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New nanoparticle copper compound cathode could enable low-cost, long-life and high-power potassium-ion batteries for grid storage

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Stationary energy storage systems that can operate for many cycles, at high power, with high round-trip energy efficiency, and at low cost are required. Cost is a greater concern. We decided we needed to develop a new chemistry if we were going to make low-cost batteries and battery electrodes for the power grid.

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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Low-Cost and Scalable Second Use Battery Demonstration in Central California for Equitable Domestic Manufacturing and Job Growth. Development and Scaling Up of the Purification and Regeneration Integrated Materials Engineering (PRIME) Process for Cathodes Direct Recycling and Upcycling. Princeton NuEnergy. 10,000,000.

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Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition

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The Midwest also has a large nuclear energy component to its electric power grid, and hydrogen production from electrolysis using nuclear electricity at times of low power demand can help to improve the economics of these existing power stations.

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Electrochemical energy storage startup SPARKZ licenses ORNL cobalt-free battery tech

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The advancement is aimed at accelerating the production of electric vehicles and energy storage solutions for the power grid. Cobalt-free layered oxide cathodes: This low-cost, cobalt-free cathode material was created for the development of improved lithium-ion batteries. SPARKZ Inc. —Ilias Belharouak.

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Sandia Labs and NREL leading new DOE hydrogen infrastructure project; H2FIRST

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H 2 FIRST’s technical goal is to develop and apply physical testing, numerical simulation and technology validation to help create low-cost, high-performance materials, components and station architectures.

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Cal Energy Commission awards $1.5M to Berkeley to advance open-source advanced smart charging technology; OpenVBOSS

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PEVs are proliferating in California under the Advanced Clean Cars Program, sometimes in geographic clusters; this is creating potential load management issues for electrical utility grids at the feeder and transformer level. SEP2); Zigbee; Society of Automotive Engineers J1772; International Standards Organization 15118; etc.,

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Liquid Metal Battery Corp secures patent rights from MIT

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By securing the necessary IP infrastructure and funding from two important new-energy investors, LMBC can explore scale-up engineering and commercialization efforts. Affordable grid-level energy storage is the linchpin for massive deployment of renewable energy on the electric power grid.

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