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BMW Group plants stepping up activities in balancing-power market to contribute to grid stability

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You have to imagine it as a virtual Group power plant providing us with additional flexibility. We refer to it as the BMW power pool. In addition to flexible energy generators, such as the combined heat and power (CHP) plant in Dingolfing, energy consumers can also be integrated into the BMW power pool.

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New nanolithia cathodes may address technical drawbacks of Li-air batteries; scalable, cheap and safer Li-air battery system

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The researchers refer to these particles as nanolithia. The key to the new formulation is creating particles at the nanometer scale which contain both the lithium and the oxygen in the form of a glass, confined tightly within a matrix of cobalt oxide.

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The difference between lithium iron phosphate and lithium battery

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Lithium iron phosphate battery refers to the lithium-ion battery with lithium iron phosphate as the cathode material. Transportation power supply. Power storage power. Mobile communication power. New energy storage power. Aerospace military power. Lithium iron phosphate battery.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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The report concentrates on renewable power and fuels and does not substantively address technologies such as smart grid, electric vehicles and power storage. Biomass Fuels Power Generation Solar Wind'

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