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Tesla donates $3.1M of $6M grant to Jeff Dahn’s Dalhousie University battery team

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A team of battery researchers at Canada’s Dalhousie University are the recipients of a $6 million grant from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC). million to help develop advanced batteries from electric cars and grid energy storage. The NSERC will give the team, headed by Dr. Jeff Dahn, $2.9

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United announces investment in, commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy; CO2-to-SAF

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Dimensional Energy was founded in Ithaca, New York, in 2016 and has spent the last six years refining its reactors and catalysts in both lab and real-world demonstrations. Dimensional has also received grants from the National Science Foundation and both the Department of Energy’s ARPA-e and Solar Energy Technology Office (SETO).

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California Energy Commission awards more than $36M to clean transportation projects

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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. Several other ARFVTP-funded projects were also approved. Recipients included Motiv Power Systems, Inc.,

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BMW begins Phase 2 of ChargeForward Program with PG&E to study advanced electric vehicle charging; results from Phase 1

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Funding for this second phase was secured through a competitive bid for a California Energy Commission (CEC) grant. Phase 1 of the program demonstrated the viability of creating grid value by optimizing smart charging of EVs. Earlier post.) BMW was the first to showcase this technology in a real-world application. Phase One Findings.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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That incident—as well as Orajaka’s new fascination with renewable energy technologies, specifically solar—changed his career trajectory. He began researching how solar energy technology worked. Based on what he learned, he and three classmates built a solar-powered 6-kilowatt minigrid that supplied power to about 60 homes in a village.

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Sandy solution for renewable energy storage; Thermal Energy Storage System

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The device—known as TESS (thermal energy storage system)—is being developed in South Australia with the help of an AUD $400,000 government grant to take it from prototype to commercial reality. The TESS device stores electricity as thermal energy by heating and melting containers full of silicon. —Jonathan Whalley.

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New York access for all

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Hudson Valley chapter works with LMI communities Mount Vernon, NY residents check out an EV The Greater Hudson Valley Electric Vehicle Association , founded in 2016, has turned its electric vehicle (EV) outreach efforts toward underrepresented markets, specifically Low-to-Moderate Income (LMI) communities in the Hudson Valley area.