Voltage Regulating Articles & Analysis

Xcel Energy is partnering with battery vendors Sunverge Energy and Northern Reliability, Inc. to test battery storage technology to maximize the use of rooftop solar energy while ensuring the safety and reliability of the electric grid. The two-year pilot project is taking place in Stapleton's North Central Park and Eastbridge neighborhoods. As customers' demand for solar energy in their homes ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Power management company Eaton is delivering an industry-leading portfolio of reliable products and services to help customers meet the challenging demands of today’s electrical grid. Eaton expertise and solutions, and product demonstrations will be on display January 28-30 at the 2014 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition in San Antonio. Visitors to Eaton booth #1137 can interact with ...

By Eaton Corporation

Power management company Eaton today announced a contract to provide Victory Electric Cooperative Association with a Modular Integrated Transportable Substation (MITS). The factory-assembled solution will help the electric cooperative support safe, reliable and cost-effective power for residential, agricultural and business customers in Mullinville, Kansas. Eaton’s engineering experts will ...

By Eaton Corporation

Power management company Eaton today announced it is helping utility, industrial, commercial and data center customers meet new U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) efficiency standards for distribution transformers. The new standards go into effect on January 1, 2016, and will increase the electrical efficiency of critical equipment that distributes power into homes and businesses. Eaton is working ...

By Eaton Corporation

Power management company Eaton is highlighting its expertise in addressing critical transmission and distribution system challenges for utility and industrial customers. With Eaton’s CYME software, Eaton provides customized electrical system studies that address customers’ unique applications to reduce costs, increase efficiency and improve performance. Eaton will showcase these ...

By Eaton Corporation

Power management company Eaton is delivering an industry-leading portfolio of products and services designed to help utility customers meet the challenging demands of today’s electrical grid. Eaton’s Cooper Power series solutions will be on display Feb. 2 through 5 at the 2015 DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition in San Diego. Visitors to Eaton booth #2313 can interact with products ...

By Eaton Corporation

Single Phase Power Solutions introduces the 1-to-3 Microgrid Power Source, a single-phase solution for Electric Vehicle (EV) Charging Stations. Ideal for remote areas without access to three-phase power, the 1-to-3 Power Source uses revolutionary Written-Pole Technology to generate solid and reliable 3-phase, 480V input from existing single-phase infrastructure. This allows EV charging stations ...

By Novus Media Today Group, LLC

Advanced Energy Industries, Inc. (Nasdaq: AEIS) – a global leader in highly engineered, precision power conversion, measurement and control solutions – today announced it has expanded its UltraVolt LE Series of high voltage DC-to-DC converters with the introduction of three new models with higher maximum output voltage. AE’s new 20LE, 25LE and 30LE converters range from 20 to ...

By Advanced Energy Industries, Inc.

A new invention by Brisbane company eleXsys Energy could help to increase the penetration of home solar and batteries in low voltage areas, reducing the need to build costly distribution grid infrastructure. On behalf of the Australian Government, the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) has announced $451,167 in funding to eleXsys Energy to demonstrate the potential of their new ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Diversified industrial manufacturer Eaton today announced the release of the Eaton 5SC uninterruptible power system (UPS) in North America, delivering affordable and reliable power protection for small business servers, storage and network equipment. The 5SC rounds out the robust Eaton 5 Series product portfolio and complements the 5S, 5P and 5PX UPSs. The 5 Series product family provides ...

By Eaton Corporation

By Pritil Gunjan, Navigant Research. Reprinted with permission. A recent study by Fluence and Carnegie Mellon University found that the cost of generating power from solar plus storage was cost-competitive with new build gas power generators. The study considers both operational and financial performance across these projects. Installing solar plus storage as an economical substitute to gas ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Original story at MIT News An exotic material called gallium nitride (GaN) is poised to become the next semiconductor for power electronics, enabling much higher efficiency than silicon. In 2013, the Department of Energy (DOE) dedicated approximately half of a $140 million research institute for power electronics to GaN research, citing its potential to reduce worldwide energy consumption. Now ...

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Original story at MIT News Deploying solar power at the scale needed to alleviate climate change will pose serious challenges for today’s electric power system, finds a study performed by researchers at MIT and the Institute for Research and Technology (ITT) at Comillas University in Spain. For example, local power networks will need to handle both incoming and outgoing flows of ...

By MIT - Massachusetts Institute of Technology

LG Electronics USA and Sunverge Energy are collaborating on a groundbreaking residential virtual plant project with customers in Northern and Central California - one of the first pilot programs in the United States to incorporate both load control and PV/energy storage control holistically. This unique project, which is expected to be operational in the first quarter of 2022, explores ways in ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Clarke Energy provide power solutions across various market segments and have recently cemented its entry into the Australian marine industry by unveiling an ongoing partnership with Maritimo. Maritimo is the second largest boat builder in the Southern Hemisphere. For the past 20+ years Maritimo has engaged a competing brand to supply marine power generation but has recently transitioned to ...

By Clarke Energy

The U.S. Department of Energy this week (April 19) released details for 35 projects across 20 states that voluntarily shared with DOE they received a total of $1.93 billion in allocations of the Qualifying Advanced Energy Project Credit (48C). 48C is an allocated tax credit funded by President Biden's Investing in America agenda through the Inflation Reduction Act, aimed at accelerating clean ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Inverters for Renewable Energy Applications http://www.reportlinker.com/p0927644/Inverters-for-Renewable-Energy-Applications.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy Inverters for Solar Photovoltaics, Small Wind Power, Stationary Fuel Cells, and ...

By ReportLinker

E.ON North America celebrated the grand opening of its Iron Horse Energy Storage & Solar Project at the University of Arizona's Tech Park in southeast Tucson. The 10 megawatt (MW) lithium titanium oxide storage facility and accompanying 2 MW solar array is now helping Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to maintain reliable electric service for more than 400,000 customers by providing frequency ...

By Smart Grid Observer

Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: Capacitors For Renewable Energy Systems: World Market Outlook: 2013-2018 http://www.reportlinker.com/p01087479/Capacitors-For-Renewable-Energy-Systems-World-Market-Outlook-2013-2018.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=Renewable_energy Details This new report from Paumanok ...

By ReportLinker

Underwriters Laboratories (UL) has created several guidelines that manufacturers may use to increase compliance with the latest UL standards in safety and production. For portable power distribution systems, the UL standard is 1640 (Standard for Portable Power-Distribution Equipment). Portable power distribution units are large devices that regulate exceedingly high voltages to low voltages that ...

By Larson Electronics LLC