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Stryten Energy Awarded MAKE IT Prize Funding for SAVES Project

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Wednesday, May 1, 2024
Other Energy, Batteries, Other Manufacturing, Alternative Energy, Energy, Engineering, Technology, Manufacturing, MAKE, EERE, Renewable energy, OTT, OCED, Prize

Stryten Energy LLC, a U.S.-based energy storage solutions provider, has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy through the MAKE IT Prize to build a domestic vanadium electrolyte manufacturing plant to support long duration energy storage.

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  • Stryten Energy LLC, a U.S.-based energy storage solutions provider, has received an award from the U.S. Department of Energy through the MAKE IT Prize to build a domestic vanadium electrolyte manufacturing plant to support long duration energy storage.
  • The Securing America’s Vanadium Electrolyte Supply (SAVES) project will deploy Stryten’s proprietary reactor design to provide domestically produced, low-cost electrolyte.
  • The Manufacture of Advanced Key Energy Infrastructure Technologies (MAKE IT) Prize was developed by the Office of Technology Transitions (OTT), the Offices of Clean Energy Demonstrations (OCED), and Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) with the goal of catalyzing the domestic manufacturing of critical clean energy technology components.
  • “Stryten Energy is building the foundation to meet the critical need for vanadium electrolyte, which is central to long-duration energy storage,” said Scott Childers, Vice President of Essential Power at Stryten Energy.

US Department of Energy Recommends Grant Award for ERI’s Plan to Expand Participation in Consumer Electronics Recycling

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Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Hardware, White House, Federal Government, Alternative Energy, Security, Data Management, Energy, Sustainability, Consumer Electronics, Technology, Recycling, Batteries, Environment, Public Policy, Government, Environmental Health, Other Energy, Mobile, Wireless, Environmental protection, Electric Power Research Institute, Panasonic, SOC, Organization, LG, Entrepreneurship, EERE, National Renewable Energy Laboratory, ASUS, MESC, EVS, Waste management, Energy efficiency, Natural Resources, Carbon, Electronic waste, Samsung, Investment, Lithium, E-Stewards, Sony, Renewable energy, MRM, Privacy, Collection, DOE, Vizio, HP, ERI

ERI’s application for grant funding of about $5 million is designed to support the DOE’s goal to increase collection of end-of-life consumer electronics and stand-alone batteries for recycling as a key contributor in developing a sustainable domestic source of battery-grade materials.

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  • ERI’s application for grant funding of about $5 million is designed to support the DOE’s goal to increase collection of end-of-life consumer electronics and stand-alone batteries for recycling as a key contributor in developing a sustainable domestic source of battery-grade materials.
  • “We are grateful and excited about the DOE’s support of and commitment to bipartisan infrastructure laws surrounding consumer electronics battery recycling, reprocessing, and battery collection,” said John Shegerian, Co-Founder, Chairman and CEO of ERI.
  • “We’re honored and humbled to receive the MESC’s recommendation to receive the grant award to pioneer an innovative and comprehensive outreach program to engage and inspire more Americans to responsibly recycle their end-of-life electronics and consumer batteries.
  • ERI is the largest fully integrated IT and electronics asset disposition provider and cybersecurity-focused hardware destruction company in the United States.

Launch Alaska Selects VECKTA as Technology Partner to Enable Clean Energy Projects for U.S. Department of Energy-Backed Alaska Energyshed

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Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Climate change, EERE, Environment, Intelligence, Alaska Natives, SAN, Energy efficiency, Renewable energy, Ageing, Cryptocurrency

ANCHORAGE, Alaska and SAN DIEGO, March 26, 2024 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Launch Alaska, a climate tech accelerator, has selected VECKTA, the source for onsite energy solutions, as its technology platform to facilitate clean energy deployments for communities in Northwest and Southeast Alaska as part of the Alaska Energyshed project.

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  • VECKTA will facilitate clean energy deployments for communities in Northwest and Southeast Alaska as part of the Alaska Energyshed project.
  • "With VECKTA as our core technology, Alaska Energyshed will have a seamless, user-friendly, and democratized space for deploying the energy systems we desperately need," said Isaac Vanderburg, Launch Alaska president & CEO.
  • Burdened by high energy costs and aging grid infrastructure, Alaska communities desperately need clean, reliable, and affordable energy sources.
  • The effort involves collaboration between Alaska communities and regional Alaska Native corporations, with VECKTA as an enabling technology partner.

REMADE Announces Registration Is Open for 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Tech Summit & Conference

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Thursday, January 18, 2024
Advanced Materials, MacArthur Foundation, DOE, Renewable energy, Ellen, Partnership, Ellen MacArthur, National academy, John Macarthur (wool pioneer), Aluminium, Systems analysis, Plastic, Environment, EERE, Recycling, Textile, Carbon, Climate change, Conference, Polymer, Energy efficiency, REMADE, Steel, Biodiversity loss, Nature, Public sector, Circular economy, Metal

ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The REMADE Institute, a 168-member public-private partnership established in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy (DOE), is pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference and conference proceedings from the Institute's inaugural 2023 conference are now available.

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  • ROCHESTER, N.Y., Jan. 18, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- The REMADE Institute, a 168-member public-private partnership established in collaboration with the United States Department of Energy (DOE), is pleased to announce that registration is open for the 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference and conference proceedings from the Institute's inaugural 2023 conference are now available.
  • "REMADE and our partners are very excited to convene, once again, an in-depth, multidisciplinary, action-based scientific conference and international thought-leadership event addressing all aspects of the circular economy," said REMADE CEO Nabil Nasr.
  • The REMADE Circular Economy Tech Summit & Conference, now an annual event, advances the conversation on a circular approach and how it can benefit nations in meeting their multiple energy, environmental, manufacturing, industrial decarbonization, and economic goals.
  • The 2024 REMADE Circular Economy Technology Summit & Conference is open to REMADE members, non-members, and university students from across the U.S. and around the world.

OptiFuel’s Total-Zero™ 5600 hp RNG-Electric Line Haul Locomotive and RNG-Powered Tender are on Track for Testing at the Federal Railroad Administration’s Transportation Technology Center

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Thursday, January 11, 2024
Environment, EV, Electric Vehicles, Rail, Automotive, Transport, Oil, Gas, Sustainability, Alternative Energy, Green Technology, Energy, Well, Carbon, LFP, ISO, DOE, Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad, Physics, Rail transport by country, Transportation Technology Center, Renewable energy, Government, Air brake, DGE, Multimedia, BAE Systems, TTC, RNG, Public, Ministry of Energy, EERE, IHB, Nitrogen, New York Air Brake, Energy efficiency, NOx, ZERO, Particulates, WTW, ENSCO, FRA, Rail transport

The RNG-powered line haul locomotive produces 5100 hp of continuous power from zero emission Cummins RNG engines using OptiFuel’s Quick-Power™ technology with a peak power of 5600 hp with the standard LFP battery pack.

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  • The RNG-powered line haul locomotive produces 5100 hp of continuous power from zero emission Cummins RNG engines using OptiFuel’s Quick-Power™ technology with a peak power of 5600 hp with the standard LFP battery pack.
  • Partially funded with a Department of Energy (DOE) grant, the program will perform pre-production testing at the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Transportation Technology Center (TTC) for 12 months.
  • In 2026, OptiFuel will start a 2-year, 1-million-mile test program with ten pre-production 5600 hp RNG line haul locomotives and five 10,000 DGE RNG tenders operating around the US.
  • The RNG line haul locomotive is estimated to be priced around $5.5 million and can be purchased or leased.

MDB Capital Holdings Reports Third Quarter 2023 Results

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Wednesday, November 15, 2023
Webcast, Feedback, Security (finance), Olympia Capital Holdings, Entrepreneurship, IP, ABS, MDBH, Renewable energy, EERE, Investment, Shell, Energy efficiency, MDB, Marlett, IPO, DOE, Synthetic biology, NREL, Patent, Cryptocurrency

Addison, TX, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MDB Capital Holdings, LLC, (NASDAQ: MDBH) (“MDB”), a public venture platform with the objective of growing the public venture marketplace and optimizing the way meaningful technologies are financed and built, yesterday reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023 on form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and will highlight recent corporate progress on today’s call with management.

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  • Addison, TX, Nov. 15, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- MDB Capital Holdings, LLC, (NASDAQ: MDBH) (“MDB”), a public venture platform with the objective of growing the public venture marketplace and optimizing the way meaningful technologies are financed and built, yesterday reported results for its third quarter ended September 30, 2023 on form 10-Q filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, and will highlight recent corporate progress on today’s call with management.
  • “The third quarter of 2023 was highlighted by an important milestone in our company’s journey, as we successfully completed our IPO and began trading on the NASDAQ,” said Christopher Marlett, CEO and Co-Founder of MDB.
  • The company was also one of four companies selected and awarded $250,000 to participate in the latest Shell Gamechanger Accelerator™ Powered by NREL (GCxN) program .
  • The funds will be used to accelerate development and commercialization of Invizyne’s disruptive synthetic biology and biomanufacturing platform.

Argonne and Idaho National Laboratories Partner with CMBlu Energy for Innovative Long-Duration Energy Storage Project

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Monday, December 4, 2023
Environmental Health, Public Policy, Government, Automotive, Science, Other Energy, Utilities, Climate Change, Alternative Energy, Energy, Other Science, Green Technology, Research, White House, Federal Government, State, Local, Environment, EV, Electric Vehicles, Environmental Policy, Argonne National Laboratory, EERE, INL, Energy efficiency, Organic, Idaho National Laboratory, DOE, Hospital, Life

The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, along with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), was chosen by the agency for a demonstration project to validate an innovative long-duration energy storage system developed by battery manufacturer CMBlu Energy.

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  • The U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory, along with Idaho National Laboratory (INL), was chosen by the agency for a demonstration project to validate an innovative long-duration energy storage system developed by battery manufacturer CMBlu Energy.
  • The collaborative project aims to improve microgrids in cold climates and make fast charging of electric vehicles more affordable in underserved communities.
  • Over the course of the project, Argonne and INL will deploy and evaluate CMBlu Energy’s Organic SolidFlow™ battery technology.
  • In the Midwest, Argonne researchers plan to demonstrate the effectiveness of CMBlu’s Organic SolidFlow batteries at the lab’s Smart Energy Plaza .

Con Edison Elects New Board Member

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Friday, October 20, 2023
Engineering, Dartmouth College, NYSE, Duke University, Assistant, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, Ice Energy, Government, Silver, Presidency of Barack Obama, Chairperson, Electricity, Cathy Zoi, Multimedia, EERE, ICF, Consolidated Edison, SES, Primary energy, Renewable energy, Founding, The, Energy policy of the Barack Obama administration, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, EVgo, Electric power, Geology

NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Edison, Inc. ("Con Edison") (NYSE:ED) today announced that its Board of Directors elected Cathy Zoi to Con Edison's Board of Directors, effective February 1, 2024. Ms. Zoi is currently the Chief Executive Officer of EVgo, Inc., one of the nation's largest public networks of electric vehicle fast chargers all powered by 100 percent renewable energy, and will step down in November after six years in that role.

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  • Cathy Zoi Will Join the Company's Board of Directors;
    NEW YORK, Oct. 19, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Consolidated Edison, Inc. ("Con Edison") (NYSE:ED) today announced that its Board of Directors elected Cathy Zoi to Con Edison's Board of Directors, effective February 1, 2024.
  • Ms. Zoi is a distinguished, experienced executive and industry thought leader who is known for her commitment to clean energy.
  • She has held numerous CEO, senior executive and board positions in the energy industry, government, academia, and non-profit sectors.
  • Ms. Zoi was an energy investor at Silver Lake and Bayard Capital, a board member for Ice Energy, SES, and Pacific Solar, and a management consultant at ICF and Next Energy.

Invizyne Awarded Additional $3.77 Million Grant from U.S. Department of Energy

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Wednesday, October 11, 2023
Acumen, Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, Plant, MDB, Renewable energy, Hayat, Petroleum, Isobutanol, DOE, Aviation, Energy efficiency, U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Inspector General, EERE

“With our patented SimplePath™ technology platform, we developed a new way to make valuable chemicals from plant-based energy sources, thereby reducing the pollution associated with traditional production methods.

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  • “With our patented SimplePath™ technology platform, we developed a new way to make valuable chemicals from plant-based energy sources, thereby reducing the pollution associated with traditional production methods.
  • This includes isobutanol, which is an industrial chemical with potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions, especially when used as aviation fuel,” said Mo Hayat, CEO of Invizyne.
  • BETO previously awarded Invizyne $2.08 million to develop and demonstrate conversion of cellulosic sugars to isobutanol, which the company successfully completed.
  • Hayat concluded, “Most people considered Invizyne’s approach to produce chemicals outside of living cells near impossible until we invented it.

Readying the Northeastern U.S. for Electric Trucks: National Grid to Build DOE Funded Roadmap

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Monday, October 16, 2023
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WALTHAM, Mass. and BROOKLYN, N.Y., Oct. 16, 2023 /PRNewswire/ --National Grid today is announcing the kickoff of a landmark study to support the electrification of commercial fleets, mapping out truck charging needs across nearly 3,000 miles of major highways in the U.S. Northeast. Funded by a $1.2 million grant awarded by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the two-year effort to build a Northeast Freight Corridors Charging Plan will focus on highways with heavy trucking traffic, including I-95 and I-90, and areas with commercial activity, like the Port of New York and New Jersey.

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  • The study led by National Grid will develop 20-year demand forecasts for more than 100 sites across New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and all New England states.
  • "Readying our grid infrastructure for electric trucks will require careful planning and close collaboration across state lines," said Bart Franey, Vice President of Clean Energy Development in New York, National Grid.
  • "This DOE grant award brings the right stakeholders into the same room to chart a clear course for electric truck charging across the Northeast.
  • National Grid will also closely coordinate with CALSTART, the recipient of a similar DOE grant, to map out truck charging needs south of National Grid's study area.