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TVA Incentives Fuel Homegrown Power, Generation Partners Tops 1 Megawatt
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 10, 2010 /PRNewswire - With solar panels and wind turbines popping up across the region, the Tennessee Valley Authority's homegrown renewable energy program, Generation Partners, now has enough power to meet the annual electricity needs of a fairly large subdivision. More...
Controversial Cleantech: Three Alternative Energy Resources Spurred by Government Support, Spurned by Extreme Greens
Mar 10 - MARKETWIRE - As controversial as they are viable, three alternative energy resources are gaining government support as practical solutions in the global clean-energy revolution: carbon emissions trading, clean coal, and nuclear power. More...
New way to produce electricity discovered
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Mar 9, 2010 -- UPI - A team of Massachusetts Institute of Technology scientists say they've discovered a phenomenon that might lead to a new way of producing electricity. More...
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Jacobs Receives Project Management Contract From Marafiq in Saudi Arabia
Jacobs Consultancy - Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. (NYSE: JEC) announced today that it received a contract from Marafiq to serve as project management contractor (PMC) for Marafiq's ongoing investment program in The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. more...
EasyCampus Selected for Clean Energy Training Program
Mar 08, 2010 -- PRWeb.com - Educadium and the International Air and Hospitality Academy announced today the creation of a new online learning center for IAHA's Renewable Energy Institute. More...
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Weaving the Threads: Perspectives from the American Coal Council's Spring Meeting

Blogger Photo By Peter Spinney - I was recently asked to make a presentation at the American Coal Council's Spring Meeting in Clearwater Beach, Florida about more...

Unleashing Design Thinking in the Power Industry by Reframing

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Design Thinking demand side radical disruptive innovations to the power industry at the "fuzzy front end" are facilitated with a more...

Virginia can Become the Nation’s Leader in Developing Clean Energy

Blogger Photo By Dr. Carole Inge - With the recent move of SAIC headquarters to Northern Virginia and the possibility of Northrop Grumman following suit, it is more...

Another Institutional Memory Warning: Do today's power grids have little centralized control?

Blogger Photo By Jose Antonio Vanderhorst-Silverio - Smart Grid Command & Control: The Death of the Giant Brain in the Sky, an article written by Jesse Berst more...

Monitoring System for Overhead Line Conductors. Meeting the demands of a changing power environment

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How Optimization Addresses Your Most Critical Issues in Energy & Power

 Mar 19, 2010 - 1:30PM Eastern - Your City

One IBM client is saving over $65 thousand per day on unit commitment while reducing its carbon footprint by 100 thousand tons annually. Unit commitment applications based on IBM optimization technologies are running at major system operators; one of them more...
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KEMA's 21st Executive Forum

 Mar 30, 2010 - Mar 31, 2010 - Irving, TX - USA

As the leading event in the US retail energy industry, KEMA's Executive Forum will gather senior executives, regulators, energy buyers, investors and other stakeholders from across North America to discuss the key business and policy issues facing retail energy markets.

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Essentials of Energy Risk Management

 Apr 13, 2010 - Apr 14, 2010 - Houston, TX - USA

The volatility of energy prices has highlighted the need for energy professionals in all areas to develop a functional proficiency in the management of energy risks. This program imparts a practical understanding of the array of tools and concepts that more...
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Managing the Hedging Risk

By Elie Zabal
Hedge accounting is an operational problem. Getting it wrong points to failure in corporate governance and can completely erode investor confidence in a company. That makes it a real enterprise risk, and it needs to more...
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Improving Intra-Day Positions Integrating Generation and Demand Data in Near Real-Time

By Edward Cuoco
Lower commodity prices and more competition in energy markets continue to pressure profits and margins which, in turn, increase the importance of fast and accurate risk reporting in energy trading. Internally, faster position reporting and more...
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What Do You Know and How Do You Know It? Knowledge Management Might be the Answer

By Robert Mayfield
What does it mean to say you "know" something? And, more importantly, how do you gain that knowledge in the first place and how do you capture it, retain it and retrieve it when needed? more...
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Proactive Reconciliation Process in Power Scheduling

By Mithun Balaji Rajaram
Energy market participants are facing lot of issues in actualizing their physical power schedules, which has a direct impact on their financial stability and thereby affects performance. Scheduling of physical power & actualization of the more...
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A Suggested Component-Level, Units-of-Production Plant Depreciation Method

By Ramon Mischkot
Because of the intermittent nature of green technology power production, fossil-fired plants will be cycled more and more as wind and solar generation comprise an ever increasing percent of total power generation. This will give more...
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