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A team of USU researchers is getting some national attention for a project that could give electric vehicle batteries a second life as solar energy storage. The team from USU’s Utah Power Electronics Lab includes professors Hongjie Wang and Regan Zane as well as doctoral students Marium Rasheed and Mohamed Kamel. Working with Maryland-based research firm Dream Team, the researchers are developing technology that could adapt batteries retired from electrical vehicles for storing solar energy. “That would solve two problems,” said Wang, the project’s principal investigator. ...

USU Apr 29, 2021 LOGAN --- A team of researchers from Utah State University were named one of ten finalists in the nationwide American-Made Solar Prize competition. For their submission, researchers from the Utah Power Electronics Lab partnered with Dream Team, a Maryland-based security research firm, to develop solar energy storage systems using “retired” batteries from electric vehicles, or EVs. The technology could dramatically reduce the cost of solar energy storage, making the adoption of solar energy more accessible and economically viable for widespread use. “...

Thursday, 29 April 2021 A team of researchers from Utah State University were named one of 10 finalists in the fourth round of the nationwide American-Made Solar Prize competition. Supported by the U.S. Department of Energy and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, the American-Made Solar Prize is a $3 million prize competition designed to transform the best ideas around solar into technology solutions that are ready for market. Last year, 121 teams submitted ideas to this three-stage competition. In December, 20 semifinalist teams were selected to move on in the competition. And on ...