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Plans ready for 100MW thermal power by 2014
| Thursday, 17 May 2012 00:00 |
The Citizen Reporters
Dar es Salaam. Tanzania’s energy sector is heading for good tidings, going by the announcement issued yesterday to the effect that the country will start producing geothermal power in the near future. Geothermal power refers to electricity that is produced by harnessing internal heat of the earth. Further prospects of more electricity came from the launch of the board of director for a joint venture company, which seeks to produce power from coal as at the Mchuchuma and Liganga fields. While the geothermal project targets at producing 100MW within the next two years, a foreign company, Tanzania China International Mineral Resources Limited (TCIMR), plans to produce 300MW by the year 2014. Both projects would be implemented in Mbeya Region. While TCIMR is a joint venture between National Development Corporation (NDC) and a Chinese company, Sichuan Hongda, the geothermal project would be carried out by Geothermal Power (Tanzania), a local company. Information released in Dar es Salaam yesterday said that TCIMR plans to start exploration work after six months. While China Development Bank has provided a $2.4 billion loan for the project, the company itself has made available $600 million, making it the single largest investment venture in East Africa.Geothermal Power (Tanzania) Limited chairman Graeme Robertson told reporters in Dar es Salaam yesterday that the company has initially invested $5 million (about Sh8 billion) for the project. http://www.thecitizen.co.tz/component/content/article/37-tanzania-top-news-story/22424-plans-ready-for-100mw-thermal-power-by-2014.html |
Saturday, May 12, 2012
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2012 International Conference on
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Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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What is Smart Garage?
The Smart Garage is a new energy paradigm focused on the integration of how we use energy. It is made possible by the convergence of energy in the transportation, electricity grid and building sector enabled by plug-in vehicles. It combines key industry endeavors such as smart charging, Vehicle to Grid, V2Building, and the smart grid.
Smart Garage bridges the transportation, building and electric power sectors by providing electricity as a low-carbon fuel to vehicles and then using vehicle energy storage for responsive services to the power grid. This optimizes the efficiency of both sectors and enables significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
Collaborative and open design can overcome the barriers presented by the complexity of Smart Garage systems. First, with Smart Garage, collaboration and agreement on key principles, earlier stages, and open standards will enable rapid growth without being slowed by incompatible, proprietary hardware and software. Second, developing a clear vision and understanding for the entire system will enable players to recognize impacts and synergies across disciplines.
What are the advantages of the Smart Garage?
The vehicle sector is clearly moving towards wholly or partially electric vehicles. Utilities are looking for ways to manage existing volatility, smooth load profiles and increase renewables. Smart Garage offers a way to reap the financial benefits from both industry trends.Smart Garage bridges the transportation, building and electric power sectors by providing electricity as a low-carbon fuel to vehicles and then using vehicle energy storage for responsive services to the power grid. This optimizes the efficiency of both sectors and enables significant reductions in greenhouse gas emissions.
The challenges of creating the Smart Garage
Smart Garage will require deep collaboration between multiple industries to succeed, but so far that collaboration has not happened, and instead, disjointed research and development endeavors continue with little coordination. The lack of a collective vision for the value chain, technical communication, and electronic/data flows associated with Smart Garage has created a bottleneck.Collaborative and open design can overcome the barriers presented by the complexity of Smart Garage systems. First, with Smart Garage, collaboration and agreement on key principles, earlier stages, and open standards will enable rapid growth without being slowed by incompatible, proprietary hardware and software. Second, developing a clear vision and understanding for the entire system will enable players to recognize impacts and synergies across disciplines.
Plug- In - Electric Vehicle
A plug-in hybrid electric vehicle (PHEV), plug-in hybrid vehicle (PHV), or plug-in hybrid is a hybrid vehicle which utilizes rechargeable batteries, or another energy storage device, that can be restored to full charge by connecting a plug to an external electric power source (usually a normal electric wall socket). A PHEV shares the characteristics of both a conventional hybrid electric vehicle, having an electric motor and an internal combustion engine (ICE); and of an all-electric vehicle, having a plug to connect to the electrical grid. Most PHEVs on the road today are passenger cars, but there are also PHEV versions of commercial vehicles and vans, utility trucks, buses, trains, motorcycles, scooters, and military vehicles.
The cost for electricity to power plug-in hybrids for all-electric operation has been estimated at less than one quarter of the cost of gasoline in California.[1] Compared to conventional vehicles, PHEVs reduce air pollution locally and dependence on petroleum. PHEVs may reduce greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to global warming,[2][3] compared with conventional vehicles. PHEVs also eliminate the problem of range anxiety associated to all-electric vehicles, because the combustion engine works as a backup when the batteries are depleted, giving PHEVs driving range comparable to other vehicles with gasoline tanks.[4][5][6] Plug-in hybrids use no fossil fuel during their all-electric range and produce lower greenhouse gas emissions if their batteries are charged from renewable electricity. Other benefits include improved national energy security, fewer fill-ups at the filling station, the convenience of home recharging, opportunities to provide emergency backup power in the home, and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications.[7][8]
Chinese battery manufacturer and automaker BYD Auto released the F3DM to the Chinese fleet market in December 2008[9][10][11] and began sales to the general public in Shenzhen in March 2010.[12][13] General Motors began deliveries of the Chevrolet Volt in the U.S. in December 2010.[14] Deliveries to retail customers of the Fisker Karma began in the U.S. in November 2011.[15] Other plug-in vehicles ongoing demonstration trials or slated to the market for 2012 and 2013 are the Toyota Prius Plug-in Hybrid, Ford C-Max Energi, Volvo V70 Plug-in Hybrid, Ford Fusion Energi, Suzuki Swift Plug-in, Audi A1 e-tron, BMW i8, and Fisker Surf. The Volt is the world's top selling plug-in hybrid, with cumulative sales of 8,272 units in the U.S. and Canada through December 2011.[16][17] As of October 2011, BYD Auto reported cumulative sales of over 1,000 F3DMs in China since 2008.[18]
Until 2010 most PHEVs on the road in the US are conversions of conventional hybrid electric vehicles,[5] and the most prominent PHEVs are conversions of 2004 or later Toyota Prius, which have had plug-in charging and more batteries added and their electric-only range extended.[19] Several countries, including the United States and several European countries, have enacted laws to facilitate the introduction of PHEVs through grants and tax credits, emissions mandates, and by financing research and development of advanced batteries and other related technologies. Want more? Follow the Link below:
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