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California Energy Commission awards $1.1M to 12 small-scale projects to study transportation, natural gas and electricity technologies

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The technology is designed to recover waste heat from residential hot water heaters and reduce greenhouse gas emissions through the use of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Matthew Summers of Summers Consulting LLC will receive $95,000 to optimize biofuel production from organic waste through DNA and RNA molecular testing.

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Obama orders GHG cuts for Federal Agencies; 50% of all new agency vehicles to be ZEV or PHEV by 2025

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The order has operational directives for building and fleet management, electricity generation, water use, waste management and purchasing. Planning for appropriate charging or refueling infrastructure or other power storage technologies for ZEVs and PHEVs and opportunities for ancillary services to support vehicle-to-grid technology (V2G).

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Renewable Power (4 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). ENERGY STORAGE. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications.

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Mercedes-Benz VISION EQXX covers more than 621 miles on single charge

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At 100 kWh, the power storage unit developed specifically for the VISION EQXX has almost the same amount of energy as the battery of the EQS, which is already a global benchmark among electric cars currently on the market. Another is the battery. The cooling plate in the underbody uses the airflow to ensure even cooling.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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And in a true smart grid, electric cars will not only be able to draw on electricity to run their motors, they will also be able to do the reverse: send electricity stored in their batteries back into the grid when it is needed. In effect, cars would be acting like tiny power stations.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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And, you have to recognize that they pull a hell of a lot of power through the local grid: there will come a time when we will see utility transformers popping from all the current being drawn (imagine just a few dozen EVs fast-charging simultaneously, on 480V at 500A: wow). Of course when on a trip the other options would be desirable.