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Sionic Energy, formerly NOHMs, launches to commercialize next-generation silicon-anode Li-ion battery cells

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Sionic’s silicon-anode battery cell designs incorporate the company’s complete technology innovations that deliver up to 50% greater energy density, 30% lower cost, and increased safety, and can be integrated into cylindrical, pouch, or prismatic cell formats in existing cell production supply chains and infrastructure.

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Solid Power unveils all-solid-state platform technology, transitions silicon cells to pilot line

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Solid Power has also announced the successful transition of its high-content silicon all-solid-state battery to the company’s Colorado-based production line. The platform can also use low-cost and high-specific-energy conversion-type cathodes that are not suitable in lithium-ion or other liquid-based cell architectures.

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Solid-state battery company Solid Power named “Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year” by CCIA

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has been named “Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year” by the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association ( CCIA ). The cathode is made up of exceptionally cost-effective, Earth-abundant precursor materials. The result is ultra-high-energy, safe and low-cost solid-state rechargeable batteries. Solid Power Inc.

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Xcel Energy launches EV smart charging pilot in Colorado; Transportation Electrification Plan for New Mexico approved

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Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.

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US DOE Offers Abound Solar $400M Conditional Commitment for Loan Guarantee

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a conditional commitment to Abound Solar , a manufacturer of low-cost, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, for a $400 million, seven-year loan guarantee to expand its solar module manufacturing capabilities. and begun commercial operations.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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NexTech Materials will use its NO x sensing technology to develop a low-cost device capable of accurately quantifying NO x concentrations in the exhaust stream of diesel passenger cars and heavy duty trucks. Low-Cost, High-Energy Si/Graphene Anodes for Li-Ion Batteries. Pixelligent Technologies LLC. XG Sciences, Inc.

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ClearFuels Signs Cooperative Agreement for $7.7M First Round of DOE Biorefinery Funding

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The grant will facilitate the integration of ClearFuels’ synthesis gas technology with Rentech’s Fisher-Tropsch process, with the goal of demonstrating efficient, flexible, low-cost production of certified, drop-in, renewable diesel and jet fuel from clean biomass at Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit in Commerce City, Colorado.

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