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Hydrogen Insights, 2024 Walking the talk: Seven-fold increase in investment for hydrogen projects reaching FID globally within the past four years The global hydrogen industry is nascent and facing ...

Distributed Energy Resources (DERs) consist of two types of resources. The first one is price-responsive demand, which is the original form of demand response. Some also call it the natural form of ...

Energy: Individualised video call for upper managers A proven successful approach. Creating a strategy - at the upper management level - and then activating managers to "make it happen". When an upper ...

Lesson 2: The Transition in Focus, from Regulator to Customer A recurring theme at this year’s DistribuTECH was the increasing focus on customer-centricity in the utility industry, a shift that the ...

Grid Forming inverters have different modes of operation, such as droop control, virtual synchronous machine, or hierarchical control, depending on the grid conditions and the desired performance.

MD&A performed inspection, replacement, and repairs for various GE® steam turbine control components for a US-based customer. The extensive and varied list included valves, actuators, spring cans, ...

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently reported that U.S. natural gas consumption set new winter and summer consumption records in 2024, highlighting the growing importance of ...

The heat converts water to steam, which is super-heated in tubes to drive turbines that generate electricity: 80 megawatts 24/7, enough for about 52,000 homes. Depending on its composition, a ton of ...

More market and political potholes on the road ahead for electric vehicle sales, but the sector continues to make progress. That’s as it should be for any new technology with long-term marketplace ...

The utility industry is one of the more tightly regulated sectors of the economy, given the local monopoly that most power providers naturally have and the essential nature of the end product: ...

However, the Dunkelflaute phenomenon doesn’t necessarily have to hinder the progress of renewable energy. On the contrary, it could stimulate further research and innovation in the field. For instance ...