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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 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.).

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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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Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. Berkeley, Arizona State. Laboratory, Grid.

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