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FuelCell Energy receives contract for two 2.8MW direct fuel cell power plants from utility

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One direct fuel cell system will be located in Bridgeport, Connecticut as part of a distributed renewable power generation project that also includes a solar array. DFC power plants utilize carbonate fuel cell technology, which is well suited for megawatt-class applications due to its scalability and favorable cost profile.

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DOE to invest $30M to further H2 and fuel cell technology as industry continues strong growth

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The EMN consortia have been launched to make unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories more accessible to industry and academia, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development of advanced materials. —Acting Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy David Friedman.

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DOE to award $15.8M to 30 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies projects

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Selections were made under the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Fuel Cell Technologies Office (FCTO) annual funding opportunity announcement (FOA) in 2017. University of Connecticut. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Advanced Water Splitting Materials.

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

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Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. Connecticut Department of Transportation. The project will be the next step in CTDOT's zero emission bus deployment program with the goal to minimize the carbon emissions of Connecticut's bus fleet. Delaware Transit Corporation.

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Harvard team demonstrates new metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery; potential breakthrough for low-cost grid-scale storage

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Researchers at Harvard have demonstrated a metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery—a quinone–bromide flow battery (QBFB)—as an example of a class of energy storage materials that exploits the favorable chemical and electrochemical properties of a family of molecules known as quinones. Click to enlarge. —Michael J.

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DOE to award up to $137M for SuperTruck II, Vehicle Technology Office programs

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One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Plug In America. Grid Modernization for Electric Vehicles (Area of Interest 2). Description. Federal funding. Description.

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Xerox Parc’s Engineers on How They Invented the Future—and How Xerox Lost It

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Six months later his initial contract with PARC expired and was not renewed. It was based on the concepts of classes pioneered in the programming language Simula, and on the idea of interacting objects communicating by means of messages requesting actions, rather than by programs performing operations directly on data.

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