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EPRI, NREL, and U of Washington form UNIFI consortium to advance grid-forming inverters to support renewables

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—Daniel Brooks, vice president of integrated grid and energy systems at EPRI. In addition to EPRI, NREL, and the University of Washington, the UNIFI consortium currently includes: Three DOE national laboratories. Eight North American power system utilities.

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This Clock Made Power Grids Possible

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As more power stations adopted the clocks, the frequency regulation allowed them to share electricity and create an interconnected power grid. But grid operators wouldn’t have embraced it but for their coalescing desire to form an interconnected electricity grid. regulated over 95 percent of all U.S.

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Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

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Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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How to Build a Power Grid on the Moon

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But to power the early years of the Artemis base, the company expects that NASA will adopt Astrobotic’s fully solar-powered LunaGrid. John MacNeill A Lunar Power Grid LunaGrid will consist of a modular network of fixed power stations and mobile charging stations.

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This Essential Element of the Power Grid Is in Critically Short Supply

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The transformer shortage touches utilities, homeowners, businesses, rail systems, EV charging stationsanyone needing a grid connection. For power engineers, this crisis is also an opportunity. He cofounded the University Transformer Research Alliance , to connect international researchers who are tinkering with conventional designs.

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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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 University of Illinois.

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

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The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Cornell University. Stanford University. The Ohio State University.

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