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How to Prevent a Power Outage From Becoming a Crisis

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On 4 August 2020, a tropical storm knocked out power in many parts of New York City as well as neighboring counties and states. And it slowed urgent repair and maintenance of the power grid, with work crews having to practice social distancing due to the pandemic. Step 1: Identify outages in real time. YURY DVORKIN/NYU.

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EIA: major utilities continue to increase spending on US electric distribution systems

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From 1996 to 2017, annual capital investment by these utilities for electric distribution systems nearly doubled, which was similar to increases in transmission investment over the same time period. This increase has been largely driven by increases in capital investment.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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An expert in power electronic converters, electrical machines, and novel grid components, he spent almost his entire career in academia, conducting research in power electronics. Minker earned a bachelor's degree from Brooklyn College , in New York City, in 1949; a master's degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1950; and a Ph.D.

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New York City awards $3.8M multi-year contract to Envision Solar to purchase EV ARC solar-powered EV chargers

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New York City has issued a three-year contract to purchase Envision Solar International’s EV ARC products. New York City’s first order will be for at least thirty EV ARC units in 2017, making it the largest single order of EV ARC products in the company’s history.

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How to make heavy-duty electric trucks work in practice

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Among its first announced customers, back in December 2017, was Pepsi, which reserved 100 of the trucks and plans to use them in the California regions of Modesto and Sacramento. For fleet operators, concepts like demand charges and charging management software are entirely new.

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Road Test: 2021 Polestar 2

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It was established in 2017 and is based in Gothenburg, Sweden, where Volvo has been for a long time (although the Polestar 2 is built in China). There are already spaces in New York City and Los Angeles, and there are now two in the San Francisco Bay Area, where I’m located. Still a bit of a mystery.

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Grabbing the prime real estate for electric truck charging hubs

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Fast-forward to 2017. We did a capacity study in the area and we realized that there was a very tight industrial zone right outside of LAX, where we had this huge interest from customers, and there was seven megawatts of available power that was sitting on the grid at that time. Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) tech is a hot topic these days.