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This Member Gets a Charge from Promoting Sustainability

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Ever since she was an undergraduate student in Turkey, Simay Akar has been interested in renewable energy technology. Simay Akar Employer AK Energy Consulting Title CEO Member grade Senior member Alma mater Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey “I love the industry and the people in this business,” Akar says.

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SGH2 building largest green hydrogen production facility in California; gasification of waste into H2

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The SPEG process extracts all carbon from the waste feedstock, removes all particulates and acid gases, and produces no toxins or pollution. It not only solves our air quality and climate challenges by producing pollution-free hydrogen. Hydrogen can also reduce and potentially replace natural gas in all applications.

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Nuclear Energy Brinkmanship in Ukraine

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And, all the while, each blames the other as explosions rock the nuclear site. To date, plant operators have continued to respond to orders from Ukraine’s grid operator.) At the time the Minister of Energy was pushing Europe’s grid regulators to rapidly expand capacity limits for Ukrainian electricity exports. “We

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Renault makes public its lifecycle study of Fluence ICE vs Fluence EV

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is shown with both UK and French grid mixes. Renault recently made public the findings of an internal study, published first in October 2011, detailing and comparing the lifecycle assessments (LCAs) of the battery-electric and two internal combustion engined versions (gasoline and diesel) of the Renault Fluence. Electric Fluence Z.E.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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Just over 85% of mined oil shale was used to produce electricity and heat generation; the rest was turned into shale oil, retort gas and other valuable chemicals. Waste heat is used to generate electricity, making Enefit shale oil plants net producers of electricity. of global and 17% of European reserves. million (US$12.8

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I ’s power generation, he said.

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