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NOVEMBER 21, 2011

The Midwest Geological Sequestration Consortium (MGSC), one of seven regional partnerships created by the US Department of Energy (DOE) to advance carbon storage technologies nationwide ( earlier post ), has begun injecting carbon dioxide for their large-scale CO 2 injection test in Decatur, Illinois. billion metric tons.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

Kohl’s Department Stores will expand its plug-in vehicle charging station initiative with 36 new stations across 18 additional Kohl’s locations by the end of fall 2012. The expansion spans three new states, including Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and adds additional locations to the company’s Texas EV program.

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MAY 10, 2018

Researchers at the University of Illinois have developed a new polymer-curing process that could reduce the cost, time and energy needed, compared with the current manufacturing process. This traditional curing approach is slow, requires a large amount of energy and involves substantial capital investment. —Jeffrey Moore.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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JANUARY 2, 2019

University College London and University of Illinois at Chicago researchers report a new, scalable method for making a material that can reversibly store magnesium ions at high-voltage. —Professor Jordi Cabana (University of Illinois at Chicago). The study is published RSC journal Nanoscale. Linhua Hu, Ian D.

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APRIL 9, 2014

ABB will install a hybrid version of its high-efficiency ENVILINE wayside energy recovery and storage system for the Southeast Pennsylvania Transit Authority’s (SEPTA) light rail system serving the greater Philadelphia area. —Jacques Poulin, ABB’s product manager for energy storage and rail.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The US Department of Energy has signed final cooperative agreements with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and Ameren Energy Resources that formally commit $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to build FutureGen 2.0. This site could eventually become a regional CO 2 storage site in downstate Illinois. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 7, 2012

BP will establish a $100-million international research center, the BP International center for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM) to lead research to advancethe fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of energy and industrial applications. —Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. —Bob Dudley.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) awarded more than $4 million in funding to test novel applications of dimethyl ether (DME) as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen. WM International Engineering L.L.C.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Siemens Energy, Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. Tenaska, managing partner for the $3.5

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AUGUST 30, 2020

Scientists then compared this modeling to alternative ways to store carbon on the land, including growing forest or grassland. Carbon capture and storage technology is being used by at least one facility in Illinois that is processing corn as a conventional biofuel to create ethanol, but these systems are not yet widespread.

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MAY 2, 2016

Clean Energy Fuels Corp. Clean Energy has also signed additional agreements throughout the United States representing their growing portfolio of natural gas fueling. Clean Energy announced that it has extended its liquefied natural gas (LNG) supply agreement with the City of Phoenix.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide approximately $1 billion ( earlier post ) of cost-shared funding to the FutureGen Industrial Alliance (the Alliance) for the FutureGen 2.0 The Alliance will upgrade one unit in a power plant currently owned by Ameren near Meredosia, Illinois. Earlier post.) The FutureGen 2.0

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MAY 3, 2016

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. REG) announced that its Danville , Illinois operation now has more than 14 million gallons of tank capacity to store both biodiesel and feedstocks. REG Danville, LLC recently purchased the tank complex at the adjacent Bunge Milling, Inc. facility for approximately $1.5

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

The US Department of Energy will award some $17 million in research grants to 23 university-led teams aimed at strengthening the research and development capabilities of American universities and colleges to develop the next generation of nuclear energy technologies and upgrade research reactors across the country.

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APRIL 24, 2018

A promising class of technologies for carbon dioxide removal is known as bioenergy with carbon capture and sequestration (BECCS), which involves the capture and permanent sequestration of biogenic CO 2 produced during energy conversion. Earlier post.). —Sean McCoy. Sanchez, Nils Johnson, Sean T. McCoy, Peter A. Turner, Katharine J.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Following the successful completion of the first phase, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the beginning of Phase II of the FutureGen 2.0 project development with a new cooperative agreement between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and DOE for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois.

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AUGUST 26, 2011

Construction activities have begun at an Illinois ethanol plant on a full-scale commercial project that will demonstrate industrial carbon capture and storage (ICCS). The injected CO 2 will come from the byproduct from processing corn into fuel-grade ethanol at ADM’s biofuels plant adjacent to the storage site in Decatur, Illinois.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and US Senator Dick Durbin announced the awarding of $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to the FutureGen Alliance, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox, and Air Liquide Process & Construction, Inc. to build FutureGen 2.0, an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. PPSA can scale across several large and growing markets, including commercial Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), electrified vehicle charging, and solar photovoltaic generation. Ideal Power Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 25, 2009

The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems. Pecan Street Project (TX).

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AUGUST 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award approximately $36 million to 22 projects to develop transformational electric vehicle (EV) energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. Advanced Aqueous Lithium-Ion Batteries. 760,000. .

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. Illinois Department of Transportation on behalf of seven transit agencies, Illinois: $4,030,000.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2010

The plant will be designed to capture carbon emitted by its operation and store it underground. The US Department of Energy has committed to provide more than $1 billion in funding to the project if the details of a public-private partnership can be worked out to the satisfaction of all parties.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The projects—located in Louisiana, Texas and Illinois—were initially selected in October 2009 for phase one research and development grants. The selections announced today are expected to capture and store 6.5 The projects will be managed by the Department of Energy's National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

Now, researchers from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and UC Berkeley have engineered yeast to convert cellulosic sugars and toxic levels of acetate together into ethanol under anaerobic conditions. cerevisiae to consume xylose more efficiently. The buildup of acetic acid also killed off much of the yeast. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 21, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have developed a self-assembling three-dimensional nanostructure for battery cathodes (Li-ion and NiMH) that allows for faster charging and discharging without sacrificing energy storage capacity. Most capacitors store very little energy. Zhang et al.

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JULY 30, 2011

The team includes four other universities, three national laboratories and five private sector companies and has experience with carbon storage projects in Washington, Wyoming, Canada, Illinois, Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and internationally. Three companies, Vecta Oil and Gas, SR2020 Inc.

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APRIL 20, 2013

The energy and power density of our microbattery cells (A–H) at low to high C rates, along with previous microbattery cells having 3D electrodes (MB1 through MB3). The plot also includes the performance range of conventional power technologies and commercial batteries from A123 (high power) and Sony (high energy). Source: Pikul et al.

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JUNE 26, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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JANUARY 10, 2012

The Molecular Foundry is a US Department of Energy (DOE) nanoscience research center. from the University of Illinois-Urbana in 1990. These materials make it possible to store vast quantities of natural gas, hydrogen or carbon dioxide in confined spaces. His appointment was effective 3 January 2012.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

IKEA plans to increase the number of ultra-fast public charging stations and delivery fleet car chargers in its US stores. The furniture retailer has announced a partnership with Electrify America and Electrify Commercial to install new charging stations in over 25 IKEA stores in the US.

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OCTOBER 7, 2011

Now, University of Illinois chemical and biomolecular engineering professor Paul Kenis and his research group and researchers at startup Dioxide Materials report on the development of an electrocatalytic system that reduces CO 2 to carbon monoxide at overpotentials below 0.2 This is very energy. inefficient. intermediate, which then.

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AUGUST 2, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) has selected 11 research projects that will help find ways to extract more energy from unconventional oil and gas resources while reducing environmental risks for awards totalling $12.4 The selections include $10.3 The selections include $10.3

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JULY 25, 2016

As described in a paper in the journal Nature Energy , the cathode consisting of nanoscale amorphous lithia (nanolithia) confined in a cobalt oxide enabled charge/discharge between solid Li 2 O/Li 2 O 2 /LiO 2 without any gas evolution. V) causes severe energy efficiency and thermal management problems. Courtesy of the researchers.

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This type of charging would likely be found at retailers, truck stops, and roadside convenience stores , where EV drivers will exit the highway for a meal or rest stop before continuing their journey. Conversely, destination charging is needed at a traveler’s final destination, such as a hotel, resort, or conference center.

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MARCH 9, 2010

Javad Rafiee, a doctoral student in the Department of Mechanical, Aerospace, and Nuclear Engineering at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has developed a new graphene material for storing hydrogen at room temperature. Rafiee is from Tehran, Iran, and expects to earn his doctorate in 2011. Lemelson-MIT Collegiate Student Prizes.

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