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The funding was granted as part of the Department of Transportation’s University Transportation Center (UTC) program, which is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 UTCs. The new grant also enables the NCST to expand its consortium. Earlier post.)
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British Airways will invest in LanzaJet’s first commercial-scale Freedom Pines Fuels facility in Georgia and acquire cleaner burning sustainable aviation fuel from the plant. The plant in Georgia is due to begin construction this year. BA expects the fuel to be available to power a number of its flights by the end of 2022.
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Rivian has announced initial award recipients for grants from its philanthropic arm, coming a few years after the electric vehicle (EV) maker first detailed plans for the project. Rivian has named the first 41 grant winners, mostly based in the U.S.,
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Dow, National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) and Membrane Technology & Research, Inc. Algenol submitted its formal request last week to obtain a grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE) for financial support to successfully conduct the pilot.
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has produced cellulosic methanol from the initial phase of its first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant near Soperton, Georgia using non-food biomass. Range received a $76-million grant from DOE to help build a 40 MGY wood-based ethanol plant in 2007. Range Fuels, Inc. cellulosic ethanol—in 2010. Earlier post.).
The proceeds from the $80 million bond will be used to partially finance the first two phases of construction of Range Fuels’ first commercial cellulosic biofuels plant using renewable and sustainable supplies of non-food biomass near Soperton, Georgia.
million grant to advance its research into fuel cell membrane electrode assembly (MEA). The joint grant was funded by the US Department of Energy's Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Transportation Office under the recently announced FY19 Commercial Trucks and Off-Road Applications FOA. Younan Xia.
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Korea), Georgia Institute of Technology, and Dong-Eui University (S. Peak power densities of cells with LnBa 0.5 GDC (Ln = Pr and Nd) cathode. Credit: Choi et al. Click to enlarge. Researchers from Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST) (S.
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Researchers at Los Alamos National Laboratory, with colleagues at NREL and the University of Georgia report that a freshwater production strain of microalgae, Auxenochlorella protothecoides UTEX 25, is capable of directly degrading and utilizing non-food plant substrates, such as switchgrass, for cell growth. —Vogler et al.
million in research grants to 7 projects using genomics to develop non-food feedstocks that can be used for bioenergy. Katrien Devos, University of Georgia, Athens. Earlier post.). DOE-BER funded project. DOE-BER funded project. Matias Kirst, University of Florida, Gainesville.
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billion battery energy storage system factory in Coweta County, Georgia heres why. FREYR told officials in the Atlanta suburb of Newnan on Thursday that it wouldnt build the Giga America battery factory in Georgia that was expected to employ more than 700 people. The transaction is expected to close on February 15. Get started here.
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