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AlphaStruxure and Montgomery County, Maryland, announce integrated microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project; EaaS

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AlphaStruxure , a provider of Energy as a Service (EaaS) solutions, announced an agreement to deploy an integrated microgrid and electric bus charging infrastructure project for Montgomery County, Maryland. The Brookville Smart Energy Bus Depot is a first-of-its-kind integration of microgrid and EV charging infrastructure.

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This anodeless, compressionless solid-state battery could be the next big thing 

Baua Electric

Maryland-based ION Storage Systems has just hit a significant milestone with its unique solid-state batteries (SSBs). ION Storage Systems ‘ anodeless and compressionless solid-state batteries successfully achieved and exceeded 125 cycles with less than 5% capacity degradation in performance.

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DOE Awards $377 Million in Funding for 46 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Center on Materials for Energy Efficiency Applications. $19. University of Michigan.

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The Alaska Department of Transportation & Public Facilities will receive funding to purchase battery electric buses, associated charging infrastructure and a back-up generator to maintain bus service in a disaster situation. Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower.

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Of that, $26.5

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2023’s Top Stories About Energy

Cars That Think

Energy storage and nuclear fusion—two reliable crowd pleasers when the crowd you’re talking about is readers of IEEE Spectrum —are well represented among our most widely read energy stories of 2023. Now imagine a battery that can last through tens of thousands of charge-discharge cycles. Number one? Heat pumps.

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This solar + microgrid storage depot can charge 70 electric buses

Electrek

Montgomery County, Maryland, is on a roll. Now 70 of the county’s electric buses will be powered at a solar-powered, microgrid energy storage depot in Brookville. The post This solar + microgrid storage depot can charge 70 electric buses appeared first on Electrek.

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