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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. UC San Diego. Adaptive Second-Use Battery Utilization with Different Degradation Levels for EV Charging Stations and Power Grid Support and Resiliency. Princeton NuEnergy. 10,000,000.

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UCSD, LG team creates solid-state battery with all-silicon anode

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University of California San Diego nanoengineers, in collaboration with researchers at LG Energy Solution, have developed a battery that combines a solid-state electrolyte and an all-silicon anode. It holds promise for a wide range of applications from grid storage to electric vehicles. —Darren H. Tan, lead author.

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ABB adds 20 kW Combined Charging System (CCS) fast charger to EVSE portfolio

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Its 20 kW design allows for quick and easy installation on widely available 3 x 32A low-cost grid connections. More recently BMW showcased the Terra 53 at the IAA Live-Drive event in Frankfurt and at the Plug-In 2013 Conference & Exposition in San Diego.

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ARPA-E announces $98M in funding for 40 OPEN projects; two opposed-piston engines projects receive $10M total

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Ecolectro is developing alkaline exchange ionomers (AEIs) to enable low-cost fuel cell and electrolyzer technologies. University of California, San Diego. Low-Cost, Easy-to-integrate, and Reliable Grid Energy Storage System with 2nd Life Lithium Batteries – $1,894,705. University of Delaware.

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California Energy Commission awards almost $1.6M for energy research projects; $600K to Seeo for solid-state Li-ion grid-storage battery system

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The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. The project is intended to help validate the performance advantages of the company’s technology for use in grid-tied energy storage and community energy storage—i.e.,

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Convert Oil Wells to Solve the Solar Storage Problem

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The idea, says Daniel Codd , a researcher in renewable energy systems at the University of California, San Diego, is to store solar-produced heat in rock formations below the surface, creating a solar-charged geothermal resource in which heat is stored for meaningful durations.

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

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Low Cost Roll-to-Roll Manufacturing of Reusable Sorbents for Energy and Water Industries, $150,000 Qualification of SAS4A/SASSYS-1 for Sodium-Cooled Fast Reactor Authorization and Licensing, $674,484 Advanced Reactor Concepts LLC, Chevy Chase, Md. San Diego, Calif. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W.