Notable & Newsworthy

August 2015

President Obama announces over a billion in energy initiatives

President Obama announced more than one billion dollars in Department of Energy (DOE) initiatives to drive innovation and accelerate the clean energy economy. As part of the President’s Clean Power Plan, DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) is making up to one billion dollars in loan guarantees available to su

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08/31/2015

ASU-Pakistan partnership to help South Asian nation create sustainable energy

In partnership with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID), Arizona State University will help bring sustained electrical power to Pakistan through groundbreaking energy and research solution hubs. The U.S.-Pakistan Centers for Advanced Studies in Energy has been made possible through an

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08/31/2015

Interior Department approves 485-megawatt Blythe Mesa Solar Project in California

U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell announced that the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has approved the Blythe Mesa Solar project in California. The 485-megawatt photovoltaic facility will be constructed in Riverside County and will produce enough renewable energy to power more than 145,000 homes in Ca

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08/31/2015

Mouser Electronics is proud to sponsor Rebellion Racing

Mouser-sponsored Rebellion Racing Team to race famed Nürburgring

Mouser Electronics is proud to sponsor Rebellion Racing as the team gears up for the 6 Hours of Nürburgring in Nürburg, Germany on August 30. Rebellion, a highly successful independent team from Switzerland, took a stunning 1–2 finish in the prestigious Privateer Class at the legendary 24 Hours Le Mans, an

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08/27/2015

Energy Department opens competition to select student teams for Solar Decathlon 2017

In support of President Obama’s commitment to a clean energy workforce, the Energy Department today announced for the first time that up to $2 million in prize money will be awarded to collegiate teams selected to compete in the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2017. Colleges, universities, and other po

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08/27/2015

This heart-shaped battery printed onto a glass cup is capable of powering an LED

Printable battery tech promises to empower IoT and wearables

Lakshmi Sandhana, Gizmag

Researchers have created printable solid-state batteries that can be printed in any conceivable shape and can be seamlessly embedded into a variety of surfaces. Conventional Li-on batteries come in set shapes and sizes because of the way they’re constructed. You need separator membranes to prevent the electrodes wi

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08/19/2015

Aluminum could give a big boost to capacity and power of lithium-ion batteries

David L. Chandler

One big problem faced by electrodes in rechargeable batteries, as they go through repeated cycles of charging and discharging, is that they must expand and shrink during each cycle — sometimes doubling in volume, and then shrinking back. This can lead to repeated shedding and reformation of its “skin” la

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08/17/2015

Kepler Energy tidal energy fence

Kepler Energy to deploy 30MW tidal energy fence in the Bristol Channel

Kepler Energy is bringing forward plans for a 30MW tidal energy fence that will be located in the Bristol Channel. The tidal energy technology, akin to a water mill and which will use the very latest carbon composite technology, has been developed by Oxford University’s Department of Engineering Science for de

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08/13/2015

Prototype aqueous solar flow battery under development at The Ohio State University. The square piece of solar cell (center) is red, because the researchers are using a red dye to tune the wavelength of light it absorbs and converts to electrons

Solar battery breaks performance milestone

After debuting the world’s first solar air battery last fall, researchers at The Ohio State University have now reached a new milestone. In the Journal of the American Chemical Society, they report that their patent-pending design—which combines a solar cell and a battery into a single device—now achieves a

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08/06/2015

NREL scientist Jianping Yu holds a petri dish of cyanobacteria culture being grown in his lab. He is working to cultivate various genetically engineered strains to promote ethylene production

Ethylene production via sunlight offers great promise

Wayne Hicks

Here's the future of ethylene production as Dr. Jianping Yu sees it. "We envision some farms in the field that cover many acres. We will have cyanobacteria harvesting sunlight and C02 and then produce ethylene or ethylene derivatives," said Yu, a research scientist in the Photobiology Group at the Ene

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08/03/2015