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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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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  |
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  |
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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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.  |
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?  |
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.  |
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?  |
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...  |
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.  |
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  |
IEEE Spectrum May 2006 Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation?  |
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.  |
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.  |
CIO July 15, 2001 Jenna Kinghorn |
The Power to Choose New technologies keep the electricity flowing for IT...  |
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.  |
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  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum January 2011 Peter Fairley |
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart  |
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.  |
IEEE Spectrum October 2012 Joshua J. Romero |
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix  |
Reason June 2009 Lynne Kiesling |
Electric Intelligence Establishing a smart grid requires regulatory reform, not subsidies.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |
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.  |