American companies are increasingly making their own power — and sales — with local wind turbines located near the factories and buildings that consume the power they make, concludes a report released today.
ARPA-E backs 12 new projects to improve the U.S. electric grid
NODES project teams will develop technologies that coordinate load and generation on the electric grid to create a virtual energy storage system.
Battery-based power storage first based on MESA standard
The Snohomish County Public Utility District (PUD) has dedicated the first battery storage system built on the cutting-edge Modular Energy Storage Architecture (MESA), located at a substation in Everett, Washington, designed to improve reliability and the integration of renewable energy sources. The project was made possible in part by a $7.3 million investment from the…
Three battery projects tied to PNNL, DOE will integrate renewable energy, improve power grid
Three Washington state utilities have been awarded $14.3 million in matching grants from the state’s new Clean Energy Fund to lead energy storage projects with ties to federally funded research at the Department of Energy’sPacific Northwest National Laboratory. Gov. Jay Inslee and thestate Department of Commerceannounced the grants today at the Mukilteo, Wash., facility ofUniEnergy Technologies, which…
PNNL’s commercialization license to advance batteries for renewable-energy storage
PNNL’s vanadium redox flow-battery technology licensed by WattJoule A Massachusetts startup has signed a license agreement with Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation’s power grid. The license with Lowell, Mass.-based WattJoule Corporation is expected to advance the commercial use of…
Scientists create new hydrogen fuel safety app
Free tool now available in Apple App Store Engineers and scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory have developed an app that focuses on hydrogen safety. The Hydrogen Tools app, created with the support of DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, comes at a time when the use of fuel cells is…
Localized wind power blowing more near homes, farms & factories
New report provides first detailed look at distributed wind across U.S. The 2012 Market Report on Wind Technologies in Distributed Applications is the first comprehensive analysis on a growing field called distributed wind, which involves generating wind energy close to where it will be used, such as the one pictured. Americans are increasingly installing wind…
Windpower Engineering & Development’s 2013 Influencers and Innovators
We would like to introduce several people who had the inspiration to create the equipment that makes wind turbines work, and those with the gift to recognize a useful industry and did something to make it grow. These influencers and innovators have had such a significant impact on the wind industry that the staff of…