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U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin Commission Microgrid at Fort Bliss

EL PASO, Texas, May 16, 2013 /PRNewswire - U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) officials commissioned the first U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) grid-tied microgrid integrating both renewable resources and energy storage during a ribbon cutting ceremony today at Fort Bliss, Texas. More...

Energy Department Launches Public-Private Partnership to Deploy Hydrogen Infrastructure

May 13, 2013 -- ENERGY DEPARTMENT DOCUMENTS AND PUBLICATIONS/ContentWorks - The Energy Department today launched H2USA -- a new public-private partnership focused on advancing hydrogen infrastructure to support more transportation energy options for U.S. More...

Siemens SGT6-2000E selected for peaking generation in Oklahoma, USA

Siemens Energy, Inc. - Siemens Energy continues its recent successes in the US market with a contract award to deliver an SGT6-2000E gas turbine to Kay County, Oklahoma, in the US. more...

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ScottMadden Issues New Energy Industry Update

ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently released The Energy Industry Update. more...

ScottMadden Insight: Quick Fossil Benchmarking Analysis

ScottMadden, Inc. - ScottMadden, Inc., one of North America's leading energy consulting firms, recently launched its Quick Fossil Benchmarking Analysis service. more...

ABB commissions control system upgrade on Pratt & Whitney FT8 TWINPAC turbines

ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, today announced that it has successfully commissioned a Symphony control system upgrade for the Pratt & Whitney FT8 TWINPAC turbines located at Iberdrola's Klamath Cogeneration Facility. more...

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The Distributed Power Generation Story

By Jon Rabitoy
On: May 6, 2013

There was a time in my corporate power generation, design engineering career, where the executives of our company, shifted our engineering departments focus from funded design engineering projects, to, a heavy dosage of industrial engineering more...

Distributed Generation - Minimal Rules (Part 2)

By Joao Gomes
On: September 11, 2012

We must be careful so that these "Minimal Rules" do not prevent small generators can not meet, especially in the aspect of cost and demand consulting with the other requirements.

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Distributed Generation - Minimal Rules (Part 1)

By Joao Gomes
On: September 6, 2012

Distributed Generation will bring flexibility, reliability and security in the electric industry. While bringing many benefits, there are still enormous barriers to their implementation. Distributed Generation should meet the needs of individual consumers and communities more...

Micro Grids -- Optimizing Gas Fired Distributed Generation

By Peter Noland
On: September 7, 2010

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...

The Impending Resurgence of Small-site Decentralized Power Generation

By Harry Valentine
On: March 16, 2009

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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