Strengthening America's Manufacturing and Industrial Workforce
Featuring guest speaker Secretary of Energy Jennifer M. Granholm and moderated by Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Kelly Speakes-Backman.
Eversource’s Story – Transforming Direct Transfer Trip (DTT) with LTE
Traditionally, this coordination has been through the use of leased telephone lines that interconnect protection equipment at both the substation and the DER site. Unfortunately, over the last several decades, telecom providers have moved away from copper lease lines to more advanced services.
Replacement options like fiber optic cables or microwave communication links are available but can be very costly. Another option is cellular LTE technology, but with the critical nature of DTT, many utilities do not feel comfortable using it for the application.
Register for this webinar and discover how New England’s largest energy provider, Eversource, implemented an innovative DDT design using SEL’s 3505 RTAC and Sierra Wireless’ cellular gateways to communicate and control reliably over LTE.
IEA Global Energy Review: CO2 Emissions in 2020
As primary energy demand dropped nearly 4% in 2020, global energy-related CO2 emissions fell by 5.8% according to the latest statistical data, the largest annual percentage decline since World War II. In absolute terms, the decline in emissions of almost 2 000 million tonnes of CO2 is without precedent in human history – broadly speaking, this is the equivalent of removing all of the European Union’s emissions from the global total. Demand for fossil fuels was hardest hit in 2020 – especially oil, which plunged 8.6%, and coal, which dropped by 4%. Oil’s annual decline was its largest ever, accounting for more than half of the drop in global emissions. Global emissions from oil use plummeted by well over 1 100 Mt CO2, down from around 11 400 Mt in 2019. The drop in road transport activity accounted for 50% of the decline in global oil demand, and the slump in the aviation sector for around 35%. Meanwhile, low-carbon fuels and technologies, in particular, solar PV and wind, reached their highest ever annual share of the global energy mix, increasing it by more than one percentage point to over 20%.
S&C Electric Posts 2020 State of Commercial & Industrial Power Reliability Report
The aim of the survey is to gauge their present reliability experiences, the impacts of poor reliability on their organizations, and their consideration of alternative energy options to improve power reliability in the future. The 255 companies surveyed achieve average yearly revenues of $4 billion—constituting a considerable portion of the economy. These business sizes and industries represent utilities’ most ambitious customers, with growing needs for continuous, reliable, and high-quality power. The individuals surveyed were high-level managers responsible for power-related decisions, such as facility directors, facility managers, operations directors, energy management managers, property managers, and purchasing managers. In these decision-maker and influencer roles, the research represents an accurate pulse of the market for utility-related concerns and considerations across an important swath of the U.S. economy. The research was split into four regions of the United States and taken across five major C&I company categories: Manufacturing, Healthcare, Small Franchises, Education, and Retailers.
How Siemens Energy Is Targeting the US Green Hydrogen Opportunity
Fall 2020 DOE CHP Workshop Proceedings and Report Publication Announcement
The Advanced Manufacturing Office (AMO) held a virtual workshop on September 8–10, 2020 on potential areas for future research and development (R&D) and program activities for Combined Heat and Power (CHP). AMO hosted this workshop over the course of three afternoon sessions to gather stakeholder input from CHP component and system manufacturers, CHP industrial users, power electronics experts, and electric and gas utilities.
Facilitated discussions emphasized how manufacturing facilities can provide support to the electric grid in the face of the rapid growth in non-dispatchable distributed energy resources.
Senate confirms Granholm to lead DOE
Combined Heat & Power eCatalog of Recognized Package CHP Systems
Packaged CHP Systems:
Rigorous Recognition Process
The Packaged Combined Heat and Power Catalog (eCatalog) is a voluntary public/private partnership designed to increase deployment of CHP in commercial, institutional and multi-family buildings and manufacturing plants. The core of the eCatalog are CHP Packagers who commit to provide pre-engineered and tested Packaged CHP systems that meet or exceed DOE performance requirements and CHP Solution Providers who commit to provide responsible installation, commissioning, maintenance and service of recognized Packaged CHP systems and also provide a single point of project responsibility.
Customer Engagement Partners: Incentivizing CHP in Your Area
Maximize Your CHP Investment When You Install Recognized Systems
An essential element in market success of energy efficient technologies, such as CHP, is a robust customer engagement partner to educate end-users and provide assistance through the project development process. States, localities and utilities that are implementing programs and policies to increase the use of CHP in support of key economic, security, efficiency and environmental goals can integrate the eCatalog into their efforts by linking recognized CHP packages offered by Solution Providers or Packagers in their region to their programs. The eCatalog provides a unique platform for convening recognized CHP equipment and suppliers with state, local and utility market outreach, customer acquisition and incentive programs.
eCATALOG PACKAGED CHP SYSTEM PERFORMANCE
Packaged CHP System standardized1 electrical and thermal performance data presented for comparison in the eCatalog have been reviewed and recognized as accurate based on engineering data and available performance test data submitted by the Packagers. Emissions data presented in the eCatalog are based on either third-party emissions test results when available, or prime mover manufacture’s emissions certification data, both using standard EPA test methodologies or equivalent. When evaluating CHP performance for a particular project, it is important to use final performance data from the Packager or Solution Provider that reflects specific site conditions such as actual fuel characteristics, ambient temperatures and altitude, and thermal load temperatures or pressures. As an example, hot water thermal capacity ratings in the eCatalog are based on a standard hot water supply temperature of 180 F, with packager specified return temperatures for each system. Actual hot water available from a packaged CHP system for a project will depend on the specific temperature requirements of the hot water supply and return at the site, and may vary from data presented in the eCatalog.
“Even a small blip on the power grid can disrupt our production equipment and cause six to eight hours of lost production time. With the CHP systems, if there is a power blip we go into island mode and don't experience any disruption.”
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