Combined Heat and Power for Commercial Buildings
Commercial combined heat and power (comCHP) systems, which are small to medium distributed energy generation systems that produce electricity while also capturing heat that would otherwise be treated...
View ArticleStationary Fuel Cells
The stationary fuel cell industry is growing in terms of megawatts and systems shipped. At the same time, it is going through a deep restructuring, with a number of companies exiting the space and a...
View ArticleOff-Grid Power for Mobile Base Stations
Demand for high quality, high reliability off-grid power is increasing yearly. In the coming years, a significant fraction of this demand will be met by some form of hybrid system that includes...
View ArticleOff-Grid Power for Remote Sensing Applications
The chronic need for expanded and more stable grid infrastructure is driving strong growth in a number of markets for off-grid power. Increasingly this power is being supplied by renewable energy and...
View ArticleSmart Energy: Five Metatrends to Watch in 2013 and Beyond
The Smart Energy paradigm is fast evolving from niche markets into a standardized part of the global energy portfolio. Oil majors, national governments, and technology developers have all reached the...
View ArticleNatural Gas Generator Sets
Natural gas generator sets (gensets) are distributed power generation units that use reciprocating internal combustion engines to produce useable energy from gaseous fuels. Distributed generation has...
View ArticleDiesel Generator Sets
Diesel-fueled generator sets (gensets) are distributed power generation units that use reciprocating internal combustion engines to produce useable energy from gaseous fuels. Distributed generation has...
View ArticleVirtual Power Plants
Pike Research defines a virtual power plant (VPP) as a system that relies upon software systems to remotely and automatically dispatch and optimize generation, demand-side, or storage resources...
View ArticleSmall Wind Power
Even though the market for modern small wind turbines (SWTs) has existed for 30 years, there are many signs the SWT industry is maturing, including the expanded role of SWT certification, hundreds of...
View ArticleDistributed Solar Energy Generation
Distributed solar photovoltaic (PV) systems offer the benefit of producing electricity onsite, thereby reducing the need to build new transmission capacity and avoiding line losses. Distributed...
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