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Battery storage all but eliminates diesel generator

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The Metlakatla Power and Light supplemented its hydro and diesel-powered electric power generating capacity with its battery energy-storage system. The sytem provides several advantages, including rapid spinning reserve, frequency control and better power quality.

Author: Taylor, Paula, Akhil, Abbas, Demarest, Michele, Achenbach, H. A. Dutch
Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1997
Models, Case studies, Evaluation, Electric equipment, Electric power distribution, Electrical equipment and supplies, Batteries, Power lines

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Spinning reserve in Puerto Rico doesn't spin - it's a battery

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Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority operates a battery energy-storage facility that minimizes cost in power generation. The utility offers the only power generating system on the island.

Author: Taylor, Paula, Torres, Wenceslao, Akhil, Abbas
Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1995
Equipment and supplies, Buildings and facilities, Puerto Rico. Electric Power Authority

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T&D in Alaska: like an undeveloped nation

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Alaska's ailing urban and rural electric utilities increase the uncertainty of how alternating financial resources, old systems and competition will influence the state's power industry.

Author: Taylor, Paula, Demarest, Michele
Publisher: The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
Publication Name: Electrical World
Subject: Electronics and electrical industries
ISSN: 0013-4457
Year: 1997
Planning, Cover Story, Energy use, Alaska, Energy economics, Rural electrification

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