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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Quanex Building Products Corporation, Houston, Texas SCP SYS LLC, San Francisco, Calif.

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Punching above its weight

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They’ve all been incredibly important to building our chapter in terms of inspiration, organizational effort, and effective visioning.” If you want to have an in-depth discussion about EVs, solar installation, or anything environmental, you don’t need the usual 5-minute pre-conversation.

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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects

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As part of DOE’s Plastics Innovation Challenge, these projects will also help improve existing recycling processes that break plastics into chemical building blocks, which can then be used to make new products. Partners include Argonne National Laboratory, ChemStation, Chevron Phillips, and Texas A&M.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000. The facility is a 70,000 square foot building located in an industrial zone in Lowell, Massachusetts. HVAC upgrades include DDC control system covering all buildings, expanded control system with advanced control strategies. Minneapolis-St.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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History: Electric Cars: The Golden Age

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With the recent growth of the electric automobile industry , it’s no surprise that EVs are a hot topic of conversation. Henry Ford, in spite of his interest in building an electric car that prefigured the later, successful Model T. It All Began in the More than a Century Ago. Story by Martin Banks. EVs started simple.