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CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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Five of the 28 innovations will help protect the grid from wildfires/PSPSs, four of these five will provide climate and weather risk prediction to electric infrastructure and services, and one is a hard tech innovation to reinforce transmission lines. CalSEED is an initiative made possible by the California Energy Commission.

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Solar-to-Hydrogen Water Splitter Outlasts Next Best Tech By 14x

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“We confirmed 100 days durability, which is one of the longest periods among experimentally confirmed PEC water splitting materials,” says Masashi Kato , a professor of electrical and mechanical engineering at Nagoya Institute of Technology. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. .

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