As soon as solar started being introduced to the grid, operators and engineers raised concerns about solar resources causing instability. Is it possible, however, for utility-scale solar PV plants to provide grid reliability services? Mahesh Morjaria, vice president of PV systems for First Solar, says yes.
Electric grids are mighty complicated. Of course, if you’re in the industry, you don’t need me to tell you that. When we created these huge networks of wires to pass electricity from generator to user, we simultaneously needed to track where the energy originated and where it went so we could figure out how to pay people for the energy they provided.
(Fri, 08 Dec 2017) India is the third-largest steel producer in the world after China and Japan, having surpassed other large steel-making countries such as the United States, Russia, and South Korea over the previous decade, according to the World Steel Association
So if solar won’t be growing in the United States, where should developers look for new markets? One place is in disaster relief. Yung Wong, engineering manager with WorldWater and Solar Technologies explained that when disaster hits, the first thing that the Red Cross and the military do is fly in water bottles.
Flame resistant fabrics are utilized to fabricate array, pieces of clothing, and furniture for an extensive variety of enterprises, for instance, transportation, oil and gas, medicinal services, defense and security. A recent analysis report published by Transparency Market Research (TMR), a rising name in the field of market intelligence, illustrates a few key trends and determinants of the flame resistant fabrics industry.
Swiss clean-tech company Hitachi Zosen Inova (HZI) and its parent company Hitachi Zosen have received a contract to build a power-to-gas (PtG) plant in Japan.
Simmons Edeco, a supplier of wellhead and valve maintenance, asset integrity solutions and onshore drilling services to the global oil and gas industry, has been awarded a contract by EDF Energy, the UK's producer of low-carbon electricity.
Though the power industry continues to endure rapid change in technology, demand and regulation, the five keynote speakers at POWER-GEN International 2017 focused on making the most of a changing market through convergence and collaboration.
About 50 people gathered on Dec. 5 at the Women in Power luncheon during POWER-GEN International in Las Vegas to hear the Woman of the Year and other finalists discuss their roles in affecting change in the energy industry, and the variety of opportunities in energy for the next generation of leaders.
2020: a term that implies clarity of vision. A recent Platts conference certainly featured numerous speakers seeming to claim 20/20 vision on 2020. Yet by the end of the event Andreas Hilides found my own vision to be distinctly blurry.
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