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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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Robert Dennard, DRAM Pioneer, Dies at 91

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He received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in electrical engineering in 1954 and 1956 from Southern Methodist University , in Dallas. Schulz Power systems engineer Life Fellow, 87; died 29 May Schulz began his career in 1959 as a power systems engineer at General Electric in Schenectady, N.Y. Two years later he earned a Ph.D.

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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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Berkeley Lab researchers develop Bchain protocol to make blockchain more robust

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Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc. Clermont, Kentucky).

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NETL investigating researching chemistries for large-scale battery- and supercapacitor-based grid energy storage systems

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This research is being performed through teamwork with local universities: the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maryland. High-energy density magnesium batteries for smart electrical grids. Earlier post.)

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Practical Power Beaming Gets Real

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To underscore how safe the system was, the host of the BBC science program “ Bang Goes the Theory ” stuck his face fully into a power beam sent between buildings at the University of Maryland. Reducing the need to transport fuel, batteries, or other forms of stored energy will have far-reaching consequences.

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