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Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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DECEMBER 1, 2020

by Toby Gill, CEO, Intelligent Power Generation. With battery storage able to provide a unique role in balancing a renewable electricity grid, Toby Gill, CEO of Intelligent Power Generation, asks could innovations in green hydrogen and biofuel technologies contribute to a more optimized and economical energy mix?

Grid

Grid Power Powered Fuel

WeaveGrid and Wallbox to offer utility-managed smart charging, starting in Colorado – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

JANUARY 3, 2024

The program optimizes residential EV charging times to align with low power grid demand and high availability of renewable energy (mainly wind power in Colorado). Wallbox charger owners who enroll in the program can receive cash incentives and save money by charging at low-cost times.

Colorado

Colorado Charging Power Grid Low Cost

Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

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OCTOBER 14, 2019

The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US. Hydrogen can be used as an effective storage medium to increase utilization of these renewable energy resources.

Illinois

Illinois Universal Hydrogen South Dakota

Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

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MARCH 5, 2015

The two companies have agreed to collaborate on the following activities: Introduction of V2G services in the European market; Exploring the use of second-life EV batteries for stationary applications (including households, buildings, grid); and. Designing and evaluating potential affordable energy and mobility pack offers.

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Grid Nissan Market Vehicles

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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JULY 7, 2011

Then, when the power is being drained from the battery, those ions migrate back through the salt and collect at the opposite terminal. Affordable grid-level energy storage is the linchpin for massive deployment of renewable energy on the electric power grid. —Philippe Boisseau, President Total Gas & Power.

MIT

MIT Battery Batteries Energy Storage

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

They’ve been studying up on renewable energy, hydrogen power, and electric vehicles, preparing for the big day in April when their remote-controlled vehicles will rumble for 4 hours in Gladstone, a port city in Queensland. And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot.

Australia

Australia Hydrogen Green Renewable

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The solicitation was designed as a call for early-stage clean energy innovations that fall within five defined technology areas: energy efficiency; energy storage; AI/machine learning; advanced power electronics/power conditioning; and zero- and negative-carbon emission generation. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Energy Storage

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

Driivz

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Early adopters of EV fleets have already realized 20-25% cost savings from greater efficiency, more affordable “fueling” and reduced maintenance. Smart energy management that balances the allocation of power between chargers is one alternative. Another approach is integrating battery storage systems into charging stations.

Industry

Industry Industrial Tax Credit Grid

ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

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OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. Earlier post.). Fairfield Crystal Technology.

Power

Power Powered Low Cost Universal

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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JUNE 26, 2021

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Buffalo, New York).

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Lead organization.

Energy

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Solid ion conductors made of affordable, easily produced materials could replace today’s mostly liquid electrolytes and expensive fuel cell parts, helping create a next generation of batteries and fuel cells that are low-cost, durable, and more efficient. Selective and low-cost separators for batteries with liquid reactants.

Li-ion

Li-ion Polymer Batteries Battery

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

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NOVEMBER 29, 2021

The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) can leverage its abundant cobalt resources and hydroelectric power to become a low-cost and low-emissions producer of lithium-ion battery cathode precursor materials, according to a new study on a unified African supply chain by BloombergNEF (BNEF). Adesina.

Africa

Africa Supplies Emissions Poland

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

The F6 DM uses ferrous batteries, with no lithium content, that BYD says are high-energy density and low cost. The utility.will get a Ford plug-in hybrid vehicle by the end of this year and as many as 20 by some time in 2009 to test their durability, range and impact on the power grid, said Susan M. Newsweek ).

Plug-in

Plug-in Plug Hybrid Lithium Ion

EV Driven

Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

WeaveGrid and Wallbox to offer utility-managed smart charging, starting in Colorado – Charged EVs

Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

Nissan and Endesa collaborating to deliver vehicle-to-grid systems to market

Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Four Major Trends in the eMobility Industry in 2021

ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

BNEF: producing battery materials in the DRC could lower supply-chain emissions and add value to the country’s cobalt

How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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