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NYSERDA Awards Ultralife $2.4M for Advanced Energy Storage System

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million by The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) for the design, development, prototyping, scale-up and installation of a 1 megawatt-hour advanced energy storage system on Ultralife’s Newark, New York corporate campus.

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UK power crisis – entirely the fault of regulators and ministers

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While Boris is in New York pressing world leaders to cut CO2 output here is the UK we find ourselves lacking in CO2. We also need more power storage in the form of batteries and other technologies to store power when the sun shines and the wind blows. Ramifications of high Gas Prices.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The 16 utility-scale energy storage projects (ranked by DOE funding) are: Utility-Scale Energy Storage Projects. New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Energy East Advanced CAES Demonstration Plant (150MW) Using an Existing Salt Storage Cavern. Notrees Wind Storage. 21,806,232. 43,612,464.

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

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Sven Thesen, the communication and technology director for Better Place , a start-up that is gaining traction (see this recent New York Times article ) in its effort to create a network for electric cars in various countries, likened the concept of electric cars to cellphones. Fifteen years ago, how many people had a cellphone?”

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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). New York 2009: The Scion iQ goes Big Wheels!