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First Commercial Solar-Wind Hybrid Project In U.S. Aims To Boost Net Capacity

The Concept: combine the peak power profile of solar and wind energy to increase net system capacity up to 4%. You got chocolate in my peanut butter! Two great ways to [...]

February 28, 2017 // 0 Comments

Siemens Future Energy Solution wind power storage

Siemens Solution for Excess Wind Energy: Bury It

Siemens has an answer to the problem of excess wind energy: bury it. The Future Energy Solution (FES) research project converts excess wind energy to heat in rock fill, [...]

October 14, 2016 // 0 Comments

Big Data, Big Gains for Renewable Energy

Renewable energy is on a fast track that may get even faster. The advent of networked sensor systems and the much touted “Internet of Things” (IoT) has brought about the [...]

August 11, 2016 // 0 Comments

Wind Deflectors Boost Turbine Energy Generation

Sometimes a simple idea comes along that seems so normal we wonder why no one thought of it before. This is certainly true in energy generation, where energy harvesting is [...]

March 3, 2016 // 0 Comments

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