Power Monitoring Articles & Analysis

Some Nigerian manufacturing companies are leveraging improved gas supply around Lagos to ramp up production amidst incessant grid collapses. This development is boosting their operations, according to Zheng Wei, Managing Director of one of the country’s largest footwear manufacturers. Wei, who leads Tiget Business International Limited—incorporated in Nigeria in 2020 and based in ...

By Clarke Energy

As artificial intelligence (AI) becomes more entrenched in our 24/7 digital economy, the demand for power could surge from the data centers processing AI. According to a new study released this week (May 29) by EPRI, data centers could consume up to 9% of U.S. electricity generation by 2030 more than double the amount currently used. This could create regional supply challenges, among other ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Caterpillar Inc. announced this week that Liberty - New Hampshire, a local electric provider, has selected Caterpillar to supply turnkey virtual power plant (VPP) solutions for Liberty’s battery storage pilot.Under the initiative, Liberty has installed 2,600 kWh of lithium-ion battery storage at 100 homes to charge overnight when demand and rates are low, reduce peak load during times of high ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Blue Wave AI Labs successfully deployed machine learning (ML) tools at two nuclear power plants operated by Constellation, saving the company millions of dollars per reactor each year. The project was part of a $6 million effort supported by the U.S. Department of Energy to help lower the operating costs of nuclear power plants using the latest artificial intelligence (AI) and ML ...

By Smart Grid Observer

by Vida Rozite, Energy Policy Analyst; Jack Miller, Energy Efficiency Policy Analyst; and Sungjin Oh, Energy Analyst, IEA Power systems are becoming vastly more complex as demand for electricity grows and decarbonisation efforts ramp up. In the past, grids directed energy from centralised power stations. Now, power systems increasingly need to support multi-directional flows of electricity ...

By Smart Grid Observer

U.S. power market monitors in the Eastern Interconnection have recommended that grid operators optimize existing interregional transmission for more than a decade, yet inefficient usage of interties continues to raise system costs and reduce reliability, according to a new report from The Brattle Group and Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP. Optimizing the use of existing or new interregional ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced two new high-performance, high-accuracy technologies for RF power sensor calibration. The TEGAM® 2818A is a 9 kHz to 18 GHz power transfer standard, while the TEGAM PMX18-CS is a turnkey 9 kHz to 18 GHz system that ...

By Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

Health physics is the set of measures and standards put in place to protect the population and workers as well as the environment from radioactivity. It is based on the ALARA (As Low As Reasonably Achievable) principle in order to reduce exposure to ionizing radiation to the lowest possible levels. Nuclear power plants are therefore required to protect their personnel, local populations, and ...

By Bertin Technologies

Construction is now underway for Vermont's first all-electric, fully storm resilient neighborhood. U.S. Senator Peter Welch joined Governor Phil Scott and the President and CEO of O'Brien Brothers, and the President and CEO of Green Mountain Power (GMP) for a groundbreaking celebration for Hillside East in South Burlington, Vermont. The neighborhood and homes are designed with climate and storm ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Electricity grids are the backbone of the energy transition, yet the networks we have today are not ready for the future. At least $21.4 trillion needs to be invested in the electricity grid by 2050 to support a net-zero trajectory for the world, according to a new report from BloombergNEF (BNEF). The New Energy Outlook: Grids report, published today, provides a more detailed breakdown of the ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced the company’s first non-isolated bus converter (NIBC) in industry-standard quarter-brick format for 48 V power conversion in compute and telecom applications. Operating at up to 900 W with efficiencies as high as ...

By Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

Recently, HuaDe Hydrogen’s 5kWe pure hydrogen fuel cell cogeneration system (Model No. CarNeu-5) was successfully developed. It will be delivered to the northwest of China and applied for a project including PV, water hydrogen production - hydro-hydrogenation - power generation - heating integration project. The physical product diagram is shown in Figure 1. CarNeu-5 system is a pure ...

By Jiangsu Huade Hydrogen Energy Technology Co.,Ltd

“By the end of 2022, solar energy will be deployed over 30GW, including 1.5 million new solar rooftops, and by 2030, Europe will be able to achieve 1TW of installed solar power", said SolarPowerEurope's CEO. It is foreseeable that in the next 8 years, green renewable energy will become mainstream and the solar industry will see explosive growth, are you ready for this ? As an expert ...

By Zhejiang Yongtailong Electronic Co.,LTD

Urban Control, the leading smart city solutions provider, today announced that working together with Nordic Semiconductor it has developed a plug-and-play IoT LED streetlight luminaire controller that is quick to install and can scale-up to millions of lights. The Urban Node 324 Cellular city streetlight LED luminaire controllers each include the Nordic Semiconductor nRF9160 ...

By Urban Control Limited

Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – announced that the company has secured multiple wins in the global petrochemical industry for its FlareSpectionTM flare monitoring system. FlareSpection offers the highest-resolution image quality and system robustness, and provides 24/7 automated, ...

By Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

Robert Cruickshank Associates (RCA) this week announced a breakthrough that creates energy opportunities for cable broadband operators: the first nationwide availability of standards-based Optimum Load Shaping (OLS) signals that enable operators to reduce electrical expenses and to take leading roles in boosting the efficiency of electric grids and microgrids, while accelerating the transition to ...

By Smart Grid Observer

We introduce the highly accurate 3 Phase Power Meter. This newest addition to the portfolio measures true power, as it measures the voltage and current of all three phases. It provides power, voltage, current, cos(phi) and many more electrical parameters. All of these are communicated via the RS485 (Modbus RTU) interface. VPInstruments 3 Phase Power Meter is the recommended power meter for ...

By VPInstruments

On June 28, Hydro One announced it is investing in a smarter, more reliable electricity system by installing smart devices on its system. These devices are intended to help reduce the impact of power outages by an average of approximately 40 per cent in areas where they are deployed. This is part of Hydro One's grid modernization program, which leverages digital technology including smart ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Advanced Energy (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered precision power conversion measurement and control solutions – today announced that it has acquired Tegam Inc., a leading provider of metrology and calibration instrumentation used in semiconductor and advanced industrial markets. Based in Geneva, Ohio, TEGAM strengthens Advanced Energy’s leadership in process ...

By Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

ETAS K.K. (Headquarters: Nishi-ku, Yokohama, President & Representative Director, Takayuki Yokoyama, hereinafter, “ETAS”), which provides measurement and calibration solutions for ECU software and HIOKI E.E. Corporation (Headquarters: Ueda, Nagano, President & CEO, Kazutoshi Hosoya, hereinafter “HIOKI”), which engages in electrical measuring instrument development, ...

By Hioki USA Corporation