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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. University of California, San Diego (UCSD): $1 million to use advanced solar forecasting to optimize campus distributed energy resources on the UCSD campus. First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.:

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California Energy Commission awards more than $15M to advance biofuels, plug-in and V2G research

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The evaluation will consider the impacts, processes, market effects and costs of the program, and will help to guide future program efforts. The demonstration vehicles include tree maintenance trucks and a telephone pole installation truck. Electricore Inc. will receive $2,325,954 to demonstrate battery-electric medium-duty trucks.

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Maxwell Technologies introduces ultracapacitor-based backup power module for Uninterruptible Power Supply Systems

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The new product will be on display at the DistribuTECH Conference and Exhibition, which opens tomorrow at the San Diego Convention Center. Maxwell Technologies, Inc. The new product is being installed in several beta sites and the company will begin accepting additional orders in March.

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New IACMI collaboration to develop advanced carbon fiber for hydrogen, natural gas storage tanks; $2.7M DOE award

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million from the US Department of Energy (DOE) to develop and validate technology that will reduce the cost of manufacturing high-performance carbon fiber by 25% to make composite natural gas or hydrogen fuel tanks to power cars and trucks. Well over half of the composite fuel tank’s cost is attributed to carbon fiber used in its manufacture.

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California Energy Commission awards $750K to Electricore to study standardization of plug-in vehicle batteries

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Standardizing PEV batteries could reduce the purchase and ownership costs of PEVS, as well as addressing additional consumer issues such as maintenance and safety. This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric.

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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. $500,000 to the San Diego Metropolitan Transit System to help it speed the refueling of its growing fleet of compressed natural gas-powered buses. The Federal Transit Administration will also provide $1,176,000 for the San Diego project. Natural gas will displace 1.5 million gallons of diesel fuel each year.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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These improvements will all be made in the hopes of driving down the cost of solar energy. These selections include: General Atomics – San Diego, CA – up to $2.1 HiTek Services will focus on optimizing reflector array, or heliostat, designs in order to reduce the cost of using heliostats in a solar field. Terrafore, Inc.

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