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DOE awarding $73.9M to 10 battery recycling projects

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Supplying Refined Battery Materials into the United States Electric Vehicle Battery Supply Chain by Synergizing Lithium-ion Battery Recycling with Mine Waste Reclamation. UC San Diego. Adaptive Second-Use Battery Utilization with Different Degradation Levels for EV Charging Stations and Power Grid Support and Resiliency.

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

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Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California). Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Survalent Technology Inc.

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BMW i home energy storage system integrates 2nd-life i3 vehicle batteries

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This approach minimizes energy waste, effectively reducing energy costs on a day-to-day basis. In 2013, BMW and the University of San Diego installed a micro grid application with Battery 2nd Life MINI E batteries. This system can enable energy produced from solar panels to be used more efficiently.

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Calif. Energy Commission to award more than $44M for hydrogen refueling and alternative fuel vehicle projects

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Concurrent Technologies Corporation will receive $2 million to share costs in a US Department of Defense vehicle-to-grid demonstration project at the Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake, in the western Mojave Desert region that includes parts of Kern, San Bernardino and Inyo counties. Waste Management of California, Inc.,

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. at San Diego, Mississippi State. deliver high power to a car or truck. California - San Diego, Moog Inc., power grid. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley.

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