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This Engineer’s Job Is to Keep Arkansas Nuclear One Safe

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Every workday, Sarah Ansari strives to ensure that the nuclear power plant where she works is operating safely. The IEEE member is an electrical design engineer at Arkansas Nuclear One , in Russellville. Ansari entered the field of power engineering during her final semester as a Ph.D.

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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee. John MacNeill.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. power sector, following some notable blackouts , has recognized its critical importance. He says the U.S.’s The structure of the water industry in the U.S. The structure of the water industry in the U.S.

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US DOE Selects 43 Projects for $92M in ARPA-E Funding; 3 on Automotive Power Electronics

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The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; billion per year.

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AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

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American Electric Power has signed on as a corporate sponsor of The Pickens Plan, proposed by oil and gas industry veteran T. American Electric Power is one of the largest electric utilities in the United States, delivering electricity to more than 5 million customers in 11 states. Boone Pickens. Michael Morris.

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

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CIRCUITS project teams will accelerate the development and deployment of a new class of efficient, lightweight, and reliable power converters, based on wide-bandgap (WBG) semiconductors. If successful, the team will construct a 500 kW building block for a DC fast charger that is at least four times the power density of todays installed units.

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