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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion, the FY 2016 Budget Request provides $5.34 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). billion) above the FY 2015 enacted level. Within the $10.7

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JUNE 18, 2015

The work will begin in June of 2016 when the support from 3M and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) ends. (3M The new collaboration, a first between the leading American electric vehicle company and a Canadian university, will bring together the teams of Dahn and Tesla’s Director of Battery Technology, Kurt Kelty.

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MAY 12, 2017

Groupe PSA, Direct Energie, Enel, Nuvve, Proxiserve and the Technical University of Denmark have launched the GridMotion project with the aim of evaluating possible savings achieved by real-life electric vehicle (EV) users through the implementation of smart charging and discharging strategies for EVs.

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DECEMBER 6, 2018

The vehicles are 2015-2016 models, with battery technology that enables an everyday range of about 80-90 miles—suited for in-town driving, and enough for travel between Davis and Sacramento. We are learning more about how to integrate electric vehicles with the grid. The other two will be used by project researchers.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. PHEVLERs make our electric grid more efficient. [ PHEVLERs help support the electric grid.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. Minigrids use distributed off-grid energy solutions that operate independently from the national transmission grid.

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MAY 11, 2017

The projects support California’s Sustainable Freight Action Plan, which was developed in 2016 to help the state’s freight transport system become more efficient, more economically competitive, and less polluting. Grants were provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP).

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MAY 21, 2024

“These recent cyberattacks in Pennsylvania and Texas highlight the growing frequency of cyber threats to water systems,” says study author Nilufer Tuptuk , a lecturer in security and crime science at University College London. He says the U.S.’s The structure of the water industry in the U.S. By contrast, Hazell points to the U.K.

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JULY 3, 2016

A study by a team at University of Illinois at Urbana−Champaign has found that, with currently achievable performance levels, synthetic fuels produced via the electrochemical reduction of CO 2 and the Fischer-Tropsch (FT) process system are not economically and environmentally competitive with using petroleum-based fuel. —Li et al.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

The survey, released by researchers Brandon Schoettle and Dr. Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI), includes responses from 542 people. Brandon Schoettle and Michael Sivak (2016) “ Consumer Preferences for the Charging of Plug-In Electric Vehicles ” Report SWT-2016-13.

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MAY 27, 2023

Schweitzer III Employer: Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories Title: President and CTO Member grade: Life Fellow Alma maters: Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind.; Washington State University, Pullman To develop and manufacture his relay, he launched Schweitzer Engineering Laboratories in 1982 from his basement in Pullman, Wash.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Grid power will only be used for backup when absolutely necessary and excess renewable energy produced may even be sold to utility companies. Implementation is set to begin from April 2016 onward. Emeritus, Yokohama National University) and Dr. Yoji Uchiyama (Prof. A committee has been established, with Dr. Kenichiro Ota (Prof.

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DECEMBER 28, 2022

is building two fast-neutron nuclear breeder reactors, the first of which is slated to connect to the grid in 2023, the second in 2026. China is in the middle of a big buildup of its nuclear-weapon arsenal,” says Frank von Hippel , a physicist and nuclear-policy expert at Princeton University. “My It is anything but.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

In 2016, DOE national laboratories identified the potential of hydrogen to decarbonize deeply a multitude of sectors in a proposal termed “H2@Scale”. The DOE seeks qualified applicants to participate in cooperative research and development agreement (CRADA) projects with the H2@ Scale national laboratories consortium. Example H2@Scale Topics.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Renewable energy sources generally spill energy due to supply and demand mismatches, so we’ve designed the TESS device to capture this ‘spilt’ energy for later use or release to the grid. Our system also means that energy consumers will be able to purchase stored electricity off-peak at low tariffs, which ultimately means cheaper energy.

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MAY 4, 2017

When the vehicles are stationary, the car batteries can inject power into the network, helping to stabilize it and offering grid balancing services to Transmission System Operator Energinet.dk, in return for remuneration.

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OCTOBER 28, 2016

Eliminating particulate matter (PM 10 ) from underground car parks in the city center of Eindhoven could result in local reductions in the concentration of these particles of up to 50%, according to a study by researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). This grid covered an area of 5.1 2016.10.008.

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JULY 10, 2018

Energy storage system customers: State Grid. CATL also keeps seeking global cooperation with technological leading companies, universities and academic institutions; the company has contributed to drafting more than 40 industry standards. and around 87% of CATL’s total revenue in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Ferreira's first job, in 1981, was at the Institute of Power Electronics and Electric Drives at Aachen University , in Germany. Jan Abraham "Braham" Ferreira.

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JULY 10, 2018

Energy storage system customers: State Grid. CATL also keeps seeking global cooperation with technological leading companies, universities and academic institutions; the company has contributed to drafting more than 40 industry standards. and around 87% of CATL’s total revenue in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Electric vehicles charged in coal-heavy regions can create more human health and environmental damages from life cycle air emissions than gasoline vehicles, according to a new consequential life cycle analysis by researchers from Carnegie Mellon University. UC stands for uncontrolled charging and CC stands for controlled charging. Weis et al.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

A new study by a team at the University of California Irvine highlights the importance of intelligent plug-in vehicle (PEV) charging for minimizing the scale of infrastructure required to meet renewable utilization targets. With vehicle-to-grid (V2G) charging, non-vehicle energy storage systems are no longer required. million in 2050.

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APRIL 9, 2016

The team from Carnegie Mellon University led by Dr. Jeremy Michalek accounted for regional differences in emissions due to marginal grid mix; ambient temperature; patterns of vehicle miles traveled (VMT); and driving conditions (city versus highway). Their open-access paper is published in the journal Environmental Research Letters.

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JULY 21, 2016

35 new businesses, non-profits, universities, and utilities signing on to DOE’s Workplace Charging Challenge and committing to provide electric vehicle charging access for their workforce. Enable smart charging and vehicle grid integration through solutions such as demand response, and other energy storage and load management strategies.

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JANUARY 29, 2022

That need for balance is true of electric power grids, too. Second, conventional coal and nuclear plants are being retired for economic and policy reasons, removing stable sources from the grid. Packetized energy management (PEM) allows the power grid to flexibly handle a varying supply of renewable energy. Here’s how.

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JANUARY 21, 2015

Governor Jerry Brown’s office informed the university this month that the fueling facility had received the certification, known as California Type Approval. is the largest such facility on a university campus in the United States and produces hydrogen on site. The station is grid-tied. Source: Dr. David Blekhman.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2016

A new report from the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI) reviews the major advantages and disadvantages associated with battery-electric vehicles (BEVs) and fuel-cell vehicles (FCVs). BEVs currently offer the most readily available alternative fuel source via the existing electric grid. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 16, 2016

Researchers from Griffith University in Australia and Peking University in China have synthesized low-cost, hierarchically porous, and nitrogen-doped loofah sponge carbon (N-LSC) derived from the loofah sponge via a simple calcining process and applied it as a multifunctional blocking layer for Li–S, Li–Se, and Li–I 2 batteries.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2016

At the SAE 2016 Range Extenders for Electric Vehicles Symposium this week in Knoxville, Gary Parker, Director of Electromobility programs for Cummins, Inc. The first project, in partnership with the Ohio State University, PACCAR, NREL and Argonne National Laboratory and funded with $4.5 Earlier post.). Fast charge time of 5 minutes.

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AUGUST 24, 2016

A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Travis Herya and Sundaresan (2016).

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JULY 30, 2021

University of New Orleans for six years and an adjunct professor for two years. Grosz was also an adjunct engineering professor at Tulane University , also in New Orleans, for two years. He served on the IEEE Board of Directors as the 2016–2017 Region 5 director and the 2019 vice president of. He was granted two U.S. Fellow S.K.

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APRIL 8, 2014

By the end of FY 2016, publish a report that includes the number of DOE/FE projects, including results on any completed projects, that addresses each of the DOE-led research topics contained in the Multi-Agency Strategy related to understanding unconventional oil and gas resources. DOE will employ six strategies to achieve these goals.

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JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street. Reusing batteries as backup for charging is a win-win for the economics and the environmental benefits of EVs.

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MARCH 3, 2016

Researchers from George Washington University and Vanderbilt University have demonstrated the conversion of atmospheric CO 2 into carbon nanofibers (CNFs) and carbon nanotubes (CNTs) for use as high-performance anodes in both lithium-ion and sodium-ion batteries. —Licht et al. 5b00400.

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APRIL 14, 2017

District Court for the Northern District of California on 25 October 2016, Volkswagen Group of America is investing $1.2 In addition, other use cases/technologies are also under consideration including targeted battery storage to manage peak demand and ease grid loads, etc. Background. As required by Appendix C to the 2.0-Liter

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MARCH 7, 2013

a new “Central London Grid” of bike routes in the City and West End, using segregation, quiet streets, and two-way cycling on one-way traffic streets, to join all the other routes together. The first Quietways will open next year, with the improved Superhighways and the central section of “bike Crossrail” complete by 2016.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

Researchers at the University of Michigan and Ford Motor Company have found that using a Level 4 connected and automated vehicle (CAV) subsystem could increase vehicle primary energy use and GHG emissions by 3–20% due to increases in power consumption, weight, drag, and data transmission. Click to enlarge.

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