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EnerG2, a company working on synthetic carbon materials for energy storage devices, hit pay dirt last summer with the award of a stimulus grant under a DOE program. Today, in Albany, Ore., the startup at last kicked off construction of the factory made possible by that grant. Read more »

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Here at the Department of Energy’s first ARPA-E Summit, which was created around the $400 million in grants that the DOE is giving out to early-stage clean power startups, there’s the “haves” and the “have nots.” The “haves” are the fortunate (lucky?) 1 percent of applicants […] Read more »

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Ultracapacitors are the hyperactive version of energy storage — they have ultra-fast charge and discharge times, but lag behind batteries in terms of the amount of energy they can store. Because of their unique characteristics, entrepreneurs and investors have seen them as an area of breakthrough […] Read more »

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All eyes have been on the clean power and energy efficiency funds rolling out of the stimulus package, as well as the climate bill, and its cap-and-trade system, currently winding through the Senate. But a lesser-known bill — the Storage Technology of Renewable and Green Energy […] Read more »

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Less than a year has passed since Quercus Trust and 21Ventures threw down $500,000 in seed money for a small Austin, Texas, startup, Graphene Energy, with a big idea for disrupting the energy storage market. The idea: Develop a technology using graphene, a one-atom-thick sheet of […] Read more »

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