Tag Archives: Program on Technology Innovation
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Indoor Agriculture: A Utility, Water, Sustainability, Technology and Market Overview
This report discusses various aspects of indoor agriculture, including market trends and challenges, technology assessment, sustainability, affordability, customer relations, jobs, energy use, and grid impacts.
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Strategic Plan for Combined Cycle Turbomachinery: 2018 Update
EPRI’s Combined-Cycle Turbomachinery program addresses all aspects of the management of conventional and advanced gas turbines. This report discusses the program’s activities in 2017 and 2018.
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Evaluation of Wholesale Energy Price Spikes in U.S. Electricity Markets
This report examines trends in wholesale energy price spikes in the United States. It is part of a series of briefs on historical electricity market conditions, current market designs, and anticipated changes in market designs.
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Quick Insights: All-Electric Semi Trucks
This paper compares the performance and needs of a Tesla all-electric semi truck with those of a standard, diesel semi truck under a variety of scenarios. It also examines the potential grid impacts of large-scale deployment of electric trucks.
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Electric Vehicles and Fast Charging Landscape
This brief report provides an overview of electric vehicle and charging technologies, current and future markets, capital costs, and relevant regulations and policies.
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Quick Insights: UK’s Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan
In 2017, the United Kingdom government published its Smart Systems and Flexibility Plan, which details 29 actions the government, the regulator, and industry will take to remove barriers to smart technologies, enable smart homes and businesses, and improve access to energy markets for new technologies, companies, and business models. This brief report discusses the key […]
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Hydropower Technology Landscape
This technical brief discusses various aspects of hydropower, including technologies, market outlook, capital costs, operations and maintenance costs, regulations and policies, and R&D.
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Grid-Connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems (GRAPES) Projects: Aiming to Enhance Power System Stability, Flexibility, Robustness, and Economy
Founded under the auspices of the National Science Foundation, GRid-connected Advanced Power Electronics Systems (GRAPES) is an R&D program that aims to accelerate the adoption of power electronics–based controllers in the electric grid to improve system stability, flexibility, and robustness. The program is operated by The University of Arkansas, the University of South Carolina, and […]
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Energy Storage Landscape
This report is an overview of energy storage technologies, applications, cost and installation estimates, and regulations and policies to encourage deployment.
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Technology Insights Brief: Magnetic Gearboxes for Extreme-Scale Wind Turbines
By relying on field forces rather than physical contact between surfaces to achieve high rotational speed, magnetic gears can potentially reduce the mass and cost of drive-trains for wind turbines rated above 10 megawatts, while improving efficiency and reliability. This brief report provides an overview of the technical basis, status, and potential of magnetic gearboxes […]
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An Evaluation of Radio Frequency Fields Produced by School WiFi Systems
Emitted by radio and television broadcast stations, mobile telephone base stations, hand-held mobile units, and other sources, radio frequency fields exist almost everywhere today. Although public exposure to these fields is generally minimal, growing use of WiFi in schools has raised questions about potential exposure to students. This study examined the magnitude of radio frequency […]
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Assessment of Kinetic Energy Tiles
Kinetic energy tiles are floor tiles in the early technology development stage that capture the force of human footsteps and turn it into electrical energy. The report discusses the results of EPRI’s laboratory performance evaluations of tiles from two manufacturers.
