New Solid-State Power Switch Safeguards Electric Service
Electricity moves across miles in seconds to power manufacturing and utilities nationwide. But, for all its speed, the loss of just fractions of seconds of electric power is costing the U.S. economy $100 billion a year.
“The nation’s electric grid is operating so close to capacity that many of today’s electric load demands for fast and dynamic voltage support cannot be provided fast enough,” says Alex Huang, professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech.[-snip-]
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Learn more about power electronics research at Virginia Tech at http://www.research.vt.edu/resmag/2002winter/power.html
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