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WHYY reports Philadelphia’s Proterra electric bus fleet sidelined due to cracked chassis and other defects

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Philadelphia’s public media organization WHYY, also the local PBS and NPR station, reports that the regional public transportation authority SEPTA has sidelined its entire fleet of 25 Proterra electric buses since February 2020. million federal grant, that she had doubts about “the future of electric vehicle procurement.”. “I

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). MASTERRI: Modeling and Simulation for Targeted Electrical Resilience and Reliability Improvements, $125,000. Caltrode, Inc. Tucson, Arizona).

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DOE launches wave energy competition

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Marine and hydrokinetic energy technologies convert the energy of waves, tides, and river and ocean currents into electricity. DOE announced the Wave Energy Prize at the International Marine Renewable Energy Conference co-located at the National Hydropower Association Annual Conference. Van Buren Township, Michigan.

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour

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Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

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Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. As electric utilities and policymakers seek solutions for storing and dispatching energy on demand, concentrating solar-thermal power (CSP) is once again gaining traction. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour

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Engineers Are Working on a Solar Microgrid to Outlast Lunar Nights

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Notably, it will need to keep astronauts alive, rather than just support a conventional household load, says Rachid Darbali-Zamora , an electrical engineer at Sandia. Lee Rashkin, another electrical engineer at Sandia, says that they are working to define the parameters of the tie-line. “We

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Remembering Data Compression Pioneer K. R. Rao

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Rao was a professor of electrical engineering at the. is a professor of electrical engineering, also at the University of Belgrade. Rao received a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering in 1952 from the. in 1966 in EE from the University of New Mexico , in Albuquerque. Rao died on 15 January 2021 at the age of 89.