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This Dutch City Is Road-Testing Vehicle-to-Grid Tech

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Hundreds of charging stations for electric vehicles dot Utrecht’s urban landscape in the Netherlands like little electric mushrooms. In the United States in 2011, the University of Delaware and the New Jersey–based utility NRG Energy signed a. Their research partnership ran for four years. Patrick van Katwijk/Getty Images.

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HVDC Networks Come to Europe

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Energy from the AC source is stored in DC capacitors in the submodules. For example, Dutch-German grid operator TenneT recently signed €30 billion (US $33 billion) in contracts for 14 sets of converters and subsea cables to be operating by 2031—some in Germany and the rest in the Netherlands.

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