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The Transformer Transformer

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Modern power grids cant run without transformers, which step voltages up and down for distribution from power plants to power stations and on to homes and businesses. Whats worse, the way we use the power grid is stressing transformers even more. And yet, Charette wrote most of the millions of U.S.

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

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Their innovations could make this critical piece of infrastructure not only more resistant to supply chain weaknesses, but also better suited to the power grids of the future. The sets of wires, called windings, arent connected, but through electromagnetic induction across the core, current transfers from one coil to the other.

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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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for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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NASA awards $16.5M to four teams for additional research into reducing aircraft fuel consumption, emissions and noise

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Under the new contracts, the teams will now develop concepts and models that can be tested in computer simulations, laboratories and wind tunnels. Moreover, the fuel burn reduction and the ‘greening’ of the electrical power grid can produce large reductions in emissions of life cycle CO 2 and nitrous oxide.

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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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Medium-voltage DC circuit breakers could enable significant improvements in the United States’ electrical system, transforming how electricity is delivered and managed across the entire power grid, as well as critical applications in industry, transportation, and resource production.

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Hitachi Restructures, Spinning Off Automotive Systems Business; to Launch Group-Wide Strategies for Li-ion Battery and Renewables Businesses

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With the aim of strengthening the business base in the sharply contracting North American market, Unisia of Georgia and Tokico (USA) will be brought under Kentucky-headquartered Hitachi Automotive Products (USA) Inc., which will oversee North American operations. Resource Recycling Businesses.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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If successful, the project team will drastically reduce the power consumption of a digital integrated circuit while also enabling a much smaller form factor and lower cost solution. Georgia Institute of Technology. Grid-Connected Modular Soft-Switching Solid State Transformers. Opcondys, Inc.

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