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The Net-Zero Neighborhood: Advanced Energy Storage and Highly Efficient Photovoltaics Take Transportation Off the Gasoline Grid and Residential Off the Electric Grid

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Gil Weigand of Oak Ridge National Laboratory outlined his vision of a critical solution to the energy, climate and ensuing national security threats facing the US: the Net-Zero Neighborhood (NZN). batteries); the creation of grid-enabled consumer-side energy generation appliances; and a robust set of standards and protocols.

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Opinion: Reinventing fuel-based power for a more secure and resilient grid

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In Europe, for example, on- and off-shore wind energy potential is estimated to be ten times greater than the annual demand. [ It is argued, therefore, that with this power potential, we can create enough excess in wind and solar power that the statistical likelihood of not having the power supply to match demand is effectively zero.

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IEEE Celebrates Engineering Brilliance

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HAGIT MESSER-YARON Tel Aviv University “For contributions to sensing of the environment using wireless communication networks.” VAIDYANATHAN Caltech “For contributions to theory and practice of statistical, graph, and distributed signal processing.” IEEE MEDAL FOR ENVIRONMENTAL AND SAFETY TECHNOLOGIES Sponsor: Toyota Motor Corp.

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NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

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NREL research confirms that after being used to power a car, a Li-ion battery retains approximately 70% of its initial capacity—making its reuse a valuable energy storage option for electric utilities, before battery materials are recycled. —Ahmad Pesaran, NREL Energy Storage Group Manager.

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Battelle introduces Grid Command Distribution services and software for rapid modeling of smart grid distribution circuits

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Double-click on the file, open it up, plot, do all kind of statistical-based analysis on the file or sets of files. GridLAB-D is a flexible simulation environment that can be integrated with a variety of third-party data management and analysis tools.

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VW Showcases Golf Blue-e-motion at Berlin E-Mobility Event

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This range meets the needs of most German commuters: According to the German Federal Statistical Office, 6 of every 10 people in the workforce commute by car. A separate air cooling system ensures a constant thermal environment in the battery compartment. On average, 45.8% drive less than 10 kilometers (one-way commute), another 28.1%

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Ceder group at MIT analyzes the limits and opportunities of phosphates as Li-ion cathode materials using a Materials Genome approach

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Ceder leads the CEDER (Computational and Experimental Design of Emerging materials Research group) at MIT, and has been pushing for the realization of the “Materials Genome” project to bring advanced automated computing environments coupled to databases to materials design. Hautier et al. V limit such as Mn 3+ /Mn 4+ , they said.

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