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4th International Conference on Biofuels Standards: current issues, future trends

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Brazil, EU and the US are the three largest producers of biofuels; other countries where biofuel production and utilization is increasing are also expected to participate in this conference.

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University of Maryland wins 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest

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The team of the University of Maryland is the winner of the 2012 Hydrogen Student Design Contest, announced on Sunday by the US Department of Energy at the Young Scientist Symposium of the World Hydrogen Energy Conference 2012 in Toronto, Canada.

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U. Maryland and Redox Power partnering to commercialize low-temperature solid oxide fuel cells for distributed generation and transportation

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Redox Power’s 25 kW “Cube” sitting outside a conference room. The fuel cells, based upon patented technology developed by professor Eric Wachsman, director of the University of Maryland Energy Research Center (UMERC) in the A. University of Maryland Professor Eric Wachsman describes how solid oxide fuel cells work.

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DOE launches wave energy competition

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

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Former CEO of American Electric Power Dies at 94

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White was the first American chair of the International Conference on Large High-Voltage Electric Systems. While enlisted, he worked on radio electronics for radar vans at the Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground , in Maryland. He was an IEEE member for 60 years and presented several papers at the organization's conferences.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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Ferreira authored or coauthored 130 journal and transactions articles and more than 400 conference papers. Ferreira served as 2020 chair of the IEEE PELS International Technology Roadmap on Wide Bandgap Power Semiconductors. He was granted 15 patents.

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Letting in the Light

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Within a few years, outreach efforts by these chapter members at local electric vehicle (EV) events had grown to include presentations at conferences around the country, and eventually around the world. As Smith said, “If it hadn’t been for TEVA, we would never have had the critical mass to get all this going.”

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