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California Energy Commission awards Sierra Northern Railway team nearly $4M to demonstrate hydrogen switching locomotive; H2RAM

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The California Energy Commission has awarded GTI and Sierra Northern Railway nearly $4,000,000 to fund the design, integration, and demonstration of a hydrogen fuel cell switching locomotive to support the Hydrogen Fuel Cell Demonstrations in Rail and Marine Applications at Ports (H2RAM) initiative.

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Agrivoltaics Goes Nuclear On California Prairie

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A decommissioned nuclear power plant from the 1980s is repurposed for agrivoltaics and prairie restoration.

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USCAR helps to develop charging-readiness tools for plug-in & electric vehicles through US DRIVE

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The Grid Interaction Tech Team helped to identify and address roadblocks that would prevent successful commercialization of all types of plug-in electric vehicles. Both tools will help accelerate the approval process for home charging stations.

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EcoCAR 2 winner OSU wins year one of North American EcoCAR 3 competition

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Virginia Tech and the University of Waterloo took second and third place respectively. Earlier post.) The judges decided that OSU showed all-around excellence in Year One, demonstrating a highly mature software development process, and as a result received a trophy, $10,000 and repeat winner bragging rights.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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UTRC will team with Columbia University, CM-Tech, Hamilton Sundstrand and Worley Parsons in this program. Porifera Inc will lead a team including the University of California and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory that will integrate carbon nanotubes with polymer membranes to increase the flux of CO 2 capture membranes by up to 100x.

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