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Horiba Group commits $9 million to UCI for new institute

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...

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Race to Rewire

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...

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Greening the grid

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...

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

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...

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