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AREVA T&D and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) Announce Successful First Test Results for a 13 MVA Shielded, Inductive Superconducting Fault Current Limiter (SFCL)
AREVA T&D - AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution (T&D) division and Bruker Energy & Supercon Technologies (BEST) have successfully designed, built and tested a single module of a 13 MVA (2000 A, 6.4 kV) single-phase, shielded-type inductive superconducting fault current limiter (SFCL) at the AREVA T&D Technology Centre in Stafford, UK. more...
For higher capacity and greater grid stability: Siemens to expand HVDC link in New Zealand
Siemens Energy, Inc. - Siemens Energy has received an order from Wellington-based Transpower New Zealand Limited, the national grid operator, to modernize and increase the capacity of the existing high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) link between the country’s North and South Island. more...
ABB wins $120 million order to power Saudi university
ABB Inc. - ABB, the leading power and automation technology group, has won an order worth $120 million from the Saudi Electricity Company to provide power to Saudi Arabia's first university for women, the Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University. more...
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Ocean Power Technologies Completes Successful Trials of Underwater Substation Pod
Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (OPT) - Ocean Power Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: OPTT and London Stock Exchange AIM: OPT) ("OPT" or the "Company") announces the successful completion of trials of its Underwater Substation Pod ("USP") product in Spain. The USP, based on the Company's proprietary design, has been developed to facilitate the collection, networking and transforming of power and data generated by up to ten of its PowerBuoys for transmission to a shore-based electricity grid by one subsea power cable. It has been built as an open platform, and can therefore provide "plug and play" connectivity for any offshore energy device linked to it. more...
Transmission and Distribution: AREVA T&D renews power transformer Key Supplier agreement with Northeast Utilities in the USA
AREVA T&D - AREVA’s Transmission and Distribution division (T&D) in the United States has signed an agreement to be the key supplier of single-phase autotransformers to Northeast Utilities (NU) through to 2014. more...
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Gems from Silicon Valley and GreenBeat 2009

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - Today’s GreenBeat 2009 conference in San Mateo, California, brought together venture capitalists, analysts, electric utility executives and smart grid solutions more...

Since we're talking about risk...

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - ...let’s talk about High-Impact Low-Frequency (HILF) risks to the North American power system.   The North American Electric Reliability Corporation more...

Real Time Condition Monitoring for High Voltage Cables at Industrial City Abu Dhabi

Blogger Photo By LIOS Technology - For TRANSCO’s project ICAD (Industrial City Abu Dhabi ) the German DTS manufacturer LIOS Technology GmbH provided its well recognized more...

SMARTENING UP THE DUMB

Blogger Photo By Kate Rowland - If I see the words “dumb grid” used one more time in the popular media, I’m going to scream!   more...

Planning the Work and Working the Plan

Blogger Photo By Bart Thielbar - The journey of a million miles that I blogged about last week is off to a solid start.  At the more...
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