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WASHINGTON, April 29, 2013 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced funding for four rural electric projects in eight states to provide reliable, affordable electricity for rural residents. USDA remains focused on carrying out its mission, despite a time of significant budget uncertainty. Today's announcement is one part of the Department's efforts to strengthen the rural economy. Vilsack made the announcement during the legislative conference of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Associa...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Reliability
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. – (February 28, 2013) – February test flights directed by the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) in Alabama of prototype unmanned aerial systems (UAS) and payloads of video and other sensing equipment indicate that such “drone” technology could be deployed to assess damage to electric transmission and distribution systems following storms. The flights tested two “rotary winged” devices and payloads that weighed less than 55 pounds and operated at altitudes under 100 feet. Payloads...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Reliability
By Peter Panfil Many data center and facility managers are familiar with the energy saving mode of operation for UPS systems termed “eco-mode.” This mode of operation has been promoted in the industry for a number of years as a way to increase UPS energy efficiency and reduce the operating expenses experienced in the data center. It accomplishes this by switching the UPS to static bypass during normal operation. When power problems are detected, the UPS automatically switches back to double conve...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Efficiency, Reliability, UPS
By Lyn Corum The Brevoort—a 20-story, 1950s-era co-op in the heart of Greenwich Village in New York City, NY—did not go dark when Superstorm Sandy struck Manhattan on October 29, 2012. All of the power on lower Fifth Avenue was lost, but the co-op stood bright among its dark neighbors, thanks to the 400-kW Tecogen natural gas-fired cogeneration system installed in 2010 that powered the entire building until Consolidated Edison’s power was restored five days later. The natural gas supply sy...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Energy Reliability, Reliability
By Paul Hull Let’s join the world’s leading companies and, without waiting for government action, start developing our own clean energy guidelines. As mentioned by the Editor of this magazine on several occasions, renewable energy is receiving diligent attention from the topmost global industrial leaders. Some have already set specific goals for renewable energy use; others are changing from buying short-term (purely temporary) strategies, to longer-term strategies like Power Purchase Agreements ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Load, Power Quality, Reliability
By Ed Ritchie When backup power fails at water and wastewater treatment plants, the results can be catastrophic. But the good news is that such events are often avoidable by a proper assessment of backup equipment and disaster planning strategy. For example, a thorough assessment of equipment could have avoided a disaster in Connecticut in late 2011, when tropical storm Irene and October snow resulted in 47 spills with severity ranging from 42.7 million gallons of partially treated sewage dumped ...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Reliability
By Elizabeth Cutright What will our energy landscape look like over the next decade? How about the next 30 years? We’ve all experienced first hand the quick and dizzying changes wrought by emerging technologies, and there’s no reason to think that our current energy infrastructure won’t look vastly different in the years to come. After all, the modern smart phone is only about five years old, and in that short amount of time we’ve gone from using our cell phones to make and receive calls, to a 20th cent...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Energy Efficiency, Reliability, Renewable
Hurricane Sandy's recent demonstration of our reliance on steady and reliable power production to run almost every aspect of our lives has brought into sharp focus our urgent need to find back-up solutions. Step forward the humble battery which, in new and fascinating guises, is beginning to find its place as the backroom back-up that will keep our power flowing. The current edition of Energy Quarterly, published as a special section of the November 2012 MRS Bulletin, takes a long hard look at the batter...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Reliability
By David Engle Even in an ailing economy, the data business is booming. Traffic on the Net streams in mega-torrents now, and the global appetite for smart phones and other mobile devices is insatiable (see Additional Content: “ Data Center Growth, by the Number s”). To handle it all, banks of servers customized for ICT (Information and Communications Technology) are on the march. Once, not long ago, they could be easily billeted in modest offices. They received basic climate amenities, like extra...... continue reading
From: Distributed Energy Topics: Backup, Facilities, Reliability
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