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

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The project uses Ford F-150 Lightning electric trucks to deliver power to owners’ homes during peak demand times to support Maryland’s power grid. Sunrun is networking and monitoring the enrolled F-150 Lightning trucks as they share stored energy during dispatch windows between the hours of 5 and 9 pm on weekdays.

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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. The electricity it produced was stored in massive GE generators.

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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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Photo: Sunrun Solar + storage provider Sunrun has launched the US’s first vehicle-to-home power plant using customer-owned bidirectional Ford F-150 Lightning electric trucks. Vehicle-to-home power plants Bidirectional charging technology allows EVs to both draw power from the grid and send stored energy back to homes.

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Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, Dies at 91

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Robert Dennard Inventor of Dynamic RAM Fellow, 91; died 23 April In 1967 Dennard invented what is known as DRAM—a type of random-access semiconductor memory that stores each bit of data in a memory cell consisting of a tiny capacitor and transistor. He specialized in power systems analysis. He retired in 2000 and became a consultant.

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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Several banks, corporations, governments and scientists have already implemented some form of blockchain to inexpensively, securely and expediently store and share information. Instead of one organization managing all of this information, blockchains store data via a network of personal computers.

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

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Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Energy Storing Efficient HVAC, $595,558. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). First Solar Inc. Santa Clara, California).

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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This is, after all, how all the energy stored in wood, coal, oil, and natural gas originally got here: It was transmitted 150 million kilometers through space as electromagnetic waves—sunlight—most of it millions of years ago. Reducing the need to transport fuel, batteries, or other forms of stored energy will have far-reaching consequences.

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