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The US Department of Energy (DOE) will hold its first Science for Our Nation’s Energy Future: Energy Frontier Research Centres Summit & Forum from May 25 through 27 in Washington D.C. The summit will bring together scientists and energy policy leaders to explore the challenges and opportunities in
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Power and automation technology group ABB has won an order worth around $30 million from the Qatar General Electricity and Water Corporation, the electricity and water operator in Qatar, to build two underground substations to help meet increasing residential and commercial demand for power in the capital city of Doha.
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As political turmoil continues to rage across oil-producing regions in the Middle East and Northern Africa and the price of Brent crude climbs past $115 a barrel, now might be a good time to look at how we could speed up the transition to a smarter, more energy efficient society.
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The US Departments of Energy and Defense plan to strengthen their coordination to boost national security through the continued development of advanced clean energy technologies. The two agencies first signed a memorandum of understanding last summer. “Advances in innovation are helping to solve our military challenges, protect our troops, and
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The US Department of Energy’s 2011 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit Technology Showcase is now under way in Washington, DC. Among the companies and technologies being highlighted are: * Berkeley, California-based PolyPlus Battery Company, which is developing a lithium-air battery it says could enable an electric car to travel 500 miles
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The Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC), a project of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE), today launched an educational campaign designed to urge members of Congress to combat the threats posed by America’s dangerous and ongoing dependence on petroleum. The campaign, which includes a comprehensive briefing on the state
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What’s the best way for utility companies to engage their customers on the need for smarter energy grids? A public education program is one good starting point, and someone’s finally launched just such an effort. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a utility company that did it. Silver Spring Networks,
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US Energy Secretary Steven Chu’s 2012 budget request for his department reveals a forward-thinking approach toward energy, with proposed spending boosts for smart-grid technology, electric cars and renewables, and cuts for fossil fuel research and development, and hydrogen technologies. But will that sort of philosophy — which undoubtedly takes the
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Making our energy grids smarter and our cities sustainable is a daunting challenge however you look at it. In the US alone, the energy infrastructure has more than 500,000 miles of high-voltage lines, with many more miles of distribution lines, 3,200-plus electric utilities and over 16,000 power
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The deeper you delve into the proposed vision of a smart, clean-energy grid — much less a supergrid — the more daunting the task appears. Looking into the future is like working your way through a set of matryoshka dolls, never quite sure where it will all end. Still, as the Chinese
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Here’s another bit of data that might need tracking in a changing energy market: tradable energy quotas, or, another way to describe them, electronic rationing units for energy. Faced with increasingly tighter oil supplies as well as pressure to reduce carbon emissions, the UK needs to have plans in
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Who’s who in smart-grid innovation? The coming World Future Energy Summit in Abu Dhabi features some names you’re probably very familiar with … and some you might not have heard of before. Some of the companies that will be on hand to showcase their smart-grid, energy-related products include: * EEI
