Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2013

The five studies funded by the Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) focus on improving the performance of hybrid cars, natural ventilation systems in buildings and programs that financially motivate utility customers to use electricity more efficiently. Improving Predictions of the Efficiency of Natural Ventilation in Buildings.

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Energy Fuel Hybrid CO2 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 11, 2016

For Round 1, the small businesses and laboratories will collaborate on advancing a number of clean energy technologies, including water, wind, bioenergy, solar, buildings, vehicles, fuel cells, geothermal technologies, and advanced manufacturing. Wind Power. Renewable Power Conversion, working with SNL. Organization.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Li-ion 150

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency - Energy (ARPA-E) will award up to $30 million to fund a new program focused on the development of transformational electrochemical technologies to enable low-cost distributed power generation. DE-FOA-0001026 ). Source: ARPA-E. Click to enlarge. Source: ARPA-E.

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Fuel Power Powered Gas-Electric 231

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. EcoCatalytic Technologies. Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. Zyvex Labs, LLC.

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Manufacturer Waste Universal Dallas 150

Green Car Congress

APRIL 20, 2011

Technologies for low-cost production of advanced biofuels are limited by the small amount of available energy captured by photosynthesis and the inefficient processes used to convert plant matter to fuel. If successful, PETRO will create biofuels for half their current cost, finally making them cost-competitive with fuels from oil.

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Grid Solar Power Powered 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.) —Greg LeMond.

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Carbon Fiber Low Cost Carbon Manufacturer 218

Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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Power Powered Arkansas Grid 225

Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2010

Specifically, low cost and energy-efficient processes are sought that can be demonstrated and validated under field conditions to meet needs of the nascent algal biomass industry. Buildings Technologies. Wind Technologies. saline water). The trend for higher-temperature electric machines requires higher-temperature PMs.

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Fuel Motor Motors Motoring 210

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion 249

Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

All the wind farms and solar panels in the world won’t do anything to lower the outflow of hundreds billions of dollars annually or decrease our pump-fueled funding of Islamic fundamentalism unless we build cars that can use that cleaner electricity. I wish I knew what’s holding Gore back from full-throated support for plug-in cars.

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Plug-in Al Gore Plug Gore 100

Green Car Congress

JUNE 10, 2011

High-level findings of the MIT study include: There are abundant supplies of natural gas in the world, and many of these supplies can be developed and produced at relatively low cost. In addition, research should be pursued to reduce water usage in fracturing and to develop cost-effective water recycling technology.

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MIT Gas Climate Gas-Electric 210

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Natural Gas Reactor for Remote Chemical Conversion. sunlight through low-cost, plastic light-guiding sheets and then. Turbo-POx For Ultra Low-Cost Gasoline. conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels. combustor of a natural gas turbine, facilitating its conversion into a. If successful, this.

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2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion 240

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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Energy Clean Cleaning Grid 294

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2013

The US Energy Department’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 14 projects for $27 million in funding to support the development of next-generation power conversion devices. High Quality, Low-Cost GaN Single Crystal Substrates for High Power Devices. High Quality, Low Cost GaN Substrate Technology.

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Power Powered Low Cost Universal 296

Cars That Think

MAY 9, 2024

Energy experts have been warning that electricity is likely to get more expensive and less reliable unless renewable power that waxes and wanes under inconstant sunlight and wind is backed up by generators that can run whenever needed. But the contract and promises went unfulfilled. SPS-ALPHA Mark-III Proposed by: John C.

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Power Powered Solar Fusion 138

Green Car Congress

MARCH 24, 2016

A detailed analysis of the new process compared to a published baseline for conventional carbon fiber production examined manufacturing cost of nine major process steps, starting with the precursor and pretreatment and finishing with surface treatment, sizing, winding, inspection and shipping.

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Carbon Fiber Carbon Manufacturer Energy 150

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

The selected projects are part of ARPA-E’s Building Reliable Electronics to Achieve Kilovolt Effective Ratings Safely (BREAKERS) program, as well as the latest OPEN+ cohort, Kilovolt Devices. BREAKERS projects include: Drexel University, Ultra-Efficient Intelligent MVDC Hybrid Circuit Breaker – $4,413,913.

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Grid Transportation Industrial Industry 207

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

REFUEL projects will convert low-cost renewable energy into a transportable chemical fuel and use these fuels for transportation applications, while reducing production costs and environmental impact. team will develop a modular reactor for producing ammonia using air and water at low temperatures. REFUEL Projects.

Carbon 150

Carbon Energy Fuel Hydrogen 150

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

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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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York 170

Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Biofuel projects are going to have trouble getting financing from Wall Street this year because all of them have questions about the long term pricing of petroleum; most of them have concerns about the pricing stability of their feedstocks; and many of the cellulosic projects have concerns about the conversion technologies. Earlier post.).

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Financing Renewable Stimulus Package Energy 150

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Building Efficiency (3 projects). Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. Renewable Power (4 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects).

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Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion 231

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2020

REEACH projects seek to create innovative, cost-effective, and high-performance energy storage and power generation sub-systems for electric aircraft, with a focus on fuel-to-electric power conversion technologies. The proposed system is projected to operate in cruising phase of flight with a 66% energy conversion efficiency.

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Carbon Hybrid Electric Electrical 218

Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation, announced in early 2009, was highly competitive and resulted in funding 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEET-IT).

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Energy Storage Grid Energy Building 199

Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. Distributed Solar and Wind with the PHEV. It is much more than that.

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PHEV Plug-in Renewable Energy 150

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2011

Building Efficiency (9). In this topic, ARPA-E seeks to develop a new generation of ultra-high energy density, low-cost battery technologies for long electric range plug in hybrid electric vehicles and electric vehicles (EVs). Building Energy Efficiency Through Innovative Thermodevices (BEETIT). Carbon Capture (7).

Energy Storage 210

Energy Storage Renewable Power Powered 210

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

CIRCUITS projects will establish the building blocks of this class of power converter by advancing higher efficiency designs that exhibit enhanced reliability and superior total cost of ownership. Low Cost e-mode GaN HEMT Gate Driver IC: Enables Revolutionary Energy Savings in Variable Speed Drives for Appliance Motors.

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Convert Power Powered DC 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 12, 2012

The top two awards, one of $9 million to a project led by Dow Chemical, and one of $8.999 million to a project led by PolyPlus, will fund projects tackling, respectively, the manufacturing of low-cost carbon fibers and the manufacturing of electrodes for ultra-high-energy-density lithium-sulfur, lithium-seawater and lithium-air batteries.

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Carbon Fiber Manufacturer Carbon Lithium Sulfur 210

Green Car Congress

MARCH 10, 2018

For 20 years, researchers have shown that CNT membranes offer tremendous promise for a wide variety of uses including the low-cost production of ethanol fuel, precision drug delivery, low-energy desalination of seawater, purification of pharmaceutical compounds, and high-performance catalysis for the production of fuels.

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Carbon Fuel Polymer Austin 199

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2012

These include straightening curves, adding signals, building passing lanes and double tracks, constructing and expanding terminals, and running more efficient trains. The same building block technology is used in the manufacture of smaller cubes, 100 kW all the way down to 10kW. start-stop) vehicles. Earlier post.). 25 MWh PowerCube.

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Lead Acid Hybrid Batteries Battery 225

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 28, 2019

Unlike the electrode materials found in most lithium-ion batteries, Prussian blue enjoys a widespread availability and low cost that make batteries based on Prussian blue electrodes an economically attractive, environmentally friendly technology. Motallebi, C.W. Valencia, H.S. Fujimoto, L.A. Yang, and C.D.

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Chevron Sodium Energy Charging 288

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The first buyers will be fleet users, which will build central fast-charging facilities. Put simply, this little-known upstart has accelerated ahead of its much bigger rivals in the race to build an affordable electric car. Near the end of our conversation, I ask Wang about the company name. executive who has studied BYD.

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BYD 2009 Companies Electric Cars 62

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

In a flurry of electric vehicle activity, three back-to-back announcements this week have placed a spotlight on Oregon’s plans to be the friendliest state in the nation in which to build, sell and buy electric cars. Wind, hydro, DC transmission lines, and smart grid electronics are also Portland strengths. — Larry 4.

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Oregon Green Electric Cars Lead Acid 58