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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Learn How the President-Elect Candidates Plan to Improve IEEE

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Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers ' Conference Program Committee and has published articles in several of the organization's journals. Coughlin is also the founder of the Storage Networking Industry Association 's Solid State Storage Initiative, the Storage Visions Conference , and the Creative Storage Conference.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. PV canopies will produce power and reduce temperatures underneath canopies.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

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As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. About Angelina: Angelina is very passionate about accelerating EV adoption, improving customer understanding and awareness about EVs, developing charging infrastructure and attractive EV rates, as well as developing strategies for EV grid integration.

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EAA National Board nominations from across North America

Electric Auto Association

As a mariner, I have focused on Health, Safety, & Environment concerns. About Angelina: Angelina is very passionate about accelerating EV adoption, improving customer understanding and awareness about EVs, developing charging infrastructure and attractive EV rates, as well as developing strategies for EV grid integration.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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The Open Environment and How It Changed PARC started with a small nucleus—perhaps fewer than 20 people. And in the Xerox environment in ’76, all of a sudden you could create things and make lots of them.” and is currently manager of programming environments at Sun Microsystems in Mountain View. “Or Mountain View, Calif.—began

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” STANKOVIC University of Virginia Charlottesville “For contributions to the theory of real-time and resource-constrained, distributed systems and the practice of cyber-physical and health systems.”

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