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

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The term “dispatchable” indicates availability as needed. Arizona State University. High-Temperature Topping Cells from LED Materials Arizona State University will develop a solar cell that can operate efficiently at temperatures above 450°C, unlike today’s solar cells, which lose efficiency rapidly above 100°C. Source: ARPA-E.

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Team at Saudi Aramco successfully field tests downhole drilling microchip system

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A team at Saudi Aramco’s EXPEC Advanced Research Center (EXPEC ARC), in collaboration with the University of Tulsa, recently achieved the first major field test milestone of its four-year project to develop the industry’s first downhole drilling microchip. —AbdulHameed Al-Rushaid, Drilling & Workover general manager.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. INCOG Tulsa Area. University, North. availability; and disseminate best practices among potential fleets and. University of Central.

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INRIX analysis identifies top 10 US cities for highly autonomous vehicles; prioritizing corridors for deployment

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Leveraging aggregated INRIX trip data from millions of connected cars, parking availability and restrictions, and US Census demographic data, INRIX created a scalable and customizable scoring system to analyze and visualize priority corridors for HAV deployment. New Orleans. Albuquerque.

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Summer Update

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The bill, sponsored by Representative Frank Hornstein of Minneapolis, would require that the State of Minnesota begin buying PHEVs once they are commercially available and when the price is no more than 10% higher than similarly equipped vehicles.