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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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Schematic of the “New Grid Testbed” components, including renewable energy generation, energy storage, smart distribution and electric transportation Click to enlarge. It is the largest renewable energy project of its kind in California. Two megawatt-hours of battery energy storage. Solar carport.

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

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines.

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

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A methanation plant expansion to the existing power-to-gas (PtG) facility in Falkenhagen, Germany has officially opened as part of the international €28-million (US$33.5-million) While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane.

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Partners begin work on Energiepark Mainz; hydrogen from renewable sources; power-to-gas

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Starting next year, the jointly developed pilot plant will produce major quantities of hydrogen using electricity from renewable sources, mostly from nearby wind power stations. This hydrogen can be stored, loaded into tank trailers or fed directly into the natural gas grid, for use in generating heat or electricity.

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IBM, Honda, and PG&E partner on smarter charging for EVs; utilities to communicate charging instructions directly based on grid conditions

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and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) on a new pilot project that will allow communication between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. IBM has teamed with American Honda Motor Co., Once plugged into a charge post, the Honda Fit EV initiates a charge request via the vehicles telematics system.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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Using solar energy (or other renewable energy sources ) to split water delivers sustainability , while recent research has made key inroads toward efficiency and scalability. Hydrogen today comes primarily from natural gas, which pumps out a lot of carbon and methane pollution into the atmosphere.

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Sandia study finds underground geologic storage of hydrogen could boost transportation, energy security

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Geologic storage of hydrogen gas could make it economically possible to produce and distribute large quantities of hydrogen fuel for a growing fuel cell electric vehicle market. In addition to cost savings, underground storage of hydrogen gas offers advantages in volume. Other fuels are already stored geologically.

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