Denmark based Vestas Wind Systems focuses only on developing wind energy. If company projections prove accurate, by 2020 as much as 10% of the world’s electricity consumption will be met by wind energy. The company also claims many wind energy innovations. Pitch controls, for instance, continue to get close scrutiny because they govern a turbine’s power…
National Instruments and Prolucid put green energy on the Canadian Grid
National Instruments has partnered with Prolucid LocalGrid Technologies Inc. to build the next-generation energy management system for Toronto Hydro-Electric System Limited. Funded by nearly $2.5 million in grants from Canada’s ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative and Ontario’s Smart Grid Fund, the project takes advantage of distributed intelligence technology to manage renewable energy generated by the community onto…
Working Toward a Smarter Grid
Technological progress is a common external force impacting energy companies worldwide, whether it is providing an abundant supply of electricity, enabling communications and distributed intelligence at the measurement nodes in the power grid, or improving overall reliability, monitoring, and safety through disruptive technologies. Smart grid technologies are designed to optimize the push and pull from…
5 control trends engineers cannot ignore
Engineers should be taking advantage of at least five trends forming in the control industry, says S. Arves Stolpe, a product manager with National Instruments, Austin, Texas (ni.com). Stolpe says that drivers for the trends come from ideas such as the notion that complexity translates to value. “The easy control problems have been solved, hence…