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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of Houston. Stanford University.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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It will also decrease the need to build and use hubs and platforms, since more efficient power transmission will allow for a subsea option as opposed to a platform option in some cases. The successful application of this technology should be able to be extended onshore, resulting in added efficiency and less stress on onshore power grids.

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

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Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Electric Power Research Institute (Charlotte, North Carolina). Utility Global (Houston, Texas).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Houston. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Robust Adaptive Topology Control (RATC) Historically, the electric grid was designed to be passive, causing electric power to flow along the path of least. power grid. National Renewable.

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Advancing Quantum Science: Hausi Müller’s Journey

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Müller Employer: University of Victoria, in British Columbia, Canada Title: Professor of computer science Member grade: Life senior member Alma maters: ETH Zurich and Rice University, in Houston “I felt like a kid in the candy store,” says Müller, a software engineering professor at the University of Victoria , in British Columbia, Canada.

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Billionaire Brings Tesla Autopilot Rebuke

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Cruise just announced they were going to open Dallas and Houston. The power grid is important, maybe the most important, but it’s difficult to prove to people it’s vulnerable. I know of no examples of someone shutting down a grid with malware. They’ve been doing well. But it’s a very difficult city.

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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. and Toshiba International Corporation in Houston, Texas. Detection and Fixation: A Lifecycle-Management Framework Towards an SF 6 -Free Green Power Network - $2,734,381. University of Connecticut.

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