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Factor in V2G Revenue When Planning Fleet Electrification

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EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. During low-demand/low-cost periods you can use grid energy to charge onsite batteries cheaply, or direct energy from solar panels to your batteries when the sun is shining. How much revenue?

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Saifur Rahman is 2022 IEEE President-Elect

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Rahman is a professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech. He is the founding director of the Advanced Research Institute at the university, which helps faculty members get access to research funding, government laboratories, and industry research centers. He served as chair of the U.S.

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Rationally Designed Lithium Ion Batteries Towards Displacing Internal Combustion Engines. e-Mosaic: Electrification Mosaic Platform for Grid- Informed Smart Charging Management. Utility Managed Smart Charging for Consumer and Grid Benefits. Virginia Department of Mines, Minerals and Energy. Roush Industries.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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s power grid is relatively well-resourced and hardened against cyber attack, at least when compared to American water systems. The structure of the water industry in the U.S. He says the U.S.’s differs significantly from that of Europe and the U.K., It’s a very distributed network of critical infrastructure. and internationally.”

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DOE to award $10.2M to 16 solid oxide fuel cell projects

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The system will operate on natural gas and connect directly to the electric grid. The performance of the ALD-modified cells will be evaluated in both laboratory- and industrial-scale cells. West Virginia University. DOE: $300,000 Non-DOE: $76,960 Total: $376,960. The University of Connecticut. The University of Pittsburgh.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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The US Department of Energy announced $35 million in awards for 12 projects that find new ways to harness medium-voltage electricity for applications in industry, transportation, on the grid and beyond. GE Global Research, Inline Gas Discharge Tube Breaker for Meshed MVDC Grids – $4,350,686.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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These three leading international energy markets illustrate how progress is being made in other major energy-intensive nations, but they are not alone. Why then do we not have the same clarity of goal for the electricity generating industry here in the USA? cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59 Source: EIA. Click to enlarge.

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