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DOE investing $120M over 5 years in Energy Innovation Hub for Critical Materials Research

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The Critical Materials Hub builds on the Department’s Critical Materials Strategy report ( earlier post ), which addresses the use of rare earths and other critical materials in clean energy components, products, and processes. A Batteries and Energy Storage Innovation Hub was also announced earlier this year.

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Axion Power’s PbC PowerCube battery energy storage system integrated into PJM utility grid

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Axion Power, working in partnership with Philadelphia-based Viridity Energy on this and other projects, will initially participate in the PJM market as a 100 kW resource that will soon be ramped to higher kW levels. Going forward, our technology can be configured in building blocks of 1 MW of power for 30 minutes, for PJM applications.

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Panda Power finances conversion of retired coal plant to natural gas; one of largest power conversion projects in US

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The Panda Hummel generating station will also help preserve Pennsylvania’s fresh water resources by using 97% less water for cooling purposes than the retired coal-fired Sunbury plant. to build the Hummel facility on a turn-key basis. Panda Power Funds selected a construction consortium of Siemens Energy Inc.

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Video Friday: Dronut

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ICRA 2022 – May 23-27, 2022 – Philadelphia, PA, USA Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. GRVC ] Cassie Blue navigates around furniture treated as obstacles in the atrium of the Ford Robotics Building at the University of Michigan. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich. ugo ] Robot, make me a sandwich.

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Video Friday: BirdBot

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, the Netherlands CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Enjoy today's videos! ElliQ ] Why build just one robotic giraffe half, when you can instead built two and have them neck-fight each other? Please send us your events for inclusion.

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Teens Gain Experience at IEEE’s TryEngineering Summer Institute

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Learning about transit systems and careers The University of Pennsylvania, in Philadelphia, hosted the East Coast TESI event this year. Engineers from AECOM , a global infrastructure consulting firm with offices in Philadelphia that worked closely with SEPTA on its most recent station renovation, collaborated with IEEE to host the trip.

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Video Friday: Autonomous Drift

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ICRA 2022 : 23–27 May 2022, Philadelphia ERF 2022 : 28–30 June 2022, Rotterdam, Germany CLAWAR 2022 : 12–14 September 2022, Açores, Portugal Let us know if you have suggestions for next week, and enjoy today's videos. Exyn ] The world's largest quadruped robot cluster performance!

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