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IEEE Spectrum
July 2011
Peter Fairley
Flywheels Keep the Grid in Tune Spinning masses face off against big batteries in the half-billion-dollar market for grid stability mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
May 2000
Charles Platt
Re-Energizer From the space station to power stations, the fast-spinning flywheel is about to revolutionize the way we store energy. mark for My Articles similar articles
InternetNews
September 8, 2009
Could a Maglev Flywheel Save Your Datacenter? When power gets cut, depend on 600 pounds of steel, Active Power says - but also check the emergency stop button on your generator. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
March 23, 2009
Vince Beiser
Store Power in Super Batteries Storing wind and solar power is key to the successful transition to these energy sources. mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
April 2010
Grace V. Jean
Navy Taps Oceans for Power As the Navy dives headlong into the challenge of meeting its alternative energy goals within the next decade, technologists are striving to help the service harness solar power trapped in ocean waters to generate electricity for its shore-side bases mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jean Kumagai
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
December 2010
Seth Blumsack
How the Free Market Rocked the Grid It led to higher rates and rolling blackouts, but it also opened the door to greener forms of electricity generation mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Food Engineering
November 4, 2007
Wayne Labs
Sustaining Your Energy Action Plan An energy action plan should start with a thorough analysis of the manufacturing facilities WAGES, that is, the five utilities water, air, gas, electricity and steam. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
March 2009
John Voelcker
How Green Is My Plug-In? The carbon impact of the millions of electric vehicles soon to hit the road will depend on the grids that supply them. mark for My Articles similar articles
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? mark for My Articles similar articles
Food Processing
April 2012
Dave Fusaro
PepsiCo Casa Grande Plant Reaches 'Near Net Zero' for Sustainability Frito-Lay's Casa Grande, Ariz., plant is nearly self-sustaining in water, heat and electricity. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
April 2009
William Sweet
The Biggest Little PV Plant in the East The northeastern United States is not where most would think to put a photovoltaic power plant. But one just started up in Pennsylvania this winter. It's delivering the watts, but at what cost? mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
October 2006
Phillip F. Schewe
Electric Idyll Idaho's major utility has resisted deregulation and is doing just fine. Idaho Power prides itself on the care it takes maintaining the basic physical elements of its grid, starting with the distribution transformers seen being tested and repaired. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 28, 2010
Eric Wesoff
Energy Storage Needs Better Utility Policy, Language, Culture How about we start by calling storage, storage and a battery, a battery? mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
November 1, 2011
Travis Hoium
Another Bankruptcy Black Eye for the DOE Beacon Power is the latest to bite the dust after getting a Department of Energy loan guarantee. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2013
Jean Kumagai
The Smartest, Greenest Grid What the little Danish island of Bornholm is showing the world about the future of energy mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? mark for My Articles similar articles
InternetNews
March 24, 2010
IBM Smart Grid Push Aims for Power Efficiency In a team-up with eMeter, IBM plans to help public utilities improve their power usage and efficiency. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2011
Travis Hoium
Heat Wave Highlights Our Aging Grid When the temperature rises, we can see exactly where there's money to be made investing in the power grid. mark for My Articles similar articles
CIO
July 15, 2001
Jenna Kinghorn
The Power to Choose New technologies keep the electricity flowing for IT... mark for My Articles similar articles
Bank Technology News
October 2008
Dan Sharplin
Keep the Grid Going and Reap Rewards Instead of simply putting up with higher electric bills and periodic service disruptions, bank chains have a unique opportunity to become part of the energy solution-and to profit from it at the same time. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
John Boyd
Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells mark for My Articles similar articles
National Defense
February 2009
Frodl & Manoyan
Converting U.S. Car Park to Hybrids Should Be Priority One Reducing personal vehicle demand for gasoline is the quickest and most effective way to cut our consumption of crude oil, and by extension, make our nation more secure. mark for My Articles similar articles
InternetNews
September 15, 2009
U.S. Reviewing Cyber Threat to Power Grid Chinese researcher uses publicly available data to demonstrate how cyber terrorists could knockout entire West Coast grid with relative ease. mark for My Articles similar articles
Home Toys
February 2006
Michael Kintner-Meyer
Grid Friendly Appliances What can home appliances do to help ensure the reliability of the electricity grid? A lot -- if they employ smart control technology. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
October 2007
John Voelcker
Can Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Keep the Electric Grid Stable? Speakers at an IEEE-USA symposium on plug-in hybrid electric vehicles debate the promises and challenges of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. mark for My Articles similar articles
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wall Street & Technology
April 28, 2007
Penny Crosman
Don't Panic, but the Grid's Going Down There's no question that New York's energy grid is struggling to keep up with growing demand. Wall Street firms need to realize that blackouts and brownouts are likely this summer and will become more frequent in the future. Here's why. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
June 19, 2009
Rich Duprey
Are We Smart Enough for the Smart Grid? Where solar, ethanol, or similar alt-energy platforms require substantial investments, the Smart Grid allows start-ups to develop tools and devices to collect and organize the data on consumption to become the 10-baggers of the next decade. Here's how to profit from this next big thing. mark for My Articles similar articles
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
February 14, 2011
Travis Hoium
Grid Storage Is Starting to Heat Up Battery makers are putting an increased focus on the electrical grid for business. mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
March 2007
Jay Leno
Jay Leno Goes Green with Time-Tested Steam The Tonight Show host looks to the past to make his garage more environmentally sound using giant steam and natural-gas engines from the 19th century. mark for My Articles similar articles
Wired
May 2005
Daniel H. Pink
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Peter Fairley
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart mark for My Articles similar articles
Popular Mechanics
May 2008
Erik Sofge
Rebuilding America Special Report: How to Fix U.S. Infrastructure American infrastructure is in trouble, from collapsed bridges to leaking dams. Here are some fresh ideas, smart engineering and new technology that can be used to fix it. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Joshua J. Romero
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix mark for My Articles similar articles
Reason
June 2009
Lynne Kiesling
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
August 31, 2009
Rich Duprey
Utility to Drive Smart Grid Advances Drive a car with one foot on the gas and the other on the brake, and you'll get some idea of how we're driving our energy sector today. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
September 22, 2008
Toby Shute
Google Swoops on the Smart Grid Fresh off of its investment in next-generation geothermal power, Google makes another notable cleantech move, announcing it's pairing up with General Electric to bring our electric grid into the 21st century. mark for My Articles similar articles
AskMen.com
Fraser Masefield
Indian Grand Prix 2012 KERS stands for Kinetic Energy Recovery System and is a means of recovering a vehicle's kinetic energy from the heat generated by the car under braking. The energy is then stored in a battery or used to turn a flywheel for later use under acceleration. mark for My Articles similar articles
The Motley Fool
February 28, 2005
Bill Paul
Take Energy Tech Back From the Day Traders Many energy stocks aren't getting a fair shake in the market, but ETFs could change that. mark for My Articles similar articles
IEEE Spectrum
January 2009
You Tell Us: Who's Got the Power? The coordinated introduction of a group of technologies will make Boulder the first city in the United States to be powered by a so-called smart grid by December 2009. mark for My Articles similar articles