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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Red Line Westlake Rail Wayside Energy Storage System: Install wayside energy storage substation (WESS) at Westlake passenger station is at-grade level on the high-speed heavy rail subway Red Line. Maryland Transit Administration, Maryland: $522,000. TIGGER will fund the labor portion of the project only.

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ARPA-E awarding $60M to 23 projects; dry cooling and fusion power

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ARPA-E’s ARID program will fund transformative new power plant cooling technologies that enable high thermal-to-electric energy conversion efficiency with zero net water dissipation to the atmosphere. ARID AWARDS. Lead organization. Description. Advanced Cooling Technologies. 3,000,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland).

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ARPA-E awards $175M to 68 novel clean energy OPEN 2021 projects

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The selected projects—spanning 22 states and coordinated at universities, national laboratories, and private companies—will advance technologies for a wide range of areas, including electric vehicles, offshore wind, storage and nuclear recycling. Dimensional Energy. University of Maryland.

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JCESR team identifies new mechanism hampering Mg-ion batteries; unforeseen reactivity

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Now, a research team at the US Department of Energy’s Joint Center for Energy Storage Research, led by scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), has discovered a set of chemical reactions involving magnesium that degrade battery performance even before the battery can be charged up.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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light energy. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. that produces large quantities of sugar and requires less water. Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies. Research Center, University of Maryland, University of Texas at. storage material. Chromatin, Inc.

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