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One Atmospheric Nuclear Explosion Could Take Out the Power Grid

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And yet, until now, government and industry risk assessments about EMP attacks and their effects on the power grid have been based on oversimplified models of the solid Earth that assume zero variation in depth or composition. covering portions of Arkansas, Missouri, Illinois, Mississippi, Kentucky, and Tennessee. John MacNeill.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Tennessee Technological University. Development and Scaling Up of the Purification and Regeneration Integrated Materials Engineering (PRIME) Process for Cathodes Direct Recycling and Upcycling. Adaptive Second-Use Battery Utilization with Different Degradation Levels for EV Charging Stations and Power Grid Support and Resiliency.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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On 23 October 1916, an engineer named Henry E. Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing an electric clock in the L Street generating station of Boston’s Edison Electric Illuminating Co. The Telechron Model Type E master station clock shown at top was used at the Tennessee Valley Authority beginning in the 1930s.

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car | www.tennessean.com | The Tennessean

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Tennessee, Nissan and TVA forge a path for electric car By G. But as Nissan and other automakers gear up to produce electric cars, there are hurdles ahead for utilities such as the Tennessee Valley Authority , which is being called on to play a key role in developing fueling stations for the vehicles.

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Why the Next Microgrids Will Be Well Connected

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The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid.

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

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Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. Unsupervised Physics-informed Machine Learning of Complex Natural and Engineered Geoscience Processes, $250,000. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000.

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Babcock Wilcox Company Introduces Scalable Nuclear Energy Plant Concept; MoU with TVA

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The scalable nature of nuclear plants built around the B&W mPower reactor would provide customers with practical power increments of 125 MWe to meet local energy needs within power grid and plant site constraints. B&W has more than 50 years of continuous reactor engineering and manufacturing.

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