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Bosch collaborating with Eguana on Home Battery System

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Eguana Technologies , a provider of power conversion and control systems for distributed energy storage, and Bosch are collaborating on the Home Battery System (HBS) project. Peak load reduction provides a direct financial benefit for utilities by avoiding or deferring the cost of constructing new power plants.

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How to Navigate EV Charging Rebates and Successfully Fund Your Home Charging Station

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Conversely, the abundance of available electricity during off-peak hours provides cost-efficiency for everyone. For simple installations, this tax credit will cover the entire cost of the project. Hawaii Power. Hawaii Power is an electric utility company in the State of Hawaii.

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Rentech Takes 25% Stake in Biomass Gasification Company

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Rentech, the developer of a Fischer-Tropsch process for the conversion of syngas derived from biomass and fossil resources into synthetic fuels, specialty waxes and chemicals, has acquired a 25% stake in ClearFuels Technology Inc. through a strategic investment. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Southeast and Hawaii. Decision support and policy analysis tools. Region States Feedstocks Potential production capacity Land use.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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The goal is to develop an optimal generator for current energy conversion. Boston, Massachusetts) will develop a cost-effective, high efficiency, power take-off system for a wave energy converter, a mechanism to convert water’s mechanical energy into usable electricity. DOE Funding: $160,000. Total Project Value: $192,000.

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Lockheed Martin and Ocean Power Technologies Developing Utility-Scale Wave Power System

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The “smart” buoys, based on integrated patented hydrodynamics, electronics, energy conversion and computer control systems, capture and convert energy from the natural rising and falling of waves into low-cost, clean electricity. This approach minimizes costs of submarine transmission cable to the shore based interconnection.

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UOP looking to biomass catalytic pyrolysis to expand volumes of renewable hydrocarbon fuels

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There are two drivers to the cost of production: the feedstock cost and the yield of product. Simultaneously, we are building the plant in Hawaii with the help of the DOE grant. We are only at the pilot scale—too early to talk about costing. On the diesel side, that’s going to be hard to do. Earlier post.).

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