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An inside look at how utilities view EVs: expanding electricity sales without adding new customers

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He also serves on the Board of Drive Electric Florida, and chairs the Florida Electric Power Coordinating Group, which represents most of the utilities in the state of Florida, and leads the Group’s subcommittee for electrification. Back in 2018, there were roughly 2,300 EVs in OUC territory. Is that an issue in Florida?

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A First: An AI System Has Been Named An Inventor

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Abbott and his team filed applications in 2018 and 2019 in 17 patent offices around the world, including in the United States, several European countries, China, Japan, and India. The reason we have a patent system is to get people to disclose inventions to add to the public store of knowledge in return for these monopoly rights,” he says.

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SpaceX executive forecasts 6 Falcon Heavy launches in 12 months

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Following years of delays and anticipation as SpaceX waited for the right moment to move forward with the massive rocket, Falcon Heavy debuted in February 2018 by launching CEO Elon Musk’s original Tesla Roadster into interplanetary space. That may finally change.

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IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

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IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US.

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Emporia’s energy management system prepares for the bidirectional EV charging future

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I launched Emporia in the spring of 2018 with co-founders Ted Graham and Franz Ketwig—we have worked together since 2006 in the commodities trading space, and they now share the Chief Technical Officer role at Emporia. For example, I have a solar system at my house, but we don’t have a TOU program here in Florida.

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Ham Radio Jamming, Wireless Industry Battlegrounds, and IoT in Space

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Listen For Yourself Back in July, ham radio operators in Florida began noticing interference swamping many of the amateur broadcasting bands. In fact, we first wrote about it at IEEE Spectrum in 2018. His Q&A with IEEE Spectrum is chock-full of insights on what 6G might have in-store for us all.

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The Godfather of South Korea’s Chip Industry

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Terman stressed that KAIS should aim to “satisfy the needs of Korean industry and Korean industrial establishments for highly trained and innovative specialists, rather than to add to the world’s store of basic knowledge.” It was the perfect place for Kim to spread his newfound philosophy of the “engineer’s mind.” South Korea’s Founding Lab.