Beacon Power Corp. was founded in 1997 to develop flywheel-based energy storage technology. By 2007, the 100-kW/25-kWh Gen 4 flywheel system was commercialized and deployed in several projects. However, market…
Smart Grid
Implications of smart grid development, projects, and policies for the power industry
What if you could send a control message between two points on the electricity grid—say between a control room operator and a turbine or between a system operator and a…
A 660-MW underground and underwater transmission project linking Ridgefield, N.J., and Manhattan in New York City began operations on Monday. The line, built and owned by Hudson Transmission Partners has…
A promising new approach to securing communications networks from cyber crime uses quantum cryptography. Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) have developed a system that could be used for…
Panelists at a House hearing on Tuesday held to examine steps the federal government and private sector are taking to bolster the nation's critical infrastructure security shed light on the…
A software algorithm developed by researchers from North Carolina State University promises to detect and isolate cyber attacks on networked control systems. Because networked control systems—pathways that connect and coordinate…
ComEd’s smart grid program finally has some good news to share. In a progress report to the Illinois Commerce Commission (ICC) this week, the utility said that 479 distribution automation…
Courtesy: Ontario Power Generation By the end of 2013, one year ahead of its goal, the province of Ontario will be virtually coal-free—a first for a North American jurisdiction. How…
Dr. Ernest Moniz, President Obama’s nominee for the next Secretary of Energy, appears poised for easy confirmation after responding to questions from the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee on…
The proposed 2014 federal budget that President Obama submitted to Congress on April 10 includes increases for the Department of Energy in general and for DOE-sponsored research and development (R&D)…