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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Leveraged with recipient cost share, this funding will help to provide more than $126 million. Advanced batteries are vital to the entire clean energy economy, but the US currently does not produce enough of the critical minerals and battery materials needed to power clean energy technologies. Princeton NuEnergy.

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WeaveGrid and Wallbox to offer utility-managed smart charging, starting in Colorado – Charged EVs

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The program optimizes residential EV charging times to align with low power grid demand and high availability of renewable energy (mainly wind power in Colorado). Wallbox charger owners who enroll in the program can receive cash incentives and save money by charging at low-cost times.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each. Details of the 28 companies awarded a total of $4.2

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Australia Goes All-in on Green Hydrogen

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And while coal plants still supplied over half of Australia’s power in 2021, change is afoot. And green hydrogen is the centerpiece of its clean-economy growth plan. Ark Energy’s project is part of a clean-energy blitz in Australia by its parent company, Seoul-based metal-refining giant Korea Zinc. Shipping hydrogen is pricey.

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Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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But, to solve the week-by-week or season-by-season variations with batteries is to follow the same route as a 100% wind and solar powered grid. Again, to scale battery storage to store the weeks and weeks of power needed to balance the grid in those situations would result in huge infrastructure requirements.

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The new superjunction structure will surpass the theoretical trade-off between on- resistance and breakdown voltage observed in conventional unipolar GaN, leading to more efficient and cheaper power converters. Pratt & Whitney will design a novel, high-efficiency hydrogen-power turbomachine for commercial aviation. Stanford University.

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Cal Energy Commission awards $1.5M to Berkeley to advance open-source advanced smart charging technology; OpenVBOSS

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PEVs are proliferating in California under the Advanced Clean Cars Program, sometimes in geographic clusters; this is creating potential load management issues for electrical utility grids at the feeder and transformer level.

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