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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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Virginia could make almost $5B from this 3.5 GW offshore wind farm

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gigawatt (GW) Kitty Hawk Wind could deliver around $5 billion in economic impact across Virginia – here’s where the project stands. The 180-turbine Kitty Hawk Wind is an offshore wind project proposed in federal waters over 36 miles from Virginia Beach. Kitty Hawk Wind would deliver about $4.8

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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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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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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. The program’s Subsonic Fixed Wing Project oversees the work at the agency’s Glenn Research Center in Cleveland and Langley Research Center in Virginia. million, three years.

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US DOE Awards More than $47M in Recovery Act Funding to Advance Smart Grid Development; New Smart Grid Report and Smart Grid Clearinghouse

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Improvements in physical and cyber security and information privacy will require consumers, manufacturers and utilities to closely follow a range of grid best practices. The DOE has also begun the development of a Smart Grid Information Clearinghouse. Zenergy Power Inc. American Superconductor Corporation.

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Morris Tanenbaum, Inventor of the Silicon Microchip, Dies at 94

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Today solar is the third largest renewable-electricity sector behind hydropower and wind. Based in Berlin, the DGS supports the introduction of solar technologies and renewable energy resources into the power grid. In 1996 he cofounded PowerWorld , a power system information and analysis company, in Champaign, Ill.

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