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ARPA-E awarding $9.4M to 4 projects focused on removing sulfur hexafluoride from US grid

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million to develop technology focused on removing sulfur hexafluoride (SF 6 )from the US power grid. Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.; GE Grid Solutions, LLC in Charleroi, Pa.; Studies suggest GE’s alternative environmentally friendly gas mixture g 3 (green gas for grid) as a promising potential replacement for SF 6.

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Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

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The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. The United States is not building enough transmission lines to connect regional power networks. Their grip over the backbone of U.S.

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Georgia Tech team simulates risks of hacked connected vehicles; stalling 20% of cars could gridlock Manhattan

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Physicists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Multiscale Systems, Inc. —Peter Yunker, who co-led the study and is an assistant professor in Georgia Tech’s School of Physics. Manhattan has a nice grid, and that makes traffic more efficient. For the city to be safe, hacking damage would have to be below that.

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Ford unveils C-MAX Solar Energi concept; “plug-in” hybrid not dependent on electric grid can fully recharge from sun

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Ford Motor Company announced the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a sun-powered hybrid vehicle that can deliver the efficiency of a plug-in hybrid without depending on the electric grid for recharging. and Georgia Tech. This could be especially important in places where the electric grid is underdeveloped, unreliable or expensive to use.

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Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8 million worth of Beam Global off-grid EV charging systems – Charged EVs

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Government agencies and municipalities are lining up to buy Beam Global’s EV ARC solar-powered off-grid EV charging systems, which not only come in handy in a disaster-recovery scenario, but also offer a quick and simple way to deploy EV charging. Disaster preparedness and energy resiliency are imperative for national security.

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The EV Transition Explained: Can the Grid Cope?

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There have been vigorous debates pro and con in the United States and elsewhere over whether electric grids can support EVs at scale. grid, but the rising number of EVs will test the local grid’s reliability at many of the 3,000 electric-distribution utilities in the United States , which themselves own more than 5.5

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Southern Company commissions 1 MW/2 MWh grid energy storage system from LG Chem

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The battery energy storage system (BESS) is installed in the service territory of Georgia Power, the largest subsidiary of Southern Company.