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How Businesses and Building Owners Can Save on Energy Costs with Smart EV Charging and Energy Management

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Installing and operating EV charging stations offers businesses and owners of commercial and industrial buildings a winning proposition. Building owners can work with a charge point operator or EV service provider to install and manage the EV chargers. EV charging itself creates a new “green” revenue opportunity.

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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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To help California mitigate its ever-growing wildfires, this year CalSEED has included companies that are innovating in technologies that will build wildfire resiliency into the grid. Their goal is to test an innovative electrolyzer concept for the cheap production of green (CO 2 -free) hydrogen for a decarbonized future. technology?that

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China issues draft guidelines to rein in lithium battery industry – ET Auto

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Lithium-ion batteries are a form of rechargeable energy storage used in everything from electric cars to scooters, laptops and motorised wheelchairs. The guidelines also urge firms against building production facilities on protected farmland or ecologically important areas.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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The company is building these shipping container systems, which work like giant batteries that store energy as heat and pressurized air , rather than a chemical reaction (Cheesecake’s name is derived from a nerdy acronym for their technology.) They gradually lose capacity with each discharge and recharge cycle, and they can be fire hazards.

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UT Austin team develops new family of high-capacity anode materials: Interdigitated Eutectic Alloys

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The results suggest that a smaller, lighter rechargeable battery could be made with the new anode in the future. Recent efforts to improve lithium-ion battery electrodes have focused on building new nanomaterials atom by atom. The IdEA anode in the study offers a fully realized capacity of 250 mAh g -1 for more than 150 cycles.

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USC team develops novel organic redox flow battery for large-scale energy storage

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These properties render quinone-based redox couples very attractive for high-efficiency metal-free rechargeable batteries, they found. The batteries last for about 5,000 recharge cycles, giving them an estimated 15-year lifespan. Such a system would create a minimal impact on the environment, and would likely be cheap, they figured.

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The Business of Plugging In: Building the Full Ecosystem for a Successful Plug-in Vehicle Industry in the US

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Infrastructure, recharging and business models. You now have hundreds, thousands of different entities, whether it is a municipal government, a retail shop owner, or someone who manages parking garages or a utility or someone else who has to make decision about well, what are we going to do, how are we going to build this infrastructure?

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