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

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Sunnyvale, California). Bright Silicon Technologies (San Francisco, California). Kairos Power (Alameda, California). Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Marrone Bio Innovations (Davis, California). Santa Clara, California). Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) (Palo Alto, California).

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

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And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. It occurred in the wake of the California electricity crisis of 2000 and 2001, when mismanaged deregulation, market manipulation, and environmental catastrophe combined to unhinge the power grid. AC Propulsion’s experiment was timely.

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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If successful, commercial availability of this Li-metal/glass electrode will allow for highly energy-dense rechargeable batteries of over 1000 watt-hours per liter and 400 watt-hours per kilogram. grid, transforming domestic energy production. University of Delaware. University of California, San Diego. Lead organization.

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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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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. Electric Vehicles, University of Delaware). Content QM Power and its partners will develop a new type of electric. motor with the potential to efficiently power future. University of California. deliver high power to a car or truck.

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

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said. Environmentalists see another advantage to local entities ?

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