The sun keeps shining on Scott Brusaw's concept of solar roadways to replace asphalt. Click inside for the latest news about the Idaho electrical engineer's innovative project and to watch a video where he describes his vision.
ABB unveiled a new family of products at the 2011 Hanover
Fair in Germany that are designed to strengthen the power supply in electricity networks and industrial plants. As this video showcases, the PCS100 family is based on a low-voltage converter and advanced software. It can be adapted to a range of applications, from enabling wind parks to feed power into the grid at the appropriate frequency to connecting various energy storage technologies to the network.
Mike Beyerle of GE describes the ways in which the GE Nucleus can transform smart appliances into part of the smart grid, saving energy and improving convenience for homeowners.
LG unveiled a full range of smart appliances, enabled by LG THINQ™ Technology, at the 2011 International CES. According to LG these products include five key features - Smart Grid, Smart Diagnosis, Smart Access, Smart Adapt and Food Management. Get a first hand look at this new technology in this demo video.
Developed by Hydro-Quebec, LineScout is a high-performance robot that uses leading-edge inspection equipment and advanced maneuverability technology to complete detailed and comprehensive inspection of energized transmission lines. LineScout can navigate line obstacles such as spacer dampers, insulator connections, and aircraft warning indicators. Hydro-Quebec and BCTC received a 2010 Edison Award for their partnership on the field deployment and enhancement of LineScout.
SVC Light with Energy Storage is a dynamic energy storage solution which combines SVC Light performance with the latest battery storage technology. It provides a new dimension in developing smart grids and cost effective, environmentally attractive, and high quality services for existing networks. SVC Light® is ABB's high performance STATCOM (static synchronous compensator). It can provide instantaneous and continuously variable reactive power in response to voltage fluctuations, thereby enhancing grid stability.
Sandeep Vij, vice president and general manager of the Cisco Converged Building Systems Business Unit, announces the evolution of Cisco's Smart Connected Buildings strategy.
Learn how Alvarion's BreezeNET B10 Video plug and play wireless backhaul installation wizard and VPS camera and CPE powering unit can help reduce costs, simplify installation and optimize deployments.
Cisco announces its first set of comprehensive Smart Grid solutions that will help utilities more reliably and efficiently deliver electric power from generation facilities all the way to businesses and homes, resulting in better energy management as well as economic and environmental benefits. In this video Laura Ipsen, SVP and GM of Cisco Smart Grid explains the significance of Cisco's Connected Grid portfolio.
Utility company Pepco is teaming up with the Chevy Volt to test the effects of charging stations on Washington DC's electric grid. Clean Skies News talks to specialists and takes the new electric vehicle out for a spin.
Tesla's Model S, presented at the 2010 Detroit Auto Show, promises to be one of the first production electric cars with a range of almost 300 miles on a single charge.
The federal government is seeking public comment on a proposal to build a $303 million electric car battery plant in Holland, MI. The 800,000-square-foot facility would make lithium ion batteries to be used in new electric cars, such as the Chevy Volt.
Thanks in part to a $300 million grant through the Recovery Act, Johnson Controls is re-opening a plant that is now being retrofitted to produce batteries that will power tomorrow's electric cars.
Eastern Washington' s KNDU news broadcast on Nov. 23, 2009 about the OpConnect Electric Vehicle Charging System, which helps you save time, money and the environment.
The video looks at how improving building efficiency by deploying control networking infrastructure can save significant amounts of money and lower energy needs.
Using longer lasting lithium ion batteries and more efficient turbine engines, ETV Motors in Israel is working to replace piston engines. It recently unveiled a successful prototype.
We're getting mixed signals about the vitality of the smart grid market. On the one hand, the recent DistribuTECH conference was one of the most successful ever. On the other, a well-known Wall Street analyst recently told his clients that the smart metering sector is "facing several headwinds," including weak regulatory support in the U.S. and delays in European adoption. Taking the pulse of the smart grid industry is this week's Tuesday Topic.
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