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DOE awards $27.5M to 16 water infrastructure projects

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million to 16 water infrastructure projects. Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. Evaluating flexible grid service for opportunities to generate biopower from wastewater.

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DOE to Build Hydrogen Fuel Test Facility at West Virginia Airport

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The facility will use grid electricity to split water to produce pure hydrogen fuel. The fuel will be used by the airport’s operations and the 130 th Air Wing of the West Virginia Air National Guard. Alternatively, the electricity for the hydrolysis of water will come from coal-based power generation.

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DOE awards up to $47M each to 3 offshore wind projects

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The Energy Department selected three offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. The projects are located off the coasts of New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia.

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DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

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Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources. The turbine will be designed for power delivery to remote and local grids. University of Virginia.

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Default Passwords Jeopardize Water Infrastructure

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Drinking water systems pose increasingly attractive targets as malicious hacker activity is on the rise globally , according to new warnings from security agencies around the world. Last November, for instance, hackers linked to Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard broke into a water system in the western Pennsylvania town of Aliquippa.

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DOE announces approximately $64M in funding for 18 projects to advance H2@Scale

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Advanced Manufacturing Processes for Gigawatt-Scale Proton Exchange Membrane Water Electrolyzer Oxygen Evolution Reaction Catalysts and Electrodes. University of Virginia. Grid-Interactive Steelmaking with Hydrogen (GISH). Specific selections are: H2@Scale New Markets Funding Opportunity Announcement (FOA) DE-FOA-0002229.

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DOE announces finalists of Geothermal Lithium Extraction Prize

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Demand for lithium—a critical material used in batteries for electric vehicles, grid-scale electricity storage, phones, and laptops—has grown rapidly in recent years, with global demand expected to increase 500% by 2050. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign – Team SelectPureLi: “A Redox Membrane for LiOH Extraction”.

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