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DECEMBER 2, 2011

Diagram of angle-selective solar thermophotovoltaic system. The new angle-selective solar thermophotovoltaic system was described in an open access paper by Research Laboratory of Electronics research scientist Peter Bermel and other MIT researchers, published in October in the journal Nanoscale Research Letters. Bermel et al.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. 1 million to use high-fidelity solar forecasting to predict load impacts on California’s electricity grid and reduce solar integration costs. Halotechnics and UCLA: $1.5

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JUNE 6, 2012

The research group led by Mark Davis, the Warren and Katharine Schlinger Professor of Chemical Engineering at Caltech, describes the new, four-reaction process in an open access paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). —Mark Davis. The work was funded by a donation from Mr. and Mrs. Lewis W.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

—Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins. When any type of electrolyzer is powered by renewable energy sources, such as wind, solar or hydro, it produces “green” hydrogen. Rapid innovation like this will drive the acceleration of the energy transition in the United States and globally.

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JUNE 4, 2012

The University of California - Davis won third place for a design which included a hydrogen power and heating system for a residential building complex next to their new solar village. At the awards ceremony, the theme for the next Contest was announced as well.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2013

Jonn Axsen from Canada’s Simon Fraser University and Kenneth Kurani of the University of California, Davis, US surveyed three different types of American car buyers: conventional new vehicle buyers; hybrid vehicle buyers; and plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) buyers.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

EVgo has integrated second-life BMW i3 batteries to store energy from the grid generated during peak solar hours and later use that stored energy to fast-charge EVgo customers during periods of high demand. —Austin Brown, Executive Director of the UC Davis Policy Institute for Energy, Environment and the Economy.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 8, 2010

Researchers from UC Davis and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have uncovered more detail about the functioning of cobalt as a water-splitting catalyst. David Britt, professor of chemistry at UC Davis. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). This got a lot of attention from the chemistry community, but no one knew how it worked. —R.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Co-author Steven Davis, UCI associate professor of Earth system science, noted that earlier studies on the impact of climate warming and ambient ozone on the state’s ability to grow food have focused on high-volume staple crops such as wheat, soy and rice. —Steven Davis. Mueller, N.D., Burney, J.A.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

The system will integrate solar photovoltaic technology to capture solar energy to compress air into above-ground tanks packaged in standard shipping containers. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure.

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JANUARY 9, 2013

Many materials deemed critical by the DOE are used in modern clean energy technologies—such as wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and energy-efficient lighting. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Industry partners that have joined to help advance CMI developed technologies include General Electric; OLI Systems, Inc.;

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AUGUST 30, 2015

for weatherizing homes, installing solar panels, and buying hybrid and electric vehicles—went to the top income quintile in the US (above $200,000 per year). As a result of the work, Borenstein and Davis conclude that tax credits are likely to be much less attractive on distributional grounds than market mechanisms to reduce GHGs.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2020

However, lithium is sourced almost exclusively from other countries, either concentrated using a solar evaporation process from natural brine sources or recovered from ore. The sorbent’s thermochemical properties were also characterized using differential scanning calorimetry and thermogravimetry at the University of California-Davis.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

Over the past few years, researchers at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), University of California at Davis (UC Davis) and University of Stavanger in Norway have developed a new protocol, called BChain, which makes blockchain even more robust. The main difference between the two is who can participate.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 30, 2010

Stratospheric water vapor changes affect the fluxes of longwave (infrared) and—to a lesser extent—shortwave (solar) radiation, and can thereby influence the temperature in the stratosphere and troposphere. Water vapor enters the stratosphere mainly as air rises in the tropics.

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APRIL 6, 2011

The CCSE project team includes the UC Davis’s Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle Research Center; the UC Berkeley, Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC); UC San Diego Strategic Energy Initiatives; San Diego Gas & Electric; and AeroVironment. The total budget for the NREL-CCSE second use battery project is approximately $1.3

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JULY 29, 2014

In March 2014, Honda launched Honda Smart Home US at the University of California, Davis, which seeks to investigate the integration of the home with distributed renewable energy, the smart grid and the electric vehicle. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Energy Consumers

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Today, we're excited to share a guest blogpost from Block Island about their new electric school bus, which was donated by the Solar Initiative (not funded by the EPA). Many thanks to Cindy Davis of the Solar Initiative for this post!

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JANUARY 8, 2010

The new facility will include labs for process development, prototype manufacturing and testing as well as applied research on batteries, capacitors, solar energy materials and biofuels. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.) A portion of the new facility will be equipped specifically for capacitor and battery manufacturing research.

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APRIL 27, 2009

EAA), Greater Sacramento Chapter, and a Davis-based EV group, marks the beginnings of “ California’s electric highway ,” says Plug In America board member Jay Friedland, and includes the first public Tesla charger, according to Tesla spokeswoman Rachel Konrad. The opening of the station, a brainchild of the Electric Auto Assn.

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APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. Frank is Professor Emeritus, Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering at the University of California, Davis, where he established the Institute for Transportation Studies (ITS-Davis), and was director of the US Department of Energy’s National Center of Hybrid Excellence at UC Davis.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

The use of renewable and readily available solar energy reduces equipment costs and greenhouse gas emissions. University of California, Davis. The University of California, Davis (UCD) will engineer new biological pathways for bacteria to convert ethylene to a liquid fuel. 1,449,327. University of Colorado.

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JUNE 23, 2010

The technology shows promise for direct bioconversion of solar energy and CO 2 into chemical feedstocks, the EPA said in its award summary. The engineered strain produces isobutanol at a higher rate than those reported for ethanol, hydrogen, or lipid production by cyanobacteria or algae. of the total US CO 2 emissions, the EPA said.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2012

After cellulose, xylan is the most abundant biomass material on Earth, and thus is theoretically an enormous potential source of stored solar energy for the production of advanced biofuels. The corresponding author is Pamela Ronald, who holds joint appointments with JBEI and the University of California (UC) Davis.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

liquefied natural gas and marine diesel oil) or to other renewable energy sources, such as wind or solar power. Marine vessels could also benefit from switching to lower-carbon, conventional fossil fuels (e.g., —McCollum et al.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 21, 2024

megawatt (MW) solar farm just came online in Rivesville, West Virginia, on a brownfield site near a shuttered coal-burning power station. Mon Power and Potomac Edison, subsidiaries of FirstEnergy (NYSE: FE), completed their second utility-scale solar farm in West Virginia 10 months after bringing their first solar farm online, the 18.9-MW

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Justin Ungerer, Ling Tao, Mark Davis, Maria Ghirardi, Pin-Ching Maness and Jianping Yu (2012) Sustained photosynthetic conversion of CO 2 to ethylene in recombinant cyanobacterium Synechocystis 6803. That’s a huge advantage over having to destroy the valuable culture that is taking carbon dioxide and light and water to make your product.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 5, 2024

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables In Q1 2024, the US saw the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in its history, bringing its total installed capacity to 200 GW. The report also contains new data showing that the US added over 40 GW of new solar capacity in 2023 – more than initially reported. A record-setting 11.8

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Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

gigawatts (GW) of solar capacity in 2023, according to a new report, but 2024 will bring challenges to the industry. Every solar market segment saw year-over-year growth in 2023, bringing total installed solar capacity in the US to 177 GW. GW of new capacity, while nearly 800,000 Americans added solar to their homes.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 5, 2024

The first of five planned West Virginia solar farms just came online – here’s why that’s significant for the state. 1 out of 5 new West Virginia solar farms FirstEnergy subsidiaries Mon Power and Potomac Edison have launched a solar farm on 80 acres at Fort Martin Power Station in Maidsville, West Virginia, north of Morgantown.

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JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California).

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Cars That Think

MARCH 24, 2023

Now residential and commercial buildings can be outfitted with roofing tiles that double as solar panels, or with rooftop boxes like this low-profile unit that transforms gusts of wind into electric current. meters tall, and has a 4-square-meter footprint (leaving plenty of space for solar panels or tiles). household).

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Whilst hydrogen today is extracted from natural gas and is already a global, multi-billion dollar industry used in a wide range of industrial applications, it is also produced from renewable sources like solar, wind or biogas without the need to use fossil fuels.

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My Energi

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Model: Jolene Davis. Capable of utilising 100 per cent green energy generated from solar PV (photo voltaic) panels or wind generation, it gives users total control of their vehicle charging experience. Recently shipping its 100,000th unit, myenergi exports worldwide and operates subsidiaries in Ireland, Germany and the Netherlands.

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Baua Electric

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The PairTree is an off-grid EV charger with solar, storage and two Level 2 EV chargers that can be set up in a day. These factors determine the best mix of solar, storage and grid power for a particular project. PairTree is an off-grid EV charger featuring a pop-up solar canopy, a 42.4 How much power is available at the site?

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JUNE 24, 2015

These capabilities are expected to become even more valuable in future facilitation of higher penetrations of solar- and wind-based generation. Energy storage systems based on reused automotive batteries can increase the availability of peak-period electricity and store energy during periods of low demand.

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Green Cars News

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Whilst the report is not intended to dampen enthusiasm for electric vehicles, their introduction should not be viewed as a panacea; significant changes to the way we produce and tax power are needed before we will reap any benefits.&#. Key findings of report include: Performance.

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