PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A century-old Philadelphia company is taking part in a federal program that would generate more electricity through hydropower.<\/p>\n
Assistant U.S. Secretary of Energy Audrey Robertson Monday toured Kingsbury, Inc.\u2019s Northeast Philadelphia plant where bearings, including those used at dams to generate power, are made. <\/p>\n
She announced the second phase of a program called HyTN (Hydropower Testing Network) that would help Kingsbury test how its bearings hold up when hydropower generators are turned off and on, to back up solar and wind power.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn this case, it\u2019s focused on the new demands on these bearings that come from turning a hydropower facility on and off repeatedly,\u201d Robertson said.<\/p>\n
Kingsbury CEO Mike Brawley said his firm is working with Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s actually some novel testing that has not been done before. And it\u2019s because of some of the changing nature of the way many of the units nationwide are being operated,\u201d Brawley said.<\/p>\n
The HyTN program is providing grants of \u201ca few million dollars\u201d each for 12 hydropower technology companies nationwide. Robertson said the goal is to help hydropower facilities operate at peak generation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHILADELPHIA (KYW Newsradio) \u2014 A century-old Philadelphia company is taking part in a federal program that would generate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":300469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[123788,123787,69,71,70],"class_list":["post-300468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-energy-department","tag-hydropower","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=300468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/300469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}