Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has joined DOE and research partners in launching the Advanced Management and Protection of Energy Storage Devices (AMPED) program ( earlier post ). Laboratory testing will take place at both NREL and Ford.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 17, 2020

Funded through the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), projects will conduct research in advanced batteries, electrification, and manufacturing in support of DOE’s Energy Storage Grand Challenge. Colorado State University.

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Electric Auto Association

MARCH 4, 2021

EAA partners with credit union to offer loans on clean energy, EVs, and e-bikes. The Electric Auto Association and Colorado-based Clean Energy Credit Union have partnered on a new member benefit. The ability to get competitive interest rates for renewable and sustainable projects can make a good deal just so much better.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. Well, let's think. She looked at a recent study out of the U.S.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 3, 2018

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.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 21, 2012

FuelCell Energy, Inc., Versa), a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) developer with research facilities in Littleton, Colorado, USA and Calgary, Canada. Prior to this action, FuelCell Energy, Inc. a provider of carbonate direct fuel cell power plants, has acquired the remaining shares of Versa Power Systems, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2017

Scientists at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have developed a proof-of-principle photoelectrochemical cell (PEC) capable of capturing excess photon energy normally lost to generating heat. Beard and other NREL scientists in 2011 published a paper in Science that.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2013

Among the recent investments, DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency–Energy (ARPA-E) and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy have supported more than $40 million in magnet, motor, and generator research. In recent years, DOE and others have scaled up work to address these challenges. SpinTek Filtration, Inc.;

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 17, 2012

The Department of Defense is seeking to develop solar, wind, geothermal and other distributed energy sources on its bases both to reduce their $4 billion-a-year energy bill and to make them less dependent on the commercial electricity grid.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 9, 2014

Ford Motor Company is expanding its MyEnergi Lifestyle program ( earlier post ), announced at last year’s CES, to include home energy storage. In addition to using home renewables, smart charging and smart appliances, Ford announced at the 2014 International CES that MyEnergi Lifestyle 2.0

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

Developments by PNNL (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory) and Princeton of lithium air batteries incorporating graphene as a cathode material set the highest energy storage capacity ever recorded, 15,000 mAh g -1. These Liquid Desiccant HVAC systems deliver a 50 - 75% reduction in energy usage over conventional HVAC units.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2022

Toyota Motor North America is collaborating with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) to build, install and evaluate a 1-megawatt (MW) proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell power generation system at NREL’s Flatirons Campus in Arvada, Colorado. This 3-year, $6.5-million

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. State of Colorado Department of Transportation. CUMTD will produce hydrogen on-site partially from renewable sources. VIA’s use of 100% renewable grid power ensures the battery electric buses will truly be zero emissions.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

The US Department of Energy is awarding $106 million in funding for 37 research projects selected in the second round by the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E). Better Batteries - Batteries for Electrical Energy Storage in Transportation (BEEST). Planar Energy Devices. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Combined with AC Transit’s already-installed solar capacity, this solar installation will produce the renewable electricity equivalent to what will be required to produce 180 kg/day of green hydrogen. The primary use of electrical energy by GLPTC is by its garage and maintenance facilities. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. National Energy Technology Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2009

At team of researchers from Solix Biofuels ( earlier post ), Colorado State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have calculated both an absolute upper limit to solar-based algal oil production as well as a feasible target range for production based on realistic efficiencies (calculated for six global sites).

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. Atargis Energy, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Capturing this energy would reduce both waste. Colorado State. Researchers from Colorado State University will develop a system. The University of Colorado Boulder will use nanotechnology to. ARPA-E OPEN 2012 selections: Transportation Energy Storage. High-Energy Electro-Chemical Capacitor.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

By creating high performance parts built with solid ion conductors—solids in which ions can be mobile and store energy—the IONICS program will focus on new ways to process and integrate these parts into devices with the goal of accelerating their commercial deployment. University of Colorado Boulder. Lead organization.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

National Renewable. Energy Laboratory, SuperPower, Tai-Yang. Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of. coupled with novel thermal energy storage technology, which. NAVITASMAX.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 4, 2013

Under funding from the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, NREL has been working on battery thermal testing and calorimetry for more than 15 years, developing numerous instruments and measuring heat generation from batteries for clients around the world. Basic concept of a calorimeter design. Pesaran et al.,

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2014

The projects, which are funded through ARPA-E’s new Reliable Electricity Based on ELectrochemical Systems (REBELS) program, are focused on improving grid stability, balancing intermittent renewable technologies, and reducing CO 2 emissions using electrochemical distributed power generation systems. Colorado School of Mines.

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EV Connect

DECEMBER 20, 2021

It Expands Capacity for Renewable Energy Storage Renewable energy sources such as wind and solar play a critical role in a sustainable economy. An efficient power grid must be able to capture energy from them when it’s available and store it for distribution when it’s needed.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 23, 2017

If successful, the team will greatly increase transformer functionality and reduce size over current technologies, affecting application areas like grid energy storage, solar photovoltaics and electric vehicle fast chargers, while also enabling better grid monitoring and easy retrofits. Imagen Energy. Opcondys, Inc.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The projects selected are grouped into 10 areas: Energy Storage (6 projects). Biomass Energy (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects). Conventional Energy (1 project). ENERGY STORAGE. Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Well, let’s look at them from first principles and see, with the energy demands and the utilization of the vehicle that you have in aviation, what makes sense. When it comes to utilizing that energy, fuel cells are 50-60% efficiency. Yes, you have maybe higher efficiency, maybe even 80-85%.

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Charged EVs

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

When the grid is congested or energy prices are very high, can we send a signal to have the energy storage system take over some of that charging demand, to lower the site’s impact on the grid? Colett: This is also a software test bed where we’re doing a lot of work on how these technologies work together.

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