Renewables and Efficiency

Utility microgrids can yield numerous benefits to customers and communities. especially as prosumers bring new technologies and sources of power to the grid and customers demand greater electric reliability.

Under the Better Energy Storage Technology Act. the Department of Energy would invest $60 million a year from 2020 through 2024 to complete the projects by September 2023.

New codes requiring electric vehicle (EV) infrastructure in commercial buildings have passed an important hurdle. paving the way for a boost in electric vehicle use that can also provide grid benefits.

The United Kingdom has Made major progress in reducing emissions. according to the IEA’s latest country review.

Engineering researchers have combined two emerging technologies for next-generation solar power and discovered that each one helps stabilize the other.

Researchers have reported a key breakthrough in how the performance of cadmium telluride thin-film solar cells is improved even further by the addition of another material. selenium.

Currently. the largest solar park in Europe is in France and has a capacity of 300 MW.

The increasing demand on the power grid makes the dependency on large central generation units infeasible due to the cost and the losses in the transmission lines. Given the challenges facing the grid of today. distributed generation (DG) has been widely seen as an opportunity to facilitate the planning. management …

Asia’s fourth-largest economy is shifting toward cleaner energy amid growing criticism over its air quality.

This book discusses relevant microgrid technologies in the context of integrating renewable energy and also addresses challenging issues. The authors summarize long term academic and research outcomes and contributions. In addition. this book is influenced by the authors’ practical experiences on microgrids (MGs). electric network monitoring. and control and power …