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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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American Superconductor Corporation ( AMSC ), a global power technologies company, announced in conjunction with Global Wind Day 2010 on 15 June that it has achieved a significant milestone by supporting the production of more than 15,000 megawatts (MW) of wind power worldwide with its proprietary power electronic solutions.

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BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so.

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DOE Announces $100M Available for ARPA-Es 3rd Funding Opportunity; Focus on Grid-Scale Energy Storage, Electrical Power Technology, and Building Energy Efficiency

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Ultimately, technologies developed through this program will be scalable to the megawatt and megawatt-hour levels of power and energy capacity. Deploying advanced power electronics could provide as much as a 25-30% reduction in electricity consumption—or 12 % of total US energy consumption.

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NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

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DERConnect will address an outstanding national need for large-scale testing capabilities across universities, national labs, industry, utility companies and Independent System Operators to validate future technologies for autonomous energy grids in real-word scenarios. Industry partners include Johnson Controls and Sunspec Alliance.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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CalSEED is funded through the CEC’s EPIC program, which invests approximately $120 million annually for innovative clean energy technologies and approaches benefiting the ratepayers of California’s three largest electric investor-owned utilities. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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Energy-saving tips One action is to use less electricity, Rahman said, noting that dimming lights by 20 percent in homes, office buildings, hotels, and schools could save 10 percent of electricity. Another is switching to LEDs, which use at least 75 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower. In order to achieve the goals for energy efficiency, energy flexibility and grid stability, the opportunities arising from the digitization of energy networks must be consistently exploited.

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