Power Generation
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From Roaring Engines to Gentle Whispers - The Electrification Journey of Indian Railways in 2025 Have you ever remembered the loud roar of an old diesel train? In the past, when a train sped along the tracks, you could hear its deep rumble from far away. The sound of the engine, the shaking of the carriage and even the scent of diesel made every journey an adventure to treasure. Today, when you step onto a modern train you may hardly notice any noise at all. The… |
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Why India Must Pay More Attention to Solar for Power Generation? Developing countries like India have been facing an energy crisis for a very long time that can be countered impeccably by top-notch technologies and renewable energies like solar. The country has been equipped with huge potentials of solar energy with around 5000 trillion kWh per year energy and most of the areas receive 4-7 kWh per sq. m per day. Back in 2018, the… |
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What is Power Transformer and How does it work? In some of our previous articles we have discussed about the basics of the transformer and its different types. One of the important and commonly used Transformer is Power transformer. It is very widely used for stepping up and stepping down the voltage at the electrical power generating station and distribution station (or substation) respectively. … |
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Challenges that Make Setting up a Solar Farm Less Feasible Nearly 4.18 trillion kWh of electricity were generated in the United States at utility-scale electricity generation facilities in 2018, and around 17% was generated from renewable sources. The statistics recently published by the U.S. Energy Information Administration state that approximately 67 billion kWh of the total electricity generated in the country last year were… |
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How Regenerative Braking Works in Electric Vehicles Braking is one of the important aspects of a vehicle. The mechanical braking system which we use in our vehicles has a big drawback of wasting the kinetic energy of the vehicle as heat. This brings down the overall efficiency of the vehicle by affecting the fuel economy. In the urban drive cycle, we tend to start and stop the vehicle more often when compared to highway drive… |
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Understanding Power Factor and How It Affects your Energy Bills Aside from safety and reliability, several other goals including efficiency should be pursued in the design and implementation of electrical systems. One of the measures of efficiency in an electrical system is the efficiency with which the system transforms the energy it receives into useful work. This efficiency is indicated by a component of electrical systems known as… |
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Applications of IoT in the Energy Industry: Generation, Transmission and Consumption IoT is everywhere. Working hand in hand with technologies like blockchain and machine learning, it is changing everything, from the way we order groceries, to the way we maintain machines and equipment. The applications of IoT cuts across all fields and industries. From utility management and transportation to education and agriculture, helping businesses to deliver more… |
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Foot Step Power Generation Circuit using Piezoelectric Sensor From the past few years the demand of low power electronic portable devices has been increased rapidly. And there are very limited options to power these small portable electronic devices like alkaline batteries or solar power etc. So here we are using a different method to generate small amount of power which uses Piezoelectric sensor. Here we will build… |
