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DOE announces Stage 1 CABLE Conductor Manufacturing Prize Winners

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The 10 winning teams for Stage 1 submitted breakthrough concepts for more conductive and affordable materials for both electrical and thermal (heat-based) energy applications. Each winning team has earned a $25,000 cash prize and a stipend for third-party conductivity testing in Stage 2.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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In contrast, flow batteries can independently scale the power (electrode area) and energy (arbitrarily large storage volume) components of the system by maintaining all of the electro-active species in fluid form. The design permits larger amounts of energy to be stored at lower cost than with traditional batteries. Background.

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Two studies exploring battery costs for hybrids and plug-ins: LEESS, PHEV20, and PHEV40

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For PHEV20 batteries, TIAX found significant overlap in battery costs among five cathode classes, with wider variation within each chemistry based on the electrode design than between chemistries. Costs were modeled for a 300V PHEV battery pack that could provide 5.5 Cells were designed for a range of electrode loadings (1.5–3

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Study Finds Bioelectricity Better Option Than Liquid Biofuels for Transportation Output and GHG Emissions

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This suggests that these specific BEVs were not designed for highway driving, as opposed to the midsize car BEV and small SUV BEV which perform well for city and highway driving. GHG offsets for bioelectricity could be greatly increased by accounting for the steam co-products during electricity generation.

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Mad Power thoughts

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When David Cameron’s energy bill was being discussed in Parliament in 2013, the word on everybody’s lips was ‘trilemma’: how to ensure that energy was affordable, reliable and low-carbon. The cost of grid management has soared to nearly £2billion a year in the last two decades. This was plain wrong. What would I do?

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PNNL study outlines requirements for grid storage, reviews four electrochemical energy storage systems: vanadium redox flow, Na-beta, Li-ion and lead-carbon

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Classification of potential electrical storage for stationary applications. To be successful, systems will need to evolve—in some cases, considerably—to compete financially with the cost of natural gas production. Credit: ACS, Yang et al. Click to enlarge. In their study, Yang et al. —Yang et al.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $5.5M for green transportation projects and $1.8M for 20 energy research projects

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These buy-down incentives are reserved for vehicle manufacturers or their designated dealers and passed on to buyers in California at the time of sale. University of California, San Diego , was awarded $95,000 to gather existing data on engine performance using a software modeling program to reduce carbon emissions of gas-fuel mixtures.

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