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

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Battelle staff developed the new Grid Command Distribution software internally as part of its work over the past two years as part of an ongoing smart grid demonstration project in Ohio: AEP Ohio’s gridSMART program, sponsored by the DOE. AEP gridSMART.

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OSU team demonstrates concept of potassium-air battery as alternative to lithium-air systems

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Researchers at Ohio State University (OSU) have demonstrated the concept of a potassium-air (K?O Potassium, an alkali metal similar to lithium (and sodium) can be used in a rechargeable battery. O 2 battery (0.5 M KPF6 in DME) at a current density of 0.16 Credit: ACS, Ren and Wu. Click to enlarge. O 2 ) battery with low overpotentials.

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OSU smart membrane could enable new category of high-energy, high-power energy storage for EVs

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A team at the Ohio State University has developed a membrane that regulates bi-directional ion transport across it as a function of its redox state and that could be used as a programmable smart membrane separator in future supercapacitors and redox flow batteries. Travis Herya and Sundaresan (2016). Click to enlarge.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Eagle Picher, in partnership with the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, will develop a new generation of high energy, low cost planar liquid sodium beta batteries for grid scale electrical power storage applications. The R&D seeks to be a major contributor to future-generation direct-solar fuel technologies.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

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Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Battery manufacturing is energy-intensive EV batteries offer the opportunity to take a huge step toward truly sustainable future mobility, but they currently carry a sizable environmental burden. However, EV battery components may be very different in the near future.

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How clean is EV battery manufacturing?

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Green Energy Ohio plant in Dayton, OH. Battery manufacturing is energy-intensive EV batteries offer the opportunity to take a huge step toward truly sustainable future mobility, but they currently carry a sizable environmental burden. However, EV battery components may be very different in the near future.

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