Air conditioning: energy consumption?

…air conditioning energy performance are through higher COPs, improved home insulation, and smart controls to optimize cooling. Efficiency gains are particularly helpful to smooth out increasingly volatile grids (best note…

Power cuts: how frequent are grid disruptions?

Are US power cuts becoming more frequent data by disruption cause and duration

…Finally it illustrates the need for smart grid and power electronics technologies. Our cleaned-up interpretation of the raw data, some analytics, averages, and charts are available in the data-file. The…

Power grids: opportunities in the energy transition?

power grid opportunities in the energy transition

…to the grid through flywheels, supercapacitors, synchronous condensers, batteries, smart energy. Our grid models reflect growing demand for infrastructure in all of these categories. (11) Reactive power compensation. Apparent power…

Powin: grid-scale battery breakthrough?

Powin technology review

…software-side. This includes smart features allowing operators to control the way batteries are balanced. The technology also tracks whether batteries are still covered within warranty, on systems envisaged to have…

Solar volatility: tell me lies, tell me sweet little lies?

short-term volatility of solar

…the energy transition. But how can industrial processes truly be ‘powered by solar’? Buffering the volatility creates opportunities for gas and nuclear back-ups, inter-connectors, supercapacitors, smart energy and power electronics?…

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