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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. Yale University.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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Study finds wide range in GHG intensities and production costs of cellulosic ethanol from corn stover, switchgrass and miscanthus

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In their study, published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology they found that—compared to gasoline—the GHG savings from miscanthus-based ethanol ranged between 130% and 156% whereas that from switchgrass ranged between 97% and 135%. —Dwivedi et al.

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DOE awards $100M in 2nd funding round for 32 Energy Frontier Research Centers

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Awards range from $2 million to $4 million per year per center for up to four fiscal years, subject to a progress review in year two. Light-Material Interactions in Energy Conversion (LMI). University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Center for Direct Catalytic Conversion of Biomass to Biofuels (C3Bio). Lead organization.

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ARPA-E awards $30M to 21 projects advance new class of high-performance power converters

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Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago. The Illinois Institute of Technology will develop ultrafast, self-powered, programmable, autonomously operated, bidirectional solid-state circuit breakers using transistors based on gallium nitride (GaN). Power Conversion Through Novel Current Source Matrix Converter (MxC).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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University of Illinois. with Increased Photosynthetic Efficiency into the Saccharinae The University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign team will. range of cultivation. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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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. Low Cost, High Energy and Power Density, Nanotube-Enhanced Ultracapacitors. DOE grant: $7,200,000).

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