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Charlotte Douglas International Airport to buy 5 Proterra electric buses; 9th airport

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CLT is the first airport to leverage the Georgia State Contract to purchase Proterra electric buses. The state of Georgia underwent a testing and review process and selected Proterra as a statewide vendor for electric buses, and allows other states to leverage the state contract to simplify the process of purchasing electric buses.

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EPA Awards $3.6M in Grants for Particulate Matter Research

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Grants were awarded to: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, $899,956. North Carolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., PM is a complex mixture that consists of direct emissions and reaction products formed in the atmosphere. University of California, Davis, Calif., University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, $899,401.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Raleigh, N.C. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Deploying Intra-hour Uncertainty Analysis Tools to ABB's GridView, $500,000 ABB Power Consulting, Raleigh, N.C. Johnson Matthey, Billingham, UK Enabling Autonomous Wind Plants through Consensus Control, $250,000 RES Group, Broomfield, Colo. Niskayuna, N.Y.

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This USC Professor is Developing an Artificial Brain

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She was awarded a partial scholarship to attend North Carolina State University , in Raleigh, where her father taught chemistry after leaving UAB. The company provided engineering services for five power companies including Alabama Power , Florida Power , and Georgia Power. in Charlotte.

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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Power America (Raleigh, NC). Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory; Louisiana State U.; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Michigan Tech Rail Transportation Program; Michigan Technological U.; Missouri U.