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Under terms of the agreement, Statoil will fund BAL’s research and development and demonstration projects, and if successful, will also fund the commercialization of BAL’s technology in Norway and elsewhere in Europe. In total, the company has received more than $34 million in funding, grants and strategic investments.

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million in Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase II Release 2 grants to projects that demonstrate commercial feasibility for innovations during the second phase of their research. The US Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) is awarding $43.6 Awards include: Accustrata Inc.

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JANUARY 23, 2020

To enhance the strategic investment and the strength of the partnership, under the terms of the transaction, Bosch is granted the right to appoint a Non-Executive Director to the board of Ceres Power. Bosch’s total investment will be approximately €90 million (US$100 million). Christian Fischer, member of the Bosch management board.

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Porsche, Siemens Energy and partners are developing and implementing a pilot project—the “Haru Oni” project—in Chile that is expected to yield the world’s first integrated, commercial, industrial-scale plant for making synthetic climate-neutral fuels (eFuels). Electrolyzers will use wind power to produce green hydrogen.

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JUNE 14, 2010

million) grant towards £52 million (US$76.7 million) construction costs for the first commercial plant in Europe using its waste-to-ethanol BioEnergy Process Technology. INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has received an offer of a £7.3 million (US$10.8 Earlier post.). million (US$6.6

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

LanzaTech, a producer of low-carbon fuels and chemicals from waste gases, was awarded a $4-million grant by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) as one of the 15 REMOTE projects ( earlier post ) receiving a combined $34 million to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation.

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JUNE 30, 2010

announced the successful production of ethanol at a capacity that can be scaled to commercial production. The integrated facility is being partially funded by a $25-million grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. ZeaChem’s process. Click to enlarge. ZeaChem Inc.

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APRIL 3, 2013

Percival Zhang, has developed a process to convert xylose—the second-most abundant sugar in plants—into hydrogen with approaching 100% of the theoretical yield. Even more appealing, this reaction occurs at low temperatures; low-temperature waste heat can be used to produce high-quality chemical energy hydrogen for the first time.

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MAY 3, 2012

The syrup was then processed by Amyris at its California pilot facility using its proprietary yeast fermentation system that converts plant sugars into its trademarked product, Biofene, a renewable hydrocarbon commonly known as farnesene. The grant included a sub-contract award to Ceres. Earlier post.).

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It is a simple, low-cost approach that can be applied to a broad range of alloy systems with various working ions such as Li, Na, or Mg. Eutectic alloys are fusible: upon cooling they convert from liquids to intimately mixed solids. Earlier post.). —Karl Kreder. —Professor Arumugam Manthiram.

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JANUARY 19, 2015

or LSF) supported Fe 3 O 4 —is capable of converting more than 67% steam with high redox stability. The hybrid solar-redox process converts solar energy and methane into separate streams of liquid fuels and hydrogen through the assistance of an oxygen carrier. Image credit: Feng He. Click to enlarge. —Feng He, lead author.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2009

INEOS Bio, a subsidiary of INEOS, the world’s third-largest chemicals company, has started a feasibility study for a plant in the UK to convert locally generated biodegradable household and commercial wastes into carbon neutral road transport fuel and clean electricity, using the INEOS Bio technology process. Click to enlarge.

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This project is funded by a ~$1-million grant from the California Energy Commission under the auspices of its Alternative and Renewable Fuels and Vehicle Testing Program. This reactor converts a portion of the volatile gases into a mixture of light olefins, predominantly ethylene and propylene. —US 9199889.

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The systems store electrical energy, allowing dealerships to utilize it during off-peak hours, taking advantage of lower electricity rates. Daily and seasonal variations in electricity demand mean that during regular weekday business hours ( on-peak ), demand is high in commercial zones. In the second quarter of 2023 , the U.S.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium uses a catalytic process to convert carbohydrates into furanics building blocks. The pilot plant is expected to become operational in the first quarter of 2011 and marks a major milestone in the commercialization of Avantium’s technology. million) grant from the Dutch Ministry of Agriculture. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

Among the first products expected to be manufactured at the new facility will be power electronics components and systems for Allison Transmission, a leading supplier of commercial-duty fully automatic transmissions for both on- and off-highway vehicles, and of hybrid propulsion systems for on-highway transit and coach vehicles. Earlier post.)

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MAY 6, 2009

Battelle is granting an exclusive license to Genifuel Corporation for a process developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) to convert algae into renewable synthetic natural gas (SNG) for use in pipelines and power generation. Battelle operates PNNL for the US Department of Energy. It’s a completely green process. ”.

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DECEMBER 25, 2022

To become a low-cost producer of green hydrogen, we first have to become an extreme user—to make it pervasive across our business. Government grants and loans and high diesel prices help make hydrogen competitive. As either a gas or a liquid, it has relatively low volumetric energy density.

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APRIL 30, 2010

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Today’s technologies for making biofuels all rely on photosynthesis—either indirectly by converting plants to fuels or directly by harnessing photosynthetic organisms such as algae. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Engineering E.

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

The California Sustainable Energy Entrepreneur Development (CalSEED) program announced that the fourth cohort of innovative clean energy concepts has been approved by the California Energy Commission (CEC); 28 companies out of 212 were selected to receive grants of $150,000 each.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

Electrochaea GmbH, a European provider of renewable methane technology, has established a California-based US subsidiary, Electrochaea Corporation, to accelerate the commercial roll-out of its technology in North America. In August, Electrochaea announced it was receiving an EU grant of €2.5

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

The awarded grants will go to projects with lead researchers in 17 states. Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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MARCH 21, 2013

Funds for these projects—which span areas as diverse as a new crossover valve for the split-cycle Tour Engine ( earlier post ) to a new solar thermal storage device capable of integration with utility scale solar thermal power plants—come from Commission’s Energy Innovations Small Grant (EISG) program.

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Vertimass LLC has received a grant of up to $2 million ( earlier post ) from the US Department of Energy to support the commercialization of catalyst technology that converts ethanol into gasoline, diesel and jet fuel blend stocks, while retaining compatibility with the current transportation fuel infrastructure. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 30, 2017

In an SOFC electrolysis system, fuel cells convert excess power from renewable generation to turn water into hydrogen, addressing intermittency and storage issues for wind and solar. Key challenges such as high costs, production at scale and capital investment have hampered widespread deployment of SOFCs. NELLHI received €1.6

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NOVEMBER 20, 2022

In 1984, the low-cost Macintosh from Apple Computer Inc., tested all the commercially available pointing devices, from the still-popular light pen to a joystick and a Graphicon (a curve-tracing device that used a pen mounted on the arm of a potentiometer). Cupertino, Calif., The ball mouse was the “easiest patent I ever got.

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JULY 14, 2015

In collaboration with Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Algenol has applied hydrothermal liquefaction technology to convert the spent biomass into green crude. A single 2,000-acre commercial Algenol module is the equivalent of planting 40 million trees or removing 36,000 cars from the road. Department of Energy).

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OCTOBER 8, 2022

Teaming up with Stanley Mazor and Federico Faggin, he created the first commercial microprocessor, the Intel 4004. Busicom had hired Intel to develop a set of custom chips for a low-cost calculator and had sent three engineers to Santa Clara to work on the chip designs. While a research manager at Intel Corp.,

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make a low-cost “appliance”-type computer that would be as easy to use as a toaster. The author spoke with many members of the design team in the months following the 1984 introduction of the Macintosh, however, Steve Jobs did not grant an interview for this article.

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JULY 17, 2015

The vehicle can also be used to transfer the energy to another location—for example, from a solar charging station at work to the vehicle owner’s home or from a home solar set-up to a vacation dwelling or to a jobsite in a commercial setting. There are trucks and buses being converted commercially today.

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