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SwRI to demonstrate use of electric vehicles as part of emergency power microgrid under US Army SPIDERS program

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SPIDERS aims to create a resilient, more reliable microgrid designed to protect against extended power outages caused by natural disasters, accidents or attacks—and, ultimately, to enhance electric power surety for national security. Carson, Colorado; and Camp. independent from the bulk power grid (i.e.,

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Ballard and Anglo American Platinum partner on a range of fuel cell applications in South Africa

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Anglo American Platinum is also beginning above ground testing of five fuel cell-powered locomotives at its Dishaba mine in Limpopo province, South Africa. The locomotives use Ballard fuel cell stacks in a system designed by Vehicle Projects Inc.

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Sandia Labs and NREL leading new DOE hydrogen infrastructure project; H2FIRST

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Specific H 2 FIRST objectives include: Development of improved hydrogen fueling station design and requirements, including a broader technical understanding of what is needed to achieve a national hydrogen fueling infrastructure.

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Burns & McDonnell develops bi-directional fast chargers for SPIDERS program

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The Burns & McDonnell team also includes Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and Intelligent Power & Energy Research Corporation (IPERC) that provided design, programming and aggregation of the vehicle charging solution and microgrid integration. Electric (Battery) Infrastructure Power Generation Smart charging Smart Grid V2X'

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ARPA-E awards $37M for IONICS projects; improving solid-state batteries and fuel cells

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University of Colorado Boulder. The University of Colorado Boulder will develop their invention of flash sintering for manufacturing solid-state electrolytes, replacing the currently used liquid electrolytes, with the promise of lithium ion batteries that are safer and have longer life and higher energy density. Lead organization.

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DOE awarding $35.4M to 13 projects to advance deepwater drilling technologies

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Colorado School of Mines — Hydrate Modeling & Flow Loop Experiments for Water Continuous & Dispersed Systems. It will also decrease the need to build and use hubs and platforms, since more efficient power transmission will allow for a subsea option as opposed to a platform option in some cases.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. The pine tree developed for this project is designed both to. project, QM Power and its team will develop a motor that uses. delivers more power than many vehicle motors with greater. This metal composite magnet design contains.