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Revel, Fermata Energy, NineDot Energy launch first V2G system on NYC’s grid

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AUGUST 19, 2022

Revel, NineDot Energy and Fermata Energy announced that the first Vehicle to Grid (V2G) program connected to NYC’s grid is now live at Revel’s Red Hook, Brooklyn warehouse. The V2G system uses three Fermata Energy bidirectional chargers operating on a cloud-based platform. Photo Courtesy of Revel.

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IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

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JANUARY 13, 2023

Renewable energy sources are central to the energy transition toward a more sustainable future. However, because sunshine and wind are inherently variable and inconsistent, finding ways to store energy in an accessible and efficient way is crucial. An open-access paper on the work is published in the journal Energies.

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Researchers use quantum computing method to optimize molecular photoswitches for solar energy harvesting

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AUGUST 31, 2023

Molecular photoswitches that can both convert and store energy could be used to make solar energy harvesting more efficient. The procedure was based on a dataset of more than 400,000 molecules, which the researchers screened to find the optimum molecular structure for solar energy storage materials.

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Skeleton Technologies to supply supercap modules to Class8 Energy; €11.6M contract

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JUNE 5, 2022

Skeleton Technologies and Class8 Energy, a Canadian equipment distributor, have signed a €11.6-million Located in Mississauga, Canada, Class8 Energy is dedicated to a greener future and more efficient energy for vehicles and heavy machinery. —Jean Labrie, CEO of Class8 Energy.

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Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Virtual Peaker and Fermata Energy are partnering to integrate Fermata Energy’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with Virtual Peaker’s cloud-based residential energy demand response platform used by utilities across the country. Fermata Energy V2X bi-directional charger.

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City of Boulder working with Fermata Energy to test V2B technology

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DECEMBER 5, 2020

The City of Boulder is partnering with Fermata Energy to test the ability to reduce the city’s building energy costs with an innovative pilot at the North Boulder Recreation Center. This vehicle-to-building (V2B) technology can provide the city new ways to manage its energy load, and to reduce energy costs.

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Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

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MARCH 11, 2020

This fuel mixture will reduce carbon emissions by more than 75% compared to the retiring coal-fired technology. It will provide 840 MW of reliable energy to the IPA purchasers it serves, including Los Angeles and municipalities in other parts of California and Utah. and Hitachi, Ltd.

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DOE awards $125M to bring clean energy technologies to market

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JULY 21, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a total of $125 million to support 110 clean energy technology projects (DE-FOA-0002381). Within that total, DOE’s Office of Energy and Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will award $57.6 million); Fossil Energy (US$14.7 million); and Nuclear Energy ($13.4

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MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy unveil lithium-carbon battery technology with ultra-fast recharging

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy have unveiled a new battery technology which offers ultra-fast recharging coupled with good power density. The technology features a high-rate battery-type anode and a high-capacity electric double layer capacitor (EDLC)-style cathode, separated by an organic electrolyte.

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Construction of the world’s largest project plant for storing green hydrogen in LOHC begins in Germany

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MARCH 17, 2021

The world’s largest plant for storing green hydrogen in liquid organic hydrogen carriers (LOHC) on an industrial scale is being built at CHEMPARK Dormagen. The Krefeld-based subsidiary of Hydrogenious LOHC Technologies, LOHC Industrial Solutions NRW GmbH, will take charge of project management and plant operation. —Prof.

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Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

A Siemens Energy-led consortium has begun work in Newcastle, UK on a new £3.5 The system will be designed to deliver high-purity hydrogen, suitable for PEM fuel cell use, using FFI’s Metal Membrane Technology (MMT) purification process. Siemens Energy has proven experience of innovation with ammonia. million (US$4.24

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DOE closes on $504M loan guarantee for world’s largest clean hydrogen and energy storage project

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JUNE 11, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) closed on a $504.4-million million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Delta, Utah (ACES Delta)—marking the first loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project from DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) since 2014.

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Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Wearable devices, like nearly every other piece of tech, need energy. Fortunately, though, at wearables’ modest power budgets, energy is effectively everywhere. And today, technology is maturing to the point that meaningful amounts of these energy giveaways can be harvested to liberate wearables from ever needing a battery.

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IIT, Argonne team designs Li2O-based Li-air battery with solid electrolyte; four-electron reaction for higher energy density

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FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Researchers at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) and US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory have developed a lithium-air battery with a solid electrolyte. A lithium-air battery based on lithium oxide (Li 2 O) formation can theoretically deliver an energy density that is comparable to that of gasoline.

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Rheinmetall presents solutions in South Africa for producing, storing and transporting green hydrogen

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

At this year’s Africa Aerospace & Defence (AAD) expo at AFB Waterkloof in Centurion, Rheinmetall AG is presenting turnkey, mobile modular solutions for producing, storing and transporting CO 2 -free hydrogen. Moreover, because the system can simultaneously produce oxygen, it offers an all-encompassing solution for mobile field hospitals.

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Toyota develops electrolyzer using Mirai technology; deploying at DENSO plant

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MARCH 12, 2023

Toyota has developed new electrolysis equipment to produce hydrogen from electrolyzing water using the fuel cell (FC) stack and other technology from the Mirai. The hydrogen utilization at DENSO Fukushima will be implemented as a project subsidized by the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO).

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Electrify America unveils its first application of megawatt-level energy storage

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

Electrify America recently unveiled its first application of a megawatt-level battery energy storage system (BESS) for electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, building upon the company’s existing BESS installations at more than 150 stations across the US, including more than 100 installations in California.

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Nissan approves first bi-directional charger for use with Nissan LEAF in the US; Fermata Energy FE-15 charger

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Nissan, working with Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-grid services provider, has approved the first bi-directional charger for use with the Nissan LEAF in the US. Bi-directional charging technology means not only charging the Nissan LEAF, but also sending energy stored in the vehicle battery back to the building or the grid.

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Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

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JANUARY 18, 2023

It is a daunting question that a startup called Polar Night Energy, in the small and chilly nation of Finland (Figure 1), is attempting to answer. To meet this challenge, many governments and organizations are investing in new technology to help lessen the use of fossil fuels. The apparent contradictions do not end there.

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Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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OCTOBER 31, 2021

Energy Vault, a company developing grid-scale gravity energy storage solutions, has entered into an energy storage system agreement with DG Fuels, a developer of renewable hydrogen and biogenic-based, synthetic sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel fuel. Under the terms of the agreement, Energy Vault agreed to provide 1.6

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What is energy storage?

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Growing demand for renewable energy, an aging electrical grid, costly grid infrastructure improvements, and increasing extreme weather events will require increased energy flexibility to help the grid balance intermittent supply with responsive demand. In addition, these systems offer a wide range of benefits to energy users.

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U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

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OCTOBER 5, 2021

U-Haul—the largest US retailer of propane—has purchased one million gallons of renewable propane to sell at its company-owned and -operated stores across California for the second year in row. to continue supplying the fuel at more than 60 propane-dispensing stores in the state. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Air Products chooses Haldor Topsoe’s SynCOR technology for world-scale blue hydrogen energy complex in Canada

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JULY 23, 2021

Air Products has selected Haldor Topsoe’s low-carbon SynCOR technology for a world-scale net-zero hydrogen energy complex in Canada. The captured CO 2 will be stored underground. This industry-proven and advanced technology produces hydrogen at large scale with low emissions and energy consumption. Earlier post.)

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Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R) completed in Japan; aiming for low-cost green hydrogen production; P2G

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MARCH 8, 2020

Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), Toshiba Energy Systems & Solutions Corporation (Toshiba ESS), Tohoku Electric Power Co., The FH2R can produce as much as 1,200 Nm 3 of hydrogen per hour (rated power operation) using renewable energy.

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GM secures all energy needed to achieve renewable energy goal for 2025; 25 years ahead of target set in 2016

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OCTOBER 27, 2022

General Motors has finalized energy sourcing agreements required to secure 100% of the energy needed to power all its US facilities by 2025. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize. This is the main way through which GM is achieving its renewable energy goal.

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Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

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MAY 28, 2019

Raising the penetration of renewable —an intermittent—sources of energy into the grid will require large scale electrical energy storage and retrieval. However, at present, no existing technology provides such storage and retrieval at a low financial and environmental cost. —Farshid Salimijazi, first author.

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GTI launching a hydrogen technology center

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JANUARY 26, 2020

GTI, a research, development and training organization focused on natural gas and energy markets, is launching a hydrogen technology center. GTI has expertise in new storage and conversion technologies with materials development and testing.

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Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

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JUNE 24, 2019

A recent study has suggested a new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as a stabilizer. A paper on the work is published in the journal Energy Storage Materials. As a result, they succeeded in stably storing the hydrogen-natural gas compound in hydrates. 2019.06.007.

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V2X company Fermata Energy raises $40M in recent round

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JANUARY 23, 2022

Fermata Energy, a vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technology services provider, recently raised $40 million to accelerate the company’s growth with investment from new partners, including funds managed by global investment firm Carlyle and Verizon Ventures. —J.B.

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Ford and Sunrun partnering to advance home energy management using F-150 Lightning

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FEBRUARY 2, 2022

Ford is partnering with solar company Sunrun to enhance home energy management, leveraging the onboard battery capability of the all-electric F-150 Lightning. —Matt Stover, Ford charging and energy services director. The F-150 Lightning extended-range battery system can store 131 kWh and deliver up to 9.6

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ŠKODA collaborates with IBG ?esko on second-life battery energy storage system; up to 328 kWh

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JUNE 1, 2021

ŠKODA AUTO, a subsidiary of the Volkswagen Group, is introducing a smart energy storage system using second-life batteries from electric vehicles. In partnership with the Czech technology company IBG ?esko, Following a successful pilot project in Prague, the energy storage units are now available to ŠKODA contract dealers.

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Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

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APRIL 10, 2021

Starfire Energy, a Colorado-based developer of modular chemical plants for the carbon-free production of ammonia and hydrogen, has closed a major funding round. Proceeds will be used to advance the development of commercial-scale applications to decarbonize ammonia production and unlock its potential as a zero-carbon energy carrier.

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GM to reach 100% renewable energy in US by 2025, 5 years ahead of schedule

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OCTOBER 1, 2021

General Motors plans to source 100% renewable energy to power its US sites by 2025—five years earlier than previously announced, and 25 years ahead of its initial target that was set in 2016. Sourcing renewable energy is a critical component of GM’s plans to decarbonize its portfolio.

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Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

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NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Heliogen and Bloom Energy have successfully demonstrated the production of green hydrogen by integrating the companies’ technologies: Heliogen’s concentrated solar energy system and the Bloom Electrolyzer. Bloom Energy officially introduced the Bloom Electrolyzer in July 2021. Source: Heliogen.

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German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

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MAY 13, 2018

million) STORE&GO research project. In this second stage, hydrogen from regenerative energy sources is converted into methane (CH 4 ), i.e. synthetic natural gas, using CO 2 from a bio-ethanol plant. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power.

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GM launches GM Energy business unit with Ultium Home, Ultium Commercial

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OCTOBER 12, 2022

General Motors introduced Ultium Home and Ultium Commercial, which in combination with the existing Ultium Charge 360, create an ecosystem of energy management products and services that will be housed under a new business unit called GM Energy.

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HIU researchers develop extremely high energy density lithium-metal cell with good stability

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AUGUST 21, 2021

Researchers at the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU), founded by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in cooperation with the University of Ulm, have developed a new lithium-metal battery that offers extremely high energy density of 560 Wh/kg—based on the total weight of the active materials—with remarkably good stability.

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Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

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MAY 11, 2020

While there is global potential to generate renewable energy at costs already competitive with fossil fuels, a means of storing and transporting this energy at a very large scale is a roadblock to large-scale investment, development and deployment. Modern H-B plants produce ammonia at an energy cost of at least 8 MWh tonne -1.

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UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

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NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The discovery of this technique, which uses a metal catalyst and releases—rather than requires—energy, was reported in Nature Chemistry and has received a provisional patent from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation. This technology could enable a carbon-free fuel economy, but it’s one half of the puzzle. Resources.

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DOE to award nearly $42M to 22 projects to advance clean hydrogen technologies

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MAY 23, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $42 million in funding for 22 projects to advance critical technologies for producing, storing, and deploying clean hydrogen. DOE also announced $17.8 DOE also announced $17.8

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Highview Power and Encore Renewable Energy to co-develop the first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system in US

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

a provider of long duration energy storage solutions, and Encore Renewable Energy, a developer of renewable energy generation and storage projects, jointly announced plans to develop the United States’ first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system. Highview Power Storage, Inc.,

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Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

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DECEMBER 13, 2020

Siemens Energy, Duke Energy and Clemson University have teamed up to study the use of hydrogen for energy storage and as a low- or no-carbon fuel source to produce energy at Duke Energy’s combined heat and power plant located at Clemson University in South Carolina.

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1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands

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MAY 30, 2024

Large language models, the AI systems that power chatbots like ChatGPT, are getting better and better—but they’re also getting bigger and bigger, demanding more energy and computational power. These strengths are stored as mathematical parameters. times as fast, used 72 percent less GPU memory, and used 94 percent less GPU energy.

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DCC Energy and Oberon Fuels to boost renewable DME production to reduce emissions of European LPG market

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MARCH 30, 2023

Once adequate feedstocks and appropriate sites have been established, Oberon will construct and operate the renewable DME production facilities and DCC Energy will commit to buying Oberon’s renewable DME as an offtake partner. After minor modifications to infrastructure, pure renewable DME is a drop-in energy source for existing applications.

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Revel, Fermata Energy, NineDot Energy launch first V2G system on NYC’s grid

IIASA-led study proposes Underground Gravity Energy Storage as long-term energy storage solution for renewables

Researchers use quantum computing method to optimize molecular photoswitches for solar energy harvesting

Skeleton Technologies to supply supercap modules to Class8 Energy; €11.6M contract

Virtual Peaker partners with Fermata Energy to bring V2G bi-directional vehicle charging technology to utilities

City of Boulder working with Fermata Energy to test V2B technology

Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

DOE awards $125M to bring clean energy technologies to market

MAHLE Powertrain and Allotrope Energy unveil lithium-carbon battery technology with ultra-fast recharging

Construction of the world’s largest project plant for storing green hydrogen in LOHC begins in Germany

Siemens Energy, FFI and GeoPura developing prototype ammonia cracker to produce hydrogen

DOE closes on $504M loan guarantee for world’s largest clean hydrogen and energy storage project

Energy Harvesting for Wearable Technology Steps Up

IIT, Argonne team designs Li2O-based Li-air battery with solid electrolyte; four-electron reaction for higher energy density

Rheinmetall presents solutions in South Africa for producing, storing and transporting green hydrogen

Toyota develops electrolyzer using Mirai technology; deploying at DENSO plant

Electrify America unveils its first application of megawatt-level energy storage

Nissan approves first bi-directional charger for use with Nissan LEAF in the US; Fermata Energy FE-15 charger

Heating Buildings With Solar Energy Stored in Sand

Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

What is energy storage?

U-Haul buys another million gallons of renewable propane to sell at California stores

Air Products chooses Haldor Topsoe’s SynCOR technology for world-scale blue hydrogen energy complex in Canada

Fukushima Hydrogen Energy Research Field (FH2R) completed in Japan; aiming for low-cost green hydrogen production; P2G

GM secures all energy needed to achieve renewable energy goal for 2025; 25 years ahead of target set in 2016

Cornell team suggests engineered bacteria could address current limitations of energy storage technologies

GTI launching a hydrogen technology center

Study suggests new strategy for storing hydrogen, using natural gas as stabilizer

V2X company Fermata Energy raises $40M in recent round

Ford and Sunrun partnering to advance home energy management using F-150 Lightning

ŠKODA collaborates with IBG ?esko on second-life battery energy storage system; up to 328 kWh

Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

GM to reach 100% renewable energy in US by 2025, 5 years ahead of schedule

Heliogen and Bloom Energy demonstrate production of low-cost green hydrogen; concentrated solar and high-temp electrolysis

German power-to-gas facility opens green methanation plant; €28M STORE&GO project

GM launches GM Energy business unit with Ultium Home, Ultium Commercial

HIU researchers develop extremely high energy density lithium-metal cell with good stability

Monash team proposes roadmap to renewable ammonia economy; 3 generations of technology

UW Madison chemists discover new way to harness energy from ammonia

DOE to award nearly $42M to 22 projects to advance clean hydrogen technologies

Highview Power and Encore Renewable Energy to co-develop the first long-duration, liquid-air energy storage system in US

Siemens Energy teams up with Duke Energy, Clemson University to study hydrogen use

1-bit LLMs Could Solve AI’s Energy Demands

DCC Energy and Oberon Fuels to boost renewable DME production to reduce emissions of European LPG market

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