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US DOE Awards More than $47M in Recovery Act Funding to Advance Smart Grid Development; New Smart Grid Report and Smart Grid Clearinghouse

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The lead organizations for each of the supported projects include: American Superconductor Corporation. Development and In-Grid Demonstration of a Transmission Voltage SuperLimiter Fault Current Limiter (Westborough, MA) - $4,832,972. American Superconductor Corporation. Zenergy Power Inc.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. (Lynchburg, Virginia).

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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If successful, the team will construct a 500 kW building block for a DC fast charger that is at least four times the power density of todays installed units. Eaton Corporation. SiC-Based Wireless Power Transformation for Data Centers & Medium-Voltage Applications. Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. Corporation, Columbia. Corporation). Corporation). power grid. Corporation. technology will yield biomass comprised of 20% oil and can be. Technologies.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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KAHN Corporation for National Research Initiatives Reston, Va. ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E.

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