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

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United and United Airlines Ventures (UAV) announced an investment in and commercial agreement with Dimensional Energy. Under the commercial agreement, United has agreed to purchase at least 300 million gallons of SAF over 20 years from Dimensional. The company began construction on a CO 2 -to-fuels demo in Tucson, Arizona in 2021.

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Heliostat Consortium announces 7 projects to receive combined $3.5M in funding; DOE launches Heliostat Prize

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They enable 5 cents per kWh concentrating solar-thermal power with energy storage capacity of 12 or more hours, which would help to support a fully decarbonized electricity grid. Competitors are encouraged to form diverse, multidisciplinary teams while developing their concepts.

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US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

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The MOU sets out the guiding concepts for the Renewable Energy Partnership Plan, the departments’ roles and responsibilities under the agreement, and how they will work together to carry out the initiative. Some larger projects could involve the sale of excess power to the grid, provided appropriate measures ensure base security.

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US Departments of Interior and Defense partner to promote renewable energy on federal lands

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The MOU sets out the guiding concepts for the Renewable Energy Partnership Plan, the departments’ roles and responsibilities under the agreement, and how they will work together to carry out the initiative. Some larger projects could involve the sale of excess power to the grid, provided appropriate measures ensure base security.

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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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. performance to the best commercial magnets and be significantly less expensive. Ames Laboratory.

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Psyche: NASA Mission to a Metal World

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Peter Rubin/JPL-Caltech/Arizona State University/NASA. Lindy Elkins-Tanton of Arizona State University and managed by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory , the Psyche mission will test astronomers’ theories about planetary-core formation and composition while it explores a world with a landscape unlike any that space probes have visited so far.

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ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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The projects were selected through a merit-based process from thousands of concept papers and hundreds of full applications. gas, the first step in the commercial process of converting natural. Arizona State University. commercial and military market. Small and Efficient Reformer. compact reformer for natural gas.

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