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Sunrun launches V2H pilot in Maryland using Ford F-150 Lightning electric trucks – Charged EVs

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Sunrun, which offers a “clean energy as a subscription” service, is piloting a vehicle-to-home power plant using a small group of customer-owned bidirectional EVs, in partnership with Baltimore Gas and Electric.

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Maryland Transit System Gets Solar + Storage Microgrid For Charging Its Electric Buses

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One of the big objections to electric vehicles, and even more to clean energy, is that the power grid isn’t always up. You can’t use solar power! Severe storms? You can’t charge your EV. Sun not shining? Who thought any of this was a good idea?? How much government cheese is going into this crap?! […].

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Edith Clarke: Architect of Modern Power Distribution

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From the start of her career at General Electric in 1922, she was determined to develop stable, more reliable power grids. And Clarke succeeded, playing a critical role in the rapid expansion of the North American electric grid during the 1920s and ’30s. Clarke retired in 1945 and bought a farm in Maryland.

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Sunrun launches the US’s first vehicle-to-home power plant using customer-owned Ford F-150 Lightnings

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Brian Foreman, pictured above, of Howard County, Maryland, was the first person in the US to power his home with energy from his EV’s battery while the grid was operating normally as part of Sunrun and BGE’s vehicle-to-home power plant initiative.) Disclosure: I have a Sunrun solar array on my roof.)

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Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, Dies at 91

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He specialized in power systems analysis. Schulz, a member of the IEEE Power & Energy Society , authored or coauthored 32 papers on power grid testing reliability that were featured in IEEE publications. He retired in 2000 and became a consultant. and a master’s degree in 1966 from Union College , in Schenectady.

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GE Links NY and NJ Grids with Variable Frequency Transformers

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GE recently completed the installation of variable frequency transformers (VFT) at the Linden, NJ cogeneration plant, which will allow power from the Pennsylvania-New Jersey-Maryland transmission system to flow into New York City. VFT rotary system. Click to enlarge.

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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 Maryland. Stanford University.

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