FERC Issues Major Rule to Encourage Grid Expansion. Considering its import, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order 1000, issued on July 21, has attracted remarkably little notice. Together with its precursor, Order 890, promulgated in 2007, it represents the most important U.S. power grid reform since the system was opened to wholesale competition with Order 888 in 1996. FERC’s objective with Order 1000 is to remove bottlenecks that have impeded expansion of the grid, expedite long-term planning, and make the power system more friendly to intermittent renewable sources of energy. The order mandates development of regional transmission plans and introduces the principle that such plans should take consideration of public policy requirements (such as state renewables portfolio standards).
It also sets out principles for allocation of transmission investment costs. IEEE Smart Grid. Power System Automation Laboratory. Horizon Energy Group. Smart Grid Knowledge and Answers. Global Renewable Energy Network (GReEN) Group News. The wind and solar energy industries in the UK are developing quickly and in interesting ways.. If you are interested in contributing material by renewable energy blogging with us or developing green blog networks then please get in touch! Email lucysweet30@gmail.com Every day new solar installation businesses open up, and many of them fail due to lack of experience, or finance. Other influences such as the recent changes to feed in tariffs can be enough to put companies out of business. It's hard to imagine how frustrating it must be to have worked genuinely hard and honestly to generate green investment and develop business plans based on governement promises, and be very well placed to have business success, when governemtn u-turns, broken promises and policy changes mean you have to totally re-think or even close your business.
It must be very difficult to cope with and incredibly frustrating. Equity investor needed. 100MW+ solar farms development projects in South-West USA. Smart Grid Conferences, Standards & News August 2011. Arizona State University teams up with DCU Ryan Academy - Start Ups - Start-Ups. DCU Ryan Academy for Entrepreneurship has agreed a deal with the Venture Catalyst initiative at Arizona State University to offer first-destination access for Irish start-ups into the US. Start-ups that will be developing in the Propeller Venture Accelerator in Ireland from February 2011 will be able to establish a presence in the US market through the Arizona State University (ASU) SkySong facility in Scottsdale Arizona. Launched in October 2010, with the help of a $1m grant from Arizona governor Jan Brewer, Venture Catalyst is ASU's new entrepreneurial assistance initiative to help faculty, students and ASU-linked companies launch new start-ups or accelerate existing ventures.
"Developing the best venture accelerator for start-ups is our aim, and the new relationship with ASU's Venture Catalyst and SkySong facility is part of the global angle we are taking," says Gordon McConnell, deputy CEO, Ryan Academy. Carmel Doyle. Viruses Enable Carbon Nanotubes to Better Conduct Electrons in Solar Cells. One of the fundamental problems in using carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for solar cell applications is that you often get a mix of semi-conducting nanotubes and conducting (metallic) CNTs. While a couple of years back researchers discovered that adding imperfections to CNTs used in dye-sensitized solar cells helped in their catalytic function, it did not seem to do much for their conductivity, or really make much of a marked effect on their overall efficiency.
But now Angela Belcher and her research associates at MIT, who have been using viruses to improve lithium-ion batteries, have found that they can use viruses to sort out the various nanotubes and create a better material for transporting electrons through it. The research, which was initially published in the journal Nature Nanotechnology, describes how by the manipulation of the protein sequence of the M13 virus it created a pH switch that attracts the carbon nanotubes to it. Smart Grid Panel Agrees on Standards and Guidelines for Wireless Communication, Meter Upgrades. Gaithersburg, Md. – The governing board of the public-private Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard and a set of guidelines important for making the long-planned “smart” electricity grid a reality.
The documents address the need for wireless communications among grid-connected devices as well as the ability to upgrade household electricity meters as the Smart Grid evolves. The SGIP identified “Guidelines for Assessing Wireless Communications for Smart Grid Applications” and “Meter Upgradeability Standard” as critical needs for realizing an energy-efficient, modern power grid with seamlessly interoperable parts. They are now among 17 other standards development projects called “Priority Action Plans,” or PAPs. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) created the SGIP, a group of public and private organizations, to coordinate the development of consensus-based Smart Grid standards. IEEE Smart Grid Group News. (Targeted News Service Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology issued the following news release: The governing board of the Smart Grid Interoperability Panel (SGIP) has voted in favor of a new standard and a set of guidelines important for making the long-planned "smart" electricity grid a reality.
The two documents address the need for wireless communications among grid-connected devices as well as the ability to upgrade household electricity meters as the Smart Grid evolves. The documents were identified by the SGIP along with other standards development projects called "Priority Action Plans," or PAPs, that describe critical needs for realizing an energy-efficient, modern power grid with seamlessly interoperable parts. "Technologies like Wi-Fi and Bluetooth were not designed with Smart Grid in mind," says NIST's Nada Golmie. ANALYSIS: Clean energy VC investment reaches two-year high as solar and green transportation investment spirals.
System analytics for smart microgrids - ASU Libraries. Abstract Publication Title PR Newswire Publisher PR Newswire Association LLC Copyright Copyright PR Newswire Association LLC Jan 30, 2012 Why is this result here? Your query matched the indexed full text of this document. SearchResult. IEEE-USA: Building Careers & Shaping Public Policy. Overview Engineers today start their careers with excellent technical skills and subject-matter expertise. However, they are often less able to cope with the people, procedures and pressures of the real world. This one-hour webinar discusses the 12 most important soft skills engineers need to be more effective in work and in life.
Using straight talk and down-to-earth examples, skills covered include: decision-making, setting priorities and managing time, running meetings, working in teams, better understanding of yourself and others (like co-workers, clients and your manager!) , leadership skills, negotiating, getting feedback, dealing with stress and having fun, and, of course, improving speaking, writing and listening. Selinger's book is Stuff You Don't Learn in Engineering School: Skills for Success in the Real World (Wiley-IEEE Press, 2004).
About the Speaker Carl Selinger is a consultant in aviation and transportation, developing business strategy and applying new technology. Planning the Smart Grid of 2025--Today. Did a Paradigm Shift Emerge in the 24 Hours of the IEEE Spectrum Smart Grid 2025 Game? This is part of my experience in more that 20 engagements, together with many other players, in my attempt to get the attention of participants on the emerging, simple, holistic, Electricity Without Price Controls Architecture Framework (EWPC-AF) paradigm shift away of the obsolete, complex, fragmented, Investor Owned Utilities Architecture Framework (IOUs-AF) in all of its current mix of incremental extensions forms. Was I able to progress with the EWPC-AF in just 24 hours, more that what I have done in the EWPC Blog in more than three years and a half, with close to 650,000 views, more than 250 blog posts entries (many of them articles) and more than 850 comments?
Identified as the EWPC-AF_Creator, I played on about 19 of the 24 hours of the Smart Grid 2025 Game, that was set up in the Foresight Engine’s forecasting platform of the Institute For The Future (IFTF) and organized in concert with and funded by the IEEE Spectrum. That’s a Wrap! Posted onMarch 18, 2011 by admin.