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Green Light for Project Pele, Defense Department’s Mobile Nuclear Microreactor Demonstration

April 21, 2022 admin BWXT, Distributed Generation, distributed power, dod, DOE, engineering, full coverage, haleu, htgr, microreactor, news, Nuclear, project pele, Research and Development, Technology, triso, x-energy

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Thu, 21 Apr 2022 17:29:06 +0000

The Department of Defense (DOD) will push forward on Project Pele, a much-watched mobile microreactor prototype, and demonstrate its full operation for a minimum of three years at an Idaho National Laboratory (INL) site. The DOD’s Strategic Capabilities Office (SCO) on April 15 formally released a record of decision (ROD) to proceed with the program, […]

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OhmConnect, Carrier, SunPower Collaborate to Support Grid Resiliency

March 31, 2022 admin carrier, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, ohmconnect, Solar, sunpower, virtual power plant, vpp

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 31 Mar 2022 13:09:37 +0000

A California company known for its residential energy management systems has announced it is collaborating with a provider of building energy solutions and a solar technology company to modernize energy infrastructure and provide support to the power grid. OhmConnect is an Oakland-based group that creates grid-connected homes to leverage energy storage, solar power, heating, cooling, […]

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Well-Constructed Solution: Geothermal to Power Bitcoin Mining

February 27, 2022 admin bitcoin, ceraphi, cryptocurrency, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, geothermal, grant thornton, green energy, news, oil and gas, renewabit, renewable energy, Renewables, wells

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2022 15:20:48 +0000

The mining of cryptocurrency, or bitcoin, is an energy-intensive process, and entrepreneurs are looking at several technologies—including innovative geothermal energy techniques—to power their operations. Among the latest is a service from a California-based renewable energy group, RenewaBit, which has joined with CeraPhi Energy, a Houston, Texas-based company, to produce geothermal energy with integrated crypto mining […]

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Ritter’s Message: Market Forces Drive Growth in Distributed Generation

October 31, 2019 admin bill ritter, biomass, Business, Carbon Capture, climate change, Coal, Cybersecurity, distributed energy, distributed energy conference, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Electric vehicles, Energy Storage, firm generation, fuel cells, Gas, geothermal, Hydro, hydrogen, keynote, Legislative, Markets, Nuclear, Renewables, Solar, waste to energy, Wind

Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2019 16:26:07 +0000

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Market forces are playing as much if not more of a role than regulatory policy in the transition from fossil-fueled power generation to renewables, as utilities in the U.S. and worldwide establish decarbonization goals. That was the message from Bill Ritter Jr., former governor of Colorado, during his keynote address at POWER’s Distributed Energy Conference […]

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A Brief History of GE Gas Turbines

July 8, 2019 admin abb, aeroderivatives, alstom, b-class, baglan bay, bbc, belle isle station, blackout, Business, condensers, Distributed Generation, dln, e-class, EDF, Environmental, f-class, frame machines, France, g-class, Gas, gas turbines, ge, ge gas power, gt13e, gt24, gt26, gt26 he, h-class, h-class system, History, hrsgs, Infographics, International, j-class, lm, Malaysia, market competition, Markets, neuchâtel, NOx, purpa, Renewables, Research and Development, slideshows, steam turbines, Technology, timeline, tit, turbine inlet temperature, uk

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2019 11:39:47 +0000

July marks two important milestones that set gas-fired generation on its course to becoming a dominant form of power generation: commercial operation of the world’s first industrial gas turbine in Neuchâtel, Switzerland, in 1939, and commercial operation of the first gas turbine in the U.S. used to generate electric power—a 3.5-MW General Electric (GE) unit […]

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GE Launches New Analytics Technologies to Boost Grid Efficiency

June 12, 2019 admin analytics, Business, connected plant, digital, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, ge, grid, iiot, iiot power, inertia, Markets, network connectivity, news, Renewables, Smart Grid, storm restoration, T&D, Technology

Credit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2019 20:57:27 +0000

General Electric (GE) has rolled out a new portfolio of predictive analytics that could allow utilities to use data from transmission and distribution networks to achieve better operational efficiency as more distributed assets are introduced to the grid. The company on June 11 unveiled three new grid analytics—for storm readiness, network connectivity, and effective inertia—that […]

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Distributed Energy Is Disrupting the Power Industry: Is the Sky Falling?

October 19, 2018 admin Business, climate change, distributed energy, distributed energy conference, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Energy Storage, Environmental, Legal & Regulatory, Markets, news, Power Demand, Renewables, roy palk, Solar, Technology, Wind

Utilities are faced with many disruptive changes in the power market. Customers are demanding cleaner energy and turning to distributed generation as a solution. One expert suggested power companies must react and evolve their business models to change with the times. During a keynote presentation at the Distributed Energy Conference in Golden, Colorado, on October […]

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U.S. Biomass Power, Dampened by Market Forces, Fights to Stay Ablaze

October 1, 2018 admin anaerobic digestion, and pyrolysis, biomass, biomass power association, Business, cbea, climate change, co-firing, combustion, Connecticut, distributed energy, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Dominion, EIA, Electric vehicles, Environmental, evs, finance, Fuel, Legal & Regulatory, news, Renewables, supply chains, Technology, waste to energy

Though experts say biomass should continue to play a key role in the U.S. renewable power portfolio for its baseload properties, contributions to forest management, and other reasons, a swathe of uneconomic

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GE to Sell Distributed Power Business to Private-Equity Firm

June 25, 2018 admin advent international, Business, Distributed Generation, distributed power, Gas, ge, International, jenbacher, news, waukesha

GE will sell its Distributed Power business, which includes the company’s Jenbacher and Waukesha engines, to Advent International, a global private equity investment company, in a deal worth $3.25 billion. “In Advent, we have a partner that shares our team’s passion for delivering outstanding customer outcomes,” Carlos Lange, president of Distributed Power, said in a […]

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