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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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By 2016, fast-acting power electronics were being introduced to the grid, and their characteristics differed from the rotating machines used nearly a decade before. in EE at Iowa State University , in Ames. These issues required a reevaluation of how we had defined and classified stability in 2004,” Vittal says.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island. These vehicles will be the first electric transit buses deployed in Iowa. Project partners are MidAmerican Energy and Proterra. 54,992,016.

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