Energy & Green Tech
Curtailment—or, what happens when more renewable energy is available than can be delivered to customers—has gained a negative connotation in the energy community for wasting clean, free electricity.
Jul 19, 2022
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Engineering
Elvin Vindel, a Ph.D. student in civil and environmental engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, has led the creation of a model that can help cut emissions from buildings and improve the overall efficiency of the grid. ...
Jul 11, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Less than a mile from a sea otter-filled estuary popular with kayakers sit row upon row of tall, steel white cabinets perched on low concrete platforms, the space between them crisscrossed with gravel paths. All is quiet, ...
Jun 15, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers from Skoltech, Shandong University, and ORE Catapult have proposed a way to stabilize wind farms under overvoltage conditions, when imbalances in the power grid causing voltage swells can temporarily knock out ...
May 26, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
New research from the University of Georgia suggests a novel approach to safeguarding one possible target of a cyberattack—the nation's solar farms. In a study published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, a team in UGA's ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Power grids have become far more complex in recent decades due to energy demands, environmental regulations and small-scale renewable energy systems that turn businesses and individuals into combined consumer-producers. One ...
Feb 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Almost a third of Australia's estimated ten million households now have solar on the roof. But as the nation moving fastest to produce energy on our homes, we are also encountering teething problems, such as "curtailment" ...
Dec 10, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
The good news when Hurricane Ida churned into Louisiana on Aug. 29, 2021 was that levees held up—especially those that were strengthened after Hurricane Katrina flooded New Orleans in 2005. The bad news: In many places, ...
Sep 6, 2021
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Energy & Green Tech
With the looming threat of climate change, it is high time we embrace renewable energy sources on a larger scale. Photovoltaic systems, which generate electricity from the nearly limitless supply of sunlight energy, are one ...
Jul 20, 2021
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Engineering
Skoltech scientists in collaboration with researchers from the University of Arizona and the Los Alamos National Laboratory have developed an approach that allows power grids to return to stability fast after demand response ...
Apr 21, 2021
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