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The U.S. Department of Energy's Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) has launched a $35 million campaign to enhance U.S. transmission capacity, awarding Virginia Tech $2.5 million for a project focused on developing a novel power electronics converter.

This initiative falls under the DC-GRIDS program aimed at creating high voltage direct current (HVDC) technologies to upgrade traditional alternating current (AC) infrastructure. Virginia Tech's project is one of 12 selected to support this program, which seeks to improve energy transmission efficiency and resilience.