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UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center is One of 10 Selected Nationwide for U.S. Department of Energy Award

January 14, 2021 sarah Jonas Clean Energy, Energy, Power Grid, Research, Solar energy

UNC Charlotte’s Energy Production and Infrastructure Center (EPIC) has been selected for a $3.6 million award from the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO) to improve the resilience and reliability of the regional grid.

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Transactive Energy: Negotiating New Terrain

November 23, 2020 sarah Jonas buildings technology, Energy, Energy Management, Power Grid

PNNL’s longstanding grid and buildings capabilities are driving two projects that test transactive energy concepts on a grand scale and lay the groundwork for a more efficient U.S. energy system.

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Smart Devices to Schedule Electricity Use May Prevent Blackouts

November 10, 2020 sarah Jonas Chaos, Electricity, ENERGY SOURCES, Green Energy, power blackouts, Power Grid, smart devices

Power plants generate electricity and send it into power lines that distribute energy to nodes where it can be used. But if the electricity load is more than the system’s capacity, transmission can fail, leading to a cascade of failures throughout the electric grid. In the journal Chaos, researchers show demand side control may be an effective solution to stabilizing the reliability of power grids that use a mix of energy generation sources.

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$39 Million to better integrate renewables into power grid

October 29, 2020 sarah Jonas Electric Vehicle Power, Energy, Fuel Cell, GRID, Microgrid, Power Grid, Renewable Energies, Solar Power, University Of California San Diego

The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a first-of-its-kind testbed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources such as solar panels, wind turbines, smart buildings and electric vehicle batteries into the power grid. The goal is to make the testbed available to outside research teams and industry by 2025.

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Power Player: Engineering professor researches how to keep America’s lights on

September 22, 2020 sarah Jonas Binghamton, Binghamton University, Electrical Engineering, Electricity, Energy, Engineer, Engineering, National Science Foundaiton, NSF, Nsf Career Award, Power, Power Generation, Power Grid, Power Systems, State University of New York at Binghamton, SUNY Binghamton, Sustainability

Ning Zhou from Binghamton University, State University of New York received a National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award to provide a 21st-century vision for power systems.

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Hybrid inverter integrates distributed energy resources, supports smart grid function

July 29, 2020 sarah Jonas Clean Energy, Electricity, power electronics, Power Grid

Oak Ridge National Laboratory researchers have developed an intelligent power electronic inverter platform that can connect locally sited energy resources such as solar panels, energy storage and electric vehicles and smoothly interact with the utility power grid.

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Second act: Used electric vehicle batteries charge up the grid

December 6, 2019 sarah Jonas 0 Comments electric vehicle batteries, Electric Vehicles, Energy Storage, grid energy storage, Power Grid, Renewable Energy

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory have developed an innovative control system for repurposed electric vehicle battery packs to store electricity for home use and are scaling up the technology to a large, power grid-level project.