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Coulomb, MasterCard, and the future of public charging

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The charge stations and installations were paid for with federal stimulus and California Energy Commission grants won by Coulomb. If you are a business in a program area, you can get the same deal - free charge stations paid for by stimulus money. ChargePoint America is looking for hosts for charge stations.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Electric cars in the garages would double as battery packs for when energy supplies are scarce. Demand for energy, to heat our buildings in the winter and cool them in the summer, is highest at the very time when supply is also the greatest. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve.

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DOE awards more than $145M for advanced solar technologies under SunShot Initiative

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Funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, the projects will also improve materials, manufacturing processes, and supply chains for a wide range of photovoltaic (PV) solar cells and components of solar energy systems. —Energy Secretary Steven Chu.

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