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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. SunTrough Energy, Inc. eSolar, Inc.

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

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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?” Now Tampa Bay EV owners can start getting range delivered. 90% of our partner companies aren’t roadside service.

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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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Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of. coupled with novel thermal energy storage technology, which. will enable low cost, fully dispatchable solar energy. storage material.

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