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Industry News 2005 P23
NYPA activates electricity demand reduction program for participating customers in New York City
The New York Power Authority (NYPA) activated its Peak Load Management (PLM) program Wednesday, for the first time this year, with participating government and business customers in New York City asked to lower their power use in anticipation of higher demand due to the hot weather.
Hope Creek declares unusual event
Plant operators at Hope Creek declared an unusual event at 2:37 pm when unidentified leakage inside the drywell exceeded 10 gallons per minute. Earlier, at approximately 2:15 pm plant operators manually shutdown Hope Creek per procedure when unidentified leakage inside the drywell began trending up and exceeded five gallons per minute, a predetermined set point for taking the unit offline. All systems operated as designed in response to the shutdown.
Plug Power participates with Governor Pataki, Senate Majority Leader Bruno in dedication ceremonies for university research centers
Plug Power Inc., a leading provider of clean, reliable on-site energy, participated in New York State Governor George Pataki's dedication of Syracuse University's Syracuse Center of Excellence (CoE) in Environmental and Energy Systems headquarters building.
NanoHorizons patents cost and efficiency breakthrough for solar cells and organic LEDs
NanoHorizons, Inc., an emerging leader in applied nanoscale materials and solutions, announced that it has received a notice of allowance from the US Patent Office for its innovative nanoscale photovoltaic cell design. NanoHorizons' design enables dramatic improvements in solar cell efficiency and breakthrough reductions in fabrication costs. Brighter, more efficient Organic LEDs (OLEDs) are also made possible.
NRC Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste to meet June 15-17 in Rockville, Md.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission's Advisory Committee on Nuclear Waste will hold a public meeting June 15-17, in Rockville, Md., to discuss, among other items, risk-informing Office of Nuclear Material Safety and Safeguards activities, and the committee's draft white papers on high-level radioactive waste transportation issues and low-level radioactive waste.
Susquehanna Unit 2 shuts down because of non-nuclear problem
Unit 2 of PPL's Susquehanna nuclear power plant shut down automatically at 12:33 p.m. EDT Monday (6/6) because of a problem with the electric transmission network.
Truckee Donner PUD is awarded the Inaugural NRECA Cooperative Innovators Award Using GO! Sync (Redline)
The Geospatial Solutions Division of Tadpole Technology Group announced that Truckee Donner PUD, one of the initial adopters of Tadpole's GO! Sync (Redline) technology, has received the Inaugural 2005 NRECA Cooperative Innovators Award.
New service offerings from GE Energy protect against cyber security threats to industrial plants
To address the increasing risk of cyber security threats to power plants and other industrial facilities, GE Energy has launched an HMI (Human-Machine Interface) Maintenance Program designed to keep critical control system components safe from viruses and security breaches. The announcement was made today at the 15th Annual Joint ISA POWID/EPRI Controls and Instrumentation Conference, June 6-8, 2005, in Nashville, Tenn.
Research sponsored by U.S. DOE brings possibility of clean and affordable energy
While new energy sources like wind, solar or hydrogen receive so much publicity lately, a small engineering firm from Madison, Conn., Magnetic Development Inc., is developing a technology that can change the generation of electricity as we know it today. The company, recently awarded the prestigious "Inventions and Innovations" grant from U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), was also one of only six recipients out of 200 of the country's top energy researchers to receive a Phase I grant.
Half of electric utilities using or considering using AMR Remote Connect/Disconnect, says new Chartwell report
Looking to improve efficiency and customer service, more than half of electric utilities use, plan to use or are considering using automated meter reading (AMR) to remotely connect and disconnect customers, says a new report from energy research leader Chartwell Inc.
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