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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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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. 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. from the University of Pennsylvania , in Philadelphia, in 1959.

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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. million of Cap-and-Trade money.

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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.

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Proterra beefs up its battery expertise: Q&A CTO Dustin Grace

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The company has sold some 950 buses to transit agencies, airports, universities, national parks and private companies in 43 states and provinces. New York City Transit came to us a few years ago and said, “What happens if a manhole cover explodes out of the ground? Because it’s happened here. It happens all the time.”.

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