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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Advanced batteries are vital to the entire clean energy economy, but the US currently does not produce enough of the critical minerals and battery materials needed to power clean energy technologies. Michigan Technological University. Tennessee Technological University. The University of Alabama. 10,000,000.

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Policy Options for Expanding and Modernizing the US Power Grid

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The US will need to expand and modernize its outdated power transmission grid to incorporate more renewable energy sources, but balkanized ownership and regulation are going to make that process slow and difficult, according to a new Duke University analysis.

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Gravity Batteries, Green Hydrogen, and a Thorium Reactor for China

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2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer.

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How is New Zealand disposing of EV batteries?

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The programme’s foundation is built on the concept of a circular economy , which seeks to avoid the linear “take-to-waste” model. A battery in its second life can serve a variety of purposes, such as: Providing stability to the power grid. Learn more about it here.

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Researchers developing DC micro smart grid for charging EV fleets; Li-ion, redox flow batteries and renewables

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A team from Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Engineering IAO, together with Daimler AG and the Institute for Human Factors and Technology Management at the University of Stuttgart, is developing both the charging infrastructure and the energy management systems required to manage large fleets of EVs in a project called charge@work.

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UC Davis researchers suggest we may be at the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation

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Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled. It appears that these efforts may jumpstart the hydrogen economy at last.

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Researchers Aim to Decarbonize Chemical Industry by Electrifying It

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The task is clearly enormous, not just for the chemical manufacturing industry itself but for the larger economy. One initiative is to establish an NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) to develop an industry-driven research portfolio with the goal of catalyzing the decarbonization of the chemical sector. “We