Renewable Energy Data Articles
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How does smart energy meters play a role in the field of new energy power generation?
smart energy meters have automatic metering, billing, and data transmission capabilities, which make them the core equipment for power distribution management. In the field of new energy power generation, smart energy meters can monitor and measure the power generation of new energy power generation equipment in real time to ensure the quality and safety of electric energy. At the same time, ...
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Energy-Saving Benefits of Cloud Archiving: Enhancing Efficiency and Sustainability
As the demand for data storage continues to skyrocket in the digital age, businesses face the challenge of finding efficient and sustainable solutions. Cloud archiving has emerged as a technology that not only addresses data buildup but also offers significant energy-saving benefits. In this article, we will delve deeper into the energy-related advantages of cloud archiving, highlighting its ...
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Understanding the options for renewable energy for data centers
The drive is on to improve the sustainability performance of data centers with tools such as IIoT platforms, energy monitoring and management, and innovative cooling technologies. However efficient a data center becomes, the carbon footprint of the electricity itself will be the main factor in its environmental performance. The exact amount of electricity consumed in data centers around the ...
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Data Centers’ Energy Use Rises - What’s Next for Efficiency?
We’ve often heard that for companies to lessen carbon footprint and become environmentally friendly, they must go online or put their papers and process in the “cloud”. But that’s not really the case, as storing files in the cloud also translates to renting a physical space where those data will be stored and accessed when needed. These places are called data centers. They ...
By AKCP
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Oak Ridge Solar Park, TN - Ground-Mounted Tracker Projects - Case Study
The dual-axis-tracker project in the Oak Ridge Heritage Center is part of the worldwide “dena Solar Roofs Program” coordinated by Deutsche Energie-Agentur GmbH (dena) - the German Energy Agency - and co-financed by the German Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology (BMWi) within the initiative „renewables – Made in Germany“. The “dena Solar Roofs ...
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Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion Coming To An Island Near You
Ocean Thermal Energy (OTE) Corporation may be landlocked in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, but that isn’t stopping them from looking to the ocean for 24/7 electricity. Their primary technology is Ocean Thermal Energy Conversion (OTEC), which uses the temperature differentials in the ocean to produce steam. The steam, in turn, activates a turbine, which generates clean energy and potable water. ...
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Spares storage can halve downtimes, cut purchase prices
The advanced purchase and storage of spare-parts can halve the number of downtime days for a typical wind farm and costs can be controlled by buying in bulk and sourcing from a wider market base including refurbished products, Derck van Ommeren, head of sales for the Dutch spares provider WindTurbineSpareParts.com, told Wind Energy Update. It may not be cost effective to keep a full set of spare ...
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A Green Cloud is a Transparent Cloud
Guest Blogger, Energy Efficiency Markets At Connectivity Week in Santa Clara, recently, I took part in a series of panel discussions on data center energy efficiency. The discussions covered a wide range of issues from the practicalities of infrastructure optimization to the possible role of data centers in demand response schemes. There was a particular focus on the importance, and also the ...
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Users demand Facebook to switch to renewable energy
Social networking website faces campaign to switch to renewable energy after announcing intentions to run new data centre mainly on coal-powered electricity. Facebook, the most used social network worldwide, has come under unprecedented pressure from its users when they found out the company has intentions to run its massive new data centre mainly on electricity produced by burning coal power. ...
By Vital Energi
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