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Infinia gets $9.4 million grant from DOE
Pratik Joshi, Herald staff writer
Kennewick's Infinia Corp. will get about $9.4 million from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop a technology to help store solar energy for future use.
The project will help deliver solar energy on demand, said Jason Modrell, Infinia's manager of government programs and business development. It'll be like a high efficiency battery that will run for four to six hours, he said.
The storage module will be integrated with Infinia's solar power generator.
The founders of Infinia worked on a similar concept about 40 years ago, when they helped run an artificial heart powered by a thermal storage device, Modrell said.
Infinia's project is among the 15 funded by DOE that support President Bush's Solar America Initiative. It aims to make solar energy cost-competitive with conventional forms of electricity by 2015.
The project will be funded for a three-year program, which will help Infinia develop about 40 to 50 near commercial category products to demonstrate the technology, Modrell said.
-- Pratik Joshi: 582-1541; pjoshi@tricityherald.com; Business Beat blog at www.tricityherald.com
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