Renewable Energy and the Smart Grid – Recent Posts on Becrux
IEEE Power & Energy Magazine – July/August 13 October 2009
Energy storage for the grid is now an acceptable idea. IT WORKS! The IEEE is one of the world’s leading professional associations for engineers. The list of feature articles in the July/August 2009 magazine for the IEEE Power & Energy Society provides a brief overview of energy storage technologies for energy industry professionals.
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Solar thermal is a smarter option 13 Octorber 2009
Energy storage is the main issue. Coordinating energy storage and renewable sources with a Smart Grid AT SCALE will eventually be an alternative to coal… A distributed network of renewable sources and gas turbines could supply a future Smart Grid… Solar thermal power stations might be quite quick to set up once you have a production line for the components sorted out. You might think of solar thermal power stations with linear Fresnel reflector arrays as something of a ‘disposable’ renewable power station – they could in time be cheap and quick to install and they may have an operational life of a decade or so, and they can be quite quickly decommissioned as well. They might not be the most efficient since the range in temperatures for the heat engines might not be that great, but with a well planned production and installation process you could make up for the inefficiency with a high number of installed units…
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The Smart Grid and Energy Efficiency 11 October 2009
The initial high level framework and roadmap for the Smart Grid was published on the 24th of September 2009 in NIST Framework and Roadmap for Smart Grid Interoperability Standards, Release 1.0 The ambitious targets that the US have declared for reducing greenhouse gas emissions must have been arrived at through realistic modelling [of the Smart Grid]. They are achievable…
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Stages towards sustainable energy systems 11 October 2009
There will be a few steps in a change to sustainable and large scale energy systems. The stages will overlap and they will last for decades. The technology will be continually updated and, as with computers, the hardware and software will need to be continually replaced to keep up with the best that is available. This is a very different model for energy infrastructure compared to the traditional large engineering projects to build centralised power stations.
1. Build a Smart Grid Framework
2. Install renewable sources of energy and energy storage capacity
3. Shut down major sources of greenhouse gas emissions
4. Actively remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere…
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Alkali-metal thermal to electric converter – Wikipedia 7 October 2009
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Commerce Secretary Unveils Plan for Smart Grid Interoperability 26 September 2009
The Smart Grid is what will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in our society. It is a complex system of systems and the communications and information management systems will constitute networks of networks. It is not so much about the solar panel that you install on the roof of your house, it is more about creating a networked energy system that solar panels (and anything else like appliances, batteries, plug-in electric cars, etc) can be plugged into and coordinated…
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How Will the Smart Grid Work?: Scientific American 26 September 2009
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Renewable energy Category – Becrux.
A post for the Blog Action Day on Climate Change www.blogactionday.org
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