http://www.powermag.com POWER Mag en-us 2012 Wed, 8 Feb 2012 0:28:34 EST When then-President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007, he noted that, “New technologies will help usher in a better quality of life for our citizens.” One provision of the act required an increase in the efficiency of newly manufactured lightbulbs, starting with 100-watt incandescent bulbs in 2012.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/speaking_of_power/4315.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Of the $35.9 billion in loan guarantees awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) since 2009, roughly $26.5 billion have financed nuclear and renewable power projects across the nation through the Section 1703 and 1705 loan guarantee programs.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4316.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST A consortium of European developers, with funding from the German federal government, have completed a power plant in Prenzlau, near Berlin, Germany, that uses excess wind energy to convert water into oxygen and hydrogen in a process called hydrolysis, and then uses hydrogen and biogas to generate power and heat.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4317.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Using nanoparticles of a copper compound to develop an inexpensive and durable high-powered battery electrode could be the breakthrough solution to the problem of sharp drop-offs in the output of wind and solar systems, scientists at Stanford University say.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4318.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST A semi-submersible structure supporting a 2-MW wind turbine was towed nearly 350 kilometers (217.5 miles) to water depths of about 35 meters (114.8 feet) into open Atlantic waters and deployed off the coast of Aguçadoura, Portugal, last November.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4319.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Last December, as Spain’s national carbon capture and storage (CCS) research laboratory Fundación Ciudad de la Energía (CIUDEN) began a much-watched testing phase of oxycombustion in its 30-MWth circulating fluidized bed (CFB) boiler in Cubillos del Sil, Vattenfall scrapped the €1.5 billion ($2 billion) Jänschwalde CCS demonstration project that it had planned to build and begin operating by 2015 in the German federal state of Brandenburg.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4320.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST Indonesian state-owned utility Perusahaan Listrik Negara (PLN) formally launched operations at three new coal-fired power plants on Dec. 28.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4321.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST ANDRITZ to Rebuild Oldest Egyptian Nile Dam. Austrian firm ANDRITZ HYDRO on Dec. 22 won a $138.4 million contract from the Egyptian Ministries of Energy and Water Resources for the supply and installation of four bulb turbines, generators, and the electrical... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/global_monitor/4322.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST The National Fire Protection Association has issued a new standard for gas line cleaning in response to the urgent recommendations prepared by the U.S. Chemical Safety Board.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/focus_on_o_and_m/4323.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST POWER recently talked with Erika Jakobsson, a project manager at Volvo Technology in Gothenburg, Sweden, who is responsible for developing intelligent trucks in response to European Union (EU) directives.... http://www.powermag.com/issues/departments/focus_on_o_and_m/4324.html Wed, 1 Feb 2012 0:00:00 EST