Overview of Microgrid Developments in the United States and Canada

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Microgrids are presenting themselves as a promising alternative to promote security, reliability, and affordability in the energy sector across the world, but they are more common in North America than other regions. They provide alternative decentralized energy generation and storage. They mitigate the volatility of local grids by reducing reliance on certain generation sources and …

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Achieving a Sustainable, Reliable, and Clean Grid through the Use of Microgrids

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Microgrids are playing a critical role in the evolving power networks all across the globe. Microgrids can support existing grid infrastructure and, at the same time, add value by ensuring a reliable and uninterrupted supply of electricity, renewable energy integration, efficient energy balancing, and reducing greenhouse gas emissions. The model of microgrids is successfully implemented …

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Challenges Associated with the Intermittent Nature of Solar Energy for Integration onto the Grid

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Over the past two decades, world leaders and scientists have made tremendous efforts to improve energy security and reduce greenhouse gas emissions while meeting rising energy demand. Their initiatives have increased the demand and proliferation for the widespread integration of renewable energy sources into the current electrical grids. Due to the intermittent nature of the …

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Sector coupling’s effect on the market price of renewable energy

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A crucial effort for the future decades will be to decarbonize the energy supply by switching out fossil fuels for renewable energy sources to meet climate protection goals. When determining future financing requirements, knowing the potential growth and commercial viability of renewable energy sources in the power industry is critical. However, as variable renewable energy …

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Isothermal and Supercritical Compressed Air Energy Storage Systems

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Compressed-air energy storage technology involves storing energy as pressurized air, with the system’s capacity depending on the size of the storage vessel, the pressure at which the air is held, and the temperature. Different types of CAES exist, including diabatic, adiabatic, isothermal, supercritical, micro, and underwater. Isothermal CAES is one of the major CAES systems, …

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Aluminium-air Batteries and Lithium-air Batteries for EVs: A Comparison

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Lithium-Air Batteries for EVs Lithium-air batteries (LABs) reduce oxygen from the air at the cathode and oxidises lithium metal at the anode to produce a current flow during discharge. The lithium-air battery can obtain oxygen from the air externally, removing the need for internal storage. This results in a higher energy density compared to that of …

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Challenges to overcome to achieve a sustainable circular bioeconomy

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Challenges to overcome to achieve a sustainable circular bioeconomy The circular bioeconomy is an approach to economic growth that centers on the use and management of biomass. This could potentially revolutionize the global economy, which currently relies heavily on non-renewable resources and fossil fuels and help tackle the three main global issues: providing clean water, …

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Wireless In-road Charging – The Missing Part of the Puzzle in e-mobility

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Wireless In-road Charging – The Missing Part of the Puzzle in e-mobility Battery range and charging accessibility are the two biggest barriers to the worldwide adoption of Battery Electric Vehicles (BEVs) and the general electrification of light and medium-duty transportation sectors. To alleviate these two issues, recent research has focussed on methodologies (Wireless In-road Charging) …

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Compressed air energy storage (CAES) – Current state and future directions

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A balance of supply and demand of electricity is essential to keep the grid supply running. With the advent of small-scale energy production units, especially renewable power and intermittent power supplies like solar and wind power systems, compressed air energy storage (CAES) systems are brought into the limelight to balance supply and demand in the …

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Hydrides as Electrodes and Electrolytes for Solid-State Batteries

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Solid-state batteries are seen as a critical enabler for compact, energy-dense battery-powered devices. Solid-state batteries are considered the natural successor to liquid electrolyte batteries such as lithium-ion because they have the potential to exhibit 2.5 times the energy density of current liquid electrolyte batteries with reduced weight and lesser degradation in battery performance from rapid …

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