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GE VC Firms Announce $200M Open Innovation Challenge to Accelerate Power Grid Technology Through Open Collaboration

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GE announced a $200-million open innovation challenge that seeks breakthrough ideas to create a smarter, cleaner, more efficient electric grid, and accelerate the adoption of more efficient grid technologies. Proposals are sought in three, broad categories: Renewables, Grid and Eco Homes/Eco Buildings.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. As legislation worked its way through Congress, Jenkins’s team provided elected officials, staffers, and stakeholders with a running tally of the possible trade-offs and payoffs in emissions, jobs, and economic growth.

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ARPA-E issues $5M funding opportunity to support upcoming grid optimization competition

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In the PSCOPF problem selected for this challenge competition, the objective is to provide a generation dispatch at the least cost to meet system load (demand) in the base case and in all credible contingencies cases, such that power flow obeys the physics of a power grid and satisfies system’s limits.

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3 Oil Majors That Bet Big On Renewables

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Further, natural gas can be used to keep the power grid stable as solar and wind power fluctuate. Natural gas does produce about 28% less CO2 emissions than heating oil and 50% less than coal for the same amount of energy when burned.

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Poland NCBJ report concludes small modular reactors unlikely to play key role as basic electricity source in Poland

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The Sustainable Nuclear Energy Technology Platform is an association of power reactor manufacturers, NPP operators, Nuclear Regulatory Commission bodies from various countries, and R&D institutions formed to stipulate engineering works conducted in such collaborations as EUROPAIRS, ARCHER, or NC2I-R. The idea of small modular reactors (e.g.

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$50M Battery500 consortium targeting battery pack with specific energy of 500 Wh/kg

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Recognizing diversity in experience and opinions often results in better solutions, the consortium will also welcome ideas from others. PNNL’s lead role in the consortium builds on its decades of leadership in materials science, chemistry, transportation and power grid modernization. University of Texas at Austin.

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Honda unveils Urban EV Concept, production version in 2019; electrified technology for every new model launched in Europe

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The system is designed to incorporate electric vehicles into a smart power grid. It enables the collection and distribution of electricity between the grid, homes and businesses and electric vehicles, to intelligently balance demand and efficient storage of energy.

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