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A 350-mile electricity transmission line in Nevada is now approved

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Greenlink West is a critical part of Nevada’s push to ramp up renewable energy production and modernize its aging power grid. Currently, a lot of the solar, geothermal, and wind energy generated in rural parts of the state can’t be efficiently sent to cities like Las Vegas and Reno, where demand is high. Get started here.

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INEES report shows intelligent integration of EVs reduces power fluctuations, but not currently economically viable

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Partners Volkswagen AG, Lichtblick SE, SMA Solar Technology AG and the Fraunhofer Institute Wind Energy and Energy System Technology (IWES) have submitted the final report from the INEES research project (Intelligent integration of electric vehicles into the power grid for the provision of system services).

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Honda unveils Urban EV Concept, production version in 2019; electrified technology for every new model launched in Europe

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The electric charging cable connection is housed on the hood. The on-board advanced Honda Automated Network Assistant acts as a personal concierge, which learns from the driver by detecting emotions behind their judgments. Honda also unveiled the Power Manager Concept.

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Arizona State University Professor’s Work to Stabilize the Grid Pays Off

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Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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A blockchain is essentially a fault-tolerant, decentralized collection of records, or blocks, that are connected and secured by cryptography. Instead of one organization managing all of this information, blockchains store data via a network of personal computers. Blockchain could be a part of a solution for this problem.

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What is Power System Islanding and how to detect it

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Supply from the grid is stopped whereas distributed generation still supply’s the load in such cases DG connected with load is said to be islanded or standalone. In case of microgrid system at the time of Grid failure controllers in microgrid acts in such a way that it itself disconnects from grid and allows DG to power the load.

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