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GE's Waukesha Factory Delivers Generator Sets for Potawatomi Tribe’s Milwaukee Biogas Power Project
GE Energy - GE's (NYSE: GE) Waukesha gas engines factory manufactured and recently delivered two, 1-megawatt (MW) cogeneration sets for the Forest County Potawatomi Community's (FCPC) planned biogas combined heat and power (CHP) project in Milwaukee's Menomonee Valley. more...
GE's Jenbacher Cogeneration Technology Set to Power Urban District Energy Project in Melbourne
GE Energy - One of GE's (NYSE: GE) natural gas-fired Jenbacher gas engines will be powering a cogeneration plant that will provide reliable electricity and thermal energy for a major urban revitalization initiative in Dandenong, Victoria. more...
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SRS Marks Successful Operational Startup of New Biomass Cogeneration Facility
Ameresco, Inc. - Today, Under Secretary of Energy Thomas D'Agostino joined U.S. more...
Russian Vegetable Producer Turns to GE for On-Site Power and Heat Solution
GE Energy - With more Russian industries turning to on-site power technologies to reduce their operational costs and increase their energy security, state-owned vegetable supplier Teplichnoe will install three GE (NYSE: GE) natural gas-fired, ecomagination-qualified Jenbacher cogeneration units at its greenhouse production facilities in the city of Saransk. more...
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Nice House, But Is It Legal?

Blogger Photo By Ben Lack -   If you designed or built a home that met energy code just a few years ago, that same home more...

Ocean - to - Ocean power cell – Part 3 – The wind island

Blogger Photo By Chavdar Azarov - The risk related to offshore wind projects remains considerably high. Opposite of existing offshore wind projects all the ocean species more...

How Do Your Construction Estimates Compare to the End Results?

Blogger Photo By Peter Hessler - Have you had difficulties getting a good handle on your construction estimates? Have you been at a loss as to more...

Tidal Power Pilot Granted First-Ever U.S. License

Blogger Photo By Salvatore Salamone - The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) has issued the first-ever commercial license for tidal power in the United States. The more...

Biomass Densification

Blogger Photo By Salman Zafar -   In a typical biomass pre-processing facility, feedstock arrives at the plant in chops or bales. The bales are cut more...
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Micro Grids -- Optimizing Gas Fired Distributed Generation

By Peter Noland
There appears now to be almost universal concurrence on a future where distributed generation (DG) assets including solar PV, solar thermal, fuel cells and other forms of on-site power generation produce clean, reliable & economic more...
Filed Under Distributed & Cogeneration

The Impending Resurgence of Small-site Decentralized Power Generation

By Harry Valentine
The history of power conversion can be traced back some 4000-years ago with small-site installations involving water wheels doing some form of mechanical work. Crude forms of windmills appeared during a later period. more...
Filed Under Distributed & Cogeneration

Renewable Distributed Generation Will Garner Significant Market Share Long Before Grid Cost Parity is Reached

By Paul Alvarez
Energy Central readers in both regulated and deregulated markets should be preparing today to meet this threat; this article will be the first of several to help readers view renewable distributed generation in a new more...
Filed Under Distributed & Cogeneration

Decentralized Generation and Power Transmission

By Harry Valentine
A news story broke in early September that a wind farm in Upstate New York had to suspend operations due to a shortage of transmission capacity going into New York City. An announcement followed in more...
Filed Under Distributed & Cogeneration

Research on the Characteristics of a Modern Grid: Accommodates All Generation and Storage Options

By Joe Miller
One of the drivers that has enabled the U.S. economy to grow is the quality of our power generation and delivery system. Today, our electricity grid is powered primarily by large, centralized generation facilities with more...
Filed Under Distributed & Cogeneration
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