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...
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...
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 ...
The solar cell is designed to operate in concentrator photovoltaics systems in which it can be exposed to more than 1,000 suns of concentrated sunlight. (One sun concentration equals 1kW/m2.) Multi-junction cells have materials tuned to specific wavelengths that absorb different solar wavelengths, thus maximizing how much sunlight it harvests. The four material junctions...
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...
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...
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...
For the most part, that means simply reporting what happens. We’re not experts (the last time I had hands on a composite layup was 1975), so we’re hardly entitled to preach. But we also believe that there’s no such thing as an innocent bystander. A journalist is responsible for reporting honestly what he or she sees, even when it might not reflect well on the community s...
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...
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...
A researcher in Russia thinks he has a way of generating power from wind turbines and other rotating devices that is super-efficient thanks to the elimination of any intervening power conversion electronics. The basic idea, as described by Sergey Gandzha of South Urals State University, is to adjust the output of a generator by adding to or subtracting magnetic flux. ...
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...
According to Byogy, new yeast strains developed by Gen 2 Energy, Iowa State University and the USDA, improve the alcohol yield of conventional fermentation from a variety of feedstocks - including agave, a “monster” energy crop being deployed as part of the Byogy value chain. "Rather than try and perfect novel cellulosic technologies, we have focused on improving yiel...
According to the Region of Peel, the Peel Energy Recovery Centre will process a minimum of 300,000 tonnes per year and up to 400,000 tonnes per year of the region’s residual waste. “Beginning the Screening Process is a key milestone for the Project,” explained Norm Lee, director of waste management at the Region of Peel. “This is where the Region does an in-depth a...
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...
The company explained that funding has been made possible thanks to recently passed legislation in the State of Hawaii aimed at assisting a zero-waste project that converts crops, crop residues, dedicated energy crops, and agricultural waste into economically and environmentally sustainable biofuels and value-added co-products. Hawaii’s Department of Budget and Financ...
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...
According to the company - a subsidiary of Waste Management (NYSE: WM) - residents will be able to ask questions and find out more about the proposed waste to energy facility located in North Wales, as it begins a series of consultations in the area this Friday. The company explained that the energy recovery facility, which is being proposed for development on a form...
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...
Waste and recycling firm, AmeyCespa, has signed a Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with energy firm GDF SUEZ Energy UK for the output from its major new 320,000 tonne per year waste to energy facility in North Yorkshire. Under the agreement, GDF SUEZ Energy UK will buy all of the electricity generated by Allerton Waste Recovery Park, which will process household and comme...
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...
Mayor Eric Garcetti on Wednesday unveiled an ambitious plan to make LA the most sustainable big city in the U.S. over the next two decades, a place where people ride bikes, board buses and trains, and even walk to get around. Drinking water would come from local sources instead of faraway imports. Solar panels would glimmer from rooftops like the lights at a Hollywood...
