article thumbnail

ARPA-E Selects 6 Projects for $9.6M in Funding, Including Improving Efficiency and Power Density of Electric Machines

Green Car Congress

University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) (Los Angeles, CA): Thermal Energy Storage with Supercritical Fluids. Two-tank molten salt is currently the preferred state-of-the-art thermal energy storage for solar thermal power plants. This project will receive $3 million in funding. million in funding.

article thumbnail

DOE announces $29M in funding for fusion energy technology development

Green Car Congress

The new process eliminates the need for expensive equipment like centrifugal systems and molten salts used in similar proposed technologies. University of California, Los Angeles. AMPERE - Advanced Materials for Plasma-Exposed Robust Electrodes - $1,250,000.

Fusion 249
article thumbnail

US DOE Offers Abengoa Solar a Conditional Commitment for $1.45B Loan Guarantee for Concentrating Solar Power Plant

Green Car Congress

Solana will include six hours of molten salt thermal energy storage capability, which will allow energy to be dispatched as needed during cloudy periods and after sunset. With this capability, Solana will be able to generate electricity well into the evening to help meet the summer peak demand.

Solar 186
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

Instrumentation to Provide Realistic Training Exercises for Radiation Protection at Nuclear Facilities, $750,000 Argon Electronics (UK) LTD, Luton, UK LLNL Composite Sorbents: Enabling Economical Biomethane Production, $500,000 SoCalGas, Los Angeles, Calif. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Louisville, Colo. WWTP, Antioch, Calif.

article thumbnail

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. trough with molten salt system, this technology can reduce. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company). The plant will incorporate features that. significantly improve photosynthesis and also allow the plant. This will allow a.

Energy 294