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Researchers from the United States Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have released a report that could help optimize the way electric vehicles (EVs) and hybrids connect to the electric utility grids that power them.

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This is the third part of my three-part Q&A with Al Ebron, executive director of the National Alternative Fuels Training Consortium (NAFTC). Here Ebron talks about the future of alternative fuels, alternative fuel vehicles, and the future of NAFTC.

Robert Gluck:   What do you see as the future for alternative fuels? AFVs?

The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced US$30 Million in funding for 15 RD&D partnerships that emphasize finding ways to make homes more energy efficient.

A new report released by the U.S. DOE, outlines the positive economic impact of ongoing advanced vehicle investments made through the Recovery Act.

Canada's National Research Council (NRC) looks to make its own venture into commercial biofuels from algae with a major project in Nova Scotia.

The deal has been closed. A loan of $1.4 billion from the U.S. DOE to Nissan North America Inc. (Nasdaq:NSANY) to help build an advanced battery manufacturing facility in Smyrna, Tennessee.

Lomox, a tech company based in Wales, has patented a new chemical composition for their OLED membranes which they say will bring luminescent wallpaper to the market by 2012.

A new project from Duke Energy (NYSE:DUK) proposes the installation of large-scale batteries that store excess wind energy and discharge it during times of peak demand--not just when the turbines are in action.

This past week, at the Pacific Rim Summit on Industrial Biotechnology and Bioenergy in Honolulu, Hawaii, the U.S. DOE revealed its intentions to pursue advanced biofuels and those algae-based, that can be drop-in replacements for diesel and gasoline.