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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. “DUSST”: NREL’s Low Maintenance Soiling Station, $50,000 Atonometrics Inc., Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Madison, Wis. Amesbury, Mass.

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ARPA-E awards $55M to 18 projects in two new programs: TERRA for transportation energy and GENSETS for distributed generation

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This technology incorporates flexure bearings so that there are no rubbing parts, thereby eliminating the need for maintenance and greatly increasing lifetime. Georgia Institute of Technology. The C-TEC uses an array of electrochemical cells to produce electricity in a sodium ion expansion cycle driven by external combustion.