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4 companies jointly propose $8B green energy initiative for LA area; Wyoming wind, Utah storage, transmission

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The four companies will formally submit their proposal to the Southern California Public Power Authority by early 2015 in response to the agency’s request for proposals to supply the Los Angeles area with renewable energy and electricity storage. Electric transmission line: Duke-American Transmission proposes to build the $2.6-billion,

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ARPA-E awards $33M to 13 intermediate-temp fuel cell projects; converting gaseous hydrocarbons to liquid fuels

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Colorado School of Mines. Fuel-Flexible Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cell Stack The Colorado School of Mines (CSM) will develop a mixed proton and oxygen ion conducting electrolyte that allows a fuel cell to operate at temperatures less than 500 °C, which is a departure from today’s ceramic fuel cells.

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Thermal Energy Storage Is No Longer Just Hot Air

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“So that may create this need for storage…And then there will be a competition between thermal and electric [storage].” Heating Up the Grid On some level, getting value from energy storage systems is an optimization problem. When does it make sense to buy electricity directly from the grid?