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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas. Tehachapi Wind Energy Storage Project. Notrees Wind Storage. Pecan Street Project (TX). 24,978,264. 53,510,209. 21,806,232.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Such cities would become self-contained units, their buildings gleaning energy from the powerful weather systems sweeping across their roofs and feeding it down to homes below and vehicles in the streets. Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. The elegance of that is wonderful.

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