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RALEIGH, N.C. … Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton today announced the release of its Blackout Tracker Annual Report for 2012. For the fourth year in a row, California topped the list of states with the most power outages in 2012, followed by New York and Texas. On average, 13,442 people were affected for 154 minutes per outage in 2012 and power failures caused problems for people and businesses in all 50 states. “The first step in mitigating the risk of unexpected downtime is to understand the ca...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Systems, Reliability
PALO ALTO, Calif. (April 22, 2013) -- The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) will lead a multi-year research project to evaluate the safe storage of spent nuclear fuel in dry storage casks. The Department of Energy is investing $15.8 million over five years in the project, with the nuclear power industry contributing at least 20 percent of the total cost. EPRI will design and demonstrate dry cask technology at full scale for evaluating the condition of “high burn-up” spent nuclear fuel during stora...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Systems
By David Engle You’re an Engineer? You’re Hired.” So read a headline last year in US News and World Reports , telling of a booming profession with very low unemployment and steadily growing incomes. Much of the credit goes to a resurgent and more innovative building industry. Despite years of weak new construction demand, vendors are offering new designs and products that make retrofits or upgrades easy to cost-justify. Florida builder, Marc Rutenberg Homes in Palm Harbor near Tampa Bay, combines the co...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Energy Efficiency, HVAC, Power Systems
By Carol Brzozowski Allan Prosser, director of sales for MTU Onsite Energy, points out that there are two reasons to have onsite power generation and backup power. “One is from an economic sense—obviously if you lose power, there’s an economic equation and risk mitigation,” he says. “The other one is where it’s legally required, such as in a hospital, an office building with elevators, or a wastewater treatment plant.” Bill Clary, the managing director for Miratech, says while the obvious reason for bac...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Energy Reliability, Genset, Power Systems
By Dan Rafter Ed Bussiere, facilities director with Windham Hospital in Willimantic, CT, knows that his hospital has received plenty of benefits from the cogeneration plant that has been providing power to the facility since December 2008. The plant, powered by microturbines provided by UTC Power, provides enough energy to heat and cool the hospital, something that has significantly reduced the facility’s reliance on the public power grid. The cogeneration plant also helps the hospital meet its “green” ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Supply, Power Systems, Turbine
By James McHale When power companies first set up their businesses in the 19th century they joined up a series of distributed energy generation stations operating within a microgrid that served a town and its environment. It was envisioned that the electric utility industry would involve small firms generating direct current (DC) power for individual businesses in the microgrid. However less than 30 years later this DC-based microgrid model gave way to alternating current (AC) long-distance transmission...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Energy Management, Microgrid, Power Systems
SEOUL & LONDON, 11 March 2013: Two years since the Fukushima nuclear accident, the future of nuclear energy continues to dominate the global agenda. Uncertainties around its future and the challenging policy choices will be debated by senior figures from industry and government at the 2013 World Energy Congress in October, organisers announced today. Dr Christoph Frei, Secretary General of the World Energy Council, commented: “We will be tackling some of the most pressing issues at our World Energy C...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Power Supply, Power Systems, Powerplants
By Dan Rafter When officials with Houweling’s Tomatoes installed two 4.36-MW Jenbacher J624 natural-gas engines in their Camarillo, CA-based greenhouse, they made history. With installation of those engines, Houweling’s Tomatoes became the first greenhouse grower in the United States to unveil a combined heat and power (CHP) greenhouse that captures carbon dioxide and uses it to fertilize plants. But the installation wasn’t just about making history. Officials with Houweling’...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: CHP, Power Supply, Power Systems
Don Rickey , senior vice president for Schneider Electric’s US Infrastructure Business, recently sat down with Distributed Energy to supply some explanation and analysis regarding implementation of the smart grid and how it will affect commercial and residential energy users, as well as its potential impact on renewable energy integration and demand response. Below is a transcript of the Q&A session. Distributed Energy Magazine (DEM): What will it take to help utilities to transform ratepayers, both...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Demand Response, Power Systems, Smart Grid
By Lyn Corum The two universities and a public school system profiled here are taking command of their energy use in a way that reveals a phenomenal sophistication and innovation in their use of technologies to reduce and monitor campus energy demand, while integrating student education about energy use into campus infrastructure. They are installing solar systems to reduce peak demand, but these systems are a small part of the effort to submeter and monitor campus equipment and, in one case, to ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Power Systems
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