The Consortium for Electric Reliability Technology Solutions (CERTS) has been tasked by DOE to undertake a major new $2.5 million program in electric power system reliability research and technology development.
Thermal Energy International “has received international market patent protection for its revolutionary 90% reduction “Low NOx” FLU-ACE Air Pollution Control and Heat Recovery technology, for application to all natural gas, oil, and coal burning energy process waste exhaust gases.”
There is a common perception in the utility industry that power quality should be dealt with at the service entrance. As a general rule, however, managers of commercial and industrial facilities know that the real problems are inside the plant–their own (heavy) equipment is usually the cause of disruptions to their own sensitive loads.
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ULTRA-NETª improves reliability by providing a low cost, real time, monitoring of critical operating parameters, and enabling the automation of systems that are dispersed over a wide geographical area. It also can be used to augment or replace older communication systems (which can help justify the cost of automation projects).
The industry pays a lot of attention to Fuel Cells and there are many sources of information, so UFTO doesn’t attempt to cover this huge topic except for unusual or less visible developments.
The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is about to embark on what may become the most far-reaching restructuring process to date. Motivated in large part by the advent of distributed resources (small generation and storage technologies) and the California Alliance for Distributed Energy Resources (CADER), the CPUC will evaluate over the next 12 months.
15 Dec 1998 UFTO Note – Microturbine Test Programs 14 Dec 1998 UFTO Note – Hybrid Power Plant (SOFC and MTG) 12 Dec 1998 UFTO Note – Inverters – State-of-the-Art 06 Dec 1998 UFTO Note – European utility industrry 29 Nov 1998 UFTO Note – Adv Technol Program 23 Nov 1998 UFTO Note – CURC […]
