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Big Data

The Power Of Data: How Software Is Helping Keep Iceland's Lights On

Julie Khoo
May 17, 2017
There are many reasons to visit Iceland. This former Viking stronghold is now the most peaceful country and home to the happiest and most literate people in the world — one in 10 Icelanders on average reportedly has published a book.
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Electricity

Smart Electrons: Software And Apps Are About To Make Europe’s Electricity Digital

May 09, 2017
With the right technology, you can easily control the lights inside your home from an overseas vacation. But when it comes to the electricity that powers them, the workers in charge of running the electrical grid often don’t know there's a problem until customers start calling.
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Energy

The Power Couple: This Battery And Jet Engine Hybrid Will Help California Grab More Renewables

Tomas Kellner
April 17, 2017
On March 23, at exactly 11:19 in the morning, the combined output of California’s copious solar panels and wind farms briefly supplied 49.2 percent of the state’s power demand for the first time. The record was a good omen for America’s most populous state, which is striving to use renewables for half of its electricity consumption by 2030.
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Africa

The Power of Power: How Reliable Electricity Is Helping Africa's 2nd Most Populous Country Recharge Its Economy

Tomas Kellner
January 18, 2017
Brothers Flour & Biscuit Factory, in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, makes cookies with evocative names like Dream Sandwich, Glory Banana and Cocktail Cream. But inside the factory, life is anything but sweet.
The capital's lack of reliable power is making it hard for the business to operate. Every time the power goes out, its machines grind to a halt. Dough gets ruined. Cookies are underbaked. These interruptions are costing the company the equivalent of thousands of dollars in wasted ingredients.
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Solar

The California Duck Must Die (But It's Not What You Think)

Kristin Kloberdanz
December 13, 2016
Solar power might be a shining example of a great renewable-energy source. But combined with existing infrastructure, it’s wreaking havoc on California’s electric power grid. So much so the problem already has a popular name: The California Duck Curve.
Here’s why. When legislators in the Golden State passed a climate-change law mandating that California gets a third of its electricity from renewable energy by 2020, they were hoping to encourage residents to install solar photovoltaic cells.
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The Grid

High Voltage: Watch Out AC / DC Is Getting Its Groove Back

Dorothy Pomerantz
November 02, 2016
America’s largest machine — the power grid — has been pumping lifeblood electricity from power plants to our homes and businesses for more than a century. The vast network of wires, switches, transformers and other technology has gone through periodic upgrades, but the infrastructure is aging and increasingly prone to blackouts. Unfortunately, the stress on the network is starting to show at exactly the time when we need it to shoulder and move thousands of megawatts from new wind farms and solar installations popping up all over the country.
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Renewables

Mix And Match: These Engineers Make Renewables Play Nice With Other Sources Of Energy

Tomas Kellner
March 10, 2016
New solar and wind energy farms added a whopping 68 percent of new power generation capacity in the United States last year, according to a report from Bloomberg New Energy Finance. When combined with hydropower, renewables now make up a fifth of America’s electricity generation capacity, more than double what it was in 2008.

This trend isn't going away. Getting all that clean electricity to homes and factories, however, is a challenging task.

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Electrification Software Energy

That’s So Nice: Electricity’s Digital Future Has Dawned On The French Riviera

February 02, 2016
The commune of Carros in the south of France straddles a leafy valley tucked away a short ride from Nice and the beaches of the French Riviera. Like much of Provence, the medieval town of 11,000 swells every summer with tourists seeking tans and sipping rosé. But it may soon become a magnet for people interested in the sun for a different reason.
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Energy

Power Play: How GE and Alstom Can Shore Up Brazil’s Giant Power Grid

November 06, 2015
When it comes to electricity, Brazil deals with unique challenges. The fifth largest nation in the world has some of the planet’s longest electricity transmission lines, and its customers face some of the highest electricity bills anywhere. Improving the reliability and efficiency of Brazil’s power stations — and also of the grid, which stretches across vast sections of the country — is a critical matter.
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Alstom

New Power Generation: GE-Alstom Energy Deal Redefines Power Industry in Coming Decades

Tomas Kellner
November 02, 2015
GE completed its acquisition of Alstom’s power and grid business today. The transaction, GE’s largest industrial deal ever, unites two storied businesses with roots stretching to the very dawn of the power industry more than a century ago and to its pioneering founders Thomas Edison and Elihu Thomson.
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