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BNEF: EV company fundings bright spot as clean energy investment slips in Q3 quarter; 3 China EV companies raise $1.9B

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billion in the third quarter of 2018, down 6% from the same period last year, according to the latest Clean Energy Investment Trends report from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). We’re seeing more companies raising funds as they look to make the jump from concept cars to high-volume manufacturing. —Colin McKerracher.

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DOE releases five-year strategic plan, 2014-2018; supporting “all of the above” energy strategy

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) released its five-year 2014-2018 Strategic Plan. The President’s Climate Action Plan contains a goal of doubling renewable energy generation from wind, solar, and geothermal sources between 2012 and 2020. Demonstrate three grid-connected advanced offshore wind concepts by 2017. ?.

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Empa team develops electrohydraulically actuated cam-less valve train; up to 20% fuel savings at low load

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Natural gas, biogas and syngas generated from wind and solar power offer increased anti-knock properties, and the valve train can react flexibly to this as well. Another speciality of the system set up at Empa is the choice of hydraulic fluid: instead of using oil as usual, a water-glycol mixture—i.e.

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Daimler, Linde to invest €20M in 20 new H2 fueling stations in Germany, 13 by end of 2015; green hydrogen

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Linde also has other sustainable sources at its disposal such as bio-gas and water electrolysis using wind-generated electricity, as part of the H 2 BER project. Experts reckon that in 2018, well over ten thousand fuel-cell vehicles will populate European roads. Earlier post.)

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Researchers and industry present interim results of the MethanQuest project

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The flagship project MethanQuest was launched in September 2018, and on it a total of 29 partners from research, industry and the energy sector have come together to work on processes for producing hydrogen and methane from renewables and for using them to achieve climate-neutral mobility and power generation.

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SAE World Congress panel highlights progress on H2 infrastructure and fuel cell vehicle commercialization

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The substantial early activity in fuel cell vehicles has led up to the broad goal of providing FCEVs to the general public in a mass scale starting from 2018; Hyundai is looking to have approximately 10,000 units in place (cumulative) in Korea alone (and more elsewhere) around 2025. Earlier post.).

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How to Prevent Blackouts by Packetizing the Power Grid

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Spiking demand for electric heat collided with supply problems created by frozen natural-gas equipment and below-average wind-power production. The brown line shows the uncoordinated load from 1,000 electric water heaters for reference. We got a heartrending reminder of this fact in February 2021, when Texas experienced an.