to a tipping point—reform or perish. On the demand side, the shifting of demand load patterns across consumer categories impacted the revenues of distribution companies (Discoms) because of reduced commercial and industrial demand. On the supply side, the increasing quantum of renewable energy from solar and wind tested the ...
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YTL Metering Smart Electric Meter Automated Manufacturing
With the development of science and technology, well-known American companies Itron and Swiss L&G have transformed their production lines into automated production lines.At the same time, YTL Metering realized that only by keeping pace with the times and constantly improving skills and knowledge, can we not be out of touch with the times and maintain a certain degree of competitiveness. ...
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Renewable energy solutions – from a wave of future to global reality
Imagine a world with globally accessible, cheap and reliable, clean energy. Although it sounds a bit utopian, every day we’re getting a little closer to the life fueled by renewable power. It becomes possible due to the latest technology advancements form the past few decades and ongoing acceleration of technology development. As the main driver of the energy sector transition to clean ...
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Master+: Reduce Costs, Increase Reliability
Riello UPS is partnering with leading energy trading company RWE to offer data centre operators increased reliability and security of supply with the added benefit of significantly reduced costs. The innovative solution is based on a modified version of the best-selling Master Plus HE threephase online uninterruptible power supply. It harnesses the energy storage power of premium lead acid or ...
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Interoperability Profiles – A Better Way to Buy Grid Technology
Imagine browsing online for a new computer app. Once you have located the app, you swiftly hit the ‘download’ button – and immediately realize you’ve purchased the Windows version, which is incompatible with your Apple device. You have become a victim of technology tribalism. If your device represents a utility’s service territory, and the app represents new ...
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10 Facts you didn’t know about Wind Energy
The oldest rotary windmills are considered to have been used regularly in agriculture and other purposes since 2000 B.C. by peoples of what would today be China and the Middle East who already sensed what the German physicist Albert Betz, the father of physics governing modern wind turbines, called The Theory of Wind Energy, presented and published in his book “Wind-Energie” at the ...
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Hybrid tower
Using the Torque Wind Turbine in combination with solar and a battery pack could give the opportunity to build a smart grid. This way houses, companies, farms and small villages could become self-supporting in energy and create a smart grid using Internet of Things applications and 5G telecom options directly from the Torque Wind Turbine tower. Also the battery of electric cars for electricity ...
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Project ERIC - Case study
Moixa is leading a £1.2 million project that is showing how a local smart energy system can save a community money and allow it to generate more power from renewables. Project ERIC (Energy Resources for Integrated Communities) aims to tackle fuel poverty in Rose Hill, East Oxford, a social housing estate which is in the lower 10% of the UK’s most deprived communities. The project was ...
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GridShare for Northern Powergrid - Case study
In 2017, Moixa was appointed to alleviate local grid constraints for Northern Powergrid in Barnsley, England. We installed 40 Moixa Smart Batteries in the grid constrained area, along with our GridShare software platform, in order to provide the NPG project team with visibility and control of the assets. It has furnished NPG and the Energise Barnsley project team with meaningful, workable data, ...
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A Rosetta Stone to Solve the Smart Grid Language Problem
In an age of autonomous vehicles and voice-activated smart homes, innovation is at the heart of technology infrastructure. The electric grid is no different. From grid edge distributed intelligence to system stabilization using real-time signals from commercial buildings, automation and technology advancements are making the grid smarter than ever. But as more smart systems are integrated into ...
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UN Agency PV hybrid system is set to reduce Diesel consumption for humanitarian camps in Central African Republic Case Study
DHYBRID is proud to have delivered PV hybrid systems for 3 humanitarian camps in Central African Republic with a combined power of 85 kWp Solar. The solar is combined with the existing Diesel generators to a Diesel-PV hybrid system. Through the implementation of the DHYBRID Universal Power Platform and the solar the local power generation now relies less on Diesel and reduces the carbon footprint ...
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Hydrogen plays a key role in the European Green Deal
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen launched the European Green Deal last Wednesday, on 11 December. The goal is ambitious. If the European Green Deal becomes reality, the European Union will become climate neutral by 2050. To reach the goal, the EU will have to overturn almost every policy area. Europe inevitably needs hydrogen to reach this arduous goal. Looking at the ...
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Nine utilities – one smart grid platform - Case Study
The investment in a shared intelligent multi-utility system has not only meant significant benefits and savings for the members of the MV Group and their customers. The system’s flexibility has also made it possible for a number of smaller utility companies to become part of the collaboration. In 2013, when the MV Group consortium made the decision to invest in a comprehensive smart ...
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Commercial Supercapacitors
What is a super capacitor? A Waterproof Supercapacitor is a new type of energy storage device, different between a conventional capacitor and a rechargeable battery. Super capacitor, also known as electrochemical capacitors, electric double layer capacitors, gold capacitors, and farad capacitors, are electrochemical components that have been developed by polarized electrolytes since the 1970s and ...
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5.5V Combined Type Seires Super Capacitors
SE series Performance characteristics: standard energy series. SE series Typical applications: RAM, detonator, car recorder, smart meter, vacuum switch, digital camera, motor drive, clock circuit, UPS, toy, program-controlled switch, etc. SE Series specification sheet Series name SE Series Type name SE -5R5 Rated voltage 5.5V VR Surge voltage 5.8V Capacity range 0.33F~7.5F Operating temperature ...
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