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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Lead organization. Reducing equivalent: Electrons; Organism: E. Earlier post.) Description. Ginkgo BioWorks. (UC

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 12 projects to receive funding through its Crosscutting Research Program’s Transitional Technology Development to Enable Highly Efficient Power Systems with Carbon Management initiative. Lead organization. Transitional Technology Development Awards.

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GM: Putting 1M Plug-ins on the Road Will Require a Plug-In Ecosystem

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Those wishing to participate will be able to tie into the multi-site webchat from Green Car Congress tomorrow, as well as directly on GM’s FastLane Blog , the EV World site, or the GM-Volt site. Source: EPRI. Mark Duvall of EPRI said the grid would be able to handle “ as many [plug-ins] as you want. ” Source: EPRI.

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

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Carbon Capture (5 projects). Envia Systems, in collaboration with Argonne National Laboratory, will develop high energy density, low cost next generation Li-ion batteries using novel nano silicon-carbon composite anodes and high capacity manganese rich layered composite cathodes discovered at Argonne National Laboratory.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Small long-term evaluation program, including modeling of vehicle-to-grid building benefits and economics, begun with Southern California Edison, joined by EPRI, other utilities, US DOE. Several aftermarket companies and organizations have converted hundreds of Priuses -- see Where PHEVs Are.) Ford Escape PHEV-40 around 2012.

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