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UK Bioenergy: Dedicated Biomass Plants no Competition for CHP Plants
See on Scoop.it – Green Energy Technologies & Development As Ed Davey, U.K. Secretary of State for Energy & Climate Change, spoke to the Environment Council in Brussels, saying: “We call for...
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Deep Energy Retrofits–A Necessity for Old Buildings
“Studies show that focusing on energy efficiency and usage from buildings and homes is still a more effective and less expensive choice than investing in new energy sources. After all, on a global...
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Virtual Power Plants (VPP): A New Tech Based Utility Model for Renewable...
Today’s global energy market is in the midst of a paradigm shift, from a model dominated by large centralized power plants owned by big utilities to a mixed bag of so-called distributed energy...
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VPP – New Models for the Distributed Grid Network
National Instruments, LocalGrid, and Toronto Hydro pilot the software-defined, peer-to-peer distributed grid architecture. Source: www.greentechmedia.com >” [...] Because each CompactRIO endpoint...
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Grid Scale Energy Storage Solutions For Future Virtualization
Examines grid scale energy storage solutions ranging from pumped hydro, compressed air, thermal storage, advanced batteries, fuel cells and purely electric storage systems. Source:...
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Province Calls for Renewable Energy Storage Systems Demonstration Projects
Most of the new systems will be able to turn on a dime, storing and releasing energy almost instantaneously to help balance out the supply and demand over the course of a day Source:...
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US Company Deploys Aqueous, Lithium-Ion and Flow Batteries for Grid Storage
“Batteries must do more than just work—they have to scale.” Source: www.greentechmedia.com >”[...] The startup is a software developer and system integrator that has attracted investment, personnel...
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Energy Storage Solutions for the Smart Grid
In order to ramp up clean energy production, we have to figure out how to store and transmit it effectively. Companies are experimenting with new tech to figure out the best way to progress. Source:...
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UK Renewable Energy Subsidy Underwrites Development
Energy secretary, Ed Davey, says new subsidy scheme will help underwrite green energy and reduce reliance on imported gas Source: www.theguardian.com >”[...] “Solar has been the rising star in the...
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Could desalination solve California’s water problem?
Desalination would seem to answer every prayer to fix California’s water shortages. But turning the sea into drinking water is not so easy. The state’s first major desalination plant, under...
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Cove Point LNG Project Obtains Federal Approval and Opposition
Initially, Cove Point helped the United States overcome what was then an energy shortage. Now that our nation is developing a burgeoning surplus of natural gas, Cove Point can help send a small...
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Solar Energy Storage Added to Eight California Schools
Burton School District, in the heart of California’s sun-drenched San Joaquin Valley, will also house combined solar and energy storage systems[...] Source: www.pvsolarreport.com >”In the...
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Energy Storage Technologies Will Replace Utilities Gas Fired Turbine Peaker...
“Power grids need extra generating capacity to work properly. For example, about 20 percent of New York State’s generation fleet runs less than 250 hours a year. Because they don’t run much, “peaker...
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Energy executive quits NEB, blasts Kinder Morgan review as ‘fraudulent,’
Marc Eliesen has withdrawn as an intervenor in the federal government’s review of Kinder Morgan’s Trans Mountain pipeline and oil tanker expansion project, detailing his reasons for quitting in a...
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Commodity Copper Price Forecast Drops on Rising Dollar, Falling Oil
Copper prices will fall next year as a strengthening U.S. dollar and weaker oil prices push down marginal production costs, according to Goldman Sachs Group Source: www.hellenicshippingnews.com >”...
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Coal Power Plants Get Repowered With Natural Gas
Old U.S. coal-fired power plants, the target of new anti-pollution rules, aren’t necessarily shutting down. Many are getting a second life as they’re “repowered” with natural gas. Source:...
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‘Demand Response’ is ‘Disruptive Technology’ Shutting Down Power Plants
FirstEnergy Corp. has a traditional view of wholesale electricity markets: They’re a competition between iron-in-the-ground facilities that can put megawatts on the grid when those megawatts are...
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ACEEE Recommends Demand Response as a Strategy to Conquer Peak Demand for...
By Steven Nadel ” … a potential emerging trend that could have a large impact on many utilities: the reduction of the traditional mid-afternoon peak, and the growth of an evening peak. (Peak is the...
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European Airlines Contracts Biofuel Supplier For Biofuel Powered Flights
SAS has, along with the Lufthansa Group and KLM, signed an agreement with Statoil Aviation for a regular supply of 2.5 million liters (660,430 gallons) of biofuel at Oslo Airport, allowing the airport...
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Corroded Pipeline with History of Leaks – Major Shell Oil Spill into Niger Delta
“We saw dead fish, dead crabs. … This spill occurred seven, eight nautical miles from the shore … [so] the volume runs into thousands of barrels,” said Alagoa Morris, head of the Niger Delta Resource...
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