Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Cadmium Telluride Accelerator Consortium (CTAC) —a $20-million initiative designed to make cadmium telluride (CdTe) solar cells less expensive, more efficient and develop new markets for solar cell products. Enable cell efficiencies above 26% and module costs below $0.15/W

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Gigastack will demonstrate the delivery of bulk, low-cost and zero-carbon hydrogen through ITM Power’s gigawatt-scale polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) electrolyzers, manufactured in the UK. The project aims to reduce the cost of electrolytic hydrogen significantly. Led by Cranfield University. Contract value: £7.48

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JANUARY 21, 2021

Phinix,LLC; Rare Earth Element Separation Using Gas-Assisted Micro-Flow Extraction with Task-Specific Ionic Liquids Partners: NICHE Industrial Chemicals, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University DOE share:$500,000; Cost share $225,000; Total costs: $725,000. 525 Solutions, Inc.;

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APRIL 11, 2023

With funding from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Environmental Microbes as a BioEngineering Resource ( EMBER ) program ( earlier post ), San Diego State University researchers are developing advanced extraction methods with the aim of boosting the domestic supply of REEs.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

REPAIR teams will develop technology that enables gas utilities to update their distribution systems at low cost and continue to reliably service commercial and residential gas delivery needs nationwide. Structural Materials-aided Advanced Renewal Technology for REPAIR (SMART REPAIR) - $5,000,000. University of Maryland.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2023

The significance of this fluorinated cation undoubtedly extends to other advanced battery systems beyond lithium, all of which universally require kinetic protection of highly fluorinated interphases. It is low cost because it can be made with extremely high purity and yield in one simple step rather than multiple steps.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2021

The projects, funded through DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Vehicles Technology Office (VTO), address the two largest contributors to transportation sector emissions: passenger cars and light-duty trucks account for nearly 60% of emissions and medium- and heavy-duty trucks account for nearly 25%. General Motors.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 11, 2017

Renewable chemicals company Avantium has acquired the assets of Liquid Light. Liquid Light has developed proprietary process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide. It will extend our capabilities beyond catalytic conversion of biomass. —Tom van Aken, CEO of Avantium.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2011

would be highly desirable to couple hydrolysis processes with aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation to be able to use low cost lignocellulosic feedstocks for making hydrocarbon fuels. Huber (2011) Renewable gasoline from aqueous phase hydrodeoxygenation of aqueous sugar solutions prepared by hydrolysis of maple wood. Thus, Li et al.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Start-up Liquid Light, a developer of process technology to make major chemicals from low-cost, globally-abundant carbon dioxide ( earlier post ), has closed a $15-million Series B financing. New investors include Sustainable Conversion Ventures, which focuses on renewable fuels and chemicals investments.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced five major agricultural research projects aimed at developing regional, renewable energy markets, generating rural jobs, and decreasing America’s dependence on foreign oil. The project aims to develop a regional source of renewable aviation fuel for Seattle-Tacoma International Airport.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 27, 2023

Researchers from Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory and the University of Connecticut have demonstrated high-performance metal-supported solid oxide fuel cells (MS-SOFC) with an integrated high entropy alloy (HEA) internal reforming catalyst (IRC) for transportation applications using ethanol and methanol as fuels.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Now we are accelerating Direct Air Capture technology that enables efficient and low-cost CO 2 capture—the future of CO 2 recycling. This is the case when it is manufactured from wind energy, renewable generated CO 2 and hydrogen extracted from water.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 15, 2019

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University have shown for the first time that a low-cost, non-precious metal cobalt phosphide (CoP) catalyst catalyst can split water and generate hydrogen gas for hours on end in the harsh environment of a commercial device.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 4, 2021

million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development projects under the funding opportunity announcement (FOA) FE-FOA 0002397 , University Turbines Systems Research (UTSR) — Focus on Hydrogen Fuels. There is renewed interest in the use of hydrogen, a clean-burning fuel, for turbine-based electricity generation.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Energy Markets in a State of Change. by Bill Cooke. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Purdue University, West Lafayette, Ind. 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. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2010

The company will be an engineering partner on each of six processes for biofuel production being evaluated under the program: fermentation, catalytic conversion, catalytic fast pyrolysis, hydropyrolysis, hydrothermal liquefaction, and a low-cost, one-step syngas-to-distillates process. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Previously, carbon fiber was too expensive for maximum utilization in this market. Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 16, 2016

One initiative, SuperTruck II ( earlier post ), will award $80 million to four projects to develop and to demonstrate cost-effective technologies that more than double the freight efficiency of Class 8 trucks. Accelerated Development and Deployment of Low‐Cost Automotive Mg Sheet Components (Area of Interest 3). Drive Oregon.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

Researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis suggest that a number of positive trends indicate that we may be seeing the beginning of a real hydrogen transition in transportation, despite earlier starts that fizzled. —“The Hydrogen Transition”. Driving factors.

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JANUARY 20, 2015

IFP Energies nouvelles (IFPEN) and its subsidiary Axens have formed a strategic alliance to develop and to commercialize a new technology for the low cost production of bio-based benzene, toluene and paraxylene using Anellotech’s process of Catalytic Fast Pyrolysis (CFP) of non-food biomass. Anellotech Inc., Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into baseload generation."

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2011

GW of installed capacity, and seven countries represent 88% of the world market. Subsequently, two geothermal energy projects led by researchers at the National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) were selected to receive funding from the US Department of Energy•s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

The pouch cells being developed in this project are high capacity, low cost batteries for large scale renewable energy storage and therefore address a distinct market segment to the Internet of Things (IoT) applications for which Ilika’s Stereax batteries are designed.

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Lithium Sulfur Batteries Battery Lithium Ion 150

Baua Electric

APRIL 25, 2024

More favourable and better solutions for lubrication-free movements, low-cost automation and CO2-reducing products are the focal points. Three new materials, which have already proven themselves with users such as excavator manufacturers, are coming onto the market. “’igus, make the excavator lubrication-free!’

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

University of North Dakota Energy & Environmental Research Center (Grand Forks, ND) will complete an initial engineering design for a hybrid capture system and estimate associated costs for retrofitting the Red Trail Energy ethanol plant. DOE Funding: $1,500,000; Non-DOE Funding: $405,328; Total: $1,905,328. ION Clean Energy Inc.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

In theory, they should be a good choice for applications, such as storing surplus energy from renewables. Gelion founder and inventor of the new technology, Professor Thomas Maschmeyer at the University of Sydney, describes how it works. Our aim is to firm renewables, making solar and wind into baseload generation."

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

The Peloton project, led by Purdue University ( earlier post ) will apply next-generation truck platooning technology and concepts for smart, cloud-connected powertrains to achieve 20% fuel savings for tractor-trailers. Our first truck platooning system is coming to market in 2017.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 3, 2014

A team led by Dr. Janet Westpheling at the University of Georgia has engineered the thermophilic, anaerobic, cellulolytic bacterium Caldicellulosiruptor bescii , which in the wild efficiently uses un-pretreated biomass—to produce ethanol from biomass without pre-treatment of the feedstock. Earlier post.). —Janet Westpheling.

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AUGUST 12, 2015

DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share). DOE: $749,999 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,499 (20% cost share). DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $187,500 Total: $937,500 (20% cost share). The Ohio State University. DOE: $695,000 Non-DOE: $206,853 Total: $901,853 (23% cost share). Arizona State University.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

In 2007, Vorbeck signed a worldwide license agreement with Princeton University for a patented method from the the Aksay Labs for manufacturing graphene at commercial scale. Vorbeck, in collaboration with PNNL and Princeton, is working to rapidly bring this new technology to market.

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AUGUST 14, 2015

While conventional silicon-based semiconductor technology currently owns the plug-in vehicle power electronics market, emerging wide band gap (WBG) semiconductors offer significantly greater energy efficiency potential than silicon. Adoption of WBG power electronics may be constrained by their cost and reliability. —Warren et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2010

The awards in this tranche focus on power electronics, grid-scale energy storage, and building efficiency; of the 43, three are categorized specifically for the automotive market—power electronics projects led by HRL Laboratories, LLC; Arkansas Power Electronics International, Inc.; and Case Western Reserve University.

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