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SwRI to demonstrate use of electric vehicles as part of emergency power microgrid under US Army SPIDERS program

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Carson, Colorado; and Camp. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e., Focused on three distinct military. installations—Joint Base Pearl. Harbor/Hickam, Hawaii; Fort. Smith, Hawaii—SPIDERS is to enable those facilities to operate. mode”) for extended time periods, with maximum assurance that.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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A Bidirectional, Transformerless Converter Topology for Grid-tied Energy Storage Systems. kVAC), 60 kW power converter design for energy storage systems connected directly to the power grid. University of Colorado Boulder. Opcondys will develop a high voltage (800 VDC to 14.5

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