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OCTOBER 8, 2021

Nikola’s Energy business unit and TC Energy are actively collaborating to identify and ro develop projects to establish the infrastructure required to deliver low-cost and low-carbon hydrogen at scale in line with each company’s core objectives.

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JANUARY 23, 2021

Pacific Hydro operates the Ord Hydro Plant, located at Lake Argyle, Western Australia, which has the capacity to supply 30MW of renewable power to the local market. The location provides a suitable opportunity for hydrogen production, utilizing low-cost, high-availability, dispatchable renewable generation and abundant access to water.

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JULY 26, 2020

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) will fund 49 new Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) research and development projects across 23 states, totaling nearly $53.4 million in funding. Phase II awards range up to $1,150,000 for two years.

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JUNE 23, 2020

These electrolyzers are powered by various energy sources, including natural gas, nuclear, and renewables. This R&D will complement and help support large industry deployment by enabling more durable, efficient, and low-cost electrolyzers. DOE’s Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Daniel R.

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JULY 10, 2021

The MoU with Cavendish Nuclear brings additional capabilities to the UK SMR program and adds world-class manufacturing and design capabilities to strengthen and complement those already within the current supply chain partners.

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MARCH 23, 2016

Researchers at Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) have developed a new class of high-performance thermoplastic elastomers for cars and other consumer products by replacing the styrene in ABS (acrylonitrile, butadiene and styrene) with lignin, a brittle, rigid polymer that, with cellulose, forms the woody cell walls of plants.

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MAY 14, 2020

The major challenges for lithium production in this region relate to the harsh chemistry of the brine and the difficultly of developing a low-cost and highly selective process for lithium recovery. The new lithium recovery projects awarded funding are designed to help reduce costs and environmental impact.

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MARCH 3, 2014

. … we report the discovery of a new, non-precious metal catalyst working at low pressure with similar or higher methanol yield than the current Cu/ZnO/Al2O 3 methanol synthesis catalyst. —Studt et al.

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APRIL 28, 2009

The company is focused on the development of advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals based on isobutanol and its derivatives. Gevo’s technology enables the cost-effective, practical production of renewable hydrocarbons such as isooctene and isooctane for the gasoline market, renewable jet fuel and renewable diesel blendstocks.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 9, 2017

million for 30 new projects aimed at discovery and development of novel, low-cost materials necessary for hydrogen production and storage and for fuel cells onboard light-duty vehicles. Precursor Development for Low-Cost, High-Strength Carbon Fiber. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $15.8

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APRIL 4, 2019

Covetic/Printed Steel – There is a need for low-cost, high-efficiency steels to achieve low-cost and high power density electric motors. The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $59 million for new and innovative advanced vehicle technologies research. Covetic steel is one approach that can achieve this.

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JULY 14, 2016

These projects will develop highly productive algal cultivation systems and couple those systems with effective, energy-efficient, and low-cost harvest and processing technologies. Their approach is to combine best-in-class cultivation and pre-processing technologies with some of the world's leading strain development laboratories.

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JANUARY 4, 2021

There is renewed interest in the use of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, for turbine-based electricity generation. Hydrogen production from fossil fuels, coupled with carbon capture, utilization, and storage, can generate low-cost hydrogen with net-negative carbon emissions.

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JUNE 29, 2018

It will secure fast and cost efficient fueling of Nikola’s fleet of hydrogen trucks, delivering support to major customers like Anheuser-Busch, as well as a growing fleet of Fuel Cell Electric Vehicles. Each station will produce 700 bar and will be compatible with class 8 trucks and consumer cars.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

They aim to demonstrate that CO 2 -neutral hydrogen can be produced in a cost-effective manner and intend to facilitate the storage of electricity. Electricity is increasingly being generated from fluctuating renewable sources. At times, renewable energy production thus temporarily exceeds regional demand.

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JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials.

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OCTOBER 24, 2016

This consortium will utilize the expertise and capabilities of the national laboratories to accelerate the development of commercially viable pathways for hydrogen production from renewable energy sources. By establishing HydroGEN, the DOE intends to accelerate innovation with the assistance of the national laboratories.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2016

Leclanché will support Narada with technology transfer to achieve low-cost, scale manufacturing of Leclanché’s proprietary high-cycling and fast-charging lithium titanate (LTO) and high energy density graphite nickel manganese cobalt (G-NMC) battery storage technologies.

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APRIL 11, 2018

Nikola Motors, the startup developing a Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell range-extended electric truck ( earlier post ) has hired Jesse Schneider as vice president of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. A noted hydrogen and fuel cell expert, Schneider is an automotive industry veteran who spent most of his career working for BMW and Mercedes-Benz.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2015

a company which converts plant-sourced sugars into renewable hydrocarbons including drop-in fuels, is launching a µPharm (microPharm) Discovery and Production Platform. proven industrial-scale fermentation and recovery infrastructure for reliable, predictable manufacturing of compounds from renewable feedstock. Amyris, Inc.,

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JANUARY 27, 2023

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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JUNE 18, 2012

Hedrick of the IBM Almaden Research Center in the Academic Category for developing a broad class of highly active, environmentally benign organic catalysts for synthesizing biodegradable and biocompatible plastics. Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., His approach also uses a low-cost feedstock. Professor Geoffrey W.

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JUNE 1, 2018

Bisabolene is a chemical precursor to bisabolane—a potential renewable diesel and jet fuel that phase separates readily when released to the fermentation broth, enabling efficient recovery via two-phase extractive fermentation with an organic overlay. —Sundstrom et al.

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OCTOBER 6, 2016

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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MARCH 5, 2021

The development of this resource offers an abundant, low-cost supply of critical raw materials for EV batteries and wiring including nickel, cobalt, copper and manganese, with a lower lifecycle ESG impact than conventional mining. We looked at over 100 companies, many of them in the EV and renewable energy space. Earlier post.)

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Researchers at the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, collaborating with the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have developed a mild and scalable synthesis route for a molybdenum carbide nanoparticle that can convert CO 2 into fuel.

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APRIL 27, 2017

The new 'Coasting - Engine off' micro hybrid system represents a low-cost level of electric-powered motoring on a 12-volt basis. In gas-powered mode it works in a particularly low-emission manner—and that applies both to CO 2 and NO x particulate emissions. Coasting - Engine off. The compact 1.0 Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 23, 2012

Milczarek and Inganäs describe how a class of organic compounds known as quinones allows the lignin derivatives to shed a proton and store this electric charge in its place. Renewable energy systems based on intermittent sources require methods for power balancing over time, and thus some means of storage. doi: 10.1126/science.1215159.

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OCTOBER 8, 2023

EVs of all classes offer fleet owners significant advantages over internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. They are quieter, cleaner, have better acceleration, and cost less to keep running because electricity is cheaper than diesel and EVs require less maintenance than their ICE counterparts.

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MARCH 3, 2015

Design, Deployment, and Validation of Advanced, Low-cost Mobile Hydrogen Refuelers. Innovative materials, processes, and systems are needed to establish the technical and cost feasibility for renewable, low carbon hydrogen production. Innovative Hydrogen Delivery Pipeline Manufacturing.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2012

This project explores the use of specially designed nanostructured polymers to make high-energy, low-cost, flexible and stretchable batteries. The project goal is to develop a low-cost technique for capturing atmospheric carbon dioxide using organic-inorganic hybrid materials. PI: Shanhui Fan, electrical engineering.

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APRIL 18, 2018

The EMN consortia have been established to make unique, world-class capabilities at the national laboratories more accessible to industry, facilitating collaborations that will expedite the development and manufacturing of advanced materials for commercial markets. Renewable hydrogen transportation fuel pathway of interest.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2009

The ARPA-E award is supported the development of the liquid metal grid-scale battery for low-cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. This new class of batteries could enable continuous power supply from renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar and a more stable, reliable grid.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

Transformative advances in EDLCs may thus be expected not just from developing better processing or synthetic techniques for carbon materials, but also from developing entirely new classes of active electrode materials that maximize both surface area and electrical conductivity. Sheberla et al. Click to enlarge. —Mircea Dincă.

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AUGUST 16, 2016

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. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3).

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