Energy & Green Tech
Sudanese entrepreneur Mohamed Samir watches proudly as workers assemble garishly coloured rickshaws, unique in the North African nation because they run on electricity in a bid to tackle soaring costs.
May 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
During a power outage, we might not think of using the sun as a backup generator. But solar energy is playing a key role in keeping the lights on when the power is knocked out.
Apr 4, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
New research from the University of Georgia suggests a novel approach to safeguarding one possible target of a cyberattack—the nation's solar farms. In a study published in IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, a team in UGA's ...
Mar 28, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Demand response, a measure taken to reduce the energy load in response to supply constraints within the Texas electric grid, has been a topic of recent conversation after the wake of Winter Storm Uri just one year ago. Demand ...
Mar 23, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
In the spring of 2020, most offices and schools shuttered, causing people to move work and school to their homes. This created an unprecedented source of uncertainty for the electrical grid. How would COVID-19 affect electricity ...
Mar 22, 2022
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Telecom
On Sept. 1 and 2, 1859, telegraph systems around the world failed catastrophically. The operators of the telegraphs reported receiving electrical shocks, telegraph paper catching fire, and being able to operate equipment ...
Mar 21, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Cornell University engineers have developed a powerful artificial intelligence tool that could help New York state and other governments plan the transition to a carbon-neutral power sector, using a combination of machine ...
Feb 23, 2022
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Security
As the number of electric cars on the road grows, so does the need for their electric vehicle (EV) charging stations and the Internet-based managing systems within those stations. However, these managing systems face their ...
Jan 14, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Excitement about fusion energy is growing. The international ITER project in France, which counts China, India, Europe, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States as its partners, is starting to assemble the world's ...
Jan 10, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Eversource Energy's tree trimming program led to 900 fewer tree-caused power outages per year, according to research done by UConn energy analysts and published this month in the journal Energy Policy. For tree-caused power ...
Dec 16, 2021
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