 highway corridors.
Increasing charging at key destinations such as beaches, mountain resorts, state parks and historic sites so people have confidence they can go anywhere with an EV and not be stranded without power.
"Electric vehicles are an increasingly significant component of the vehicle mix in New Hampshire. This strategy will inform the development of a New Hampshire-specific charging infrastructure plan and help ensure EVs are able to travel around New Hampshire and throughout the Northeast corridor," said Robert Scott, commissioner of the state's Department of Environmental Services, in a statement.
Seven weeks ago, a coalition of Northeast states and 16 automakers launched "Drive Change. Drive Electric," an education campaign designed to grow consumer awareness about the dozens of plug-in hybrid and battery-electric vehicles available today, incentive programs that make them more affordable, and their operational benefits. The Northeast States' group is managing that effort, too.
Northeast and mid-Atlantic states already are making investments in charging infrastructure and offering a range of policies and programs, such as tax credits, to encourage driving electric.
Last week, New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced a $4.2 million plan to install more high-speed EV charging stations along the New York State Thruway, enabling EV owners to drive the length of the state without having to exit to recharge. The New York State Thruway Authority is partnering with the New York Power Authority to install the charging stations at Thruway service areas and commuter parking lots over the next two years. The state's goal is to install 10,000 charging stations by 2021 and have zero-emission vehicle sales reach 800,000 by 2025.
States from Maine to Virginia also have access to up to $108 million from the $2 billion fund Volkswagen created to settle federal claims it violated the Clean Air Act by cheating on diesel emissions. The money can be invested in charging and hydrogen fueling infrastructure.
In addition, utilities in Delaware, D.C., Maryland, New Jersey, New York and Rhode Island have proposals approved or pending, representing an investment of about $200 million for charging infrastructure and other actions to increase the use of electric cars.
Private-sector fuel providers complained to Congress last week that EV infrastructure is being unfairly subsidized and that public utilities should not be allowed to invest in charging facilities because their cost of capital is covered by rate payers.
The expansion of charging infrastructure is the type of effort sought by automakers, who say states with mandates for sales of ZEVs need to do more to help make those targets a reality.Q: What is the meaning of converter operating point statement from the textbook "Fundamentals of Power Electronics" by Erickson? "Isolated converters
with large variations in operating point tend to utilize their power devices more poorly than non-isolated
converters which function at a single operating point".

What does the author imply by large variations in operating point?
Both isolated and non isolated topologies would have variations in input voltage and load current.
Why would non isolated converters have single operating point?

A: Operating point would mean variations in input voltage which would require variations in duty cycle.
I agree the sentence is ambiguous because there are four possible combinations but it is talking as if only two exist. I think it should say something like "isolated converters are less efficient than non-isolated converters" and "converters with large variations in their operating point will use their components less optimally than converters that operate only at a single operating point"

A: In the book, the authors introduce the concept of switch utilization \$U\$ which involves the delivered power \$P_{out}\$ and the stress \$S\$ endured by the power switch(es). For a single-switch converter, like a flyback for instance, \$U=\frac{P_{out}}{S}\$ and it is interesting to check what duty ratio maximizes the switch utilization and use this value to calculate the rest of the elements. Based on the book examples, I have re-derived the formulas and it is shown below for a CCM flyback converter with idealized waveforms:

The calculations show that the switch utilization peaks for a duty ratio of 33% for the CCM flyback. Because the transformer turns ratio \$N\$ does not play a role in the definition of \$U\$, the switch utilization remains the same with or without isolation for a buck-boost and its isolated version (a flyback) or a SEPIC and its isolated version.
If you now run the same calculations for the buck converter, the switch utilization reaches 1 when \$D\$ approaches 100% and it makes sense as it implies that \$V_{out}\$ is close to \$V_{in}\$ and the switch is almost always closed along the switching period. Same for a boost converter when the output voltage is not far from the input voltage and the switch is closed only a very small amount of time: the voltage stress is the smallest on the switch.
The authors now run calculations for an isolated single-single switch converter like a forward and the switch utilization peaks to 0.353 versus 1 with the buck. This is because a single-switch forward converter needs a reset winding which is usually chosen with the same turns ratio as the primary. It naturally limits the duty ratio below 0.5 and incurs a voltage stress of twice the input voltage. However, again, it depends on the difference between the input and output voltages. Assume you want to deliver 5 V from a source varying between 10 V to 50 V. Below are the values computed for the buck and the forward at 10 and 50 V, selecting a turns ratio for the forward so that the duty ratio remains below 50% at the lowest input:

You see that the isolated version is always worse than the non-isolated one in this example. Now optimize the forward converter for a single operating point like 50 V, the buck converter sees a large differential voltage while you can optimize the turns ratio of the forward converter which now leads the race for the switch utilization.

A: The performance of semiconductor devices depends on their voltage and current capability. Higher voltage capability devices are slower to switch and have more parasitic capacitance than lower voltage rated devices. Similarly high current switches (e.g. MOSFETs) also have larger parasitics.
If a DCDC converter which is capable of operating a high current or voltage, but is only operating using a lower input voltage or load current, then it will have unnecessarily large (excessive voltage rating) switches, or excessively large switches. This degrades system conversion efficiency as all this excess 'baggage' needs to be driven and controlled. This is what is meant by saying they use their power devices more poorly.
In other words, while it is good practice to have some safety margin in selecting switching devices, excessive capability is not ideal.
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Elements of the PS topology model are nodes (representing electrical nodes) and branches (representing power lines, transformers, loads etc.). The assumption, that every branch in a PS model is modeled as the π -equivalent circuit (Fig. 1), is adopted. It is assumed that there is an accessible credible measurement data set of such quantities as: active and reactive power flows at the ends of each branch, power injections, loads and voltage magnitudes at each node. Usually, if a branch is not included in PS model the measurement data related to the branch are not taken into account in carried out analyses.
The assumed π model of the branch, Zkl = Rkl + j Xkl, Yk = jBkl, Yl = jBlk, Bkl = Blk = B. B is a half of the capacitive susceptance of the branch.
Power System Topology Model: A description of the physical connections in a power system.
Orthogonal Least Squares (OLS) Algorithm: Algorithm describing a Gram-Schmidt orthogonalisation process which ensures that each new column added to the result matrix of the growing subset is orthogonal to all previous columns. This considerably simplifies the equation for the change in learning error and results in a more efficient algorithm.
Neutral Decision: In fact, the lack of any decision.
Power System Topology Error: Inconsistency among the real power network connectivity and the power system topology model.
Unbalance Index: The left-hand side of the appropriate relationship, considered in the form in which its right-hand side is equal to zero. The mentioned relationship is a balance of active (reactive) powers at a node or a relationship among active (reactive) power flows at the ends of a branch.
Power System Topology Verification: Proving or disproving the correctness of a power system topology model.
Radial Basis Function Network: A type of artificial neural network which uses radial basis functions as activation functions. Typically, it consists of one hidden layer of Radial Basis Function (RBF