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IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Peter Fairley |
Why Japan's Fragmented Grid Can't Cope Bridging Japan's east-west frequency divide to stoke power flows will require real engineering hustle.   |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2011
Peter Fairley |
Flexible AC Transmission: The FACTS Machine Flexible power electronics will make the smart grid smart |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2010
John Blau |
Europe Plans a North Sea Grid Undersea cables will transport wind, hydro, and solar power |
The Motley Fool
July 22, 2010
Katherine Tweed |
More Power! ABB Building Longer, More Powerful Transmission in Europe, China It sounds like an infomercial, but ABB is bringing renewables onto the grid with more efficient transmission. |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2006
Karl Stahlkopf |
Taking Wind Mainstream Given wind's intermittency, can the power grid handle much larger amounts of variable generation? |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2011
Peter Fairley |
Germany Folds on Nuclear Power Berlin's decision to shut down reactors means tough energy choices ahead |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2008
Peter Fairley |
Closing the Circuit Engineers working in the teeming cities and lonely deserts of North Africa are creating the last links in a power grid that will ring the Mediterranean Sea |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2012
Vaclav Smil |
A Skeptic Looks at Alternative Energy It takes several lifetimes to put a new energy system into place, and wishful thinking can't speed things along |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2008
Peter Fairley |
Microsoft Scourge Mario Monti and Volunteer Mediators Break Through Europe's Transmission Bottlenecks Can volunteers succeed where the European Commission has failed? |
The Motley Fool
November 15, 2010
Jim Mueller |
Rising Star Buy: Power-One Time to jump on this powerful opportunity. The company manufactures inverters that change DC electricity produced by solar and wind to AC electricity fed into electrical grids. |
Popular Mechanics
December 11, 2008
Andrew Moseman |
Can Offshore Grids Solve Our Wind Power Woes? The European Commission met last month to discuss connecting their growing supply of offshore wind power with a grid spanning the Baltic Sea, North Sea and Mediterranean Sea. |
The Motley Fool
June 1, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Germany May Lead the Next Clean-Energy Revolution Without nuclear power, Germany will need to step up its solar and wind games. |
Wired
July 2001
Steve Silberman |
The Energy Web The best minds in electricity R&D have a plan: Every node in the power network of the future will be awake, responsive, adaptive, price-smart, eco-sensitive, real-time, flexible, humming -- and interconnected with everything else... |
IEEE Spectrum
May 2011
Peter Fairley |
Fukushima's Positive Impact Japan's melting nuclear fuel rods may bring about overdue developments in global power systems. |
IEEE Spectrum
August 2011
Peter Fairley |
Japan Faces Post-Fukushima Power Struggle Crisis transforms renewable energy bill into an antinuclear symbol in Japan. |
IEEE Spectrum
January 2013
John Boyd |
Japan's Digital Grid Scheme Japanese consortium aims to transform the country's centralized grid into islands of interconnected cells |
The Motley Fool
May 20, 2011
Travis Hoium |
DC to AC and Back Again DC microgrids could save a lot of power. |
IEEE Spectrum
November 2007
Peter Fairley |
Power Transmission Without the Power Electronics GE's variable-frequency transformers transfer power between out-of-sync grids without the problems of semiconductor power electronics |
IEEE Spectrum
February 2011
Peter Fairley |
Direct-Current Networks Gain Ground Efficiency tempts computer centers to go DC |
Popular Mechanics
May 17, 2007
Tyghe Trimble |
Turbine Turbulence: How to Fix U.S. Wind Power On the outskirts of Abilene, Texas, if you get close enough, the whoosh of giant, energy-pumping blades might convince you that wind power is destined to grow. |
Industrial Physicist
Eric J. Lerner |
What's wrong with the electric grid? Experts widely agree that failures of the power-transmission system are a nearly unavoidable product of a collision between the physics of the system and the economic rules that now regulate it. |
Wired
March 23, 2009
Brendan I. Koerner |
Power to the People: 7 Ways to Fix the Grid, Now The grid took more than a century to grow into the unwieldy beast it is now. Given the urgency of climate change, energy independence, and economic demands, we have only a fraction of that time to fix it. |
BusinessWeek
October 26, 2009
John Carey |
Wiring America Up to Green Power Should the U.S. subsidize vast high-voltage lines to transport wind and solar electricity to the big cities? |
The Motley Fool
September 29, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Solar Pushes Germany's Energy Costs Lower?! Electricity futures prices have fallen in Germany, thanks to wind and solar. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
John Boyd |
Japan's Green Power Dreams Delayed A year after Fukushima, nuclear power is still down and renewables are far from ramping up |
The Motley Fool
January 6, 2012
Travis Hoium |
Like It or Not, Renewable Energy Is Here to Stay Nuclear and biofuels aren't our energy future, but solar is -- despite what naysayers say. I like and invest in solar power not because I'm a tree hugger, but because the facts and trends tell me this is energy's future. |
BusinessWeek
April 29, 2010
Jeremy van Loon |
Where Wind Power Is Blowing Away Profits As wind power generation grows, it can create regional surpluses of electricity. That makes power prices fall, hurting wind profits. |
BusinessWeek
November 4, 2010
Jeff Green |
Paul Savage: Direct Current's Best Friend Nextek's CEO sees conversion from AC to DC as a huge potential energy saver. |
HBS Working Knowledge
March 8, 2012
Dina Gerdeman |
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid? Replacing the antiquated electrical system in the United States with a super-efficient smart grid always seemed a surefire opportunity for entrepreneurs. So what went wrong? |
Popular Mechanics
January 2007
Ben Hewitt |
Energy Family Part Four: Power Pioneers At the end of a yearlong quest, our man off-the-grid taps into the wind, ramps up his solar array and surveys the future of energy production. |
IEEE Spectrum
December 2005
Madani & Novoosel |
Getting a Grip on the Grid The findings of major electric disturbances around the world highlight the need for cross-regional grid reforms, so that the best available technology is promptly put to use, without lengthy delays arising from American legislative or regulatory processes. |
Popular Mechanics
October 15, 2009
Jennifer Bogo |
Lone Star Energy: Why Texas Will Resist the Call for a Unified Grid A recent proposal to link the eastern, western and Texas grids together to create a national, energy-friendly supergrid has sparked the interest of utilities and energy insiders, but Texas doesn't want to participate. |
InternetNews
December 18, 2007
Andy Patrizio |
Validus Offers A More Direct Power Solution Validus DC Systems will begin to ship a line of products that convert alternating current (AC) into direct current (DC) power starting early next year. The company claims it can improve energy efficiency by up to 40 percent. |
IEEE Spectrum
March 2012
Jean Kumagai |
Virtual Power Plants, Real Power Five kilowatts here, a hundred kilowatts there -- with a smart grid, it all adds up |
Searcher
May 2001
Irene E. McDermott |
The Internet Express - I got the power: alternative energy resources on the web... |
IEEE Spectrum
October 2012
Joshua J. Romero |
Blackouts Illuminate India's Power Problems Weak links in the grid prove difficult to fix |
IndustryWeek
April 20, 2011 |
Powering Up: The Smart Grid's Next Steps While meters have received the bulk of the attention so far, the supply side is where the smart grid will be built. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004 |
New Products Fixed-Carbon-Composition Resistor... Miniature 40/60-Watt Power Supply... Three-Phase and Neutral EMC Filter... PolySwitch to Prevent Damage to Control Boards... Low Profile Switching Power Supplies... 150-Volt Rectifiers... etc. |
Home Toys
August 2005 |
Making a Case for Advanced AC Power Conditioning The sensitivity and sophistication of today's electronic circuits require serious AC power conditioning. Anything less is too costly to consider, and will limit the performance users demand. |
Wired
May 2005
Daniel H. Pink |
The New Power Generation Soccer moms, taco shops, even real estate developers - mainstream America is starting to pull the plug and rely on homegrown solar energy. Call it the dawn of the hygrid age. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
July 2004
Ben Ames |
Power Control is Trickier Than it Used to be Modern military equipment must be reliable and inexpensive, as designers rely on electronic components to ensure high performance on the digital battlefield. |
The Motley Fool
July 25, 2011
Travis Hoium |
Heat Wave Highlights Our Aging Grid When the temperature rises, we can see exactly where there's money to be made investing in the power grid. |
Popular Mechanics
March 25, 2009
Erik Sofge |
Forget the Smart Grid, We Need Smart Spending (On the Grid) Some of the stimulus bill is slated for projects to fix our energy infrastructure. But before we start spending, the terminology needs refining. Here is how a buzzword is confusing the plan to upgrade the electrical grid. |
Chemistry World
September 1, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
Limestone is efficient energy distributor Limestone batteries could be the key to transporting energy across huge distances, according to chemists in Germany. |
The Motley Fool
November 8, 2010
Jim Mueller |
One Energy Stock to Keep Your Eye On Not a driller or an oil company or a solar panel maker. Instead, it makes a needed component. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
December 2005
Powers & Penglase |
Using DC-DC Converters in Mobile-Based Ground Equipment As designers incorporate increasing amounts of sophisticated electronics into industrial and military vehicle-based applications, high-density DC-DC converters have evolved to keep pace. |
IndustryWeek
June 20, 2012 |
Can the U.S. Revitalize its Infrastructure? Pushing the limits of an aging infrastructure, U.S. manufacturers face a future of increasing costs and instability unless new technologies and new investments can rejuvenate the system. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2006
Gagliardi & Grey |
Old World, New Grid CERN's massive parallel processing system is expanding from particle physics to everything else, and from Europe to everywhere else. The initiative, funded by the European Union, is called Enabling Grids for E-sciencE (EGEE). |
Fast Company
October 19, 2011
Anthonia Akitunde |
European Offshore Wind Conference Europe leads in offshore wind power, with more than 1,000 turbines pumping 3,294 megawatts into the grid. |
PC Magazine
October 28, 2004
Bill Machrone |
Electron Leak? Raging Torrent! How technology wastes power, why the problem worsens, and what to do. |
