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DOE provides $65M for “connected communities” of buildings powered to transform electric system

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Our Grid-Interactive Efficient Buildings Initiative helps the U.S. further modernize its power grid and thus improve reliability, integrate renewable power sources, improve environmental performance, and make electricity more affordable for America’s households and businesses.

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Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

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The world’s two existing compressed air energy storage plants—one in Alabama, the other in Germany—use man-made salt caverns to store excess electricity. The PNNL-BPA study examined a different approach: using natural, porous rock reservoirs that are deep underground to store renewable energy.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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National Renewable. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. resulting in reduced cost for renewable solar electricity. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Advanced Molten Glass.

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