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JULY 18, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $10.9 million to 13 projects to help solve common challenges across the nuclear industry and improve reactor safety, performance and cost competitiveness. Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6 Additionally, the Energy Department announced today a $1.6

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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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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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JUNE 17, 2014

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $20 million to ten new research and development projects that will advance hydrogen production and delivery technologies: six on hydrogen production and four on hydrogen delivery. FuelCell Energy Inc. Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas will receive $1.8

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MARCH 14, 2014

Baker Center for Public Policy at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville and Oak Ridge National Laboratory concludes that starting the California ZEV (Zero Emission Vehicle) mandates five years earlier or doubling their intensity increases upfront costs but also increases benefits by a greater amount. Price is a key factor.

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NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Metropolitan Energy Center. Tennessee Technological University. AOI 3: Reducing the Cost of DC Fast Charging Equipment. Technology & Design Innovations to Maximize the Reduction Effect on DCFC Unit Cost Economics (Max-REDUCE). AOI 1: EV Charging Community Partner Projects. Affordable Mobility Platform (AMP).

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AUGUST 1, 2013

US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz announced more than $22 million in new investments to help develop cost-competitive algae fuels and streamline the biomass feedstock supply chain for advanced biofuels. Moniz was speaking at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Biomass 2013 conference. Nearly $16.5 Nearly $16.5

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DECEMBER 22, 2019

LeMond and Deakin University are teamed to commercialize this innovative technology which enables reductions of 75% and 70% in capex and energy consumption per kilo of output respectively. The rapid oxidation process enables LeMond to produce carbon fiber with the lowest embodied energy of any standard PAN-based carbon fiber available today.

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MAY 10, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award up to $3 million in funding for advanced biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products available through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI). The DOE selections are: The University of Tennessee (UT).

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DECEMBER 17, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding more than $7 million to four projects that will help bring cost-effective, advanced hydrogen and fuel cell technologies online faster for both mobile and stationary applications. First Element Energy LLC, IGX Group, Inc. Air Products and Chemicals, Inc. CommScope Inc.,

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JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The projects represent up to a combined $13-million Energy Department investment.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

The state-of-art HER catalyst is platinum (Pt) and its alloys, but the scarcity and cost of Pt limit its large-scale application for electrolysis. The researchers also plan to develop a water splitter than runs on electricity produced by solar energy. Pennycook, University of Tennessee. Department of Energy.

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MARCH 16, 2013

A new review of the status of US Department of Energy (DOE) loan programs by the US Government Accountability Office (GAO) found that, as of 29 January 2013, DOE was not actively considering any applications for using the remaining $16.6 billion in appropriations to cover credit subsidy costs. billion in loan authority or $4.2

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JUNE 7, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected nine universities for awards for research projects that will continue to support innovation and development of advanced, lower emission coal technologies. The Energy Department’s $2.7 million investment will be leveraged with additional funds from the universities to support $3.1

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AUGUST 14, 2018

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 28 projects for awards totaling $38 million to support early-stage research and development of innovative hydrogen and fuel cell technologies. This work also supports the DOE’s H2@ Scale initiative to produce and use hydrogen across multiple energy sectors. Giner, ELX Inc.: 2,404,600.

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JULY 26, 2022

CAM is a key battery material consisting of components such as processed nickel, lithium and other materials representing about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. The cathode materials that LG Chem plans to supply are NCMA (nickel, cobalt, manganese and aluminum) cathode materials for EVs built on GM’s Ultium Platform.

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DECEMBER 2, 2021

The joint venture will process Cathode Active Material (CAM), a key battery material that represents about 40% of the cost of a battery cell. Our work with POSCO Chemical is a key part of our strategy to rapidly scale US EV production and drive innovation in battery performance, quality and cost.

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NOVEMBER 19, 2022

Safire, a battery technology startup formerly known as BTRY, plans to locate facilities in East Tennessee as part of its plan to commercialize the liquid-to-solid battery technology. SAFIRE was originally funded through the ORNL Seed Money program, and the project continued under DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E).

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

million award from the Department of Energy. Technology collaborators also include the Renewable Bioproducts Institute at Georgia Tech and the University of Tennessee,Knoxville. Earlier post.). Patented technologies and intellectual property will be provided by AVAPCO, Byogy and Petron. —Kevin Weiss, CEO of Byogy Renewables.

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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., One of the barriers to fuel cell commercialization is the high cost of the precious metal catalysts commonly used. This work was supported by the Department of Energy Office of Science. DuBois, and R.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

APRIL 20, 2010

Viewers of “ Who Killed The Electric Car? &# may recall it was a little more complicated than that… The first five states where the Leaf will be available are: California, Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon, and Washington. Initially, the Leaf will be sold in California and four other states: Arizona, Tennessee, Oregon and Washington.

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JULY 13, 2016

New to the 2016 report is novel assessments of potential biomass supplies from algae, from new energy crops (miscanthus, energy cane, eucalyptus), and from municipal solid waste. For the first time, the report also considers how the cost of pre-processing and transporting biomass to the biorefinery may impact feedstock availability.

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APRIL 27, 2009

We must responsibly develop our coal supplies to help us achieve energy independence, but we cannot do so without appropriately assessing the impact such development might have on local communities and natural habitat and the species it supports. Only two states, Washington and Tennessee, do not have delegated authority under SMCRA.).

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JUNE 24, 2010

Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2014

The discovery of materials with improved thermoelectric efficiency could increase the efficiency of electrical power generation, improve automobile mileage and reduce the cost of air conditioning. Partitioning into domains and phases is not unique; the corresponding boundaries have no structural defects or strain and entail no energy cost.

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JUNE 21, 2023

Increased energy consumption from autonomous vehicle (AV) sensors and computational load as well as upfront costs of sensors are barriers to broad AV adoption. This work presents the initial development and evaluation of a novel energy efficient infrastructure-based sensor. —Zachary Asher Resources S. Sharma et al.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Frontier , the world’s first exascale supercomputer—or at least the first one that’s been made public—is coming on line soon for general scientific use at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee. The European Union–backed high-performance computing arm, EuroHPC JU , is underwriting half the cost of the new exascale machine.

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FEBRUARY 21, 2015

The University of California, Riverside in collaboration with the University of Tennessee-Knoxville and CogniTek. Develop the production of cost-competitive C 8 fatty acid derivatives (which can readily be converted to high-performance lubricants and synthetic oils) from cellulosic sugars via novel metabolic engineering pathways.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

The winds had barely died down when electric-power specialists and others began calling for a radical overhaul of Puerto Rico’s electricity networks, one that would emphasize renewable energy, distributed generation, and, critically, microgrids. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. percent to 2.8

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JUNE 21, 2016

At an event in Washington, President Obama announced that the Smart Manufacturing Leadership Coalition (SMLC) will lead the new Smart Manufacturing Innovation Institute, in partnership with the Department of Energy. In the chemical industry alone, these technologies could save more than $9 billion annually in process costs.

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Electric Auto Association

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

A cost of ownership calculator and other tools can help you know how much you’ll save By Cameron Wolf, ZappyRide. Airlines , public transit , and regular commuters are feeling the strain of rising fuel costs, which have increased dramatically since August 2021. The cost of gas over the first 5 years of the car @ $3.58/gal

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 14, 2009

It’ll be mostly driven by the cost of gas. One that only uses domestic energy. He knows that if given the choice, millions of people would choose that over a car that poisons the air and uses mostly foreign energy. The Tennessee factories will have capacity for 150,000 vehicles and 200,000 battery packs a year.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Juneau, the Capital City of Alaska, has a clean, renewable source of energy, local hydropower. The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. Montgomery County, Maryland.

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JANUARY 5, 2024

Photo by Ron Cogswell on Flickr Tennessee has started the process of hiking its EV registration fee from $100 to $274 per year and beyond, aiming to continue hiking the fees in perpetuity, further increasing the disproportionately high taxes paid by EVs in the state as compared to gas cars. Tennesee State Capitol.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 14, 2015

The Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 16 solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology research projects for a total of more than $19 million ($19,358,915) in funding. FuelCell Energy, Inc. DOE: $200,000 Non DOE: $91,152 Total: $291,152 (31% cost share). FuelCell Energy, Inc.

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Baua Electric

MAY 3, 2024

The company’s 6K Energy subsidiary is delivering large quantities of critical materials from its Battery Center of Excellence facility to customers for qualification. 6K is currently building its flagship PlusCAM plant in Jackson, Tennessee, which is expected to start production in 2025.

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The Truth About Cars

OCTOBER 30, 2023

GM’s last facility to see a walkout was the incredibly important Spring Hill Manufacturing located in Tennessee. The last hurdle was rumored to be the inclusion of Ultium Cells LLC (a joint venture between GM and South Korea’s LG Energy Solution) in the UAW’s master contract.

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