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Exelon Intends to Join FutureGen Alliance

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Exelon Corporation intends to join the FutureGen Alliance, a non-profit organization developing an advanced low-emissions coal demonstration facility to be located in Mattoon, Ill. The plant will be designed to capture carbon emitted by its operation and store it underground. Earlier post.).

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DOE Awards Cooperative Agreement for $668M Post-Combustion Carbon Capture Project

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded a cooperative agreement to American Electric Power Service Corporation (AEP) for the Mountaineer Commercial Scale Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) Project to design, construct, and operate a system that will capture and store approximately 1.5 miles below the surface.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The project will be implemented by a unique Texas not-for-profit corporation created to research, develop and implement smart grid clean energy systems. NSTAR Electric & Gas Corporation (MA). New York State Electric & Gas Corporation. Beacon Power Corporation (MA). Primus Power Corporation (CA). 24,978,264.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Of the lead recipients, 24% are small businesses, 57% are educational institutions, 11% are national labs, and 8% are large corporations. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Sion Power Corporation. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. BASF, LBNL, PNNL). 4,973,724.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Of the lead recipients, 43% are small businesses, 35% are educational institutions, and 19% are large corporations. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a paradigm shifting new all-liquid metal grid scale battery for low cost, large scale storage of electrical energy. Biomass Energy (5 projects).

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Inside the Global Race to Tap Potent Offshore Wind

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The steel mill, says Ideol, will be one of the world’s first to replace metallurgical coal with renewable electricity and hydrogen. Big corporate players are taking up the multirotor and downwind designs. Heronemus also launched the University of Massachusetts’ wind-engineering program, training the engineers who launched the U.S.

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