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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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
In a worldwide first that could jumpstart a clean energy economy built around the most abundant element in the universe, hydrogen fuel cells have powered a row of datacenter servers for 48 consecutive hours, Microsoft announced ...
Jul 28, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
In a new study, researchers from Texas A&M University and industry have designed a smart technology that can help utility companies better serve communities affected by blackouts. The researchers said their single device ...
Jul 23, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
The tides roll in, and the tides roll out, just like clockwork. It's this consistency and predictability that makes tidal energy attractive, not only as a source of electricity but, potentially, as a mechanism to provide ...
Jul 15, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Electric vehicles can help keep the air clean in our cities—as we've seen recently with the reduction of traffic through COVID-19 lockdowns—but they face two obstacles.
Jul 8, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
A 'smart' system that controls the storage and release of energy from wind turbines will reduce the risk of power cuts and support the increase of wind energy use world-wide, say researchers at the University of Birmingham.
Jun 19, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Most production plants today are still powered by alternating current. In the long term, however, research teams from the Fraunhofer Institutes for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation IPA and Integrated Systems and Device ...
Jun 2, 2020
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Energy & Green Tech
Sometimes an outside perspective is all it takes to tackle a problem in an innovative way. And inferring electricity usage in a building without using a meter could be as simple as correlating average occupancy at a given ...
Apr 14, 2020
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Engineering
The vision to create sustainable urban spaces is becoming a reality in several European cities, including Rotterdam, Umea and Glasgow. Thanks to the EU-funded Ruggedised project, Rotterdam is developing and implementing various ...
Apr 8, 2020
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