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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.

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

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Direct solar water-splitting using PEC is a more elegant, one-step way to harness solar energy for hydrogen production. Devices aren’t cheap, efficient, or durable enough yet to move out of the lab. . But it has proven challenging to do on a large scale. Photocatalysts do the heavy lifting in PEC devices.

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