Credit to Author: Vincent Thornley, EngD| Date: Fri, 21 Jul 2023 12:00:33 +0000
The 19th century battle between Nikolai Tesla’s alternating current (AC) and Thomas Edison’s direct current (DC) technologies had an undisputed winner. The vast majority of the world’s transmission and distribution […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Mon, 01 May 2023 04:11:41 +0000
European Grid Operator Secures 22 GW of HVDC Projects. European transmission system operator (TSO) TenneT will lead a charge to install 11 2-GW high-voltage direct current (HVDC) systems by 2031. A long-term
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Read moreCredit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2023 17:18:58 +0000
HVDC is the technology for energy links. Tubes of steel carrying molecules need not apply.
Credit to Author: Darrell Proctor| Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2023 21:32:34 +0000
Hitachi Energy has been chosen by TenneT, a transmission system provider for Germany and the Netherlands, to supply several onshore and offshore high-voltage direct current (HVDC) converter stations and associated infrastructure for European power grids. Hitachi officials on March 30 said the agreement, which includes Petrofac—an international service provider to the energy industry—is worth about […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000
Hitachi Energy will spearhead the modernization of a key high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system in Canada to support the transmission of 1,500 MW of renewable power between Quebec and New York state’s electrical networks. Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest power utility, on Dec. 15, picked the global technology firm to supply a “back-to-back” converter station at Châteauguay, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Sonal Patel| Date: Fri, 16 Dec 2022 00:57:00 +0000
Hitachi Energy will spearhead the modernization of a key high-voltage direct current (HVDC) system in Canada to support the transmission of 1,500 MW of renewable power between Quebec and New York state’s electrical networks. Hydro-Québec, Canada’s largest power utility, on Dec. 15, picked the global technology firm to supply a “back-to-back” converter station at Châteauguay, […]
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Read moreCredit to Author: Aaron Larson| Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2022 05:09:00 +0000
Qatar Inaugurates the Country’s First Utility-Scale Solar Photovoltaic Power Plant. With Essa bin Hilal Al-Kuwari, president of Qatar General Electricity & Water Corp. (Kahramaa); Saad Sherida Al-Kaabi
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Read moreCredit to Author: Arthur Frederick (Fritz) Hasler| Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2022 00:45:14 +0000
What are the quickest, smartest things regarding green energy that society should do first? In short, the quickest, smartest, greenest, most economical way to produce electricity is now from wind, water, and solar. See: Renewable Energy and Storage for Everything by Mark Z. Jacobson. However, in developed countries, no additional large-scale hydroelectric dams can be […]
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:45:57 +0000
We will manufacture hydrogen on site with firmed, high-exergy electricity that powers the rest of the industrial facility as well, not build a massive hydrogen distribution system that is also massively redundant with just moving electrons.
Credit to Author: Michael Barnard| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 17:47:57 +0000
We will manufacture hydrogen on site with firmed, high-exergy electricity that powers the rest of the industrial facility as well, not build a massive hydrogen distribution system that is also massively redundant with just moving electrons.