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SUPERVALU unveils new natural gas powered truck fleet and fill station

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The conversion to natural gas will reduce the fleet’s annual oil consumption by more than 1 million gallons and result in 1,300 fewer tons of greenhouse gas emissions. and Baltimore.

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Advanced Biofuels USA receives USDA grant for feasibility study of eastern shore energy beet-to-jetfuel project

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Unique Maryland-based innovations of the bio-jetfuel project include non-food, low nutrient input energy beets developed by Plant Sensory Systems, LLC of Baltimore and a proprietary enzyme conversion system that utilizes the entire biomass of the energy beet root, including biomass ignored during conventional sugar production.

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PJM/Better Place study finds unmanaged charging of 1M electric cars could add $750M in annual wholesale energy costs; need for CNO-managed smart charging

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Conversely, smart charging one million electric cars via a central network operator can cut in half the increase in wholesale energy costs compared to ad hoc charging or time-of-use pricing while reducing driving costs by one-fifth. The two-tier pricing scenario, modeled on the pilot EV. The red line represents.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Hybrid Electric Buses Incremental Costs: For the incremental cost of making transit buses hybrid electric.

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How Many EV Charging Stations Will $10 Billion Buy for America?

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Add up all of those costs and you are looking at a cost of from $40,000 for a 50 kW DC fast charger to more than $400,000 for a 350 kW DC fast charger. These are the costs per charger. The more DC fast chargers installed per site, the lower the per charger cost due to the high cost of additional power and construction.

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