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Here Comes the World Wide Web of Everything

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A second goal involved avoiding discharging the house’s energy storage below 50 percent during peak hours. At scale, an EcoNet-like architecture might enable entire neighborhoods to act a little like intelligent organisms, optimizing collective energy use and accelerating the shift to a more resilient, renewable grid.

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Soletair demo plant produces renewable hydrocarbon fuel from CO2 captured from the air

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VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and Lappeenranta University of Technology (LUT) are beginning testing of the Soletair demo plant, which uses air-captured carbon dioxide to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Phase 1: Renewable energy. The pilot plant is coupled to LUT’s solar power plant in Lappeenranta.

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Hydrogenics and partners win major hydrogen energy storage R&D and demo project in Europe

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Hydrogenics Corporation, together with eight other partners, has won a major energy storage R&D and demonstration project in Europe. This project seeks to increase renewable-based electricity, grid balancing, sustainable mobility and the use of clean hydrogen. million (US$3.7

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Electrovaya to provide 1.2MWh Li-ion battery Energy Storage System for Ontario renewable energy demo

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will provide a lithium ion Battery Energy Storage System of approximately 1.2MWh for demonstration purposes in support of renewable energy generation in Ontario. Electrovaya is the prime contractor and system designer and will provide the full energy storage system. Electrovaya Inc. million (US$7.8-million)

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ORNL demos 20 kW bi-directional wireless charging on UPS PHEV truck; 11" air gap, >92% efficiency

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With its bi-directional design, the system also supports use of the vehicle’s batteries for energy storage. Doing so would give energy flexibility to a fleet owner’s business, and help better manage on-site generation such as solar power. ORNL’s bidirectional technology is fully compliant with grid power quality standards.

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Siemens demos long-term stability of high-temperature electrolytic cells; role in energy storage systems

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The use of electricity to generate hydrogen is considered potentially to be a key technology for the storage of surplus energy from renewable sources (e.g., Audi’s e-gas, earlier post ); it could also play an important role in the transition of the energy system and the stabilization of grids.

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CSIRO joins US sCO2-based power generation project STEP demo

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The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia’s national science research agency, has 2 -based-power-generation-project/">joined the Joint Industry Partnership (JIP) of the Supercritical Transformational Electric Power (STEP) project known as STEP Demo.