Relay protection, SCADA, Metering, and Cybersecurity for electrical infrastructure.
Enel signed a two-year agreement with Amber Kinetics, the US-based start-up born out of an initiative of professors and researchers from UC Berkeley, with the aim of jointly assessing the start-up’s innovative “flywheel” storage technology, which is an electromechanical system consisting of a large rotating mass able to store energy.
The pace of adoption for electric cars over the next few years “could be surprising” and changing the global energy and auto industries faster than people expect, said Enel Chief Executive Officer Francesco Starace in an interview with Bloomberg.
Eskom and Électricité de France (EDF) today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to extend peer cooperation in the fields of transmission and distribution of electricity.
By 2018, utilities should see significant improvement in smart glasses, helmets, and other augmented reality devices, concludes an EPRI study.
DONG Energy has decided to retire «Vindeby», the world’s first offshore wind farm, which 25 years ago marked the birth of the offshore wind industry.
National Grid, one of the world’s largest energy companies, has selected Siemens to provide technology to help deploy the IEC 61850 digital design standards for its bulk transmission substations.
IEC TC 57 Working Group 10 "Power system IED communication and associated data models" met last week in Geneva (Switzerland) at the IEC central office. Mr. Charles Jacquemart (IEC Technical Officer) presented some very interesting figures about the TC 57 and especially WG 10. The following slides are published here with the permission of Mr. Jacquemart.
GE releases new wide-area features on the field-proven Multilin UR platform of protection & control solutions.
The first Wattway solar road pilot in America has popped up in rural west Georgia. The Ray C. Anderson Foundation, named for sustainable manufacturing pioneer Ray Anderson, is testing renewable technologies along an 18-mile stretch of road, and recently installed 538 square feet of Colas‘ Wattway solar road system near the border between Georgia and Alabama.
After announcing the project back in September, we have now learned that Tesla and Southern California Edison (SCE) have completed the massive 80 MWh energy storage station using Tesla’s new Powerpack 2 at the Mira Loma substation.
ABB has teamed up with India’s national electricity grid operator Power Grid Corporation of India Limited (POWERGRID) in a mega project worth over $640 million for ABB to deliver a transmission link that will have the capacity to bring reliable electricity to more than 80 million people. The Raigarh-Pugalur 800 kilovolt (kV) ultra-high-voltage direct current (UHVDC) system will connect Raigarh in Central India to Pugalur in the southern state of Tamil Nadu.
In the Netherlands all NS's 1.200.000 train trips per day are now without any CO2 emissions. The Dutch railways company NS is the world’s first railway company that gets 100% of its energy from wind energy.
Upside Energy's Virtual Energy Store uses algorithms to optimise energy storage devices between self-consumption and providing services to both distribution and transmission networks.