Connecting Renewables Directly to the Grid (open access)

Connecting Renewables Directly to the Grid

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of electricity transmission hardware for renewable energy sources as part of the "Resilient Multi-Terminal HVDC Networks with High-Voltage High-Frequency Electronics" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: General Electric Global Research
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Cost-Effective Cable Insulation (open access)

Cost-Effective Cable Insulation

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new, low-cost high-voltage direct current (HVDC) cables as part of the "Nanoclay Reinforced Ethylene-Propylene-Rubber for Low-Cost HVDC Cabling" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: General Electric Global Research
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Decision-Support Software for Grid Operators (open access)

Decision-Support Software for Grid Operators

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses controls for managing power flows as part of the "Transmission Topology Control for Infrastructure Resilience to the Integration of Renewable Generation" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: Charles River Associates International, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Distributed Power Flow Control (open access)

Distributed Power Flow Control

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a device that helps to control power flows in existing transmission lines as part of the "Distributed Power Flow Control using Smart Wires for Energy Routing" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: Smart Wire Grid, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficient Power Conversion (open access)

Efficient Power Conversion

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the 14 projects that are a part of the Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT) program including project goals, innovation needs, and potential impacts.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: United States. Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Integration of Renewables Via Demand Management (open access)

Integration of Renewables Via Demand Management

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses an automated control software to manage the electric grid as part of the "Highly Dispatchable and Distributed Demand Response for the Integration of Distributed Generation" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: AutoGrid Systems, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low Insertion HVDC Circuit Breaker (open access)

Low Insertion HVDC Circuit Breaker

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a direct current circuit breaker as part of the "Magnetically Pulsed Hybrid Breaker for HVDC Power Distribution Protection" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: General Atomics
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Magnetic Technology for Power Converters (open access)

Magnetic Technology for Power Converters

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new nanoscale magnetic material as part of the "Nanocomposite Magnet Technology for High Frequency MW-Scale Power Converters" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: Carnegie Mellon University
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Power Flow Controller for Renewables (open access)

Power Flow Controller for Renewables

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a power flow controller for routing renewable energy as part of the "Transformer-less Unified Power Flow Controller for Wind and Solar Power Transmission" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: Michigan State University
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Probability-Based Software for Grid Optimization (open access)

Probability-Based Software for Grid Optimization

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of software to improve the use of renewable energy sources as part of the "Improved Power System Operations Using Advanced Stochastic Optimization" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: Sandia National Laboratories
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Renewable Energy Positioning System (open access)

Renewable Energy Positioning System

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a system to allocate renewable energy sources within the power grid as part of the "Energy Positioning: Control and Economics" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: University of Washington
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Scalable Distributed Automation System (open access)

Scalable Distributed Automation System

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Green Electricity Network Integration (GENI) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a a distributed automation system for managing electricity from renewable resources as part of the "Scalable Real-time Decentralized Volt/VAR Control" project.
Date: June 4, 2012
Creator: California Institute of Technology
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power (open access)

Conversion Tower for Dispatchable Solar Power

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage (HEATS) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses new system architecture for a solar-electric conversion tower as part of the "High-Efficiency Solar-Electric Conversion Power Tower" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Abengoa Solar, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Efficient, High-Torque Electric Vehicle Motor (open access)

Efficient, High-Torque Electric Vehicle Motor

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of electric motor as part of the "Advanced Electric Vehicle Motors with Low or No Rare Earth Content" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: QM Power, Inc.
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Exchange-Spring Magnets (open access)

Exchange-Spring Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new cost-effective exchange-spring magnet as part of the "Nanocomposite Exchange-Spring Magnets for Motor and Generator Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Argonne National Laboratory
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators (open access)

Improved Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new superconducting wire as part of the "Superconducting Wires for Direct-Drive Wind Generators" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Brookhaven National Laboratory
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron-Nickel-Based SuperMagnets (open access)

Iron-Nickel-Based SuperMagnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses bulk development of iron-nickel crystal structure magnets as part of the "Multiscale Development of L10 Materials for Rare Earth-Free Permanent Magnets" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Northeastern University
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron-Nitride Alloy Magnets (open access)

Iron-Nitride Alloy Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of a magnetic iron-nitride alloy as part of the "Transformation Enabled Nitride Magnets Absent Rare Earths (TEN Mare)" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Case Western Reserve University
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Iron-Nitride-Based Magnets (open access)

Iron-Nitride-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a prototype of an iron-nitride magnet material as part of the "Synthesis and Phase Stabilization of Body Center Tetragonal (BCT) Metastable Fe-N Anisotropic Nanocomposite Magnet- A Path to Fabricate Rare Earth Free Magnet" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: University of Minnesota
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Low-Cost Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators (open access)

Low-Cost Superconducting Wire for Wind Generators

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a high-current superconducting wire as part of the "High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils for High Power Wind Generators" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: University of Houston
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manganese-Aluminum-Based Magnets (open access)

Manganese-Aluminum-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of specialized magnetic alloys as part of the "Nanocrystalline t-MnAI Permanent Magnets" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Dartmouth College
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Manganese-Based Magnets (open access)

Manganese-Based Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of magnet for wind turbines as part of the "Manganese-Based Permanent Magnet with 40 MGOe at 200°C" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (U.S.)
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rare-Earth-Free Nanostructure Magnets (open access)

Rare-Earth-Free Nanostructure Magnets

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses the development of composite materials made of iron and manganese as part of the "Rare-Earth-Free Permanent Magnets for Electric Vehicle Motors and Wind Turbine Generators: Hexagonal Symmetry Based Materials Systems Mn-Bi and M-type Hexaferrite" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: University of Alabama
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library
Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor (open access)

Rare-Earth-Free Traction Motor

Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy project sheet summarizing general information about the Rare Earth Alternatives in Critical Technologies (REACT) program including critical needs, innovation and advantages, impacts, and contact information. This sheet discusses a new type of traction motor for electric vehicles as part of the "Rare Earth-Free Traction Motor for Electric Vehicle Applications" project.
Date: May 25, 2012
Creator: Baldor Electric Company
Object Type: Text
System: The UNT Digital Library