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Eaton’s Vehicle Group partnering with Ballard and NREL to develop heavy-duty truck fuel cell technology

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Power management company Eaton’ Vehicle Group has partnered with Ballard Fuel Cell Systems and the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to develop heavy-duty truck fuel cell technology. —Karl Sievertsen, vice president and chief technology officer, Eaton’s Vehicle Group.

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Toyota To Place 10 Prius Plug-ins in SmartGridCity Project in 2010

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Toyota Motor Sales (TMS), USA will place ten Prius plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHV) with Xcel Energy’s SmartGridCity project in Boulder, Colorado. For longer distances, the PHV concept reverts to “hybrid mode” and operates like a regular Prius. The SmartGridCity project is the first fully functioning smart grid enabled city.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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DOE awards nearly $7.5M to develop next-generation wind turbine drivetrains

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six projects in four states—California, Colorado, Florida, and New York—to receive nearly $7.5 Boulder Wind Power (Boulder, Colorado) will test an innovative permanent magnet-based direct-drive generator to validate performance and reliability of a large utility-scale turbine.

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ARPA-E awarding $39M to 16 projects to grow the domestic critical minerals supply chain

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Travertine will develop the design basis for a 1 ton/day CO 2 removal system to demonstrate the technical feasibility and commercial viability of this concept, taking it from proof-of-concept to field-ready. Colorado School of Mines. from gangue minerals.

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DOE announces $29M in funding for fusion energy technology development

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The project team will integrate FERMI’s capabilities and demonstrate utility by simulating and assessing the innovative and potentially transformative liquid-immersion blanket concept that could enable a compact, high- field path to commercial fusion energy. Renewable Low-Z Wall for Fusion Reactors with Built-In Tritium Recovery - $1,750,000.

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NREL-led team overcomes major technical obstacle in Mg-metal batteries by developing artificial solid-electrolyte interphase

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Now, researchers at the Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and their colleagues have discovered a new approach for developing a rechargeable non-aqueous magnesium-metal battery. Xerxes Steirer of Colorado School of Mines; and Arthur Cresce and Kang Xu of the US Army Research Laboratory. NREL is the U.S.