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CenterPoint Energy Selects GE for Smart Grid Advanced Metering System for Houston, TX

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The AMS is designed to give Houston-area electric consumers the ability to better monitor and manage electric use and cost in near real-time—a first step toward developing and deploying a full smart grid. The MDS Mercury in its pole mounting. The MDS Mercury is a highly secure, industrial-grade WiMAX platform. Click to enlarge.

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This lithium-free battery startup just raised $78M in Series C funding

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It can be used for a range of stationary storage use cases, including utility grids, home storage, microgrids, industrial applications, and more. Alsym Energy, which was founded in April 2015, has developed a non-flammable, high-performance rechargeable battery chemistry that’s lithium- and cobalt-free.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

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It’s now or never if humans hope to prevent the mercury from increasing by 1.5° It’s possible to construct off-grid charging stations, but they come with hassles, such as storing power when the sun doesn’t shine. Wiring to the grid requires a licensed contractor certified in local electrical codes, which must be standardized.

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Actacell merges with flourine-based battery company Contour Energy Systems

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This network allows more rapid implementation of ActaCell’s current power cell rechargeable technology in several key markets, including portable power tools, grid stabilization and hybrid electric vehicle applications. —Bill Ott, Vice-President and General Manager of ActaCell Energy Systems.

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EPA proposes CO2 emission standards for new fossil fuel-fired power plants

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those that burn biomass only); or low capacity factor EGUs that sell less than 1/3 of their power to the grid. While the United States has limits in place for arsenic, mercury and lead pollution that power plants can emit, currently, there are no national limits on the amount of CO 2 new power plants can emit.

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5 Big Ideas for High-Temperature Superconductors

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In 1911, Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes plunged a mercury wire into liquid helium and noticed that the wire’s electrical resistance vanished. The wire had become a “superconductor.” The extremely low temperatures and high pressures needed to induce superconductivity limited its practical value for decades.

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EPA proposes rule for nationwide 30% cut in GHG from existing power plants by 2030 relative to 2005

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This entails leveraging re-dispatch over the grid to substitute generation at the most carbon-intensive affected EGUs with generation from less carbon-intensive affected EGUs (including natural gas combined cycle [NGCC] units that are under construction). mercury and hydrogen chloride), as well as ecosystem effects and visibility impairment.

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