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· New Easy Access for Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
· Headlines for the October 7, 2011 – Utility E Alert
· Many Storage Technologies Under Development
New Easy Access for Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
One challenge is to provide access to the best information. Another is to make it easy for subscribers to find it. Power Plant Air Quality Decisions has good access by a variety of individual key words. This organized key word system is far superior to the random word searches (e.g. Google). However, it is possible to improve the experience with our new “Easy Gate” access system.
Most subscribers to Power Plant Air Quality Systems are involved in more than one narrow search. We provide them a gate organized around their multiple subject interests.
We make the search task much easier for them. There is a free version in our Global Knowledge Network. It does not link to the webinars and presentations but does show the organization.
· Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
You will note that you can search by broad radii such as equipment. If you want just SO2 and equipment you see the following display:
Data Search by Power Plant Air Quality Easy Gate
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Circulating Dry Scrubbers for PM2.5 Compliance by Terence Ake – Hot Topic Hour – May 12, 2011 |
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Beneficial Byproducts of Coal Combustion and Gasification Webinar – April 28, 2011 |
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Compliance Strategies for PM2.5 – Hot Topic Hour – May 12, 2011 |
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The Easy Gate concept has significant potential to improve access to information on a more general basis. This is discussed at:
· The information in our Global Knowledge Orchard includes YouTube videos. In case you did not attend the excellent presentation by Dave Early on optimization of coal-fired boilers by measuring coal flow and other parameters you can view it on YouTube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lT4zGqI1k8s
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Here are the Headlines for the October 7, 2011 – Utility E Alert
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1045 – October 7, 2011
Table of Contents
COAL – US
COAL – WORLD
GAS / OIL – US
GAS / OIL – WORLD
NUCLEAR
BUSINESS
HOT TOPIC HOUR
For more information on the Utility Environmental Upgrade Tracking System, click on: http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/brochures/energy.html#42ei.
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Many Storage Technologies under Development
Key to the increased use of renewable energy is the ability to store the energy produced. Recent articles in McIlvaine’s Renewable Energy Updates illustrate there’s a great deal of work going on in the area.
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Alstom, in consortium with Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), has been awarded a contract worth over €285 million by Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDC) to install a 1000 MW variable speed pumped storage hydro power plant on the river Bhagirathi in the state of Uttarakhand, India. It will be India’s first pumped storage power plant to use variable speed technology. Alstom’s share of the contract is worth around €180 million.
Alstom will supply four 250 MW variable speed turbine & generator units and other equipment including main inlet valves and control and protection systems. On completion, the plant’s electricity output will provide much-needed power to the country’s northern grid.
Pumped storage is the most efficient and flexible form of storing electricity on a large scale, enabling utilities to respond quickly to demand and replacing the fossil fuels traditionally used during peak demand periods with renewable, CO2 free energy. Variable speed pump turbines, which offer even greater efficiency, represent the latest innovation in pumped storage technology.
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The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) is developing a new report to define functional requirements for customer energy storage systems (CESS). The project is engaging energy storage stakeholders to collaborate on the development of the functional requirements through a public process.
EPRI's effort is designed to create an understanding between electric utilities and their storage needs, the manufacturers and suppliers of customer energy storage systems, and customers of the systems.
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According to a new report from Pike Research, energy storage applications will drive a total worldwide investment of just over $122 billion in energy storage projects during the period between 2011 and 2021.
Pike Research anticipates that among the various application segments in this market, the integration of renewable energy — primarily wind power —will represent approximately 50 percent of the total capacity deployed for long duration energy storage. The firm forecasts that load leveling/peak shifting will represent 31 percent of the total market, followed by arbitrage (12 percent) and T&D upgrade deferral (7 percent).
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Beacon Power Corporation recently hosted a successful inauguration and facility tour at the company's newly completed 20-megawatt (MW) flywheel energy storage plant in Stephentown, NY.
Beacon's 20 MW Stephentown plant is the largest advanced energy storage facility currently operating in North America. It utilizes 200 high-speed Beacon flywheels to provide fast-response frequency regulation services to the New York grid with zero emissions and no fuel consumption.
Beacon Power Corporation also announced that it has been awarded a $5-million state grant toward construction of a 20-megawatt flywheel energy storage plant in Hazle Township, PA
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ZBB Energy Corporation, a leading developer of intelligent, renewable energy power platforms, announced a contract from the U.S. Navy Fleet and Industrial Supply Center, San Diego (FISCSD). ZBB will provide a 1000 kWh / 500 kW-rated energy storage system for use in a micro-grid application at the San Nicolas Island Naval Facility, located in the Catalina Island group just west of Los Angeles. The system will utilize ZBB's newly branded EnerSystem™ technologies, comprised of ZBB's Power & Energy Control Center (PECC) and next generation Version 3 Zinc Bromide flow battery modules.
The contract is for the supply of equipment and services for work supported by the Office of Naval Research-Technology Insertion Program for Savings (ONR-TIPS) with the purpose of accelerated transition of new technology. During the next two years, the EnerSystem™ will be tested and certified to maintain power quality and perform load management for off peak produced power of the wind turbines and diesel electric power plant power delivery system at NOLF-SNI. The certifying body is Idaho National Laboratories. This will be the first time that an advanced energy storage system is tested with large-scale renewable sources, in conjunction with actual load management and generator plant control schemes in a micro-grid application in North America. Successful tests and certification will make available transition of this technology to more wide spread Navy use.
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