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Ameresco and Philadelphia Water Department Announce Northeast Water Pollution Control Plant Biogas Project
Ameresco, Inc. - Ameresco, Inc. (NYSE:AMRC), a leading energy efficiency and renewable energy company, and the Philadelphia Water Department (PWD) today announced an agreement to design, build and maintain an innovative wastewater biogas-to-energy facility. more...
Fuel cells boost power-plant efficiency
EVANSTON, Ill., Feb 17, 2012 -- UPI - Adding fuel-cell technology to power plants can nearly double a plant's efficiency and cut greenhouse-gas emissions, a U.S. More...
Small roof fire does minimal damage at power plant
Feb 18 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Allie Robinson Bristol Herald Courier, Va. - A spokesperson for Dominion Virginia Power, the company that owns the Virginia City plant, said Saturday afternoon the cause of the fire has not yet been determined. More...
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Inventor seeks to tease energy from power of magnet
Feb 16 - McClatchy-Tribune Regional News - Ellis Smith Chattanooga Times Free Press, Tenn. - Randall Clay is just a simple engineer. At least that's how he introduces himself, before launching into an detailed explanation of the forces at play in a $100,000 gyroscopic apparatus he is building. More...
Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Department of Energy "Bullish" on Combined Heat and Power
Washington, DC, Feb 16, 2012 -- PRWeb.com - During Energy Secretary Steven Chu's February 16 testimony to the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee on the proposed 2013 Department of Energy budget, Committee Member Senator Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), a proponent of Combined Heat and Power (CHP), posed a question to Secretary Chu on the Department of Energy's position on CHP. More...
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Tidal Power Pilot Granted First-Ever U.S. License

Blogger Photo By Salvatore Salamone - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued the first-ever commercial license for tidal power in the United States. The more...

Biomass Densification

Blogger Photo By Salman Zafar -   In a typical biomass pre-processing facility, feedstock arrives at the plant in chops or bales. The bales are cut more...

Much light, little heat efficiency

Blogger Photo By Elisa Wood Lisa Cohn -   By Elisa Wood January 26, 2012 Energy efficiency in the US is much light and little heat – literally.  more...

What Exactly will pay for smart grid ?Who should build the smart grid first ?

By Alok Misra - Smart metering is just remote metering with two way communication if you leave out the rest.If you conbsider that all more...

Smart Grid Trends to Watch for in 2012

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Micro Grids -- Optimizing Gas Fired Distributed Generation

By Peter Noland
There appears now to be almost universal concurrence on a future where distributed generation (DG) assets including solar PV, solar thermal, fuel cells and other forms of on-site power generation produce clean, reliable & economic more...
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The Impending Resurgence of Small-site Decentralized Power Generation

By Harry Valentine
The history of power conversion can be traced back some 4000-years ago with small-site installations involving water wheels doing some form of mechanical work. Crude forms of windmills appeared during a later period. more...
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Renewable Distributed Generation Will Garner Significant Market Share Long Before Grid Cost Parity is Reached

By Paul Alvarez
Energy Central readers in both regulated and deregulated markets should be preparing today to meet this threat; this article will be the first of several to help readers view renewable distributed generation in a new more...
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Decentralized Generation and Power Transmission

By Harry Valentine
A news story broke in early September that a wind farm in Upstate New York had to suspend operations due to a shortage of transmission capacity going into New York City. An announcement followed in more...
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Research on the Characteristics of a Modern Grid: Accommodates All Generation and Storage Options

By Joe Miller
One of the drivers that has enabled the U.S. economy to grow is the quality of our power generation and delivery system. Today, our electricity grid is powered primarily by large, centralized generation facilities with more...
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