New NIST calibration service 'arms' phasors for more reliable power grids
While the new calibration service for phasor measurement units (PMUs) offered by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) sounds like it would appeal to "Star Trek" fans, it's actually the operators of America's electrical power grid-and all of us who value uninterrupted current-who benefit. view more (2007-08-20)
From the Web to Grid computing
We will soon be able to tap the processing power of mainframe computers and their high-performance software through a "grid", just as easily as we now plug in a laptop to obtain electricity from the power grid. The acclaimed SETI project (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) was one of the first instances in which computing power... view more... (2003-02-20)
Building a better telecom system
Hurricane Katrina helped University of Texas professor, Alexis Kwasinski, formulate a new plan for the U.S. telecom system: a de-centralized power architecture that would have kept the lights and phones on in New Orleans. view more (2008-07-24)
Report examines limits of national power grid simulations
America's power grid today resembles the country's canal system of the 19th Century. A marvel of engineering for its time, the canal system eventually could not keep pace with the growing demands of transcontinental transportation. view more (2009-05-08)
Transmission congestion threatens to clog nation's power grid
Inadequate investment in the power grid transmission network remains the Achilles heel of the nation's electric system, an engineer who specializes in utility policy at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign says. view more (2006-07-28)
'Grow your own electricity' says City University
A solid oxide fuel cell, placed in the domestic gas boiler, should generate electricity from the gas every time the boiler is activated. The electricity, if not used around the house, could then be sold back into the national grid - running the electricity meter backwards! view more (1998-11-10)
Philips patents TU Eindhoven's energy return system
An increasing number of private individuals supply their excess energy, from external energy sources (windmills and solar cells), to the electricity grid and only take energy from the grid when necessary. view more (2008-01-25)
New middleware emphasises security and useability
A new middleware package which will take grid computing out of research laboratories and into industry will be pre-released on 25 October. The middleware is the first to be released by the Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute (OMII), whose mission is to become the UK source for reliable, open-source Grid Middleware. view more (2004-10-22)
Electricity systems can cope with large-scale wind power
Research by TU Delft proves that Dutch power stations are able to cope at any time in the future with variations in demand for electricity and supply of wind power, as long as use is made of up-to-date wind forecasts. PhD candidate Bart Ummels also demonstrates that there is no need for energy storage facilities. Ummels will receive his PhD on... view more... (2009-02-23)
Improved rating for residential fuel cells
A new performance rating system for residential fuel cells developed at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help prospective buyers assess the economic value of alternative fuel-cell technologies. view more (2006-06-28)
World's biggest computing grid launched
The world's largest computing grid is ready to tackle mankind's biggest data challenge from the earth's most powerful accelerator. Today, three weeks after the first particle beams were injected into the Large Hadron Collider (LHC), the Worldwide LHC Computing Grid combines the power of more than 140 computer centers from 33 countries to analyze... view more... (2008-10-06)
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Unveils GridWiseTM Initiative to Test New Electric Grid Technologies
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory announced today the launch of the Pacific Northwest GridWiseTM Demonstration projects, a regional initiative to test and speed adoption of new smart grid technologies that can make the power grid more resilient and efficient. view more (2006-01-12)
Media Invitation - The Grid gets real
The European DataGrid (EDG)* project has taken a major step towards making the concept of a world-wide computing Grid a reality. Its latest release of middleware - the software that makes a Grid of computers work together seamlessly - will support production quality Grid computing. Markus Schulz, one of the chief software developers at CERN**,... view more... (2002-11-12)
UK`s first `super internet` to launch in the summer
A massive multi-million pound computation grid system has been developed by three universities in Yorkshire. The White Rose Computational Grid (WRCG) - believed to be the first of its kind in the UK - will provide a high performance computing service for researchers in the White Rose Consortium universities of Leeds, Sheffield and York. The WRCG... view more... (2002-04-18)
A giant wind-powered generator
The new TWT-1650 wind-powered generator presented in Pamplona has 36-metre vanes which, in a circular movement, sweep an area greater than that of a football pitch and which can withstand extremes of weather, including winds of up to 110 kilometres an hour. This device, made by Grupo Mtorres in collaboration with the Institute for the... view more... (2003-10-14)
UK Secures place on front row of Grid Computing
British scientists deliver key component of the Grid at major international forum in Edinburgh Edinburgh, Scotland, UK - British scientists today unveiled one of the key building blocks of the Grid, which is being hailed as the 21st century successor to the Internet. Researchers from UK e-Science Centres and IBM UK have released the specification... view more... (2002-07-22)
Particle Physics drives new computing technology
UK scientists are to develop and test the next generation of computing technology based upon the massive amounts of data streaming from an international particle physics experiment sited in the USA. The BaBar experiment at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Centre (SLAC) in California is investigating the nature of B mesons, short-lived sub-atomic... view more... (2002-02-05)
Inderscience Publishers
A way to make wind power smoother and more efficient that exploits the inertia of a wind turbine rotor could help solve the problem of wind speed variation, according to research published in the International Journal of Power Electronics. view more (2009-01-08)
US style blackouts likely in UK
Chemical engineers have issued a stark warning that power cuts on a scale being experienced in the USA and Canada could hit the UK unless the government rethinks its energy policy. David White, a member of the Parliamentary Group for Energy Studies and Energy Affairs spokesman for the IChemE has warned MP's that UK power generation is precariously... view more... (2003-08-15)
Annoucement of e-Science Pilot Projects
In their Spending Review Settlement, SR 2000 the Government announced they would be investing £120 M in a new initiative in e-Science. As part of this, the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council was allocated £17 M to set up projects aimed at testing "grid" technology in a number of distinct science and... view more... (2001-08-14)
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