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MARCH 6, 2023

Dow and X-Energy Reactor Company entered into a joint development agreement (JDA) to demonstrate the first grid-scale advanced nuclear reactor for an industrial site in North America. X-energy manufactures its own proprietary version (TRISO-X) to ensure supply and quality control. Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding a combined $2.8 Anovion, with its partners, collaborators and stakeholders, will build 35,000 tons per annum of new synthetic graphite anode material capacity for lithium-ion batteries used in electric vehicles and critical energy storage applications. Earlier post.) Of that, $1.6

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OCTOBER 31, 2011

ECOtality and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store unveiled the first Blink Direct Current (DC) Fast Charger in Tennessee at the Lebanon Cracker Barrel location. By strategically placing Blink charging stations, we are collecting the data needed to build a commercial infrastructure which will untether drivers from their garages.

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OCTOBER 6, 2021

The facility will build on more than a decade of advanced battery development at GM Research and Development. The facility is expected to build its first prototype cells in the fourth quarter of 2022. The Wallace Center will be located on the campus of GM’s Global Technical Center in Warren, Michigan.

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APRIL 16, 2021

billion investment in partnership with LG Energy Solutions to build a new battery cell gigafactory in Tennessee. billion investment with LG in battery cell gigafactory in Tennessee appeared first on Electrek. GM has confirmed a $2.3 more… The post GM confirms $2.3

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APRIL 12, 2023

The investment allows Ford to repurpose and transform existing buildings into a state-of-the-art facility that leverages Ford of Canada’s skilled and experienced workforce. The current 487-acre Oakville site includes three body shops, one paint building, one assembly building. Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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AUGUST 1, 2010

Genera Energy, a for-profit company wholly owned by the University of Tennessee Research Foundation, broke ground on Tennessee’s Biomass Innovation Park, a campus that integrates and optimizes the entire biomass supply chain. Genera Energy was formed to implement the University of Tennessee’s Biofuels Initiative, a $70.5-million

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FEBRUARY 14, 2023

billion to build the country’s first automaker-backed LFP battery plant, offering customers a second battery technology within Ford’s EV lineup. Ford is now commited to build both nickel cobalt manganese (NCM) and lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries in the US. Ford will invest $3.5 With this $3.5-billion

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

The award recognizes EPA Green Power Partners who distinguish themselves using on-site renewable energy applications, such as solar photovoltaic (PV) or landfill gas. MW solar energy system, which is enough green power to meet 12% of the organization’s electricity use. Earlier post.). 2012 baseline. 2018 target. 1,253 kWh/car.

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APRIL 19, 2021

GM has already started reconfiguring its Tennessee factory to build electric cars. Now it has announced a new battery factory in partnership with LG Energy Solution next door.

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MAY 28, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected of a team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) for an award of up to $122 million over five years to establish and operate a new Nuclear Energy Modeling and Simulation Energy Innovation Hub. Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel Poneman. Tennessee Valley Authority.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

an EV battery-repurposing company, is unveiling the Smartville 360 Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) during the RE+ 2023 conference in Las Vegas. The Smartville 360 is expected to be installed and operational at Nissan’s Tennessee headquarters by the second quarter of 2024. Smartville Inc.,

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OCTOBER 8, 2013

UPS plans to invest approximately $50 million to build an additional nine liquefied natural gas (LNG) fueling stations, bringing the total number of stations to 13. Construction is already underway at previously-announced UPS facilities in Tennessee and Texas. Building these fueling stations is a solid future investment for UPS.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

The company has begun construction on green hydrogen production facilities in California, New York, Tennessee and Georgia that will ultimately supply 500 tons per day of liquid green hydrogen by 2025. Developing hydrogen-related infrastructure to support the build-out of the hydrogen value chain.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

The University of Texas is teaming with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee in a joint bid for the newly announced US Department of Energy (DOE) Batteries and Energy Storage Energy Innovation Hub. It would make UT-Austin an energy university and the City of Austin an energy city. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 9, 2015

While advanced composites are used in selective industries such as aircraft, satellites and cars, these materials remain expensive, require large amounts of energy to manufacture and are difficult to recycle. Doubling the length of a turbine blade can help quadruple the amount of electricity generated. Adherent Technologies, Inc.;

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NOVEMBER 22, 2022

LG Chem announced this week it will build a new $3 billion cathode manufacturing facility in Clarksville, Tennessee. The Inflation Reduction Act continues to drive new investment in America, just as it was intended to do. When complete, it will be the largest factory of its kind in the United States.

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AUGUST 30, 2016

LeMond Composites, founded by three-time Tour de France champion Greg LeMond, has licensed a low-cost, high-volume carbon fiber manufacturing process developed at the US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Earlier post.)

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OCTOBER 25, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE), General Motors and MathWorks launched the EcoCAR Mobility Challenge, the latest DOE-sponsored Advanced Vehicle Technology Competition ( AVTC ), revealed the 12 competing universities and named the Chevrolet Blazer as the vehicle platform selected for the competition. University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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APRIL 14, 2022

Envision AESC, a leading Japanese electric vehicle battery technology company, will invest $2 billion to build a new gigafactory in the Kentucky Transpark in Bowling Green, Warren County. The plant will be approximately 3 million square feet and marks one of the largest economic projects in the commonwealth’s history.

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AUGUST 10, 2021

NOVONIX’s anode materials business is based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where it is increasing capacity to produce 10,000 metric tons per year of synthetic graphite by 2023. The investment supports the development of a fully domestic supply chain for sales into the US electric vehicle and energy storage system markets.

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JUNE 11, 2021

Plug Power plans to build a green hydrogen production plant in Camden County, Georgia, to serve customers across the southeastern United States. Plug Power is investing $84 million in the facility, which is expected to create at least 24 jobs in the local community starting in 2022.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) has selected 66 research projects to receive a total of $130 million in funding through its “OPEN 2012” program. Energy-Dense Aviation Fuels from Biomass. The Allylix project team will develop energy-dense terpenes as. Earlier post.).

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MAY 1, 2012

to build one a commercial cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Nevada, Iowa. During 2011, DuPont Industrial Biosciences purchased land adjacent to the existing Lincolnway Energy ethanol plant, which will enable potential synergies in energy and logistical management. DuPont Industrial Biosciences will contract with Fagen, Inc.,

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MARCH 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) launched the Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative (CEMI), which will focus on growing US manufacturing of clean energy products and boosting US competitiveness through major improvements in manufacturing energy productivity. Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative. Earlier post.)

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding $100 million in Economic Recovery Act funding to 43 transit agencies for projects to reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from both vehicles and facilities. The Federal Transit Administration reviewed more than $2 billion in applications for these funds.

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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. million in funds to approximately 120 energy projects within seven program areas. HEATS: High Energy Advanced Thermal Storage ($37.3

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

We are building a sustainable and resilient North America-focused supply chain for EVs covering the entire ecosystem from raw materials to battery cell manufacturing and recycling. The new facility will supply the Ultium Cells LLC facilities GM and LG Energy Solution are building in Lordstown, Ohio and Spring Hill, Tennessee.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2015

A research demonstration unveiled at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (DOE ORNL) combines clean energy technologies into a 3D-printed building and a 3D-printed natural gas-powered hybrid vehicle to showcase a new approach to energy use, storage and consumption.

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JANUARY 31, 2023

GM has secured all the battery material we need to build more than 1 million EVs annually in North America in 2025 and our future production will increasingly draw from domestic resources like the site in Nevada we’re developing with Lithium Americas.

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JULY 21, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced approximately $64 million in Fiscal Year 2020 funding for 18 projects that will support the H2@Scale vision for affordable hydrogen production, storage, distribution, and use. Proton Energy Systems Inc. University of Tennessee: Knoxville. Giner ELX Inc. Nikola Corporation.

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JANUARY 28, 2010

US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that the Department of Energy has closed a $1.4 When fully operational, the vehicle assembly plant will have the capacity to build 150,000 Nissan LEAF electric cars per year, and the new plant will have an annual capacity of 200,000 battery packs. and with Houston-based Reliant Energy.

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APRIL 24, 2014

The view confirms previous hypotheses and provides insight into how to make the catalyst work better for energy uses—i.e., These natural enzymes break hydrogen for energy in the same way a fuel cell would, but use inexpensive iron or nickel at their core rather than an expensive previous metal. —Morris Bullock.

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MARCH 12, 2013

Building off the cost-share agreement announced in November 2012 with a project led by Babcock & Wilcox ( earlier post ), this follow-on solicitation is open to other companies and manufacturers and is focused on furthering small modular reactor efficiency, operations and design. Source: B&W. Click to enlarge. Earlier post.)

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MAY 3, 2023

The South Korean battery maker is also building three EV battery plants in the US with Ford Motor Co. BlueOval SK, the joint venture between SK On and Ford, plans to operate two battery plants in Glendale, Kentucky, and one factory in Stanton, Tennessee. Westwater is currently building a graphite processing plant in Kellyton, Alabama.

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JANUARY 22, 2010

The US Department of Energy has closed its $465 million loan with Tesla Motors, Inc. This is an investment in our clean energy future that will create jobs and reduce our dependence on foreign oil. It will help build a customer base and begin laying the foundation for American leadership in the growing electric vehicles industry.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Metropolitan Energy Center. Tennessee Technological University. Rural Reimagined: Building an EV Ecosystem and Green Economy for Transforming Lives in Economically Distressed Appalachia. Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP). EV Market Stimulation in Divested Economies. Native Sun Community Power Development. 4,012,930.

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