Voltage Regulation News
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Duke Energy Places Advanced Microgrid into Service in Hot Springs, NC
Duke Energy has placed into service one of the nation’s most advanced green microgrids in the Madison County town of Hot Springs. The Hot Springs microgrid consists of a 2-megawatt (AC) solar facility and a 4.4-megawatt lithium-based battery storage facility. The microgrid is designed to provide a safe, cost-effective and reliable grid solution for serving the Hot Springs area, and also provide ...
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Penn Power Expanding Smart Grid in Western Pennsylvania
Penn Power, a FirstEnergy Corp. electric company in western Pennsylvania, continues to expand its smart grid in Mercer and Crawford counties to reinforce the local power system and help prevent lengthy service disruptions, especially during severe weather. Work includes installation of automated equipment and technology in distribution substations and along neighborhood power lines serving more ...
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Marine Leader Maritimo Engages Clarke Energy to Provide Industry Leading Marine Gensets
Clarke Energy provide power solutions across various market segments and have recently cemented its entry into the Australian marine industry by unveiling an ongoing partnership with Maritimo. Maritimo is the second largest boat builder in the Southern Hemisphere. For the past 20+ years Maritimo has engaged a competing brand to supply marine power generation but has recently transitioned to ...
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Utilizing Technology to Increase Distributed Energy in Low Voltage Networks
A new invention by Brisbane company eleXsys Energy could help to increase the penetration of home solar and batteries in low voltage areas, reducing the need to build costly distribution grid infrastructure. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $451,167 in funding to eleXsys Energy to demonstrate the potential of their new ...
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Sunverge and LG Partner on Residential Virtual Power Plant Project
LG Electronics USA and Sunverge Energy are collaborating on a groundbreaking residential virtual plant project with customers in Northern and Central California - one of the first pilot programs in the United States to incorporate both load control and PV/energy storage control holistically. This unique project, which is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2022, explores ways in ...
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Black & Veatch to Design, Build Canada’s First Electric Smart Grid
As the electric industry addresses growing demands for lower carbon footprints and heightened reliability and resilience, a Canadian community is entrusting Black & Veatch to transform its power system into a technology-driven, enhanced smart grid meant to lower consumer costs and slash greenhouse gas emissions. Billed as the first such community-wide utility effort in Canada, the Sault Smart ...
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EGSA Appoints Mir M. Mustafa as Chief Executive Officer
Association management and energy industry leader Mir M. Mustafa, JD, CAE, has been named Chief Executive Officer of the Electrical Generating Systems Association (EGSA), the world’s largest organization exclusively dedicated to On-Site Power Generation. Mustafa becomes the first-ever Chief Executive Officer of the Association. Previously, the day-to-day management and staff activities of ...
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Work Underway to Enhance Penn Power
Penn Power, a subsidiary of FirstEnergy Corp., is upgrading infrastructure and installing technology to modernize its electric system in western Pennsylvania as part of a four-year plan that began last year to limit the number and duration of power outages. Work includes installation of new, automated equipment and technology in distribution substations and along power lines serving more than ...
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DCPSC Issues RFP to Conduct Study on Value of Distributed Energy Resources in the District
The Public Service Commission of the District of Columbia has approved a request for proposals to hire a consultant to produce a methodology and metrics for determining the value of distributed energy resources in the District. The first phase of the analysis will result in a framework and dynamic pricing formula, which would then be implemented during the second phase. The framework will be used ...
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Advanced Energy expands UltraVolt LE Series of DC-to-DC converters for precision high voltage applications
Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced it has expanded its UltraVolt LE Series of high voltage DC-to-DC converters with the introduction of three new models with higher maximum output voltage. AE’s new 20LE, 25LE and 30LE converters range from 20 to ...
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U.S. Department Of Energy Announces $6.7 Million for IoT Integration Research
Recently (2/25), the U.S. Department of Energy's Office of Electricity announced $6.7 million in funding for four university-led research projects to design and develop approaches to integrate Internet of Things (IoT) technologies. Specifically, these projects aim to provide the energy infrastructure community with robust, scalable methods to interface with advanced IoT technologies.The ...
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Stem and NEC Energy Solutions Offer Turnkey Solar + Storage Optimization
Stem, Inc., a specialist in artificial intelligence (AI)-driven energy storage services, announced today that it is partnering with NEC Energy Solutions, to simplify and optimize the deployment and operation of solar + storage projects. Through a master supply agreement, Stem will resell and integrate its Athena AI platform with NEC’s GSS end-to-end grid storage solution. The agreement ...
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Single-Phase Power Source for Electric Vehicle Charging Stations
Single Phase Power Solutions introduces the 1-to-3 Microgrid Power Source, a single-phase solution for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations. Ideal for remote areas without access to three-phase power, the 1-to-3 Power Source uses revolutionary Written-Pole Technology to generate solid and reliable 3-phase, 480V input from existing single-phase infrastructure. This allows EV charging stations ...
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How to Arc Weld
Shielded Metal arc welding is the process of joining two metal pieces using a flux covered electrode which is melted can an electrical arc and becomes a fused section of the pieces being welded. This composition will mean the use of flux-coated welding rods and a simple, transformer organize cracker box welding machine. 1) know the process of shielded Metal arc welding. An electric arc is formed ...
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Navigant: Renewable Plus Storage Is More Economical Than Gas Plants
By Pritil Gunjan, Navigant Research. Reprinted with permission. A recent study by Fluence and Carnegie Mellon University found that the cost of generating power from solar plus storage was cost-competitive with new build gas power generators. The study considers both operational and financial performance across these projects. Installing solar plus storage as an economical substitute to gas ...
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MDD brand countdown to the Shanghai Munich exhibition on March 14th
Exhibition introduction: electronica China Munich Shanghai Electronics Show is an exhibition of electronics industry and an important event in the industry. In the past few years, the exhibition has become the innovation platform for leading the future of electronic technology. Semiconductors, sensors, connectors, and power supplies form the core of the e-plane, building his landscape, city, and ...
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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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Xcel Energy To Test Battery Storage Technology In Stapleton
Xcel Energy is partnering with battery vendors Sunverge Energy and Northern Reliability, Inc. to test battery storage technology to maximize the use of rooftop solar energy while ensuring the safety and reliability of the electric grid. The two-year pilot project is taking place in Stapleton's North Central Park and Eastbridge neighborhoods. As customers' demand for solar energy in their homes ...
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ANDRITZ receives two orders for hydropower plants in Norway and DR Congo
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, has received an order from Eidsiva Vannkraft AS to supply electromechanical equipment for the new Nedre Otta hydropower plant in Norway and from the Government utility SNEL (Société Nationale d’Électricité) for rehabilitation of the existing Mwadingusha hydropower plant in the Democratic Republic of ...
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ANDRITZ to modernize three hydropower stations in Latin America
ANDRITZ HYDRO, part of international technology Group ANDRITZ, will equip three hydropower stations in Brazil and Nicaragua with new technologies and carry out extensive modernization work there. The aggregate order value amounts to approximately 70 million euros. COPEL (Companhia Paranaense de Energia), Brazil, ordered modernization of the Governor Bento Munhoz da Rocha Netto hydropower plant ...
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