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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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A fast MVDC breaker is an important component to enable uprating existing alternating-current distribution corridors in congested urban areas to MVDC, and connect distributed renewable energy sources to concentrated demand for growing applications such as electric vehicle charging.

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OSU team develops new aqueous lithium-iodine solar flow battery; 20% energy savings over Li-I batteries

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After debuting the first solar air battery—a photo-assisted charging Li-O 2 battery—last fall ( earlier post ), researchers at The Ohio State University led by Professor Yiying Wu have now developed a new system combining a solar cell and a battery into a single device. Credit: ACS, Yu et al. Click to enlarge.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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Public Utility Commissions (PUCs)] and many state and federal agencies,” states a report by the non-profit group Americans for a Clean Energy Grid. The fight over how to fairly implement EV charging networks in Minnesota is another example of the tricky politics PUCs are involved with.

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