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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. Leap Photovoltaics Inc.

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Can Flow Batteries Finally Beat Lithium?

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An example, she says, is the task of balancing energy flows in the power grid. Then there are the new battery chemistries that are not lithium based—for instance, sodium-ion and graphene-based batteries. and an expert in flow batteries. However, conventional flow batteries pack very little energy into a given volume and mass.