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Zepp.solutions secures €2M grant to build fuel cell systems factory

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million grant from the European Just Transition Fund (JTF) for the development of a fuel cell systems factory. The Just Transition Fund (JTF) contributes to the transition to a climate-neutral Europe. Zepp.solutions, a Dutch company specialized in hydrogen fuel cell technology, has secured a €1.98-million

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Heat Pumps Take on Cold Climates

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Twenty homes scattered across Canada and the northern United States are keeping warm this winter using prototypes of the latest iteration in residential heating systems: cold climate heat pumps. To prove it, eight manufacturers are publicly testing their prototypes in the Cold-Climate Heat Pump Technology Challenge , hosted by the U.S.

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Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

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“Electric cars will not save the climate. As a reality check, current estimates for the number of ICE vehicles still on the road worldwide in 2050 range from a low of 1.25 Behavioral change is hard How willing are people to break their car dependency and other energy-related behaviors to address climate change?

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President Biden proposes $174B spend on EVs and chargers

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Establishing grant and incentive programs for state and local governments and the private sector to build a national network of 500,000 EV chargers by 2030, while promoting strong labor, training, and installation standards. Climate science and clean energy.

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CRI awarded €1.8M EU grant to scale CO2-to-methanol technology

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million) grant under the EU Horizon 2020 Research Programme to increase the scale of its CO 2 -to-methanol technology, marketed under the trademark Emissions-to-Liquids (ETL). Carbon Recycling International has been awarded a €1.8-million million (US$2.0-million)

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EV Life is awarded CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission to make financing electric cars cheaper than gas vehicles.

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The grant will fund the development of a fintech platform to empower EV buyers to save up to $200/month on electric vehicle loans. EV Life, a car site dedicated exclusively to electric vehicles, announced that it was 1 of 28 companies to win a CalSEED grant from the California Energy Commission (CEC). About EV Life.

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MIT Energy Initiative announces 2014 seed grant awards

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The MIT Energy Initiative (MITEI) announced its latest round of seed grants to support early-stage innovative energy projects. In such sources, the energy “lives” in a wide range of temporal and spatial scales, so taking full advantage of it requires harvesting from a broad band of frequencies. A total of more than $1.6

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