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Scientific American
6 days ago
- Science
- Scientific American
Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic
CLIMATEWIRE | Temperatures are finally falling in the eastern U.S. as a vicious heat dome begins to subside. But such sweltering early-summer heat will only get more frequent in the years to come. That's because this week's heat wave — which tumbled century-old temperature records in some areas — was clearly influenced by climate change, scientists say. The heat dome is just one consequence of the "stuck" weather patterns that are on the rise as the planet warms. A recent study, published June 16 in the scientific journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, warns of the rising dangers of such long-lasting weather patterns, which can prompt not just heat waves but also heavy rainfall and floods. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. This week, the heat index — or what the temperature actually feels like to human skin — rose well above 100 degrees in many areas. Minneapolis also broke a daily high last set in 1910 when the city hit 96 degrees Saturday, and New York City tied its 1888 record of 96 degrees in Central Park on Monday. The new study suggests that the phenomenon behind such extreme weather may have a surprising origin: rapid warming, hundreds of miles away, in the icy Arctic. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory investigated natural atmospheric patterns known as planetary waves. These wobbly air currents meander up and down as they circle the globe — and when they intensify, they sometimes lead to storms or heat domes stagnating in place for days at a time. The study looked at the frequency of planet wave "resonance events," or temporary intensifications. They found that these kinds of stalled atmospheric patterns have tripled over the last 70 years. At the same time, extreme summer weather — like heat waves and floods — have also grown more common. Climate models have long predicted that these patterns would occur more frequently with climate change. But the new study is the first to demonstrate that it's already happening, the authors say. Still, the exact causes of these planetary wave events are an active research topic. Some research suggests that rapid warming in the Arctic — which is heating up as much as four times faster than the rest of the globe — is altering the atmosphere in ways that shift the jet stream south and affect the planetary waves. Other studies suggest that tropical warming may actually yank the jet stream poleward. And some researchers say planetary waves may be impacted by a tug-of-war between these two influences. Computer models aren't always able to fully simulate these physical responses, making it a difficult subject to study. Scientists have been investigating — and debating — the exact physical effects of global warming on atmospheric circulation patterns for years. But the new study adds to the evidence that Arctic warming plays a role. It shows that periods of warmer temperatures in the high latitudes are associated with increases in planetary wave resonance events. It also demonstrates that the growing global contrast between land temperatures and ocean temperatures — since land is warming faster than water worldwide — has also played a part. Other events have an influence as well, the research suggests. Strong El Niño events, which cause temperatures to warm in the Pacific Ocean, also seem to drive temporary spikes in weather-stalling planetary wave events. In short, multiple factors — both natural and human-caused — play a role. But climate change is a definite influence, the study notes, warning that extreme summer weather will keep intensifying as global temperatures rise. Other research also points to the fingerprint of climate change on the recent heat. Climate Central, a nonprofit climate science and communication organization, has developed a scientific metric known as the Climate Shift Index that evaluates the influence of global warming on temperatures around the world. The tool estimates that high temperatures in large swaths of the eastern U.S. over the last few days were at least five times more likely to occur because of human-caused climate change. 'The extent of this early summer heat dome over the United States is remarkable,' said Climate Central scientist Zachary Labe in a statement. 'It is a stark reminder that climate change is making these dangerous and oppressive heat waves far more likely, affecting millions of people.'
Yahoo
6 days ago
- Business
- Yahoo
Microgrid Market Set To Attain Valuation of US$ 191.01 Billion by 2033
CHICAGO, June 26, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- The global microgrid market is projected to hit the market valuation of US$ 191.01 billion by 2033 from nearly US$ 40.9 billion in 2024 at a CAGR of 19.28% during the forecast period 2025–2033. Download PDF Brochure: The microgrid market is witnessing an unmistakable inflection in 2024 as utilities, city planners, and campus operators move pilot projects into full-scale, revenue-generating assets. Across New York, California, Singapore, and Dubai, newly commissioned urban microgrids already aggregate more than 1.2 GW of distributed capacity—double the total recorded in 2021—thanks to falling inverter costs, streamlined interconnection rules, and heightened outage risks tied to extreme weather. Resilience has shifted from a nice-to-have to a board-level metric, persuading municipal councils to fast-track behind-the-meter storage clusters and helping commercial estates secure green-bond financing once payback periods drop below seven years. In parallel, the microgrid market is benefiting from utility-led aggregation programs that reward flexible load shedding and frequency response. Consolidated Edison's Brooklyn-Queens Demand Management project, for instance, sidestepped a new substation by issuing US$ 200 million in performance-based contracts with local microgrid operators, thereby illustrating how resilience dovetails with grid deferral. Similar capacity-as-a-service agreements in Tokyo and Melbourne feature multi-year payments indexed to avoided diesel burn, cementing predictable cash flows. Researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory estimate that every 100 MW of firm microgrid capacity can avert 450 kilotons of CO₂ annually when displacing backup generators, adding a quantifiable emissions dividend that strengthens investment narratives. Competitive Landscape Shifts As Utilities Embrace Distributed Energy Control The microgrid market continues to diversify its roster of influential players, yet competitive alignment is moving from vendor-centric EPC deals to vertically integrated utility platforms. Schneider Electric, Siemens AG, and Eaton still dominate controller shipments, but they now face vigorous competition from utility subsidiaries such as Duke Energy's REC and EDF's PowerFlex, which supply turnkey project financing, installation, and managed services. Recent bid data from Ontario's local distribution companies show that utility-backed proposals triumphed in eight of ten procurement rounds, chiefly because utilities can monetize grid services within regulated rate cases. Moreover, the microgrid market is attracting hyperscale cloud providers like Amazon Web Services, which embed real-time optimization algorithms directly inside SCADA gateways. These cross-industry alliances prioritize cybersecurity in line with IEC 62443 and already appeal to industrial off-takers such as BASF, which signed a decade-long OPEX contract covering 65 MW of renewable-centric microgrids across three chemical sites. Competitive tension has sparked an acquisition streak: Hitachi Energy purchased PES Power in March 2024 for its containerized hydrogen modules, while Wärtsilä divested its engine service arm to double down on energy-storage controls. Collectively, these moves reveal that scale, software intellectual property, and regulatory fluency now dictate market share. Evolving Business Models Monetize Flexibility, Resilience, And Energy Services The microgrid market is rapidly pivoting toward service-centric revenue streams that lock in predictable cash flows while slashing customer CapEx. Energy-as-a-Service (EaaS) agreements, pioneered by ENGIE North America at a Texas medical campus, now cover more than 480 MW across colleges, data centers, and ports. Under these structures, the integrator retains asset ownership, pools tax incentives, and guarantees performance metrics ranging from outage minutes to emissions intensity. Crucially, EaaS stacks incremental value by bidding surplus energy and ancillary services into wholesale markets through automated APIs, often earning up to US$ 30 per MWh for fast-frequency response in ERCOT and PJM. Complementing EaaS, the microgrid market is experimenting with transactive energy platforms that settle peer-to-peer power trades in intervals as short as five seconds. Australia's Project EDGE now routes excess rooftop solar from 1,200 households to neighboring businesses, delivering cost savings that outperformed static feed-in tariffs during almost every test day. Similar pilots in Denmark and Colorado add carbon-aware pricing so that electrons produced during low-emission hours secure premium remuneration. These granular, real-time settlement layers unlock a future in which electric delivery fleets act as dispatchable storage swarms, underpinning campus resilience while enabling lucrative grid-service stacking. Connectivity Standards Mature, Enabling Interoperable And Secure Microgrid Architectures The microgrid market is reaping dividends from a wave of open communication standards that mitigate vendor lock-in and simplify scaling. IEEE 2030.7/8 now delineates functions for hierarchical control, while the Open Field Message Bus improves timestamp accuracy for decentralized state estimation. By mid-2024, more than 65 manufacturers had certified equipment against SunSpec Modbus profiles, enabling field engineers to plug-and-play photovoltaic inverters and battery racks without bespoke mapping. Interoperability yields direct savings; the Electric Power Research Institute reports that data-layer standardization can shave dozens of engineering hours from complex builds. Security advances proceed in tandem, and the microgrid market is adopting zero-trust frameworks after a spate of ransomware attacks on operational technology in 2022. Los Angeles County's new critical-facility microgrids embed hardware root-of-trust modules, secure boot, and encrypted MQTT telemetry, all policed by cloud SIEM dashboards that flag anomalous frequency set-points within thirty seconds. Vendors now store firmware bill-of-materials on immutable ledgers to accelerate vulnerability remediation. These measures align with the U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's 2024 guidance, which recommends micro-segmentation down to individual devices, effectively insulating critical control loops from lateral-movement attacks. Diverse Power Sources Redefine Generation Mix Within Modern Microgrids The microgrid market now features an increasingly heterogeneous generation palette, moving beyond diesel-solar hybrids to embrace green hydrogen, renewable natural gas, and modular nuclear batteries. In March 2024, Rolls-Royce's mtu division shipped its first 2 MW methanol-ready genset suitable for both islanded and grid-tied microgrids. Bloom Energy's solid-oxide fuel cells surpassed 100,000 operating hours in Korea, supplying baseload with sub-100-millisecond ramp rates. Solar remains the primary addition; the Fraunhofer Institute recorded 35 GW of photovoltaic modules ordered for microgrid applications over the past eighteen months, underscoring demand for zero-marginal-cost power. Storage chemistries are diversifying as well, and the microgrid market is testing zinc-hybrid cathodes, sodium-ion packs, and second-life EV batteries to reduce dependence on critical minerals. Frontier Energy's California demonstration achieved 6,000 cycles on a zinc-air prototype without appreciable degradation, a milestone expected to reduce lifecycle costs markedly when compared with lithium-iron-phosphate. On the renewably sourced-fuel front, California's Redwood Coast Airport Microgrid began piping surplus green hydrogen to a nearby bus depot, exemplifying sector coupling. These innovations allow operators to fine-tune portfolios according to local resource availability and evolving cost curves, thereby future-proofing asset returns. Global Capacity Surges Fueled By Industrial, Military, And Community Projects The microgrid market added roughly 9 GW of operational capacity between January 2023 and April 2024, lifting worldwide installations to nearly 46 GW, according to the international research consortium EMPower. Industrial off-takers led the expansion, commissioning 3.4 GW to shield production lines from grid volatility. Noteworthy is Rio Tinto's Gudai-Darri iron-ore mine in Western Australia; its 34 MW solar-battery hybrid offsets nine million liters of diesel annually. Military bases also accelerated adoption: the U.S. Department of Defense activated five new energy-resilience microgrids totaling 145 MW, each meeting stringent islanding criteria under MIL-STD-3001. Community initiatives remain equally dynamic, and the microgrid market in sub-Saharan Africa now exceeds 6,500 village installations, bringing first-time electricity to more than 17 million residents. Of these, 580 systems rolled out by Husk Power in Nigeria and Tanzania demonstrate payback periods under six years through productive-use appliances financed via pay-as-you-go models. Peru's rural program added satellite backhaul using Starlink links, slashing on-site maintenance visits by a significant margin. These data points confirm that capacity growth is not solely a developed-nation phenomenon; rather, it is global and inclusive, aligning decarbonization goals with tangible social progress. Regulatory Momentum And Incentives Rebalance Economics In Emerging Regions The microgrid market gained long-awaited regulatory clarity in multiple jurisdictions during 2024, eliminating barriers that previously hampered capital inflows. India's Electricity (Amendment) Bill now classifies microgrids as 'regulated public utilities', granting banking rights and must-run status. This designation allows power-purchase agreements to extend beyond fifteen years, a prerequisite for infrastructure debt. In the United States, new IRS guidance lets storage-only microgrids qualify for the investment tax credit when co-located with renewables, unlocking billions in deferred projects. Brazil followed suit by exempting community systems below 5 MW from transmission tariffs, materially improving project economics. Policy support alone cannot guarantee success, and the microgrid market still grapples with permitting delays, land-acquisition hurdles, and currency risks in frontier economies. Multilateral lenders are countering these challenges through blended-finance structures that pair concessional capital with technical assistance, thereby de-risking early-stage development. The World Bank's Distributed Access and Resilience Facility, launched in February 2024 with an initial US$ 500 million pool, earmarks a substantial tranche—well above US$ 190 million—for gender-inclusive energy entrepreneurship, reflecting research that diverse operator teams experience lower non-technical losses and stronger customer retention. Converging Digital Twins And Predictive Maintenance Secure Future Growth Path The microgrid market is embedding real-time digital twins, machine learning, and condition-based predictive maintenance to curb downtime and extend asset life. By ingesting phasor data, weather feeds, and inverter telemetry, these platforms create asset-health indices that dispatch technicians before minor anomalies escalate. Spanish utility Iberdrola reports that, within the market, coupling predictive maintenance with physics-based twins reduced unplanned outages at its Bilbao port installation from fifteen per year to just five over twelve months. Enel X employs reinforcement learning to optimize battery cycling, boosting round-trip efficiency and freeing an extra 450 MWh annually for market participation. The outcomes demonstrate that software intelligence is now indispensable rather than optional. Looking forward, the microgrid market will weave predictive maintenance together with carbon-aware dispatch, enabling operators to hit reliability and sustainability targets simultaneously. Cloud-native platforms already marry satellite-derived irradiance forecasts with Locational Marginal Emission signals to prioritize low-carbon generation whenever equipment health permits. Additional value emerges as warranty analytics flow back to OEMs, shortening design cycles for next-generation power electronics. Consequently, stakeholders should treat predictive maintenance as a cornerstone strategy that trims levelized electricity costs, maximizes ancillary revenue, and strengthens ESG performance. As regulatory, technological, and financial threads converge, the microgrid market is poised to evolve from niche innovation to indispensable grid infrastructure. Inquire Before Buying: Global Microgrid Market Major Players: Manufacturers ABB ABM Ameresco Eaton General Electric Hitachi Energy Ltd. Honeywell International Inc . Saft Siemens Scale Microgrid Solutions LLC Other Prominent Players Microgrid Developers and Power Companies BoxPower, Inc. Enernet Global PowerSecure, Inc . 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Yahoo
13-06-2025
- Science
- Yahoo
Quantum Computers Simulate Particle 'String Breaking' in a Physics Breakthrough
Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when linked by 'strings' of force fields — and release energy when the strings are pulled to the point of breaking. Two teams of physicists have now used quantum computers to mimic this phenomenon and watch it unfold in real time. The results, described in two Nature papers on June 4, are the latest in a series of breakthroughs towards using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers. 'String breaking is a very important process that is not yet fully understood from first principles,' says Christian Bauer, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California. Physicists can calculate the final results of particle collisions that form or break strings using classical computers, but cannot fully simulate what happens in between. The success of the quantum simulations is 'incredibly encouraging,' Bauer says. [Sign up for Today in Science, a free daily newsletter] Each experiment was conducted by an international collaboration involving academic and industry researchers — one team at QuEra Computing, a start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and another at the Google Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. The researchers using QuEra's Aquila machine encoded information in atoms that were arranged in a 2D honeycomb pattern, each suspended in place by an optical 'tweezer'. The quantum state of each atom — a qubit that could be excited or relaxed — represented the electric field at a point in space, explains co-author Daniel González-Cuadra, a theoretical physicist now at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Madrid. In the other experiment, researchers encoded the 2D quantum field in the states of superconducting loops on Google's Sycamore chip. The teams used diametrically opposite quantum-simulation philosophies. The atoms in Aquila were arranged so that the electrostatic forces between them mimicked the behaviour of the electric field, and continuously evolved towards their own states of lower energy — an approach called analogue quantum simulation. The Google machine was instead used as a 'digital' quantum simulator: the superconducting loops were made to follow the evolution of the quantum field 'by hand', through a discrete sequence of manipulations. In both cases, the teams set up strings in the field that effectively acted like rubber bands connecting two particles. Depending on how the researchers tuned the parameters, the strings could be stiff or wobbly, or could break up. 'In some cases, the whole string just dissolves: the particles become deconfined,' says Frank Pollmann, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching, Germany, who helped to lead the Google experiment. Although simulating strings in a 2D electric field could have applications for studying the physics of materials, it is still a long way from fully simulating high-energy interactions, such as those that occur in particle colliders, which are in 3D and involve the much more complex strong nuclear force. 'We do not have a clear path at this point how to get there,' says Monika Aidelsburger, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany. Still, the latest results are exciting, and progress in quantum simulation in general has been 'really amazing and very fast,' Aidelsburger says. Last year, Bauer and his LBNL colleague Anthony Ciavarella were among the first teams to simulate the strong nuclear force on a quantum computer. Approaches that replace qubits with qudits — which can have more than two quantum states and can be more realistic representations of a quantum field — could also make simulations more powerful, researchers say. This article is reproduced with permission and was first published on June 5, 2025.
Scientific American
13-06-2025
- Science
- Scientific American
Quantum Computers Simulate Particle 'String Breaking' in a Physics Breakthrough
Subatomic particles such as quarks can pair up when linked by 'strings' of force fields — and release energy when the strings are pulled to the point of breaking. Two teams of physicists have now used quantum computers to mimic this phenomenon and watch it unfold in real time. The results, described in two Nature papers on June 4, are the latest in a series of breakthroughs towards using quantum computers for simulations that are beyond the ability of any ordinary computers. 'String breaking is a very important process that is not yet fully understood from first principles,' says Christian Bauer, a physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL) in Berkeley, California. Physicists can calculate the final results of particle collisions that form or break strings using classical computers, but cannot fully simulate what happens in between. The success of the quantum simulations is 'incredibly encouraging,' Bauer says. On supporting science journalism If you're enjoying this article, consider supporting our award-winning journalism by subscribing. By purchasing a subscription you are helping to ensure the future of impactful stories about the discoveries and ideas shaping our world today. String simulations Each experiment was conducted by an international collaboration involving academic and industry researchers — one team at QuEra Computing, a start-up company in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and another at the Google Quantum AI Lab in Santa Barbara, California. The researchers using QuEra's Aquila machine encoded information in atoms that were arranged in a 2D honeycomb pattern, each suspended in place by an optical 'tweezer'. The quantum state of each atom — a qubit that could be excited or relaxed — represented the electric field at a point in space, explains co-author Daniel González-Cuadra, a theoretical physicist now at the Institute for Theoretical Physics in Madrid. In the other experiment, researchers encoded the 2D quantum field in the states of superconducting loops on Google's Sycamore chip. The teams used diametrically opposite quantum-simulation philosophies. The atoms in Aquila were arranged so that the electrostatic forces between them mimicked the behaviour of the electric field, and continuously evolved towards their own states of lower energy — an approach called analogue quantum simulation. The Google machine was instead used as a 'digital' quantum simulator: the superconducting loops were made to follow the evolution of the quantum field 'by hand', through a discrete sequence of manipulations. In both cases, the teams set up strings in the field that effectively acted like rubber bands connecting two particles. Depending on how the researchers tuned the parameters, the strings could be stiff or wobbly, or could break up. 'In some cases, the whole string just dissolves: the particles become deconfined,' says Frank Pollmann, a physicist at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) in Garching, Germany, who helped to lead the Google experiment. Fast progress Although simulating strings in a 2D electric field could have applications for studying the physics of materials, it is still a long way from fully simulating high-energy interactions, such as those that occur in particle colliders, which are in 3D and involve the much more complex strong nuclear force. 'We do not have a clear path at this point how to get there,' says Monika Aidelsburger, a physicist at the Max Planck Institute of Quantum Optics in Munich, Germany. Still, the latest results are exciting, and progress in quantum simulation in general has been 'really amazing and very fast,' Aidelsburger says. Last year, Bauer and his LBNL colleague Anthony Ciavarella were among the first teams to simulate the strong nuclear force on a quantum computer. Approaches that replace qubits with qudits — which can have more than two quantum states and can be more realistic representations of a quantum field — could also make simulations more powerful, researchers say.
Globe and Mail
31-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Nvidia and Dell Power the Department of Energy's Next Supercomputer
Chip giant Nvidia (NVDA) and computer maker Dell Technologies (DELL) are combining forces to power the Department of Energy's (DOE) next-generation supercomputer, called Doudna. Named after Nobel Prize-winning scientist Jennifer Doudna, the advanced supercomputer is schedule for launch in 2026. The announcement was made by Secretary of Energy, Chris Wright, at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory yesterday. Confident Investing Starts Here: Easily unpack a company's performance with TipRanks' new KPI Data for smart investment decisions Receive undervalued, market resilient stocks right to your inbox with TipRanks' Smart Value Newsletter The Doudna supercomputer will use Nvidia's latest ' Vera Rubin ' chips and will be built into Dell's advanced liquid-cooled servers. The supercomputer is designed to help roughly 11,000 researchers across the U.S. drive 'scientific discovery, from chemistry to physics to biology.' Here's What Doudna Is Expected to Do Typically, the DOE's supercomputers enable scientists to carry out fundamental scientific research and are also used for designing and maintaining the U.S. nuclear weapons store. Doudna is designed to integrate simulation, data, and artificial intelligence (AI) into a single platform. Scientists across the U.S. will be able to seamlessly steam data into the system and analyze real-time results. Doudna is expected to drive breakthroughs in fusion energy, materials science, accelerate drug discoveries, process real-time data from space, and support quantum workflows. The supercomputer is expected to be 10x faster in scientific output than its predecessor, Perlmutter, while using only 2x-3x more power. Nvidia's Crucial Role Amid Export Challenges Nvidia's involvement in this mission-critical project reflects the semiconductor giant's valued expertise and its importance to the U.S. administration. The news about Doudna comes amid Nvidia's ongoing struggle with chip exports to China. Recently, CEO Jensen Huang praised U.S. President Donald Trump for his 'vision' to boost domestic manufacturing, while also criticizing the stringent chip export restrictions on Nvidia, which have cost the company billions of dollars in lost revenue. The company has also drawn bipartisan criticism for its plan to open a research and development facility in Shanghai, with lawmakers citing national security concerns and warning of potential risks. Which AI Stock Is Better: NVDA or DELL? We used TipRanks' Stock Comparison Tool to determine which of the two companies, Nvidia or Dell, is currently favored by analysts. Investors can choose to invest in either stock after thorough research. Currently, both NVDA and DELL have earned analysts' 'Strong Buy' consensus rating, with NVDA stock offering higher upside potential compared to DELL.
