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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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People, Power, and the Sun: Honnold Foundation x Adjuntas, Puerto Rico Although most microgrids today operate independently, one way to get the maximum benefit from them is to connect them, letting them share resources wherever and whenever possible. To that end, engineers at the U.S. percent to 2.8 percent to 2.8 megawatts to 224.6

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What is Demand Response?

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The goal is to reduce demand for electricity in order to prevent outages and damage to the grid infrastructure or to avoid having to bring idle generation resources online, particularly if those resources are coal-burning generators. What is a Demand Response event?

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Fitful Ukrainian Nuclear Plant Stokes Powerful Fears

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Yesterday disruption of a crucial transmission line forced a total shutdown in a dangerous series of events that once again spotlighted Zaporizhzhia’s precarious situation. Radioactive coal ash piles near the nuclear power plant were shelled on Tuesday. But the plant continued to draw power from its 330-kv grid connection overnight.

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Beyond Pizza and Yale: What to See, Eat and Do in New Haven

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Other events bring in local talent, like a recent open mic with New Haven’s own poet laureate, Sharmont “Influence” Little. As delicious and worthy as New Haven’s celebrated pizza is (a thin, coal-fired style known as “apizza”), there’s much more to the dining scene. The community vibe is also buzzing across town.

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Q&A: Inside DARPA’s Subterranean Challenge

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A series of three preliminary circuit events would give teams experience with each environment. Six months later, at the Urban Circuit event, held at an unfinished nuclear power station in Satsop, Wash., By the time teams reached the SubT Final Event in the Louisville Mega Cavern, the focus was on autonomy rather than communications.

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This Computer Pioneer’s Invention Made Zoom Possible

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He started selling the idea to me and even bribed me by promising an internship at Philips , where he had connections. I was interested in computation—how computers can calculate and also by how the languages that the computers are able to process are transformed by random events that can occur for a variety of reasons. For my Ph.D.,

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DARPA SubT Finals: Meet the Teams

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Despite the challenges, we leveled up both our weekly shake-out events and ran a 2-month team-wide integration and testing activity in Switzerland during July and August with multiple tests in diverse underground settings including multiple mines. Team Coordinated Robotics. Team Coordinated Robotics. Coordinated Robotics. Oke Onwuka.