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Kohler and Toyota partner on hydrogen fuel cell for U.S. hospital

Kohler Power Systems and Toyota have developed a hydrogen fuel cell power generation system for Klickitat Valley Health hospital.

Steady Energy to decarbonize residential heating with SMRs

Steady Energy has raised EUR 2 million ($2.2 million) in seed funding to build the world’s first LDR-50 reactor-based heating plant by 2030.

POWERGEN 2023 keynote speakers: Transitioning to net-zero challenging but doable

Hydrogen, zero-emission load following resources, small nuclear reactors, and sustainability were the key themes presented by four keynote speakers at POWERGEN 2023 in Orlando, Florida.

JFK Terminal deploys solar microgrid to mitigate potential grid outages

A solar microgrid at the New Terminal One at JFK International Airport aims to bring clean energy and resilience to the busy airport.

Navigating the route to more sustainable mission-critical power

Mission-critical power is clearly becoming more efficient and sustainable. The challenge is to continue this progression while embracing other exciting technologies, such as batteries and fuel cells.

SDG&E picks Mitsubishi Power battery storage for microgrid projects

The microgrid projects equipped with battery storage must be commercially operable no later than August 1, 2023.

AEP signs up to pilot low-emission linear generator technology

Mainspring Energy said it signed a memorandum of understanding with American Electric Power to pilot its linear generator technology in Oklahoma. The pilot project is expected to help AEP evaluate a variety of potential grid-side use cases for the technology, including placing scalable generation in load pockets to delay or avoid transmission and distribution upgrades, capacity that can switch between

GenCell’s hydrogen fuel cell design helps this utility boost reliability, cut its carbon footprint

The need for resilient, sustainable backup power technology is growing due to factors that include increasingly severe and frequent weather events, the expanding use of intermittent renewable resources and higher demand for electricity as the economy electrifies. That was the message from Shelli Zargary and Jorge Castilla Aguilar of GenCell, who spoke during a Knowledge Hub session on the exhibit

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Mainspring Energy said it signed a memorandum of understanding with American Electric Power to pilot its linear generator technology in Oklahoma. The pilot pr…

The need for resilient, sustainable backup power technology is growing due to factors that include increasingly severe and frequent weather events, the expandin…

Global energy storage market set to grow 20X by 2030; will hit one terawatt-hour

According to the latest outlook from Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF), energy storage installations will reach a cumulative 358 gigawatts/1,028 gigawatt-hour…

Six utilities providing New Energy Mix insights in this month’s POWERGEN+ series

The August series of the online POWERGEN+, coming up in little more than two weeks, will feature a healthy dose of insights on microgrids, distributed energy im…

The future grid wavelength: Migrating SDH to Internet Protocol

By Dominique Verhulst, Global Energy Practice Leader, Nokia The longevity of Plesiochronous Digital Hierarchy/Synchronous Digital Hierarchy (PDH/SDH) communicat…

FERC strengthens Order 2222: More good news for renewable, DER producers

By Rao Konidena FERC Order 2222 guided stakeholders, including renewable project developers, to aggregate distributed energy resources (DER) such as PV solar wi…

POWERGEN+ Flashback: Caterpillar in deal for largest single-site microgrid in UAE

(Editor’s Note: This story first ran in August 2019. Caterpillar will be presenting a POWERGEN Plus session on CHP-cogeneration next week. Register here)….

Blackstone investment fund seeding $250M into new venture for microgrids, storage, CHP in C&I sector

Private equity investment giant Blackstone is creating a new portfolio company focused on financing and owning distributed energy assets for the commercial, ind…

Embracing innovation: Infor’s roadmap on sustainable operations for electric utilities

Today’s electric utilities are facing unprecedented challenges, including “end of life” siloed software systems, rapid technology changes, increased regul…

Is it possible to future-proof your utility’s digital operations?

If you are like many utilities, your technology and infrastructure solutions are at, or are reaching, end of life status — and are in desperate need of an upg…

Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems rebrands, drops Hitachi and systems

Today, Mitsubishi Power, a major subsidiary of the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) Group, officially changed its corporate name from Mitsubishi Hitachi Power …

AVK, Rolls-Royce to supply diesel standby gensets in UK, Ireland

The exclusivity agreement was signed by AVK’s UK Managing Director Chris Pritchard, MTU’s UK Managing Director Bruce Phillips and Vice President Power Gener…