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Mercom: Corporate funding for energy storage companies hit $26.4B in 2022; up 55% y-o-y

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Mercom Capital Group, a global clean energy research and communications firm, released its report on funding and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) activity in 2022 for the energy storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency sectors. Corporate funding for energy storage, smart grid, and energy efficiency companies.

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DOE awards Group14 Technologies $3.96M as Energy Storage Grand Challenge winner; nano-silicon within an engineered carbon scaffold

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Group14 Technologies, a provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for global lithium-ion markets, announced that it has been selected as a winner of the Department Of Energy’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge and will receive a $3.96-million million award.

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Kia and Encore partner to create second life energy storage systems from used EV batteries

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Kia Europe has confirmed plans to re-use former EV batteries in ’Second Life’ battery energy storage systems as part of its global strategic focus on sustainability.

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Oshkosh Corporation unveils Volterra platform of electric fire and emergency vehicles

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Oshkosh Corporation’s Fire & Emergency segment unveiled the Volterra platform of electric vehicles with the introduction of two new trucks under the Pierce Manufacturing and Oshkosh Airport Products brands. —John Pfeifer, Oshkosh Corporation President and CEO. The Volterra platform uses Oshkosh’s parallel-electric drive train.

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The Electric Truck Of The Future Does Kinetic Energy Storage, Too

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The city of Amarillo, Texas, is polishing its green cred with new, mobile kinetic energy storage technology from the firm Ecolution Power Company.

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Toyota Launches Large-capacity Sweep Energy Storage System from Reused Electrified Vehicle Batteries Connected to the Electrical Power Grid

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and Toyota Motor Corporation announced the construction and launch of the world’s first, according to Toyota, large-capacity Sweep Energy Storage System. The system was built using batteries reclaimed from electrified vehicles (HEV, PHEV, BEV, and FCEV) and is connected to the consumer electrical power grid.

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TEPCO and Toyota develop stationary storage battery system using EV batteries

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TEPCO HD) and Toyota Motor Corporation (Toyota) have developed a stationary storage battery system (1 MW output, 3 MWh capacity) that combines TEPCO’s operating technology and safety standards for stationary storage batteries and Toyota’s system technology for electrified vehicle storage batteries.

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