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ARPA-E awarding $30M to 12 hybrid solar projects; conversion and storage

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Under the FOCUS program, projects will develop advanced solar converters that turn sunlight into electricity for immediate use, while also producing heat that can be stored at low cost for later use as well as innovative storage systems that accept both heat and electricity from variable solar sources. Arizona State University.

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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million award from ARPA-E ( earlier post ), has developed a reactor and catalysts to convert CO 2 and hydrogen from water into syngas for use in the Fischer-Tropsch process. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021. Dimensional Energy, which recently received a $3.1-million

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President Obama announces new $140M public-private manufacturing innovation institute focused on power electronics

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In electronic devices, WBG semiconductors can eliminate up to 90% of the power losses that currently occur during AC-to-DC and DC-to-AC electricity conversion, and they can handle voltages more than 10 times higher than Si-based devices, greatly enhancing performance in high-power applications.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Highly Efficient Electrocatalysts for Direct Conversion Of CO2 To Chemicals, $250,000. Tucson, Arizona). Bio-based Insecticides from Thermochemical Conversion of Biomass, $100,000. Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Framatome Inc. Beam Suntory, Inc.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. areas to convert otherwise wasted gas into usable chemicals that. The increased 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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. converted into a type of diesel fuel.

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ARPA-E announces $27M for transformational power electronics technologies

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The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. MicroLink Devices will engineer affordable, high-performance transistors needed for power conversion. Earlier post.). 3,224,845.

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