Heber Light & Power delivers 37 MW of power to about 11,000 customers in the northern Utah municipalities of Heber City. With increasing power demands in this growing population, Heber Light & Power keeps the electricity flowing through a peak load shaving effort that includes Cat® gas generator sets. Analysts continually examine wholesale energy prices and when it costs...
A Lockheed Martin Skunk Works team is working on a compact fusion reactor (CFR) that could be developed and deployed in as little as 10 years. The lead scientist on the project, Thomas McGuire, said in an October 15 press release that the company's compact fusion concept "combines several alternative magnetic confinement approaches, taking the best parts of each, and off...
POWER NEED Edward Hospital & Health Services is a full-service, regional healthcare provider that offers a wide variety of medical specialties and programming from 28 locations in 10 communities throughout the western suburbs of Chicago. Located in Naperville, Ill., the main campus supports 4,700 employees, including 1,200 nurses and a medical staff of over 1,000 physic...
The discovery relies upon a "conjugated redox polymer" design with a naphthalene-bithiophene polymer, which has traditionally been used for applications including transistors and solar cells. With the use of lithium ions as dopant, researchers found it offered significant electronic conductivity and remained stable and reversible through thousands of cycles of charging a...
Excess power produced by solar and wind energy systems will be tapped to move multiple electric locomotive cars up a track sited on a gentle grade. When power is needed, the cars will move downhill, using their motor-generators to return power to the electricity grid. The ARES fast-response technology is designed to bridge the power gap between large battery and flywh...
The demonstrator includes four refurbished V29-225kW turbines produced during the 1990s. The turbine pairs are mounted at hub heights of 29 and 59 meters on a cylindrical tower. Various sensors are installed to aid in measurement and testing, including a LIDAR system at the top of the support structure to monitor the wind field in front of the rotors. Major research area...
California-based Advanced Rail Energy Storage (ARES) received a right-of-way lease from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management to build a $55 million, gravity-based, commercial-scale rail energy storage project on 106 acres of public land in southern Nevada. The 50-megawatt design is expected to provide 12.5 MWh of energy for grid stabilization. Energy will be stored and ...
At Booth B56 in Hall 11.0, the company will be showcasing products, systems and solutions for building management in a smart building context and also for power distribution and management, including in increasingly distributed power supply systems. As a technology pioneer, Siemens will be explaining how all these aspects can be interlinked as part of the drive towards ...
The concept isn’t exactly new. Ciel et Terre, based in Lille, France, began pioneering the idea there in 2006. And in 2007, Far Niente, a Napa Valley wine producer, began operating a small floating solar-power generation system installed on a pond to cut energy costs and to avoid destroying valuable vine acreage. Kyocera TCL Solar and joint-venture partner Century Tok...
That’s the finding of a new study conducted by researchers from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). The key will be having sufficient transmission lines spanning the contiguous U.S., so that energy can be deployed from where it’s generated to the places where its needed. Reporting their results today in Nature Climate Change, the researchers fo...
The two mountaintop reservoirs would cover 375 hectares, insulated from the ground with an impermeable membrane, and hold as much water as approximately 22,000 Olympic swimming pools. A proposed 1,650-hectare photovoltaic solar plant would generate 600 MW, making it among the largest such plants in the world. "This is the only place in the world where a project of this k...
The agreement, which will take effect Jan. 1, 2016, will allow Bruce Power to invest in life-extension activities for Units 3-8 as part of a long-term refurbishment program that will commence on Unit 6 in 2020. Bruce Power says the refurbishment of each unit will add 30-35 years of operational life, with life-extension investments adding a further combined 30 reactor yea...
energy resilience, while also benefitting the power grid. This February, the Savona campus of the University of Genoa, Italy, opened a campus-wide microgrid -- the first of its kind in Europe. It combines both electrical and thermal energy resources, as well as thermal and battery storage. All of this technology is orchestrated by a state-of-the-art microgrid management ...
But the energy market is subject to change and short-lived trends. However, there are some things that remain - energy storage and solutions for energy supply and distribution will continue to gain importance. They are the main focus at this year’s Intersolar Europe. The photovoltaic market is on the move. With an increase of 11.3 gigawatt, the Chinese market currentl...
However, right now the German energy transition is having trouble getting going. There are many discussions about rising electricity prices, new high-voltage transmission lines, and concerns about grid stability. But there are some good news too. For example, new technologies can help better match the power supply from renewable sources with power demand – without requir...
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 11, 2015 -- Scientists are using biology to improve the properties of lithium ion batteries. Researchers at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) have isolated a peptide, a type of biological molecule, which binds strongly to lithium manganese nickel oxide (LMNO), a material that can be used to make the cathode in high performance...
Wave power as a renewable energy source is extremely predictable and even has the potential to generate more electricity than wind and solar sources. In an effort to make ocean energy more commercial available, Lockheed Martin and Victorian Wave Partners have announced a new wave-energy project. The project aims to offer an environmentally benign, non-polluting solution ...
Giant windmills now command the landscape and even some seascapes in the quest for renewable energy resources. Researchers at the University of Texas Arlington, however, are taking the technology behind these titan turbines and shrinking it to power portable electronics. Measuring 1.8 mm at their widest point, hundreds of these micro-windmills could be embedded in a slee...
In the face of global climate change, increasing the use of renewable energy resources is one of the most urgent challenges facing the world. Further development of one resource, solar energy, is complicated by the need to find space for solar power-generating equipment without significantly altering the surrounding environment. New work from Carnegie's Rebecca Hernan...
RWE Innogy said it hoped to make an announcement in the spring on the future of the 340MW windfarm, despite announcing two months ago it would not continue with the project. The company is in talks with several potential partners to build the windfarm. It is still working with Galloper’s joint owner Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE) that announced in March it woul...
Power and automation specialist ABB has been awarded a contract by Atlantis Resources to provide the onshore grid connection for phase one of the MeyGen tidal stream project in Scotland’s Pentland Firth. According to ABB, this project is at the forefront of world marine energy development and will harvest the tidal resources of one of the most energetic maritime sites...
The company explained that the Margam Green Energy project will be capable of processing waste wood, including contaminated wood and fuel containing metals, with no pre-treatment. The plant will have a capacity of 280,000 tonnes per annum, generating 40 MW of energy. Earlier this week , renewable energy company - Eco2 Ltd - announced the sale of the Margam Green Energy...
Shortly before Christmas last year the company was successful in the tender process and plans to take waste from Karratha to their proposed waste to energy facility at Boodarie, South of Port Headland. A report today by The West Australian, explained that Albert Jacob, Western Australia’s Minister for Environment, wrote to the company this week to confirm his decision t...
The company explained that the Mianzhu waste to energy project is designed to have a daily household waste processing capacity of 600 tonnes and will be constructed in two phases. Project Phase I has a total investment of approximately RMB180 million ($29 million) and a daily household waste processing capacity of 300 tonnes. It will be constructed on a BOO (Build-Ope...
Contractors are used to fueling these reliable workhorses of the construction jobsite and forgetting about them, at least until they need refueling. But Seattle-based Planetary Power may be attracting new attention to these machines with its still-unreleased solar-powered generator, SUNsparq. The SUNsparq generator uses a proprietary lithium-ion battery system to store s...
Mainz, Germany. After just over a year of construction work, a beacon project of Germany’s switch to renewable energy has been commissioned at a ceremony attended by the First Minister of Rhineland-Palatinate Malu Dreyer and the Mayor of Mainz Michael Ebling. By pressing a symbolic button, hydrogen production was officially launched at the Energiepark Mainz by the Chairm...
Public health experts evaluated the impact of four different renewable energy or energy efficiency installations in six locations in the mid-Atlantic and Great Lakes regions and came up with a model to simulate and compare the climate and health benefits of each of the 24 scenarios. Depending on the site and installation, they found that benefits ranged from US $5.7 mill...
Let’s get down to business: with the new European Energy Directive to be implemented in all EU member states, it is high time to really start thinking about how to improve energy efficiency at all stages of the energy chain – including and especially in industrial production. Manufacturing and production account for a substantial portion of total energy consumption, whic...
CMT-ANTARES is a new fixed-voltage 5V linear voltage regulator ruggedized for high reliability and high temperature automotive and industrial applications. CMT-ANTARES delivers up to 200mA to the output load from input voltages between 5.5V and 30V. The output voltage is stabilized to 5V +/- 5% including all possible variations: initial accuracy, temperature changes from...
AVX Corporation has extended the voltage and energy ratings of its radial leaded TransGuard Automotive Series with the addition of its new VR20 varistors, expanding both the number and type of applications for which the series is an ideal solution. Based on AVX’s patented multilayer varistor (MLV) technology, which provides bi-directional transient voltage protection in ...
But, much to the frustration of consumers, none of these batteries last long without a recharge. Now, scientists report in the journal ACS Nano the development of a new, “green” way to boost the performance of these batteries — with a material derived from silk. Chuanbao Cao and colleagues at the Beijing Institute of Technology note that carbon is a key component in c...
Green wall technology and semi-transparent solar panels have been combined to generate electrical current from a renewable source of energy both day and night. A prototype “green bus shelter” that could eventually generate enough electricity to light itself, has been built by a collaboration of Univ. of Cambridge researchers and eco-companies. The ongoing living ex...
The department noted that in his Climate Action Plan, published in June 2013, President Obama directed the Administration to develop a comprehensive, interagency strategy to reduce methane emissions and promote cutting-edge technologies that help farmers, energy companies, and communities convert methane into a renewable energy source and grow America's biogas energy ind...
Texas Instruments has packed two GaN FETs and a high-frequency gate driver into a half-bridge configuration that produces an 80 V, 10 A, . The LMG5200 power stage (Fig. 1) features advanced multichip packaging technology and is optimized to support power conversion topologies operating at frequencies up to 5 MHz. LMG5200 inputs are TTL-compatible, and can withstand up to...
Researchers from institutions including Lund University in Sweden have taken a step closer to producing solar fuel using artificial photosynthesis. In a new study, they have successfully tracked the electrons’ rapid transit through a light-converting molecule The current study aims to find a way to make fuel from water using sunlight, which is the basic principle of p...
AORA Solar (www.aora-solar.com), a leading developer of solar-biogas hybrid power technology, announced it has met with the Ministry of Water, Irrigation and Energy of the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (www.mowr.gov.et), to plan the construction of an initial pilot of AORA’s Tulip™ solar-hybrid power plant. The meeting follows the March signing of a Memorandum ...
