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PowerCell signs MoU with ABB Power Grids on stationary fuel cell power solutions

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PowerCell Sweden AB has signed a memorandum of understanding with ABB Power Grids regarding a collaboration around fuel cell based zero emissions stationary power solutions. The MoU with ABB Power Grids is an important step and a great contribution to our increased efforts within the stationary segment.

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Tesla attack prompts German energy service provider to call for grid protection updates

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German utility Westenergie CEO Katherina Reiche has called for a collaboration between policymakers and power grid operators to strengthen the response to attacks on the country’s power infrastructure. “Critical infrastructure is vulnerable,” Reiche noted.

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Nel ASA receives purchase order for 20MW alkaline electrolyzer from steelmaker Ovako

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When reviewing these figures in greater detail, Ovako found that the heating of steel offered a very important step towards the carbon neutrality of finished steel products—not just the crude steel. By contrast, the Ovako figure is on average around 90 kg of CO 2 per tonne – vastly lower.

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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

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GE Chairman and CEO Jeff Immelt unveiled the challenge, the “GE ecomagination Challenge: Powering the Grid,” in San Francisco 13 July. The global challenge invites technologists, entrepreneurs and start-ups to share their best ideas and come together to build the next-generation power grid to meet the needs of the 21 st century.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Katherine DeEmidio Ledesma, Dragos A 2021 review of cyber vulnerabilities in water systems, published in the journal Water , highlights the converging factors of increasingly AI-enhanced and internet-connected tools running more and bigger drinking water and wastewater systems. These attacks were not extremely sophisticated.”

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Sandia, national lab partners studying vulnerabilities of electric vehicle charging infrastructure

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We have been studying potential impacts to the power grid. Now that this review has been completed, the Sandia team has received follow-on funding to tackle some of these gaps. We are focused on larger impacts to critical infrastructure as we electrify more of the transportation industry. doi: 10.3390/en15113931.

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Policy Options for Expanding and Modernizing the US Power Grid

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Yang is the lead author of a 26-page paper from CCPP reviewing these challenges and exploring eleven policy options for addressing them. —Chi-Jen Yang of the Duke-based Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP). Ownership of electric transmission in the US is fragmented. Source: Yang, 2009. Click to enlarge.