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FEBRUARY 26, 2020

MTD is the first in the US to order 60' hydrogen fuel cell buses commercially. The Xcelsior CHARGE H2 uses compressed hydrogen as an energy source, as well as an 85 kW Ballard HD85 fuel cell system. The Xcelsior CHARGE H2 is the first sixty-foot fuel cell-electric bus to complete Altoona testing. Testing at Altoona. Credit: Penn State.

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MARCH 2, 2021

a supplier of hydrogen fuel cell powered heavy vehicles ( earlier post ), plans to build the largest fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA) production line for commercial vehicles in the United States at its new Hyzon Innovation Center located in Bolingbrook, Illinois, just outside of Chicago. Hyzon Motors Inc.,

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JULY 22, 2011

Regulatory hurdles are hindering the successful commercialization of emerging liquid biofuels, according to a new study by University of Illinois law professor Jay P. Slating, a regulatory associate with the University of Illinois Energy Biosciences Institute. Wisconsin Law Review ; Illinois Public Law Research Paper No.

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JULY 20, 2011

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has entered into a licensing agreement with Xerion Advanced Battery Corp under which Xerion has the exclusive right to bring the University’s patented StructurePore electrode technology to the market. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Xerion Advanced Battery Corp. Huigang Zhang, Xindi Yu & Paul V.

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JUNE 29, 2012

announced the successful commissioning of its first fully integrated biorefinery (IBR) in Peoria, Illinois, to produce algal oil. Solazyme has been running routine fermentations at commercial scale since 2007 and began running fermentation operations at the Peoria facility in Q4 2011. Solazyme, Inc. Solazyme, Inc.

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OCTOBER 29, 2021

ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a startup developing net-zero engine technology ( earlier post ), has secured $17 million in Series A financing, which will enable commercialization of the company’s innovative engine technology for the long-haul trucking, agriculture and power generation sectors.

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MARCH 9, 2022

New Zealand Superannuation Fund, Oxy Low Carbon Ventures LLC, Primetals Technologies, SHV Energy and Trafigura. LanzaTech will continue to be based in Chicago, Illinois, and led by Dr. Jennifer Holmgren, Chief Executive Officer of LanzaTech, and other key members of LanzaTech’s executive leadership.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

million research center, led by Michigan Engineering and funded by the US Department of Energy, will focus on understanding an emerging branch of science involving mechanical and chemical phenomena that affect advanced battery designs. Those include long-duration energy storage and hydrogen fuel cells.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Phil Ansell, an aerospace engineer at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, modeled the life cycle carbon dioxide equivalent emissions of liquid hydrogen production required to meet the fuel needs of Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport (ORD) with today’s electric grid mix. Ansell presented his findings at AIAA Aviation 2023 in June.

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JUNE 18, 2021

million in additional financing from several investors, including the Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas and Illinois Corn Growers Associations. ClearFlame Engine Technologies , a growing startup dedicated to the development of clean engine technology ( earlier post ), secured $2.5 In fact, it increases power by 25%.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Diamond Green Diesel is owned by Valero Energy Corp. and is the largest commercial advanced biofuel facility in the United States. Ecofining technology is used in two commercial scale production facilities in the United States, and two in Europe. Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, La., and Darling Ingredients Inc.,

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JUNE 10, 2016

Toyota Motor North America has awarded MP2 Energy, a full-service power company based in The Woodlands, Texas, a five-year retail electricity contract to provide 100% renewable energy solutions to Toyota’s new North American headquarters in Plano, Texas. The five-year deal also supports 7.75 The approximately 2.1

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FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign are applying new materials and concepts integrated within the battery cell to enable a variety of critical features including fail-safe or autonomic shutdown, self-healing of battery performance, and greatly extended lifetimes. Photo credit: Marta Baginska. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has awarded $7.4 Additionally, in coordination with the US Department of Transportation through the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, DOE announced its intent to release funding to address barriers to a cleaner, safer, more affordable, and more reliable Made in America EV charging network.

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DECEMBER 19, 2012

Invenergy LLC, a Chicago-based renewable energy generation company, and Xtreme Power, a provider of real-time power management and energy storage solutions, launched a joint venture to deploy a fast-acting energy storage system in Illinois. Xtreme Power’s 1.5

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MARCH 4, 2013

The Advanced Solutions Group (ASG) of Navitas Systems LLC, which recently acquired A123 Systems’ government business ( earlier post ), has become affiliated with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Joint Center for Energy Storage Research (JCESR) ( earlier post ).

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MARCH 23, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $27.5 Modern technology has the potential to reduce energy use in aging water infrastructure, particularly in wastewater treatment, which demands up to 2% of domestic electricity use each year. million to 16 water infrastructure projects.

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JUNE 8, 2020

Exelon’s utilities, which serve approximately 10 million customers in Delaware, the District of Columbia, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey and Pennsylvania through its Atlantic City Electric, BGE, ComEd, Delmarva Power, PECO and Pepco subsidiaries, will electrify 30% of their vehicle fleet by 2025, increasing to 50% by 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The US Department of Energy has signed final cooperative agreements with the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and Ameren Energy Resources that formally commit $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to build FutureGen 2.0. This site could eventually become a regional CO 2 storage site in downstate Illinois. Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 7, 2012

BP will establish a $100-million international research center, the BP International center for Advanced Materials (BP-ICAM) to lead research to advancethe fundamental understanding and use of materials across a variety of energy and industrial applications. —Bob Dudley, BP group chief executive. —Bob Dudley.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Siemens Energy, Inc. has been chosen to provide the coal gasification technology for the Taylorville Energy Center (TEC), a 730-megawatt (gross) advanced coal generating plant being developed near Taylorville, Ill. Michael Suess, CEO of the Fossil Power Generation Division of Siemens Energy. Tenaska, managing partner for the $3.5

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Vehicle Technologies Office (VTO) awarded more than $4 million in funding to test novel applications of dimethyl ether (DME) as a low-carbon alternative to fossil fuels. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen. WM International Engineering L.L.C.

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FEBRUARY 25, 2014

The Institute will achieve this through leadership in pre-competitive advanced research and partnerships across defense, aerospace, automotive, energy, and consumer products industries. There are significant challenges for new lightweight and modern metals to reach widespread commercial production. UTRC; Wolf Robotics.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

Along with titanium catalyst dopants and hydrogen, theorists looked at vacancy defects, or missing aluminum, on the surface of aluminum powders and established that this combination working in concert is critical to the low-energy formation of alane. —Duane Johnson, Ames Laboratory Chief Research Officer and F. Hua, Rajesh K.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2017

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has found high rare earth element (REE) concentrations in coal samples taken from the Illinois, Northern Appalachian, Central Appalachian, Rocky Mountain Coal Basins, and the Pennsylvania Anthracite region. —US Secretary of Energy Rick Perry.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has decided to provide approximately $1 billion ( earlier post ) of cost-shared funding to the FutureGen Industrial Alliance (the Alliance) for the FutureGen 2.0 The Alliance will upgrade one unit in a power plant currently owned by Ameren near Meredosia, Illinois. Earlier post.) The FutureGen 2.0

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FEBRUARY 16, 2018

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Office of Fossil Energy (FE) and the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) have selected nine projects to receive approximately $6.5 University of Illinois. million in federal funding for Phase I of the Fossil Fuel Large-Scale Pilots funding opportunity announcement (FOA).

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APRIL 6, 2017

A multi-institutional team led by the University of Illinois has genetically engineered sugarcane to produce lipids in its leaves and stems for biodiesel production (lipid-cane). Woese Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. The PETROSS project and this work are supported by the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E).

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Ryder System, a leader in commercial fleet management, dedicated transportation, and supply chain solutions, has started to take delivery of 125 Chanje medium-duty electric panel vans ( earlier post ), the first of their kind in North America, now available for lease or rent. Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Partially funded by the ARPA-E CIRCUITS program ( earlier post ), Transphorm is developing the technology for electric vehicle mobility and infrastructure power systems as well as industrial and renewable energy systems. We see this as an important milestone for the GaN power electronics industry.

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MAY 19, 2010

announced that average two-year yields of its numerous varieties of Miscanthus indicate that Mendel’s lead product candidates are on track to meet or exceed current commercial targets for biomass production from dedicated energy crops. Mendel BioEnergy Seeds, a division of Mendel Biotechnology, Inc.,

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FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Following the successful completion of the first phase, the US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the beginning of Phase II of the FutureGen 2.0 project development with a new cooperative agreement between the FutureGen Industrial Alliance and DOE for a carbon capture and storage (CCS) project in Illinois. We believe FutureGen 2.0

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AUGUST 30, 2020

John Field, research scientist at the Natural Resource Ecology Labat CSU, said that it has been a challenge for the biofuel industry to demonstrate commercial viability for cellulosic biofuels, created using nonedible parts of plants. Ikenberry Chair Professor of Plant Biology and Crop Sciences at the University of Illinois.

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JULY 24, 2018

They report their findings in the journal Nano Energy. —Reza Shahbazian-Yassar, associate professor of mechanical and industrial engineering in the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Engineering and lead author. But they tend to slow down and stop working relatively quickly compared to other batteries. 2018.04.046.

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JUNE 1, 2010

The tests, conducted using Illinois coal, each lasted 12 to 37 hours at the pilot plant in Des Plaines, Ill., Additional testing will be conducted throughout 2010 using Illinois coal, petroleum coke and sub-bituminous coal. Zero Emission Energy Plants, Inc. Pratt & Whitney Rocketdyne is a United Technologies Corp.

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AUGUST 5, 2010

US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and US Senator Dick Durbin announced the awarding of $1 billion in Recovery Act funding to the FutureGen Alliance, Ameren Energy Resources, Babcock & Wilcox, and Air Liquide Process & Construction, Inc. to build FutureGen 2.0, an advanced coal repowering program and carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) storage network.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

All the energy runs through, and is temporarily stored in, a high-frequency AC link consisting of an inductor and capacitor. PPSA can scale across several large and growing markets, including commercial Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS), electrified vehicle charging, and solar photovoltaic generation. Ideal Power Inc.,

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