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LA-based SMLC to lead new DOE Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute; ~$800M for 5 new hub competitions

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The winning coalition, headquartered in Los Angeles, California brings together a consortium of nearly 200 partners from across academia, industry, and non-profits to spur advances in smart sensors and digital process controls that can significantly improve the efficiency of US advanced manufacturing. of Virginia; Virginia Tech; U.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy.

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

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Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000. Sparkz (Knoxville, Tennessee). ENTR Alliance (Charlottesville, Virginia). Utilidata, Inc. Providence, Rhode Island). Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

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

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. California Los Angeles, Ford Motor Company). Protection Alliance, Tennessee Valley. Tennessee – Knoxville, Waukesha Electric. This will allow a. The team will.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. E.ON’s Mr. Ewert says one winning technology could be biogas, which can be fermented from farm and domestic waste or even sewage, and then be piped through existing gas networks. Dimming the Lights to Meet Demand About Green Inc.

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