Energy & Green Tech
Climate change may affect the future stability of grid-connected solar power systems—something that needs to be considered in the planning of Australia's renewable energy transition.
Aug 2, 2023
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Electronics & Semiconductors
To realize artificial intelligence systems and autonomous driving systems, processors must be able to handle more data. However, silicon-based logic devices have limitations in that processing costs and power consumption ...
May 30, 2022
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Engineering
Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed an intelligent power electronic inverter platform that can connect locally sited energy resources such as solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles and smoothly ...
Jul 29, 2020
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Engineering
As power grids evolve to incorporate new variable renewable energy sources and adapt to growing peak electricity demands, balancing the grid—scheduling appropriate electricity supply to match demand—will become increasingly ...
Jan 31, 2024
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Energy & Green Tech
Power electronics—including the inverters that interface solar, wind, battery energy storage, and electric vehicles—are on track to gradually, or even entirely, displace traditional generation. In doing so, inverters ...
Dec 24, 2020
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Software
Adding an organic matter power source to a solar energy unit could provide 100% heating for a single-story home during the coldest months of the year and help the environment. In the warmer months, the system could generate ...
May 31, 2022
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Software
Standing among solar arrays and power grid equipment at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), you might hear a faint, distorted melody buzzing from somewhere. You are not hallucinating—that gray box really is ...
Dec 14, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
What's the cheapest, easiest way to honor the Paris Agreement of limiting the global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius? A clear and strong investment in wind and solar power. Starting now.
Dec 4, 2020
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Engineering
The output of wind turbines can rise or fall by 50% in a matter of seconds. Such fluctuations in the megawatt range put a strain on both power grids and the turbines themselves. A new study by researchers from the University ...
Sep 19, 2023
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Energy & Green Tech
As electric vehicle (EV) sales continue to rev up in the United States, the power grid is in parallel contending with the greatest transformation in its 100-year history: the large-scale integration of renewable energy and ...
Aug 4, 2020
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