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 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...
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...
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 ...
Processor Zhong Lin Wang and his students are taking advantage of the triboelectric effect to harvest small amounts of energy, essentially turning static electricity into something useful. They can power LEDs and other devices using the harvested energy (see the figure). Static electricity is a form of the triboelectric effect. It occurs when some materials are rubbed...
In a bid to cut the time and considerable cost of offshore wind farm deployment, subsea connector specialist, First Subsea, is launching a new monopile interface connector for offshore wind monopiles, and top tension connector for floating wind turbines. The most labour intensive and time-consuming element of cable installation into an offshore wind monopile is its co...
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...
HZI explained that the acquisition of the Kompogas technology completes its portfolio of waste to energy technology offerings and enable it to also offer plants based on the Kompogas technology for energy recovery by fermentation. “The two technologies complement each other ideally, generating energy from municipal residual and green waste respectively”, explained Fra...
The company explained that the contract, awarded by main contractor Interserve Construction, follows the agreement of funding terms for the overall project by Resource Recovery Solutions (Derbyshire). Resource Recovery Solutions (RRS) is a joint venture between waste and recycling firm, Shanks Group and Berkshire based infrastructure construction and management firm, In...
The ‘Lee Valley Heat Network’ it intended to create an energy solution for the Lee Valley through a system of pipes that moves heat in the form of hot water from the waste to energy plant, to where it is needed. The project is being executed by Enfield Council and the Mayor of London, and was outlined today at City Hall. Enfield Council explained that the first pha...
The facilities are being developed by West Perth, Australia based New Energy Corporation. According to CEFC CEO, Oliver Yates waste management has been a growing issue in Australia for all levels of government and with recycling rates remaining fairly constant, the country will need to seek solutions to its increasing dependence on landfill. The investment firm expla...
The ITER project is the world’s largest experimental facility designed to research the viability of fusion power. The grid contract is Ferrovial Agroman’s fourth on the project: it is already participating in the construction of the Tokamak reactor building and various ancillary buildings. Ferrovial Agroman, Ferrovial’s construction subsidiary, has been appointed by F...
Doctoral student Joseph Carr developed the system with his adviser, Juan Balda, University Professor and head of the department of electrical engineering. Innovations in this field are critical as the U.S. moves toward integration of renewable energy sources to the national power grid. The U.S. Department of Energy pursued and was granted a U.S. patent for the tech...
South Africa is constructing 3,916 MW of new renewable-energy capacity under the country’s 20-year energy plan, the Renewable Energy Independent Power Producer Procurement Programme. Also, in Medupi and Kusile, the country is constructing two $18.8-billion coal-fired powerplants with a capacity of 9,564 MW. The projects have attracted a mix of international engineerin...
That’s because many water systems use electric pumps to move water from an aquifer or reservoir to its customers. Putting a hydroelectric generator in the pipes would take energy away from the flow, so you’d need a more powerful pump to move the water. Thanks to the third law of thermodynamics, you’d lose more electricity with the larger pump than you would generate wit...
Electrical theory has brought us the computer revolution, among other advances, because scientists and engineers figured out how to automatically control the flow of electricity based on varying conditions. Improvements in electronic technology continue to give us products that were merely imagined in sci-fi movies just a few decades ago. At the same time, the field o...
The challenge, of course, is doing all that while maintaining the Camaro’s status as a high-performance muscle car. How many ways do I love this idea? First, you know I’m a proponent of renewable energy, so hybrid-electric cars play a big role in a green energy future. Second, I’m an educator with a strong belief in project-based learning. A competition like this puts...
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...
Now, most companies are very well aware that certain aspects of their processes are not perfect in terms of energy efficiency. In our blog series on energy efficiency for industry, we have presented some information on savings potential and finding the right solution to improve energy efficiency. At the Aubonne site of Merck Serono, “teams and experts had already ide...
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...
Marie-Isabelle de Lobkowicz, marketing executive with Siemens Belgium, reports on the completion of a major drive train project Siemens recently accomplished in Belgium. Doel, a town in the Belgian province of Oost-Vlaanderen is home to the Sleco plant, Europe’s largest fluidized bed incineration plant. This type of plant generates electricity with a steam turbine pow...
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, 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...
In its REForCh research program — "Resource-Efficient Forging Process Chain for Complicated High-Duty Parts" — IPH concluded it can reduce the burr percentage of forged crankshafts from 54% to 7%, saving approximately 20% of energy requirements in the process. IPH noted industrial-scale tests of the process have been successful, setting the stage for commercial applic...
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...
