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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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Georgia Tech Research Corporation, EDISON – Efficient DC Interrupter with Surge Protection – $3,000,000. Georgia Tech is proposing a novel hybrid direct-current (DC) circuit breaker technology that will enable multi- terminal DC power systems.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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lower cost than those available today, based on a friction. would supply the growing market of wind turbine generators and. copper and insulation layer by layer, instead of winding wires. Georgia Institute. The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) will develop a. used in these machines.

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