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DECEMBER 1, 2011

Volpe Center, to accelerate commercial availability of alcohol-to-jet (ATJ) renewable drop-in aviation fuel. million announced by the FAA to help advance alternative, environmentally-friendly, sustainable sources for commercial jet fuel. Earlier post.). The award was the largest of eight contracts worth a total of $7.7

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MAY 26, 2015

Last week, Audi and its partner Global Bioenergies announced that the first batch of renewable isooctane—which Audi calls “e-benzin”—using Global Bioenergies’ fermentative isobutene pathway (sugar→isobutene→isooctane) had been produced and presented to Audi by Global Bioenergies. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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APRIL 5, 2011

RPS policies as of March 2011. On December 16, 2010 the US DOE Energy Information Agency (EIA) published a report projecting that renewable energy will still only constitute 12 percent of the USA’s energy sources by 2035. In contrast, China’s 12 th five-year plan, March 5, 2011, requires 11.4 Source: DSIRE.

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MARCH 29, 2012

According to a 2011 report by Pike Research, “green chemistry” will reach a market opportunity of approximately $98 billion by 2020. DaniMer, a global leader in the bio-plastics industry, helps companies make an impact with consumers by using sustainably produced, renewable resource-based materials to differentiate their products.

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FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This cost roughly doubles to $5.44/gallon Low cost and ready availability of waste products are behind plans to implement a blending strategy that includes algae for its high energy content and petrochemical profile. gallon ($1.44/Liter) Liter) when using pure algae feedstocks. —Thomas Ulrich.

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JULY 6, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has offered a conditional commitment to Abound Solar , a manufacturer of low-cost, cadmium telluride, thin-film photovoltaic solar modules, for a $400 million, seven-year loan guarantee to expand its solar module manufacturing capabilities. and begun commercial operations.

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APRIL 15, 2010

The grant will facilitate the integration of ClearFuels’ synthesis gas technology with Rentech’s Fisher-Tropsch process, with the goal of demonstrating efficient, flexible, low-cost production of certified, drop-in, renewable diesel and jet fuel from clean biomass at Rentech’s Product Demonstration Unit in Commerce City, Colorado.

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MAY 5, 2011

ARPA-E will host a public workshop on Small-Scale Distributed Generation on 1-2 June 2011 in Alexandria, Va. This workshop will address the challenges and opportunities associated with developing low-cost electrical generator sets (gensets) with very high energy-conversion efficiency.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

China bioethanol pump price for five enzyme loading scenarios in ( a ) 2011 with a 16¢ per liter (60.6¢ In 2011, China contributed 29% of world carbon dioxide emissions and therefore the country has a significant potential to influence the present and future global energy situation. Click to enlarge. —Littlewood et al.

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JANUARY 23, 2012

In July 2011, LMBC, which has France-based Total and Bill Gates as investors, secured the rights to key patent technology invented by Sadoway and Bradwell. The electrolyte was selected on the basis of its sufficiently low melting point (396 °C) and the greater electrochemical stability of NaCl and KCl in comparison with MgCl 2.

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JULY 17, 2015

It offers the solution to several significant transitions we need: moving society from burning fossil fuels to substituting renewable resource fuels such as solar, wind and biofuels; and from using fossil materials as fuel to using them for other recyclable uses. How PHEV provides Smooth Transitions from fossil fuel to renewables.

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AUGUST 15, 2014

NextSTEPS is a four-year (2011-2014) multidisciplinary research consortium, part of the Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Davis. in the past few years important factors have emerged that are re-accelerating the commercialization of hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. —“The Hydrogen Transition”.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2015

An NREL report summarizing the 2011 Alkaline Membrane Fuel Cell Workshop noted that: In comparison with PEMFCs, AMFCs offer the advantage of avoiding Pt or Pt group metal (PGM) electrocatalysts, one of the primary limitations in the commercial deployment of fuel cells. … An alternative is the alkaline environment of the AEMFC.

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AUGUST 26, 2017

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Swiss Center for Electronics and Microtechnology (CSEM), and the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have created tandem solar cells with record efficiencies of converting sunlight into electricity under 1-sun illumination. initiative.

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JULY 8, 2011

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) recently awarded three industry teams, following a competitive procurement process, a total of $7 million for the development of computer-aided software design tools to help produce the next generation of electric drive vehicle (EDV) batteries. Source: NREL.

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OCTOBER 14, 2010

Avantium, which spun off from Shell in 2000 to develop furan-based biofuels and biomaterials, has begun construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands) to convert carbohydrates into furanic building blocks—which the company calls “YXY”—for making renewable materials and fuels.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 60 research projects for up to a combined $156 million in funding from the Fiscal Year 2011 budget. National Renewable. High Performance, Low Cost Superconducting Wires and Coils. American Superconductor will develop a new, low-cost.

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JUNE 25, 2012

In May, the US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a $150,000 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I grant to Axion Power to fund a commercialization plan for the use of its PbC batteries in a low-cost, high-efficiency dual battery architecture for micro-hybrid (i.e., In November of 2011, Axion commissioned a.5

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2010

In addition, it lacks the expensive air electrode of the zinc/air battery, adding to the lower cost of the ZAFC solution. The company intends to begin development and testing in late 2010 with full-scale field testing in the second quarter of 2011. ZAI is the second company to license the LLNL ZAFC technology. Earlier post.).

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NOVEMBER 10, 2009

In a report comparing advances in combustion engines, biofuels, electrification and other technologies, Accenture warns that the commercial viability of those disruptive technologies will be delayed unless regulators more proactively support the transformation of science into applied technologies. Waste-to-fuel. Marine scrubbers.

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JUNE 10, 2011

The new report, part of the World Energy Outlook (WEO) 2011 series, examines the key factors that could result in a more prominent role for natural gas in the global energy mix, and the implications for other fuels, energy security and climate change. It is clean and flexible.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Tax credits and gasoline prices necessary for various electric vehicles to be cost-competitive with conventional vehicles at 2011 vehicle prices. Other policies, such as a tax on the carbon content of fossil fuels, could focus on low-cost reductions in emissions outside the transportation sector. Source: CBO.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

DOE launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI) to strengthen clean energy manufacturing competitiveness by boosting energy productivity and leveraging low-cost domestic energy resources as fuels and feedstocks.

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MARCH 28, 2015

LiCoO 2 or LiFePO 4 ) is low (140–170?mAh?g 1 ) and currently limits the energy density of most commercial cells, the researchers note. The patent positions this metal fluoride as a low-cost upgrade for the cathodes in existing Li-ion batteries and is aimed at possible commercial applications. Grey, Glenn G.

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JUNE 14, 2010

That means we’ll be powering some miles with increasingly renewable electricity that isn't made from imported oil. While we’re fixing vehicles, we can also equip them with low-cost real-time MPG indicators that show us how to save money and still get to places quickly.

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JULY 19, 2012

The National Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) Project has released two major reports that synthesize its findings from the past several years of work: a Technical Analysis Report (TAR) and Policy Design Recommendations. All of this helps achieve LCFS targets in the most cost-effective manner. —Policy Design Recommendations.

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