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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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CSP technologies concentrate the sun’s energy and capture that energy as heat, which then drives an engine or turbine to produce electrical power. CSP plants can include low-cost energy storage, allowing them to provide electricity even when the sun is not shining. eSolar, Inc. Pasadena, CA – up to $10.8

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BoostEV is an on-demand mobile EV charging network, like UberEats for hungry EVs

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The company’s modular, portable system—called the Roadie—is designed to make DC fast charging mobile. So, it was a great platform for us to build out, and once we built it, people kind of resonated with it. So, right now, if you said, “Well, Josh, how quickly can you expand to the Tampa/St Pete, Florida area?”

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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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to produce useful, high-energy fuel molecules directly within. Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. plants so that they use energy more efficiently. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. increase the turpentine storage capacity of the wood and to.

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