Distributed Electricity Generation - News, Trends, Distributed Electricity Generation Links
Consumers of electricity become producers
?When a building is starting to produce its own power through distributed generation, and it could be either solar cells or fuel cells or low power wind and all kinds of things,? Duncan explains, ?it?s starting to move power now back onto the grid at certain times a day. I have about 650 buildings now in Austin and on a hot summer day, I?m the customer, and they?re the producer.? - Read More
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Topics : Society
Distributed electricity generation and power backups
Distributed electricity generation and power backups will grow fast, especially among large customers
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Distributed generation associations
How will these evolve? Will many existing social and community organizations be part of this?
Topics : Society
Small scale electricity generation sustainable?
Distributed, small-scale, person-to-person electricity generation will be sustainable n future, acc to DOE & CIA (US), 2005
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Topics : Renewable Energy
Gasifiers for village level applications
Reseach in the past shows that compared to gasifiers fueled with wood or agricultural residues, charcoal gasifiers present less operational problems and are be recommeded for village level applications. Micro scale gasification systems (1-10 kw) can be used by small and medium farmers for providing power to irrigation system.
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Gasifiers for distributed power generation
This article attempts to critically review the current work and present various aspects related to design of gasifiers and highlight the state-of-the-art technology package for distributed power generation comprising biomass gasifier coupled with a diesel or gas engine. (a 2004 article) - PDF - Read More
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Topics : Bioenergy
Auto is a power plant on wheels
In the hydrogen fuel cell era, the auto itself is a power plant on wheels, with a generation capacity of 20 KW. The average car is parked 96% of the time!
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Topics : Travel
Turning a car into a power plant
Many companies are experimenting with turning a car into a power plant
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Topics : Travel