Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

a federal mileage fee—as a way to reform financing of the US transportation infrastructure. The recommendation is part of the final report issued by the National Surface Transportation Infrastructure Financing Commission, “ Paying Our Way: A New Framework for Transportation Finance ”. The nation faces a crisis. Paying our Way”.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 5, 2009

US President Barack Obama has established a Biofuels Interagency Working Group, to be co-chaired by the Secretaries of Agriculture and Energy and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to further the research, development and commercialization of biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 29, 2015

Panda Power Funds has financed the 1,124 megawatt Panda “Hummel Station” power plant—one of the largest coal-to-natural gas power conversion projects in the United States. The plant will be located at the site of the retired Sunbury coal-fired power plant near Shamokin Dam in Snyder County, Pennsylvania.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Renewable energy projects are frequently financed with project rather than corporate finance. by Bill Cooke.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2011

The new Obama Administration proposal to increase fuel efficiency standards for cars and light trucks to an average 54.5 By law, these excises are the primary revenue source for financing road, bridge and transit projects. The less motor fuel used by drivers, the less revenue generated for improvements financed through the HTF.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. Task Force Funding.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 7, 2015

Although overshadowed by the announcement on denial of a Presidential Permit to build the Keystone XL pipeline ( earlier post ), on Friday, the Obama administration also on Friday announced and highlighted a number of actions to sustain and advance nuclear energy in the US.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

Charging infrastructure financing: Unlocking Up $4.5 Loan guarantees can be an important tool to commercialize innovative technologies because these projects may be unable to obtain full commercial financing due to the perceived risks associated with technology that has never been deployed at commercial scale in the United States.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 1, 2010

President Obama today transmitted the proposed $3.8-trillion Select EERE Programs and Financing (US$ millions). trillion FY 2011 Budget to the US Congress. The President’s 2011 Budget provides $28.354 billion for the Department of Energy (DOE) in discretionary budget authority—an 8.9% increase over FY 2009 actuals and a 7.4%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2009

Finance structures would be created and funded by developed countries, encouraging developing countries and emerging economies to minimize future emissions and adapt to future effects of climate change. degrees Celsius. I think we’re going to have a pretty good sense of what countries are doing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 28, 2016

Novus is working with an Oregon lender, Old West Federal Credit Union, to finance the project. Since the start of the Obama Administration, USDA has invested $765 million in nine biorefineries that have produced 150.1 USDA hopes to finalize loan terms with Novus and Old West by summer. million gallons of advanced biofuels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

In his State of the Union speech Tuesday night, President Obama proposed “ we use some of our oil and gas revenues to fund an Energy Security Trust that will drive new research and technology to shift our cars and trucks off oil for good. John Larson (D-CT-1) introduced H.R. 3416: America’s Energy Security Trust Fund Act.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2014

of vehicle sales), far below levels required to meet the Obama administration’s goal of one million PEVs on the road by 2015. Making loans and financing more accessible for PEV buyers. Despite extensive government programs and incentives, PEV sales in the US reached only ~53,000 in 2012 (0.3%

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

In October, President Obama issued a memorandum to executive departments and agencies directing agencies with federal laboratories to accelerate technology transfer and commercialization of research, and to take steps to increase partnerships between businesses and laboratories.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2013

Establish state and local programs for financing of efficiency measures, which may use repayment on utility bills or on property tax bills (the capital could be provided by institutional investors). Make all cost-effective efficiency improvements to federal buildings, using private financing and public funds. Energy 2030.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 23, 2009

The Obama Administration is awarding $8 billion in three conditional loan commitments for the development of innovative, advanced vehicle technologies: $5.9 billion in loans through 2011 to help finance numerous engineering advances to traditional internal combustion engines and electrified vehicles. billion for Ford Motor Company; $1.6

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2013

The assessment comes on the heels of a national climate action plan announced by President Obama. As an acceptable condition for US government support for public financing of new coal plants overseas. Earlier post.). The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) estimates that in 2011, the United States emitted 5.5 metric gigatons.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

President Obama and Prime Minister Singh launched the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE) in November 2009 to accelerate the transition to high performing, low emissions, and energy secure economies. The Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center is part of the US-India Partnership to Advance Clean Energy.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2010

Tuesday night, President Obama will speak to the nation about the Gulf catastrophe. Tuesday night President Obama will address our nation. The missing piece we dream President Obama will follow up with is an emergency-response roadmap to a world where increasingly scarce and costly oil is used only when needed.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 29, 2009

The 15 th Congress, also known as the 15 th Conference of Parties, or COP 15, was initially intended to be a largely procedural summit, with many major negotiating points settled and most environmental ministers prepared to sign a binding emissions treaty that contained specific emissions targets as well as commitments to financing structures.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2010

The Obama Administration’s recent extension of the offshore oil-drilling moratorium through 2011 has also renewed investor interest in on-shore oil reserves. CCS still faces great uncertainty, however, regarding its commercial viability, public financing levels, enabling policies and potential markets for captured CO 2.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 3, 2011

To establish policy recommendations and financing options for reducing black carbon/diesel sources across the Arctic region. Benefits of reducing soot in the Arctic. In a presentation at the 242 nd National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), Mark Z.

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Green Car Reports

JANUARY 23, 2016

Who grinned--and who grimaced--while looking over the Chevy Bolt EV 200-mile electric car? And, why did Tesla Motors sue a German supplier that worked on the development of its Model X? This is our look back at the Week In Reverse--right here at Green Car Reports--for the week ending on Friday, January 22, 2016.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

So far, President Barack Obama has announced no new federaleffort to promote the fuel, and federal funding for hydrogen fortransportation use in the 2009 budget dropped to $177.7 Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. “We

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2009

Establishing a new program to finance planning, design, and construction of high-speed rail. The existing transportation reauthorization act, which is financed by the Highway Trust Fund, expires on 30 September 2009. The current user fees generate only enough revenue to finance a $35.1 Highway account balance. Source: DOT.

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Creative Greenius

JULY 19, 2009

My new solar system only needs to be 2 kilowatts now instead of 4 – which is good because solar’s still too damn expensive and the process for putting AB 811 financing in place is taking too damn long, (and that’s another Greenius post that I’m still working on).

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MAY 25, 2010

And as if on cue, the White House announced last week that President Barack Obama on Wednesday will visit Solyndra. . “Clearly it’s a goal of ours to be a hub of clean- and green-tech, and Tesla and Solyndra are two big players in that arena.&#. Some doubts left.

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Plugs and Cars

JUNE 4, 2009

The taxpayer is financing the American automakers’ survival and their future. President Obama has stated a commitment to 1 million plug-in cars by 2015. Tags: biofuels nissan GM zev mandate cafe standards barack obama battery electric car. However, the power relationships have shifted somewhat. Will we get our money’s worth?

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

We know that Secretary of Energy Moniz recently admitted that the Obama administration’s ambitious and encouraging goal of one million EVs on American roads by 2015 is unattainable. Volkswagen would like to see federal financing support for establishing fast charging networks in urban areas and interstate corridors.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 Material is being financed and procured through the New York Power Authority. billion have been made available for transit improvements throughout the US. The DOT is making $48.1 TIGGER will fund the labor portion of the project only.

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Green Cars News

JUNE 23, 2009

The first conditional loan commitments reached as part of the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing programme has been awarded by the Obama administration. Ford’s award will help finance a number of engineering advances to traditional internal combustion engines and electrified vehicles.

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Creative Greenius

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

I introduced myself to Linda Cessna, the lead staff member, and someone I’ve been corresponding with since last year about the City’s participation in the the new solar financing program, AB 811. Linda is the Deputy Community Development Director of the City of Torrance and the staff liaison with the commission.

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Creative Greenius

APRIL 12, 2009

That’s right my friends, while others are cutting back, downsizing, slowing down and pulling back, your Creative Greenius is not only Ready to Go, I’m already going, baby, and I’m moving at Obama speed. Using AB 811 To Finance Solar PV Installation : Finding the Green to Green the Grid, House By House.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 30, 2009

News Heard on the Street Obamas First 100 Days Weekend Europe WSJ. The way Obama and the radical left who have highjacked congress are going, we will not doubt have a gasoline and energy crisis before Obama’s 1st term ends. This is the 21st century and I would like to have my flying car now.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

Obama Tilts to CIA on Memos 1. Obama Calls for Simpler Tax Code 185 comments 2. Home World U.S. Opinion: Glenn Harlan Reynolds: Tax Day Becomes Protest Day 2. Hong Kong Joins Global Ark Regatta 3. AT&T Chief Presses for iPhone Subscriber Content Read Preview 4. Highflying Financier Faces Questions 5. Pirates Vs. the Rest of Us 2.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 19, 2009

News | Markets | Technology | Personal Finance | Small Business | CNN.com RSS Newsletters Video Home Fortune 500 Technology Investing Management Rankings Andy Grove on battery power To wean itself from imported oil, the U.S. More from Fortune Obama exclusive: Business needs to work with me 28 top companies: Theyre hiring!

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

automakers in their own market. The Promise China announced new efforts early this month to become one of the world’s top manufacturers of hybrid and electric cars within the next three years, which could mean a significant challenge to the electric car efforts undertaken by struggling U.S.

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