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

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Framatome Inc. Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc. Buffalo, New York).

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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These new GaN power devices will enable the next generation of low-cost, fast, small, and reliable power electronics, which are key for efficient power conversion in data centers, solar farms, power grids, and electric vehicles. University of Maryland. Stanford University. Dimensional Energy.

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NETL investigating researching chemistries for large-scale battery- and supercapacitor-based grid energy storage systems

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This research is being performed through teamwork with local universities: the University of Pittsburgh, the Pennsylvania State University, West Virginia University, and the University of Maryland. High-energy density magnesium batteries for smart electrical grids. Earlier post.)

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

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Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. power grid. Pacific Northwest.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALEXANDER BARG University of Maryland College Park “For contributions to the theory of error-correcting codes and their applications in distributed storage, non-volatile memory, and digital fingerprinting.” IEEE RICHARD W. HAMMING MEDAL Sponsor: Qualcomm , Inc. IEEE NICK HOLONYAK, JR. IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.

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