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has been awarded a firm contract with the Hawai’i Natural Energy Institute (HNEI) of the University of Hawai’i at Manoa to supply a one-megawatt ALTI-ESS energystorage system for a test of windenergy integration. Altair Nanotechnologies, Inc. Earlier post.).
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the developer of advanced lead-carbon PbC batteries, has been awarded a $248,650 grant from the Pennsylvania Energy Development Authority to assist in the development and deployment of an Axion PowerCube battery energystorage system. The $248,650 grant is part of $1.5 Axion Power International, Inc.,
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million) grant from the German Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy as part of its “EnergyStorage Funding Initiative.” Due to its power class and high level of modularity, the battery storage system will be the first of its kind and opens up a wide array of potential applications. million (US$8.9-million)
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million in grant funding secured earlier this year. Turning CO 2 into sustainable materials that can be used in energystorage has the potential to revolutionize the whole industry. UP Catalyst offers carbons with different structure made from CO 2 : carbon nanofibers (CNFs); carbon nanospheres; and graphite.
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Stanford University’s Precourt Institute for Energy (PIE), TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy and Precourt Energy Efficiency Center (PEEC) have awarded 9 faculty seed grants totaling $2.2 million for promising new research in clean technology and energy efficiency.
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Ambri, developer of Liquid Metal Battery grid-scale energystorage technology, closed a $35-million Series C equity financing. Ambri has also received grants from the Office of Naval Research and the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center.
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