Smart Power Grid

January 2013

SEMI and U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium sign MOU on standards and development roadmap

SEMI and the U.S. Photovoltaic Manufacturing Consortium (PVMC) announced the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to enhance their cooperation in the areas of standards and roadmap activities

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01/31/2013

Atmel to license ExeginZigBee stacks for wireless smart-grid applications

Atmel, a leader in microcontroller (MCU) and touch technology solutions, announced the company has signed an agreement with Exegin Technologies Limited, a leading supplier of ZigBee® network stacks,

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01/30/2013

'Off-the-Shelf' fault circuit indicator software to improve smart-grid performance

GRIDiant, a leading provider of Advanced Grid Management (AGM) software applications for electric utilities, and Baltimore Gas and Electric, Maryland's largest gas and electric utility, announced a

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01/30/2013

Updated international technology roadmap for photovoltaics to be presented at PV fab managers forum

The new edition of the International Technology Road map for PV (ITRPV) will be presented and published at the annual technology event PV Fab Managers Forum (www.pvgroup.org/pvfmf), organized by SEMI.

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01/28/2013

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Figure 1: Typical battery packs like those being developed for electric vehicles and grid-tied energy storage systems are expensive, short-lived, big, complex, and limiting. Cell variations drive the degradation in pack capacity over the life of the pack. Ultimately, the weakest cells constrain both pack performance and operating life.

Rethinking battery management for EVs and grid-tied energy storage

David Morrison, Editor, How2Power

Large-format, high-power battery packs are expected to play a central role in two technological revolutions. One is the electrification of the automobile through the further development and adoption

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01/27/2013

Silicon Laboratories to exhibit at DistribuTECH smart grid conference

Silicon Laboratories, a leader in high-performance, analog-intensive, mixed-signal ICs, will showcase its wireless solutions for advanced metering infrastructure (AMI) at DistribuTECH, the utility

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01/22/2013

European collaboration to prepare for influx of electric vehicles

A European consortium, consisting of DNV KEMA, Fraunhofer ISE, EMD International, RAH, and RFVV has begun an EU-funded project to develop modeling and simulation tools for optimally integrating electrical

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01/21/2013

Solar and wind energy may stabilise the grid

Dirk Witthaut and Marc Timme, Dynamics Group Researchers, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization

Such a dense power grid however may not be as vulnerable to power outages as some experts fear. One might assume that it is much harder to synchronize the many generators and machines of consumers,

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01/20/2013

Braintree Electric Light Department to implement meter data management solution

In an effort to make stronger operational decisions and bring the value and intelligence of its smart infrastructure directly to the hands of its customers, Braintree Electric Light Department (BELD)

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01/17/2013

Front-end module well suited for smart energy & advanced metering Infrastructure applications

Targeting Smart Energy/AMI applications operating in the 405MHz-475MHz frequency range, as well as for portable battery powered equipment and general 433/470MHz ISM band systems, the highly-integrated

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01/16/2013

Burlington school district addresses energy management

As part of its effort to drive operational efficiency and reduce annual energy spend across eight of its schools, the Burlington Vermont School District will use EfficiencySMART Insight from EnerNOC,

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01/15/2013

Quarterly Inverter Revenues for the Chinese PV market in 2013 by Power Size

China PV demand to provide US$3 Billion for balance-of-systems suppliers

Revenues of CNY 19.5 billion (US$3.1 billion) will be available to solar photovoltaic (PV) balance-of-systems suppliers in the Chinese PV market for 2013, according to the recent NPD Solarbuzz China

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01/10/2013

Power storage system enhances renewable energy generation and improved grid stability

Greensmith Energy Management Systems, a leader in distributed energy storage control systems continues its growth, now with fourteen customers, including eight electric utilities using the company's

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01/10/2013

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Figure 1: Active Network Management creates a new layer of grid management.

Active network management offered as grid panacea

Alan Gooding, Managing Director, Smarter Grid Solutions

The power industry faces some significant future challenges: to create a more visible and controllable electricity grid to deliver power more reliably, efficiently, and cost effectively and find smarter

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01/09/2013

AETI supports S&B engineers and constructors for UEO natural-gas fractionation project

American Electric Technologies, a leading global supplier of power delivery solutions for the energy industry, announced today it has been selected by S&B Engineers and Constructors to supply turnkey

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01/08/2013

Isolated uModule Power Converter

Willie Chan Sr. Product Marketing Engineer Linear Technology

Properly implemented, galvanic isolation is an effective defense against disturbances in the ground plane often referred to as ground loops, which occur as a result of varying electrical potentials. Physical limitations require that electrical components on a PCB connect to the ground plane at different physical

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01/03/2013