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AUGUST 17, 2016

The US Department of Energy will invest $16 million over the next four years to accelerate the design of new materials through use of supercomputers. The research teams include experts from universities and other national labs. Chelikowsky, University of Texas, Austin. Other team members are Jack Deslippe, Jeffrey B.

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JUNE 11, 2020

In Germany, BSE Engineering and the Institute for Renewable Energy Systems at Stralsund University of Applied Sciences (IRES) have demonstrated the conversion of wind power into renewable methanol. Operation of this technology under dynamic conditions will be confirmed during a year-long test.

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JUNE 24, 2014

Neste Oil and Renewable Algae Energy (RAE), a US-based algae biomass producer, have signed a contingent commercial algae oil off-take agreement. Algae oil is one of the alternatives being researched by Neste Oil for use as a feedstock for producing NEXBTL renewable diesel in the future.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Wolfspeed, A Cree Company, a leading global supplier of silicon carbide (SiC) power products, won a 2016 R&D 100 Award for its high-temperature, wide-bandgap (WBG) underhood inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles. an enclosure, which provides the unit with EMI shielding, electrical cabling, and liquid cooling inlet/outlet connections.

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MARCH 17, 2017

BIOX Corporation, a renewable energy company that owns and operates biodiesel production facilities, is working with Forge Hydrocarbons ( earlier post ) to explore the co-location of a renewable diesel production facility using Forge technology on the existing BIOX site in Sombra, Ontario. BIOX acquired a 50-million-liter (13.2-million-gallon)

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

Major corporate and public sector partners in Japan are launching an effort to test a full carbon-neutral hydrogen supply chain powered by renewable wind energy. Grid power will only be used for backup when absolutely necessary and excess renewable energy produced may even be sold to utility companies.

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MAY 11, 2017

The California Energy Commission awarded more than $24 million in grants today for clean energy freight transportation projects in Los Angeles and Long Beach and more than $12 million for other clean transportation projects. The loans have an interest rate of 1% and are repaid within 20 years from energy cost savings.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2015

President Barack Obama’s 2016 Budget requests $29.9 billion for the US Department of Energy (DOE). The FY 2016 DOE Budget Request represents a 9% increase ($2.5 billion (35.8%) science and energy Budget Request, $1.3 billion, the FY 2016 Budget requests $4.8 billion for applied energy activities, including: $2.72

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AUGUST 23, 2016

Globally, the use of methanol as an alternative fuel has attracted interest because of its low production cost, renewable capacity, and good combustion-related properties (higher thermal efficiency, higher engine power, and lower regulated emissions). A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. 6b01586.

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APRIL 13, 2016

The 2016 SAE World Congress is again featuring a technical track (PFL 720) on advances in hydrogen fuel cell vehicle technology, followed by a technical expert panel discussion (PFL 799) on the commercialization of fuel cell vehicles and hydrogen infrastructure. Dr. Ralph Clague, Head of Motive Systems and Architecture, Intelligent Energy.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected one additional project, for up to $3.5 For Algal Biomass Yield, Phase 2 (ABY2), in Fiscal Year 2016, DOE awarded $15 million for three projects. million, as part of the Bioenergy Technologies Office’s (BETO’s) Advanced Algal Systems Program funding opportunity announcement (FOA).

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

IEEE Power & Energy Society president. Lambert was the IEEE Power & Energy Society 's 2020–2021 president. in electrical engineering from the University of Southern California , in Los Angeles. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society. Frank Lambert. Jan Abraham "Braham" Ferreira.

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JANUARY 25, 2021

Science can transform our economy into a circular one that renews and reuses what we previously discarded, and indeed a virtuous circle that creates higher paid jobs, advances new Australian technology, and protects our environment. Litter – $70M: Australia spent $70 million cleaning up dumped waste in 2016–17. billion by 2036.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The California Energy Commission will host a workshop Monday, 25 April, in which executives from four companies including ChargePoint and Green Charge Networks, two non-profits, one municipal utility district and one state agency will discuss the successes and challenges of developing electric vehicle charging technology in California.

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AUGUST 18, 2019

We have developed an energy-efficient, cost-effective, environmentally friendly process to recover high-value critical materials. ORNL is a founding team member of CMI, a DOE Energy Innovation Hub led by DOE’s Ames Laboratory and managed by the Advanced Manufacturing Office. Daejin Kim, Lawrence Powell, Lætitia H. Delmau, Eric S.

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AUGUST 25, 2016

A paper on their work is published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels. Qiurong Tian, Kai Qiao, Feng Zhou, Kequan Chen, Tianfu Wang, Jie Fu, Xiuyang Lu, and Pingkai Ouyang (2016) “Direct Production of Aviation Fuel Range Hydrocarbons and Aromatics from Oleic Acid without an Added Hydrogen Donor” Energy & Fuels doi: 10.1021/acs.energyfuels.6b00978.

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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NOVEMBER 16, 2015

The diverse projects will advance knowledge in critical areas ranging from sustainable energy technologies to next-generation materials. The OLCF’s Titan supercomputer is a 27-petaflop Cray XK7 hybrid system employing both CPUs and energy-efficient, high-performance GPUs in its 18,688 compute nodes. The projects will share 5.8

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APRIL 8, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The plan is organized into 12 strategic objectives aimed at three distinct goals: Science and Energy; Nuclear Security; and Management and Performance. Leverage increased private sector financing for deployment of “all of the above” energy technologies.

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JULY 7, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $13 million in funding for the advancement of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. University of Hawaii, Manoa: this project will investigate magnesium boride etherates as reversible hydrogen storage materials with properties that are vastly improved over un-solvated magnesium boride.

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AUGUST 2, 2017

Department of Energy (DOE) will award a fourth project up to $1.8 In August 2016, DOE's Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO) selected three projects for an initial round of funding. million under the MEGA-BIO: Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels Funding Opportunity. Earlier post.) The total funding for the four MEGA-BIO awards is $13.1

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FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Inspired by the damping mechanisms which sustain trees under wind and seismic loads, researchers at The Ohio State University and the University of Michigan are investigating the potential for the development of energy harvesting systems that efficiently convert the same motion- and wind-based excitations into electric power.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Researchers at the University of Witwatersrand and the University of South Africa are proposing replacing the final purification steps of conventional bio-ethanol production with a simple gasoline-blending step. This is an energy-intensive and costly process and is typically achieved through distillation.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2016

A team from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, the University of Minnesota, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Delaware has developed a new chemical process to make p-xylene, an important ingredient of common plastics. The new method has a 97% yield and uses biomass as the feedstock.

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APRIL 4, 2016

Researchers at the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a modeling and experimental strategy to characterize the thermal performance of materials and their interfaces using a unique technique: laser-based transient thermoreflectance. The heat removal path in electronics packaging usually involves multiple layers.

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JANUARY 24, 2017

million OTTO-R project for the production of gasoline from “green” methanol produced from CO 2 , water and renewable electricity. The new OTTO-R synthesis process is based on the Syngas-To-Fuel-Process (STF) developed by Chemieanlagenbau Chemnitz GmbH (CAC) at the Institute for Energy Process Engineering and Chemical Engineering (IEC).

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FEBRUARY 9, 2016

Researchers at the University of California, Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering have demonstrated that a new, data-driven, reinforcement-learning-based, real-time energy management system (EMS) can improve the efficiency of current plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) by almost 12% compared to the standard, binary mode control strategy.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

After he graduated from the Federal University of Technology in Owerri, Nigeria, his plan was to get a high-paying job at one of the multinational oil and gas companies based in the country. That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2016

A national survey of consumer attitudes towards plug-in electric vehicles suggests that people would prefer control to convenience in many charging scenarios, and also that renewable energy sources are an important component. —“Consumer Preferences for the Charging of Plug-In Electric Vehicles”.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Researchers at Stanford University and the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory have developed a new highly active and stable IrO x /SrIrO 3 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). Dickens/Stanford University) Click to enlarge. The team published their results in the journal Science.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Researchers at the Future Renewable Electric Energy Distribution and Management (FREEDM) Systems Center at North Carolina State University have developed an inverter for hybrid and electric vehicles using off-the-shelf components made of the wide-bandgap semiconductor material silicon carbide (SiC). kW/L by 2020.

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APRIL 22, 2016

The 2016 Chevrolet Volt with an electric range of 53 miles [ 2 ] is the first commercial car that almost qualifies as a PHEVLER. PHEVLERs [ 3 ] are a disruptive technology that will help revolutionize both the clean transportation and the clean stationary energy sectors of our economy. PHEVLERs use the Existing Energy Infrastructure.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2016

Global carbon emissions from burning fossil fuels did not grow in 2015 and are projected to rise only slightly in 2016, marking three years of almost no growth, according to researchers at the University of East Anglia (UEA) and the Global Carbon Project. for 2016 marks a clear break from the rapid emissions growth of 2.3%

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JANUARY 25, 2017

The California Energy Commission and California Air Resources Board released the annual Joint Agency Staff Report on Assembly Bill 8: 2016 Assessment of Time and Cost Needed to Attain 100 Hydrogen Refueling Stations in California. Source: CEC, CARB 2016 Joint Staff Report. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 21, 2017

Announced in 2016, the Battery500 consortium, led by the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), intends to build a battery pack with a specific energy of 500 Wh/kg, compared to the 170-200 Wh/kg per kilogram in today’s typical EV battery. University of Maryland: College Park.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

Members of the Marine Algae Industrialization Consortium (MAGIC), led by Duke University in North Carolina, have published an open-access paper in the journal Oceanography presenting the large-scale industrial cultivation of marine microalgae (ICMM) as an answer to pressing global energy, food and climate security issues. Walsh, R.R.

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JANUARY 24, 2018

That report, the 2016 Billion-Ton Report , volume 1, updated and expanded upon analysis in the 2011 US Billion-Ton Update ( earlier post ), which was preceded by the 2005 US Billion Ton Study ( earlier post ). South Dakota State University was the lead institution for the more than $20-million project which began in 2007.

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