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Study IDs two compressed air energy storage methods, sites for the Northwest

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Compressed air energy storage plants could help save the region’s abundant wind power—which is often produced at night when winds are strong and energy demand is low—for when demand is high and power supplies are more strained. About 13%, or nearly 8,600 megawatts, of the Northwest’s power supply comes from of wind.

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RWE, GE, Züblin, and DLR Partner in Development of Adiabatic Compressed Air Energy Storage

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Based on the ADELE concept (ADELE standing for the German acronym for adiabatic compressed air energy storage for electricity supply), air will be compressed during periods when electricity supply exceeds the demand; the resulting heat will be buffered in a thermal energy storage, and air will be pressed into underground caverns.

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ARPA-E awards $38M to 12 projects leading used nuclear fuel recycling initiative

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Upon discharge from a nuclear reactor, the UNF is initially stored in steel-lined concrete pools surrounded by water. Most of the nation’s used fuel is stored at more than 70 reactor sites across the country. It is later removed from the pools and placed into dry storage casks with protective shielding. Award amount: $5,000,000).

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DOE Selects High-Tonnage Biomass Feedstock Projects for up to $21M in Funding

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The US Department of Energy will award up to $21 million to five projects that will develop supply systems to handle and deliver high-tonnage biomass feedstocks for cellulosic biofuels production. Auburn University of Auburn, Alabama (up to $4.9 Earlier post.). Genera Energy, LLC of Knoxville, Tennessee (up to $4.9

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. is one of the most energy dense forms of stored energy in. engineer sugarcane and sorghum to produce and store oil, a. University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. Camelina will be engineered with.

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