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Hitachi and Demansys to demo CrystEna Energy Storage System for grid frequency regulation and capacity services

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and Demansys Energy LLC reached an agreement to perform a demonstration project utilizing Hitachi’s “CrystEna” (Crystal+Energy) compact 1 MW container-type energy storage system in the market for frequency regulation and capacity services, and that site installation work will soon commence. Hitachi America, Ltd.,

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First $300M tranche of VW National ZEV investment targets charging infrastructure; 150kW+ fast charging on highway network

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Chicago, Portland, Boston, Seattle, Philadelphia, Denver, Houston, Miami, and Raleigh—and several highway corridors. Installing charging infrastructure (approximately $250 million); Public Education initiatives (approximately $25 million); and. billion commitment will be spent in $300 million increments over four 30-month cycles.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Based in Berlin, the DGS supports the introduction of solar technologies and renewable energy resources into the power grid. Transmission planners and systems operators use the company’s PowerWorld Simulator, a suite of interactive software tools, to model power grid operations under different conditions. He retired in 2019.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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In 1974 the laser printer first became available outside PARC when a small group of PARC researchers under John Ellenby—who built the Alto II, a production-line version of the Alto, and who is now vice president of development at Grid Systems Corp., began buying used copiers from Xerox’s copier division and installing laser heads in them.

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