Officially established by IEEE Standards and integrated into SCC21, the P1547 project was launched 4/99, and the Working Group (WG) has been on a fast track ever since to get a standard written and accepted by stakeholders in a wide-open consensus process. Relentlessly, meetings have been held 4-6 times a year, around the country.
Subject: UFTO Note – IEEE 1547 Interconnection Working Group Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 IEEE SCC21 Working Group (P1547 Draft Standard For Interconnection) 31 Jan -1 Feb 2002, Arlington, VA. Held in conjunction with the DOE Distributed Power Program Review [covered in a separate UFTO Note] Officially established by IEEE Standards and integrated into SCC21, […]
There is a requirement at DOE for “peer review”, so we’re seeing many of these meetings throughout the year. Last fall there was one for Distributed Energy Resources Program (DER), which includes the Distributed Power Program.
A massive amount of energy is wasted in water distribution systems, and HydroLinq, a new company, has come along to make recovery of that energy a reality. It looks like a big opportunity. The idea is similar to a common practice in the gas pipeline industry, where turbines or expanders are used to reduce pressure from long haul pipelines as the gas enters distribution systems.
This was a large event, with over 9,000 attendees, 500 exhibitors, and 150 technical papers. Sponsored by the IEEE Power Engineering Society, it focuses strictly on T&D technology, though a number of special panel sessions dealt with big picture questions.
While at the IEEE T&D Expo last November, I had the opportunity to meet folks from the National Electric Energy Testing, Research and Applications Center, a not-for-profit at Georgia Tech which focuses exclusively on power delivery technology, including (the integration of) storage and distributed generation.
06 Dec 2001 UFTO Note – JTEC New SolidState Heat to Electricity 05 Dec 2001 UFTO Note – Nickel Hydrogen Battery Ready for Commercialization 28 Nov 2001 UFTO Note – Eneco Announces Direct Heat-to-Electricity Device 29 Oct 2001 UFTO Note – CO,CO2 Removal from reformate H2 10 Oct 2001 UFTO Note – Power Quality 2001 […]
Nickel Hydrogen Batteries have been used in space for decades, and are known for extreme reliability. Ergenics Inc. has basic patents for a “segmented Ni H battery” concept that should make it practical for terrestial uses. They’re building a prototype for ARPA for a military hybrid vehicle, and can make them as small as a laptop computer battery.
