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Toyota and Honda test mobile power generation system to help with disasters
The system consists of a fuel cell bus carrying a large amount of hydrogen, portable external power devices and portable batteries.
Video: Tests of 3D-printed nuclear reactor components underway
Researchers are refining the design of a 3D-printed nuclear reactor core and advancing the additive manufacturing technology needed to build it.
Watch: A matchmaking service for utilities and battery providers
CBI Battery Match presents systems specifiers and integrators for utility and renewable energy companies with potential lead battery partners before linking them directly with battery manufacturers.
How VPPs can help manage an increasingly electric future
Virtual power plants can optimize distributed energy resources, especially as more renewables and vehicles are factored into the grid.
Video: US Versatile Test Reactor program advances
The fast neutron research reactor to be built at the U.S. Idaho National Laboratory will test components and fuels for advanced nuclear reactor designs.
California hosts the world’s biggest battery storage system
The Gateway Energy Storage project recently launched in San Diego County, California, has been crowned as the largest battery energy storage system in the world.
Improving power grid resiliency with artificial intelligence
A new artificial neural network model handles both static and dynamic features of a power system with a relatively high degree of accuracy.
SPOC advances as a logical approach to reliable power generation
The staged pressurized oxy-combustion (SPOC) process offers the potential to deliver low-carbon power at a reduced cost.
First nuclear reactor in UAE now supplying power
The first of four South Korean-designed APR-1400 reactors is now delivering nuclear-based electricity to the national transmission grid of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the first time.
Power-generating windows appear closer with efficient, semi-transparent solar cells
A semi-transparent organic photovoltaic cell developed by an international research team achieved a power conversion efficiency of 8.1% and visible transparency of 43%.
Suborbital flight tests thin-film solar cell performance
The suitability of hybrid perovskite and organic photovoltaic devices for space applications was tested on a suborbital rocket flight.
Watch a demo of the world’s first shaft hydropower system
The ecologically benign approach to hydropower system design conceals the turbine in a shaft in the riverbed upstream of a weir.
Watch: Solar-powered stratospheric telecommunications platform completes more test flights
The solar-powered aircraft is designed to carry telecommunications payloads to the stratosphere and provide connectivity between devices as far as 700 km apart.
Video: Cable protection system designed for fixed offshore wind turbines
The system is available in three standard sizes and includes a combination of bend restrictors and a bend stiffener, foundation interface device, standard dynamic unit and a detachable pull head.
Video: US-made plutonium fuel to power NASA's Mars rover
Plutonium produced at U.S. Oak Ridge National Laboratory will power multi-mission radioisotope thermoelectric generators in the Perseverance rover.
UL489, UL508 and UL1077 busbars
Altech busbars save time, space and money.
Video: World's largest nuclear fusion project begins assembly
The assembly phase has begun for the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor under construction in southern France since 2010.
Video: Demand for fiber optic cable increases during COVID-19 pandemic
The increased demand for broadband capacity spurred by the COVID-19 pandemic has translated into increased installation activity for fiber optic cable developer AFL.
Industry partners sought for lunar nuclear power system
A request for information seeks prospective partners to design and validate a fission surface power system that can be operated on the Moon as well as the Martian surface.
EIA tracks US power plant conversion efficiencies
More than 60% of the energy consumed by U.S. utility-scale power generation facilities in 2019 was lost during conversion to electricity.