Smart Power Grid
January 2013
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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Date:
01/31/2013
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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Date:
01/30/2013
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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Date:
01/30/2013
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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Date:
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.
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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Date:
01/27/2013
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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Date:
01/22/2013
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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Date:
01/21/2013
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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Date:
01/20/2013
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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Date:
01/17/2013
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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Date:
01/16/2013
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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Date:
01/15/2013
Quarterly Inverter Revenues for the Chinese PV market in 2013 by Power Size
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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Date:
01/10/2013
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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Date:
01/10/2013
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Figure 1: Active Network Management creates a new layer of grid management.
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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Date:
01/09/2013
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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Date:
01/08/2013
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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Date:
01/03/2013
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