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ARPA-E awarding $36M to 22 projects in RANGE program for transformative EV storage

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ARPA-E’s new program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE) ( earlier post ), aims to accelerate widespread EV adoption by dramatically improving driving range and reliability, and by providing low-cost, low-carbon alternatives to today’s vehicles. University of Houston. EnZinc Inc. Dendrite Free Zinc?Air

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DOE awards LanzaTech $4M for low-carbon jet & diesel demo plant; 3M gpy; Audi evaluating fuel properties

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The LanzaTech facility will recycle industrial waste gases from steel manufacturing to produce a low cost ethanol intermediate: “Lanzanol.” The catalyst first removes water from the ethanol (dehydration), leaving behind ethylene. The LanzaTech award was one of six totaling $12.9 Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DOE awards $97M to 33 bioenergy research and development projects

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. MicroBio Engineering, Inc. Scalable CO 2 electrocatalysis technologies. Project title. Federal share. Topic 1:Scale-Up of Bench Applications. University of Alabama. Princeton University. Synergistic Thermo-Microbial-Electrochemical (T-MEC) Approach for Drop-In Fuel Production from Wet Waste.

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DOE awards nearly $55M to advance fuel efficient vehicle technologies in support of EV Everywhere and SuperTruck

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Eight projects are aimed at improvements including developing and demonstrating dual-fuel or dedicated natural gas engine technologies for high-efficiency medium and heavy-duty vehicles to reduce petroleum usage and developing advanced computational fluid dynamics models to accelerate the development of advanced engine technologies.

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EBI study concludes potential contribution of microalgae biofuels in US will be modest due to resource constraints and cost

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low cost system designs, high. productivity algae cultivation, high oil content, low cost harvesting and processing).” ” In all five cases, water and nutrients (N and P) are supplied by municipal wastewater, which also provides some of the carbon needed for algae growth. The favorable.

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

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Northern Illinois University (DeKalb, Illinois). Highly Efficient Low-Thermal-Budget Hydrogen and Chemical Co-Production via an Electrochemical Activation of Propane, $100,000. Wireless Radio Frequency Signal Identification and Protocol Reverse Engineering (WiFIRE), $750,000. (Lynchburg, Virginia). Beam Suntory, Inc.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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DOE funding $75,161,246, total project value with cost share $150,322,492). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Design, build, and deploy a utility-scale, low-cost compressed air energy storage system to support the integration of renewable energy sources onto the grid. 24,063,978. 48,127,957. 16,080,554. .