The vast majority of the demand response action today is in the commercial and industrial sector. But, theres a big slice of untouched demand pie in the residential space. It's easier for commercial and industrial customers to grasp the concept and value of demand response. Unlike residential custom...

Combined heat and power (CHP) is an efficient and clean approach to generating electric power and useful thermal energy from a single fuel source. Instead of purchasing electricity from the distribution grid and burning fuel in an on-site furnace or boiler to produce thermal energy, an industrial or...

Truck movements link commerce, suppliers, markets, and consumers between various points of oil and gas production and consumption. An efficient heavy-truck transportation system is critical to maintaining the competitiveness of the any countrys oil and gas industry.   Heavy-duty trucks p...

From hazard to environmental challenge to energy resource that is how the perception of gas contained in coal beds has evolved.   Coal bed methane can be found almost anywhere there is coal. Considered a dangerous nuisance in the mining industry, it has potential as an abundant clean energy supply t...

Centrifugal compressors are a sub-class of dynamic axisymmetric work-absorbing turbo machinery used in oil and gas and many other operations. A simple centrifugal compressor consists of four components:inlet, impeller/rotor, diffuser, and collector.   Energy is transferred from a set of ...

Cased-hole logging involves retrieving logging measurements through the well casing, or the metal piping that is inserted into the well during completion operations. Cased-hole logging is performed more rarely but still provides valuable information about the well. Cased-hole logging is ...

The market for global captive power plants is expected to be USD XX million at the end of the year 2015 and by the end of 2022 it is expected to reach USD XX million. The market is expected to grow at a rate of XX%. Captive power plants are power plants established by individuals or cooperative soci...

What does data represent? Data enables one to have better insights into activities and events. Todays requirements are very different than what the power companies faced a few years back. For example a customer wants to know his power consumption levels for each day and an engineer wants to know whi...

The Global Big Data in Oil & Gas Exploration and Production Market is currently estimated at USD XX.XX and is projected to reach USD XX.XX by 2022, at a CAGR during the forecast period from 2015 to 2022. Although the usage is more prevalent in the U.S.A., the rest of the world is expected to catch u...

Global battery market is expanding. The growth is coming from both automotive and industrial sectors powered by usage in telecom, railways, power and other industrial applications. Although the OEMs prefer branded batteries, the unorganized players are predominant in the replacement market. Unorgani...

Batteries are used for wide range of applications, ranging from consumer electronics to storage of green energy. Battery life is considered as one of the major parameters for quality of a device.   Battery also involves a significant portion of the overall costs of a device, hence it is extremely im...

The market for global axial compressors is expected to be $XX billion at the end of the year 2015 and by the end of 2022 it is expected to reach $XX billion. The market is expected to grow at a rate of XX%. Axial compressors is a gas compressor albeit with two intermeshing helical screws. Axial comp...

Automated Demand Response, or Auto-DR, is a platform AND program that is used by Investor Owned Utilities (IOUs) to automate energy curtailment process at select facilities. Using modern control equipment such as building management systems and lighting control systems, utilities can send a remote s...

The market for global Ash handling System is expected to be USD XX billion at the end of the year 2015 and by the end of 2022 it is estimated to reach USDXX billion. The market is expected to grow at a rate of XX%. Ash handling plants are installed to contain the ash generated from factories. In fac...

Alkaline fuel cells (AFCs) were one of the first fuel cell technologies to be developed and were originally used by NASA in the space program to produce both electricity and water aboard spacecraft. AFCs continued to be used on NASA space shuttles throughout the program, alongside a limited number o...