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- Where the Renewables Are. // Electric Perspectives;Nov/Dec2007, Vol. 32 Issue 6, p32
The article reports the areas in the U.S. where renewable energy sources are available. Solar power is hottest in the Northwest and northern California, Montana, Nevada, and Utah. Biomass resources has the same abundance in California, the Northwest, the upper Midwest, northern New England and...
- Integrating Variable Renewable Generation in Utility Operations. Jones, Lawrence E. // Utility Automation & Engineering T&D;Apr2009, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p32
The article focuses on the challenges faced in incorporating wind and solar energy into utility operations. It also discusses the tools being developed in order to make it possible for utilities to incorporate variable resources while keeping grid reliability. It noted that utilities and power...
- energy rush. Townsend, Mark // Geographical (Campion Interactive Publishing);May2002, Vol. 74 Issue 5, p38
Explores the prospects of alternative energy sources for resolving the energy crisis around the world and ending the dependence on Middle East oil reserves. Percentage of European and U.S. energy that comes from renewable sources; Obstacles to efforts toward renewable energy sources; Growth of...
- Concentrating Solar Power. Mehos, Mark // AIP Conference Proceedings;9/12/2008, Vol. 1044 Issue 1, p331
Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) has the potential to contribute significantly to the generation of electricity by renewable energy resources in the U.S.. Thermal storage can extend the duty cycle of CSP beyond daytime hours to early evening where the value of electricity is often the highest....
- Product focus--Hot Water. // Market: Latin America;Apr2006, Vol. 14 Issue 4, p2
Focuses on the market and economic potential of solar water heater in Latin America. Importance of sun as a source of energy; Comparison of the cost of water heated by sunlight and of water heated by electricity; Information on project in Brazil that aims to tap solar water heater.
- sunshine IN A bottle. Koerth-Baker, Maggie // Discover;Jun2009, Vol. 30 Issue 6, p50
The article looks at different electricity storage technologies, which will be needed if the U.S. is to realize a 100% increase in renewable energy using unpredictable sources like wind and solar. Compressed-air energy storage is a system in which nighttime winds are compressed into underground...
- Storage: The Silver Bullet. Boston, Terry // Transmission & Distribution World;Sep2011, Vol. 63 Issue 9, p80
The article focuses on the importance of storage as the major solution for energy storage problem due to its impact on the grid in optimizing asset utilization and the provision of load-frequency control alternatives. It says that with more solar and wind facilities, connecting with the grid,...
- UTILITIES PROMOTE GREEN ENERGY. // In Business;Sep/Oct2004, Vol. 26 Issue 5, p8
The article discusses the utility of green energy. After market surveys revealed that customers of electric utilities had high interest in clean, renewable energy from biomass, wind and solar sources but low awareness of where and how to get it, utility companies got busy. Three Puget Sound,...
- Building a Smart National U.S. Power Grid. Pierce, Alan // Tech Directions;Apr2009, Vol. 68 Issue 9, p10
The author comments on U.S. President Barack Obama's pre-election promises which was to reduce the country's dependence on foreign oil by increasing use of renewable energy to generate electricity. The author notes that Obama's goal is to increase wind, solar, and geothermal energy production...
