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Horiba Group commits $9 million to UCI for new institute

Written on August 29, 2018.

Research to focus on better connectivity between transportation and energy sectors Irvine, Calif., Aug. 29, 2018 – Horiba Group, a leading global provider of analytical and measurement systems, has committed $9 million to the Advanced Power and Energy Program at the University of California, Irvine to establish the Horiba Institute for Mobility and Connectivity. HIMAC will focus research and education efforts on combining formerly disparate energy and transportation sectors into an integrated...

Race to Rewire

Written on August 1, 2018.

Aug. 1, 2018 – The green revolution that is sweeping California has skipped past the Oak View neighborhood in Huntington Beach. UC Irvine’s Advanced Power and Energy Program wants to help change that and, in the process, conduct some important research. That’s why Jack Brouwer, APEP associate director, and a team of collaborators picked Oak View as the site of its $15 million plan to build an advanced energy community. The team includes the city of Huntington Beach, the National...

Wind and solar power could meet four-fifths of U.S. electricity demand, study finds

Written on February 27, 2018.

UCI, Caltech, Carnegie: Investment in greater storage, transmission capabilities needed Irvine, Calif., Feb. 27, 2018 – The United States could reliably meet about 80 percent of its electricity demand with solar and wind power generation, according to scientists at the University of California, Irvine; the California Institute of Technology; and the Carnegie Institution for Science. However, meeting 100 percent of electricity demand with only solar and wind energy would require storing...

UCI and SoCalGas Partner to Design “Advanced Energy Community”

Written on December 12, 2017.

Oak View neighborhood in Huntington Beach to benefit from model energy plan Dec. 12, 2017 – Southern California Gas Co. (SoCalGas) today announced that it will partner with the University of California-Irvine’s Advanced Power & Energy Program to design an “Advanced Energy Community” in an underserved neighborhood in Huntington Beach. The community will be planned as a replicable model that optimizes a full spectrum of diverse...

UCI chemists’ solar-powered device generates electricity through ion transport

Written on November 15, 2017.

Innovative technology could lead to low-cost seawater desalination Nov. 15, 2017 – By binding photosensitive dyes to common plastic membranes and adding water, chemists at the University of California, Irvine have made a new type of solar power generator. The device is similar to familiar silicon photovoltaic cells but differs in a fundamental way: Instead of being produced via electrons, its electricity comes from the motion of ions. Dubbed the “synthetic, light-driven proton pump”...

UCI chemists’ solar-powered device generates electricity through ion transport

Written on November 15, 2017.

Innovative technology could lead to low-cost seawater desalination Irvine, Calif., Nov. 15, 2017 — By binding photosensitive dyes to common plastic membranes and adding water, chemists at the University of California, Irvine have made a new type of solar power generator. The device is similar to familiar silicon photovoltaic cells but differs in a fundamental way: Instead of being produced via electrons, its electricity comes from the motion of ions. Dubbed the “synthetic, light-driven...

Student Team Excels in Business Contest

Written on April 26, 2017.

April 26, 2017 – A multidisciplinary team of UC Irvine undergraduate students from the schools of engineering and arts took fourth place in an international business competition with their bicycle-powered, sustainable, closed-loop 3-D printing process. The ambitious prototype, originally developed as a research endeavor, recently took a “serious turn toward entrepreneurship,” according to Jesse Colin Jackson, arts assistant professor and the team’s adviser. Closed Loop Plastics...

Greening the grid

Written on January 3, 2017.

UCI tests integration of renewable hydrogen into existing natural gas systems Brian Bell / UCI There are lots of different kinds of laboratories at the University of California, Irvine, but a unique one being used by Advanced Power & Energy Program researchers also happens to generate partly renewable electricity and heat for the campus. UCI’s power plant has been made available to APEP engineers so they can study the safety and effectiveness of power-to-gas, a process in which excess...

In a National First, UCI Injects Renewable Hydrogen into Campus Power Supply

Written on December 6, 2016.

Power-to-gas technique offers new way to store and use excess wind and solar energy Dec. 6, 2016 — University of California, Irvine engineers have successfully implemented the first power-to-gas hydrogen pipeline injection project in the United States, demonstrating the use of excess clean electricity that would otherwise go to waste. P2G is a technique for converting surplus sustainable energy from solar panels or wind farms into hydrogen, which can be blended with natural gas and...

Let the sun shine

Written on December 14, 2010.

U.S., Iranian solar energy scientists convene at UCI in collegial counterpoint to stormy political realm Janet Wilson, University Communications Weeks before an Iranian nuclear scientist was killed by a car bomb and WikiLeaks detailed neighboring nations’ fear of Iran’s warhead capabilities, a more peaceful event took place at UC Irvine. A dozen Iranian solar energy scientists met with their American counterparts for a two-day mid-November workshop at the Arnold & Mabel Beckman Center...

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