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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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The project will include 13 different technologies from the substation to the customer, including distribution automation and control, smart meters and appliances, home area networks, plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, energy and battery storage, and renewable generation sources. Center for the Commercialization of Electric Technologies (TX).

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NAMII awarding $9M to 15 additive manufacturing projects

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Development of a Low-Cost Lens® Engine. This project will enable a broad proliferation of metal AM through the development of a modular, cost-effective “LENS® Engine” for metal laser deposition, which can be installed into virtually any modern machine tool. The University of New Mexico; and Youngstown State University).

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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High Efficiency Power-to-Gas in a Modular Hybrid Electrobioreactor, $1,000,000. Field Testing and Validation of Hybrid Optimization and Performance Platform (HOPP) , $500,000. GE Global Research (Niskayuna, New York). DigiCollect LLC (New York, New York). Array Technologies (Albuquerque, New Mexico).

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Alone, the federal government plans to purchase more than 500 plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEV) or EVs in fiscal year 2017. The project is the first of its kind in New Mexico and the first all-electric Bus Rapid Transit system in the United States. Municipal fleet electrification.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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million of non-Federal cost sharing. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology , Soccoro, N.M.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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states (Arizona, California, Montana, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah, and Washington) and four Canadian provinces (British Columbia, Manitoba, Ontario, and Quebec). a third-party vendor has successfully run auctions on behalf of federal or state agencies at low cost. Gases: CO 2 emissions. Sources: Large electric generators.

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