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Sandia team puts power into local grid with supercritical CO2 closed-loop Brayton-cycle turbine

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Sandia National Laboratories researchers recently delivered electricity produced by a new power-generating system to the Sandia-Kirtland Air Force Base electrical grid. It took us a long time to get the data needed to let us connect to the grid. In comparison, the Brayton cycle has a theoretical conversion efficiency upwards of 50%.

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Raven SR to supply sustainable aviation fuel to ANA and JAL

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By converting various types of local waste, such as green waste, municipal solid waste, organic waste, and methane from municipal solid waste, into clean fuels, Raven SR offers a sustainable solution for the reliable and long-term production of SAF.

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Bee’ah to add 50 Tesla Semis to fleet; first in Middle East

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The incoming Tesla Semi trucks, which enter production in 2019, will primarily be used for waste collection and transportation, including transportation of materials for recovery.

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BP forming 50:50 biofuels JV with Bunge in Brazil; growing existing biofuels business >50%

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It will also generate renewable electricity—fueled by waste biomass from the sugar cane—through its cogeneration facilities to power all its sites and sell surplus electricity to the Brazilian power grid. In 2018, the two businesses produced a total of around 2.2

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ARPA-E launching SCALEUP 2021 program with $100M

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In 2019, ARPA-E issued its first SCALEUP funding opportunity ( earlier post ), which paved the way for further advancement of their respective technologies for future commercialization.

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Bosch boosts stake in SOFC expert Ceres Power to around 18%; possible expansion into SO electrolysis

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This enabled Bosch to start initial low-volume production of pilot fuel-cell systems in autumn 2019 in Germany. Its strategy is to commercialize its technology through licensing for mass production with partners, and to use this technology for grid-based and distributed power generation.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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Don’t Waste Heat Energy While Cheesecake’s system is primarily an electricity-in, electricity-out storage device, there are other thermal energy storage companies that specialize in releasing stored energy as heat. Getting a 100 percent decarbonized grid is nothing but an optimization problem.”—Matthew