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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois).

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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If successful, the team will greatly increase transformer functionality and reduce size over current technologies, affecting application areas like grid energy storage, solar photovoltaics and electric vehicle fast chargers, while also enabling better grid monitoring and easy retrofits. University of Illinois at Chicago.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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transferred into highly productive energy crops such as. University of Illinois. Engineering Hydrocarbon Biosynthesis and Storage Together. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: Novel Tuning of Critical.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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ALLEN MEDAL Sponsor: IBM DAVID KUCK University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign “For pioneering work in vector and parallel computer architecture, software, and compilers that enables many performance-sensitive applications.” IEEE FRANCES E. IEEE SIMON RAMO MEDAL Sponsor: Northrop Grumman Corp.

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