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

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The US Department of Energy is awarding $620 million for projects around the country to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems. The selected projects include advanced battery systems (including flow batteries), flywheels, and compressed air energy systems.

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Daimler, Blue Bird, IC Bus introduce electric school buses at NAPT

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Three major school bus manufacturers—Daimler subsidiary Thomas Built Buses, Blue Bird and Navistar subsidiary IC Bus—introduced battery-electric school buses at the recent National Association for Pupil Transportation Annual Conference and Trade Show in Columbus, Ohio (NAPT).

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$3M Award Supports Production of New Multi-tasking Fuzzy Fiber Nanomaterial; Energy Applications

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When incorporated into resins, fuzzy fibers enable composites to be tailored for electrical and thermal conductivity, chemical and biological sensing, energy storage and conversion, thermal management and other properties. This is going to disrupt the way we think about materials.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 19 projects to enhance the capability to simulate, track, and evaluate the potential risks of carbon dioxide storage in geologic formations. The work will be managed by the Office of Fossil Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory. million over four years, with $27.6

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One EV enthusiast leads to anothe

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The organization grows My first connection came when folks from the Columbus non-profit Clean Fuels Ohio saw my Facebook page. DED’s renown led to an invitation from Green Energy Ohio (GEO) to join the team planning the 2021 Green Energy Tour of Ohio. Talks are ongoing. As Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.

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Battelle, Midwest Regional Carbon Sequestration Partnership release Phase II reports

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Funding for the Phase II effort came primarily from the US Department of Energy. Refinement of earlier estimates of regional storage capacity in the MRCSP’s deep geologic formations further confirmed the potential for storing at least a century’s worth of CO 2 emissions from all the region’s major CO 2 sources.

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One EV enthusiast leads to another

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The organization grows My first connection came when folks from the Columbus non-profit Clean Fuels Ohio saw my Facebook page. DED’s renown led to an invitation from Green Energy Ohio (GEO) to join the team planning the 2021 Green Energy Tour of Ohio. Talks are ongoing. As Forrest Gump said, “Life is like a box of chocolates.

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