Can AC and DC Power Systems Integrate?

More than 100 years after alternating current (AC) defeated direct current (DC) in the so-called Battle of Currents and became the standard way electricity was delivered, new technologies have opened up the possibility and even the necessity for the two systems to co-exist. In his Power Systems Lab at the University of Pittsburgh, professor of electrical and computer engineering Gregory Reed is exploring the most efficient ways of integrating the two previously almost incompatible...

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