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Bank of America joins Stanford’s Global Climate & Energy Project

Green Car Congress

All of humankind needs energy that is reliable, cleaner and more affordable. GCEP-supported investigations have led to advances in solar power, biomass energy, hydrogen fuels, advanced combustion, carbon capture and sequestration, fuel cells, electric vehicles and the electric grid.

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Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging

Clean Fleet Report

Leveraging Parking Lot Solar Panels for EV Charging. It sounds like a utopian dream: rows of electric vehicles staying cool and charging away beneath solar panels while their owners shop, dine and conduct business. Parking lots covered with solar panels is an idea whose time has come. Can Solar Panels Produce Enough Juice?

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Tesla agrees to pay fine, install solar project in air quality case with Bay Area Air District

Teslarati

Tesla has agreed to pay a $1 million fine and install a solar roof project on top of its Fremont Factory in Northern California as part of a settlement with the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). The Solar Roof project will be approximately 160 kW and will be paired with two Powerpacks for energy storage.

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Zero-Carbon Drive to Sacto Anti-Carbon Rally and Back

Plugs and Cars

Dan Kalb of the Union of Concerned Scientists and Bonnie Holms-Gen of the Lung Association were there to lend their voices of protest against the auto industry's continuing legal assault on California. We chose the solar-powered Park n Ride just off 80. And due to all our efforts, the grid is getting even cleaner and more renewable.

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New Year’s Eve blackout spotlights Puerto Rico’s ‘critical’ need for planned solar + storage

Baua Electric

In a move to help bolster Puerto Ricos grid resilience, Convergent Energy and Power secured a conditional commitment from the US Department of Energy (DOE) Loan Programs Office for a massive solar and battery storage initiative in December. Cleaner, more reliable grid Convergent estimates the initiative will avoid 2.5

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Heat Pumps—The Well-Tempered Future of A/Cs

Cars That Think

And anything, like electrically powered heat pumps, that can shift heating away from natural gas furnaces to cleaner sources of energy would also have a big climate impact, because 63 percent of American homes get their heat from natural gas. Up north there is a tipping point that they’re trying to get to,” Conlan says.

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EPA selects 55 applicants to receive $3 billion in grant funding through Clean Ports Program – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Delivering cleaner technologies and resources to US ports will slash harmful air and climate pollution while protecting people who work in and live nearby port communities.” The agency anticipates making awards once all legal, statutory and administrative requirements are satisfied.

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