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FedEx adds 1,900 new lightweight composite Reach vans to fleet; 35% fuel efficiency improvement

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FedEx is also working with XL Hybrids, a developer of low-cost hybrid electric powertrain system, to convert ten conventionally-powered panel vans into more fuel-efficient, hybrid vehicles. In 2008, FedEx Corp.

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UC Riverside opening Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative; integration of solar energy, battery storage and electric and hybrid vehicles

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A UCR-owned and RTA-operated trolley bus that has been converted from diesel combustion to battery electric operation. Energy monitoring, management and control tools developed by UC Riverside engineering students to ensure energy grid stability, reliability and efficiency. Solar carport. Click to enlarge.

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German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant.

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DOE Announces $100M Available for ARPA-Es 3rd Funding Opportunity; Focus on Grid-Scale Energy Storage, Electrical Power Technology, and Building Energy Efficiency

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Ultimately, technologies developed through this program will be scalable to the megawatt and megawatt-hour levels of power and energy capacity. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT).

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Volkswagen launches PowerCo for global battery business; €20B investment; standard factories

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Looking ahead, further products such as major storage systems for the energy grid are planned. This way, factories that can rapidly be converted for further product and production innovations will be created. Following Salzgitter, the next cell factory is to be established at Valencia. —PowerCo CEO Frank Blome.

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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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With nations around the world seeking to derive a greater percentage of their energy needs from renewable energy sources, we believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of the renewable energy grid interconnection market’s potential. AMSC founder and Chief Executive Officer Greg Yurek.

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

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A system of low-cost vibration sensors will monitor poles, conductors and equipment on the electricity distribution grid to predict where they may fail and ignite a wildfire. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

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