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IEEE Power & Energy Society president. Lambert was the IEEE Power & Energy Society 's 2020–2021 president. Williams was granted 27 U.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Past president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Frank Lambert.

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JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. Other partner companies such as Sony, Whirlpool, Oncor and Intel provided Mueller residents with forward-looking smart grid and clean energy products and services.

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APRIL 22, 2016

SAKOR Technologies recently won a competitive Small Company Innovation Program (SCIP) grant awarded by the Michigan Corporate Relations Network (MCRN), and will use the grant for research necessary to develop a thermal transient anemometer (TTA), a device used to measure airflow moving through a running vehicle.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Illinois-based Li-ion manufacturer AllCell Technologies, LLC received a $460,433 grant as part of the Illinois Energy Plan. AllCell Technologies offers customized thermal management solutions and battery packs for high power lithium-ion based systems in applications such as hybrid and electric automotives and light electric vehicles (i.e.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2014

Energy Research Center at RWTH Aachen University, E.ON It consists of lithium-ion batteries to meet short-term demand; high-temperature batteries to supply power for several hours; and lead-acid batteries when the average discharge time is one hour or less. The project will be coordinated by RWTH Aachen University.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The University of Delaware has signed the first license for its vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with AutoPort, Inc., Under the terms of the licensing agreement, AutoPort has been granted non-exclusive rights in the area of commercial fleet vehicles. Bi-directional power converter up to 18 kW. Components of a V2G system.

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FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Warren quietly revolutionized power transmission by installing an electric clock in the L Street generating station of Boston’s Edison Electric Illuminating Co. As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. electricity lines.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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MAY 15, 2014

The investments include: Electric vehicle charging: Ten grants totaling more than $3.5 Heavy duty, vehicle-to-grid fleet: A $2.3-million Operations and maintenance for hydrogen fueling stations: Four grants totaling $1.2 million for the operation and maintenance of hydrogen refueling stations throughout the state.

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JUNE 12, 2015

million grant to the Center for Sustainable Energy (CSE) to lead development of an advanced management platform for integrating electric vehicle (EV) charging with utility-scale energy systems. The California Energy Commission has awarded a $1.5 Part 2: Network and application protocol requirements.

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Supported by a new five-year, $500,000- grant from the National Science Foundation, a researcher from the University of Kansas is developing machine learning technology to monitor and prevent overheating in lithium-ion batteries. Nowadays these lithium-ion batteries are everyplace in our society. —Huazhen Fang.

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JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; billion per year.

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc., Several other ARFVTP-funded projects were also approved.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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JUNE 1, 2015

A University of Texas at Arlington engineering researcher is working to determine how oversized a battery has to be while operating safely and efficiently during its lifetime of use by the US Navy. The project is one of more than a half-dozen grants Wetz has been working on during the last few years that total more than $2 million in funding.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar?

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JANUARY 3, 2014

In December, the Patrick Administration awarded grants and announced new investments in three programs to support alternative fuel vehicles and related infrastructure across Massachusetts, including the launch of an electric school bus pilot. million in grants for eight electric school buses with vehicle-to-grid capability.

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MAY 8, 2023

In recent testimony, Nuvve CEO Gregory Poilasne told the lawmakers that bidirectional charging can reduce the total cost of EV ownership, and that it’s essential for integrating more renewable energy into the grid. Then it takes the DC from the bus, or car, and converts it back to AC to provide power for the grid.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

National Grid: Northeast Electric Highways Study. Utah State University: Wasatch Front Multi-Modal Corridor Electrification Plan - Greater Salt Lake City Region. billion in competitive grants to build alternative fueling infrastructure in communities across the US.

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JANUARY 27, 2011

has been awarded a firm contract with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 5, 2010

has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa and the Hawai’i Electric Light Company to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energy storage system for a test of wind energy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

The device—known as TESS (thermal energy storage system)—is being developed in South Australia with the help of an AUD $400,000 government grant to take it from prototype to commercial reality. The TESS device stores electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon. —Jonathan Whalley.

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MAY 1, 2022

ClearFlame’s solution, grounded in technology developed during doctoral studies at Stanford University and validated using more than $3 million in grant funding, addresses this problem by elevating combustion temperatures in order to enable use of non-traditional fuels without sacrificing performance.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. Flux Power of Vista, Calif.; of Monrovia, Calif.;

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Let’s look at the benefits and issues of using Hydrogen as fuel and remember that efficiency in the total power supply train, not just at the motor is critical. Hydrogen is the most abundant chemical substance in the universe, constituting roughly 75% of all normal matter. Hydrogen is not the answer.

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APRIL 21, 2011

a spin-off from the University of Michigan and developer of advanced asymmetric supercapacitors, to produce and sell hybrid electric storage (HES) devices comprising Li-ion batteries, supercapacitors and control electronics. The applications will range from automotive batteries to stationary grid power leveling devices.

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DECEMBER 27, 2021

But tokamaks aren’t the only path to fusion power. This Z-pinch approach—so named because the current pinches the plasma along the third, or Z , axis of a three-dimensional grid—could potentially produce energy in a device that’s simpler, smaller, and cheaper than the massive tokamaks or laser-fusion machines under development today.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

billion to 21 projects to expand domestic manufacturing of batteries for electric vehicles (EVs) and the electrical grid and for materials and components currently imported from other countries. The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6 Piedmont Lithium , Tennessee Lithium, $141,680,442.

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AUGUST 4, 2022

He left there in 1966 to join the University of Cambridge as an assistant director of research. He earned his bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering in 1958 from the University of Bristol , in England. He worked at the university at the time of his death. He was granted 107 patents in Korea and 46 U.S.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

With support from FCTO, within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, selected project partners will be granted access to H2@ Scale facilities, capabilities, and expertise at DOE national laboratories. Example H2@Scale Topics. Click to enlarge.

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Frank (email: afrank@efficientdrivetrains.com) Dr. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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MARCH 22, 2012

The smaller size also makes SMRs suited for small electric grids and for locations that cannot support large reactors, offering utilities the flexibility to scale production as demand changes. The Vogtle license is the first for new nuclear power plant construction in more than three decades.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The effect that access to reliable electricity has had on the village is amazing,” says Morgan Kiani , an engineering professor at Texas Christian University , in Fort Worth. The earthquake severely damaged Melamchi’s power lines. Access to reliable power has empowered not only the children but also the other villagers.

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MAY 13, 2022

While he was an engineering professor at the University of California, Los Angeles , Samueli helped found company in San Jose, Calif., McDonald is a distinguished lecturer for IEEE PES and teaches classes on the smart grid. The fund also supports the creation of a chapter grant program and chapter coaching program.

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MAY 26, 2016

million grant from the California Air Resources Board (CARB) for reducing greenhouse gases and other pollutants. Project implementation will start in June with the final design and construction of the solar-powered microgrid. million project is funded in part by a $14.5-million Components include a 1.03

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MARCH 18, 2011

Hawaii has awarded an $820,000 contract from the Hawaii EV Ready Grants Program to AeroVironment to fund the deployment of up to 320 AeroVironment 240-volt electric vehicle (EV) charging docks throughout the islands. Customers who purchase an EV are also eligible for a state rebate of up to $4,500.

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