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DOE to invest $30M to further H2 and fuel cell technology as industry continues strong growth

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Applicants to the Energy Department’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office’s fiscal year 2017 funding opportunity will collaborate with national lab consortia stemming from the EMN initiative. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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Bosch collaborating with Eguana on Home Battery System

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Peak load reduction provides a direct financial benefit for utilities by avoiding or deferring the cost of constructing new power plants. Deployments in the Hawaii and California markets have taken place in both homeowner and utility applications. Eguana also recently expanded its energy storage partnership with LG Chem.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. 3 projects will reduce the cost of onboard hydrogen storage tanks necessary for fuel cell vehicles.

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Project shows maritime fuel cell generator can increase energy efficiency by up to 30% at part load; reliability and cost issues

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Project partner Young Brothers operated the generator for 10 months powering refrigerated containers in Honolulu, Hawaii. Pratt and Shuk Han Chan (2017) “Maritime Fuel Cell Generator Project” SAND2017-5751. One opportunity to do so was identified in Honolulu Harbor at the Young Brothers Ltd.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020.

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