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...
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 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...
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...
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 ‘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...
At a meeting of the Highways and Waste Management Cabinet Panel on Tuesday 4 November, a cross-party group of councillors will discuss the options proposed in a report published following Eric Pickles decision to deny planning permission for the planned 26 MW Recycling and Energy Recovery Facility. According to the Report of the chief executive & director of environment...
SITA explained that it developed the waste to energy plant on behalf of the South Tyne and Wear Waste Management Partnership, which comprises Gateshead, South Tyneside and Sunderland councils. The company added that operation of the new waste to energy facility will allow the three councils to significantly reduce their reliance on landfill and provide residents with a ...
Connecticut-based FuelCell Energy built both power plants. Between them, they will meet almost the entire factory’s energy needs, with an on-site solar array providing more energy during peak hours of power usage. The two power plants replace grid power that would have led to the emission of more than 9,400 tons of CO2. Fuel cells produce power electrochemically, a...
The system, upon completion, will provide 19 megawatts of direct current capacity to the base, making it the largest photovoltaic system in the Department of Defense. The project, a collaboration between Nellis AFB, Air Combat Command and the Air Force Civil Engineer Center, will be the second industrial-scale array at Nellis AFB. The first, 14-megawatt Nellis I, was ...
Our energy system is going through a revolution. What type of energies will replace nuclear power? Will there be a rise in electricity prices? Will the hydrogen car become a part of everyday life in 2050? The Energy Center at EPFL, in collaboration with public partners, has developed an information portal, transparent and accessible to all, to understand the issues relat...
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...
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...
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...
However, the future for a cost competitive wave energy industry is less certain and the industry needs a fresh approach to how it extracts and converts energy from waves if costs are to come down and make it viable. The two Insight Reports, written by Stuart Bradley, the ETI’s Offshore Renewables Strategy Manager, look at the opportunities and challenges facing the ma...
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...
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...
According to the company, the new 45,000 tonne per year facility is now being commissioned, with the first electricity generation from food waste expected at the end of July. Tamar explained that it is working with waste management parties, including Essex County Council, the waste disposal authority working on behalf of 13 waste collection authorities, to secure fee...
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...
Mailhem Ikos Environment Private Limited, is a 50:50 joint venture between Indian waste management and renewable energy company Mailhem Engineers and Lhotellier Ikos, a French-based firm specialising in infrastructure and renewable energy as well as in water management and treatment. According to the newly formed company, it will benefit from the domestic expertise ...
With water withdrawals associated with electrical power production -- primarily for cooling processes -- accounting for one of the largest water uses in the U.S. and worldwide, new water reduction strategies and more sustainable water treatment solutions are increasingly needed in the power industry for conserving freshwater resources. As an industry, power producers ar...
