| Minimizing Power Failure from Weather Disruptions |
- Efficient – Allows power grid resilience for a community to be determined in the best possible manner by the electric utility while minimizing the impact of weather-related events
- Analytical – Capable of analyzing and determining spots most or least resilient as well as time durations between failure and recovery
- Customizable – Ability to tailor the model’s overall framework to include global and local parameters in the analysis and determination of performance issues
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Southern-Company |
| Thermophotovoltaics With Storage |
- Lower Production Costs – Can provide fully dispatchable solar electricity at a cost competitive with conventional generation at a potentially reduces cost of 70%, making it highly competitive with fossil fuel plants
- Higher efficiency design – By packing the PV densely within the array, thermal losses are minimized an an improved in efficiency by almost a factor of two is possible with existing InGaAs PV Cells
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Southern-Company |
| Generating Power via High-Efficiency Electrochemical Converter |
- Lower cost: The working fluid and storage materials are inexpensive.
- Multifunctional: Multiple functions (e.g., solar conversion, thermal storage, electrochemical storage) can be integrated in a single system.
- High efficiency: This device’s heat-to-electricity conversion has the potential to be twice what has been achieved previously.
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Southern-Company |
| Sol-Gel Films and High Energy Capacitor Device |
- Sol-gel materials are a targeted research area for thin film energy storage and enhanced storage capabilities for wide variety of applications
- All solution-processing including ready-to-spin recipes
- Compatible with flexible substrates and roll-to-roll processing
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Southern-Company |
| Suzy Briggs |
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