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This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans

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The company designs and builds the drone’s hull, deck, and circuit boards. Its sensors include hydrophones that can listen to marine life, as well as environmental sensors to measure water temperature, salinity, turbidity, and weather conditions. The company began in the Anguses’ garage on Vancouver Island, B.C.,

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Toyota entering three differently fueled vehicles in ENEOS Super Taikyu Series 2022

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The three companies will exchange information in areas of cooperation while still competing against each other during the race, increasing technological research speed and striving to achieve a carbon-neutral society. Yamanashi Prefecture established the Yamanashi Hydrogen Company, Inc., and Toray Industries, Inc.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Pacific Gas & Electric Company (CA). 355,938,600 Southern California Edison Company. 29,561,142.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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billion, the largest single renewable energy asset finance deal ever, outside large hydro—that of the 600MW Gemini project in Dutch waters. Equity raising by renewable energy companies on public markets jumped 54% in 2014 to $15.1 Biomass Fuels Power Generation Solar Wind' These included, at the euro equivalent of $3.8

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Smart Charging Electric Vehicles and the Flexibility Market

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Furthermore, the evolution of home energy technologies, such as smart water heaters, heat pumps, and solar panels, can provide DSOs more flexibility for the long-term, as dependency on “traditional” grid-provided energy won’t always be necessary. First name * Last name * Company name * Corporate Email *. Contact us to learn more.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“If any energy company ignores the long-term impact on future fossil-fuel-backed energy sales, they will be in for a shock.&# So how do energy companies cope with such upheaval? “It took a company from a completely different sector to step in and take control of things ? . but not all of it.

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