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The Biofuels Center of NorthCarolina has begun to shut down operations over a 90-day period and will close its doors by Thursday, 31 October 2013, due to the NorthCarolina General Assembly’s elimination of its funding in the state budget signed recently by Gov. Pat McCrory.
million in grants to provision and install 105 electric vehicle (EV) charging ports in 21 locations around the state of Texas. These grants will help accelerate the expansion of public EV charging in sectors such as hospitality and multifamily. Texas-based Universal EV Chargers has been awarded $3.2
The US Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is awarding grants totaling $7.4 million to fund two research projects aimed at improving measurement and standards for the rapidly developing field of additive manufacturing (AM).
and a leading supplier of microporous separators used in lithium-ion batteries, plans to expand capacity at its existing Charlotte, NorthCarolina facility and build a new manufacturing site in Concord, NorthCarolina. In the first phase, Celgard will add capacity at its existing Charlotte, NorthCarolina facility.
Tesla supplier Piedmont Lithium has been granted approval to set up mining operations in NorthCarolina, though it still may face some barriers in developing a future operation. NorthCarolina has never denied a mining permit application before. Lithium hydroxide conversion facility.
The announcement includes investments in California, Connecticut, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Mexico, New York, NorthCarolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Rhode Island, Texas and Wisconsin. In Ohio, United Dairy Farmers Inc.
million in research, education, and training grants to universities that comprise the agency’s Air Transportation Center of Excellence (COE) for Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS), also known as the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE). This is the third round of ASSURE grants for Fiscal Year (FY) 2020.
million in four grants to universities to research the relationship between the chemical composition of particulate matter (PM) and health effects. Grants were awarded to: Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga, $899,956. NorthCarolina State University, Raleigh, N.C., 893,439.
Wolfspeed, a global leader in Silicon Carbide technology, will build a new multi-billion-dollar Materials manufacturing facility in Chatham County, NorthCarolina. The company’s talent development strategy is complemented by its continued partnership with NorthCarolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T).
Fulcrum’s fully-integrated processes for converting MSW to jet fuel, diesel and ethanol have been proven and demonstrated at Fulcrum’s demonstration facility located in Durham, NorthCarolina. million grant by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to begin engineering and development on a plant to produce jet fuel.
Fleets in the following states are welcome to submit proposals: Virginia, Maryland, NorthCarolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Louisiana, Tennessee, Mississippi and Washington DC. This is the second phase of funding availability under the Program, which began in December 2009 and will continue through 2013.
In addition to a significant manufacturing complex in Vietnam, VinFast has announced plans to build a large EV manufacturing facility in NorthCarolina in March 2022. VinFast was granted an incentive package of $1.2 Earlier post.)
A NorthCarolina State University grant for Clean Fuel Advanced Technology helped fund one of Asplundh’s vehicles. For Asplundh, this means there is enough room for compartments to be mounted to hold the tools and other equipment needed for vegetation management services.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) selected five projects for grants totaling almost $2 million for research on innovative processes to further improve air quality in the US and help track the effectiveness of pollution control measures.
Ford Motor Company and Progress Energy are working together to help prepare the Research Triangle area of NorthCarolina for the operation of electric vehicles. Progress Energy is developing a charging station pilot program as part of a $200 million smart grid grant it received from the US Department of Energy.
Through this program, California school districts purchasing the Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley electric school bus are eligible for reimbursement of disposed older school buses approved under California Energy Commission GFO-17-607 grant program. To date, Thomas Built Buses is the only OEM to offer a DC fast-charging power option.
The grant supports almost half of the $2.1 Sugars processed at HCL CleanTech’s demonstration plant operating at Southern Research Institute in Durham, NorthCarolina will be sent to Virent’s facility in Madison, Wisconsin for conversion into biofuels and biochemicals. Virent Energy Systems Inc.
and a leading global supplier of microporous separators used in primary and secondary (rechargeable) lithium-ion batteries, recently submitted an application for grant funding under the US Department of Energy (DOE) Electric Drive Vehicle (EDV) Battery and Component Manufacturing Initiative (DE-FOA-0000026).
The new grant recipients were selected using a competitive merit-review process. The grants awarded were in response to RFP-I, a request for proposals the GRI Research Board issued on 25 April 2011. On 30 June, the Research Board awarded 17 grants totaling $1.5 Project Title: Gulf of Mexico Integrated Spill Response Consortium.
Albemarle was awarded a nearly $13-million incentive package from the State of NorthCarolina to develop the advanced lithium materials research, process development, and product innovation facility in Mecklenburg County, NorthCarolina.
The trucks are manufactured at Freightliner’s NorthCarolina plant. million in the project and has received a $490,000 grant from the Federal Highway Administration via ODOT for the LNG infrastructure. —Ashley White, logistics sustainability manager for The Kroger Co. Kroger has invested $6.5
The US Departments of Agriculture and Energy selected projects for more than $24 million in grants to research and develop technologies to produce biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. Of the $24.4 million announced today, DOE plans to invest up to $4.9 million with USDA contributing up to $19.5 DOE Awards.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the availability of grant funding to implement projects which reduce emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. Virgin Islands) will accept applications requesting up to $2,500,000 in grant funds. Region 2 (New Jersey, New York, Puerto Rico, U.S.
million grant by the US Department of Defense (DoD) to begin engineering and development on a plant to produce jet fuel. Fulcrum matched this DoD grant with $4.7 USDA is negotiating three additional loans for biorefineries in Iowa, NorthCarolina and Oregon. In 2013, Fulcrum was awarded a $4.7-million
GILLIG Battery Electric Bus by Charlotte Area Transit System (CATS), Charlotte, NorthCarolina. To be eligible for purchase with federal grant funding, such as the recently awarded $1.66 billion in FTA grants, all buses must demonstrate that they meet or exceed performance minimums. Report Number: LTI-BT-R2021-12 ).
for the addition of lithium hydroxide production at its current operation in Kings Mountain, NorthCarolina. million grant from the US Department of Energy to expand and upgrade the production of lithium materials for advanced transportation batteries. a subsidiary of Rockwood Holdings, Inc.)
A $5-million research project led by NorthCarolina State University’s (NCSU’s) FREEDM Systems Center focused on improving the efficiency of, and reducing the cost of, extreme fast charging (XFC) for electric vehicles (EVs) ( earlier post ) has been awarded an additional $200,000 grant from the US Department of Energy (DOE).
Like the Recovery Act-funded projects, the annual Clean Cities projects include grants for vehicles, infrastructure, and education. Last week, the Department of Energy also announced that. it had selected 23 projects for up to $15 million in annual appropriations funding.
Highland will purchase buses manufactured in NorthCarolina by Thomas Built Buses, which will be supplied and serviced by American Bus. The project was awarded an $817,000 grant from Maryland Energy Association (MEA), which helps offset the purchase cost of vehicles that is critical at this early stage of mass deployment.
In November 2021, Forth was awarded two grants from the US Department of Energy (DOE) as part of the Low Greenhouse Gas (GHG) funding opportunity for the creation of solutions that reduce vehicle emissions and accelerate the expansion of EV infrastructure and charging (DE-FOA-0002475, earlier post ).
Researchers from NorthCarolina State University and Qatar University have developed a new high-entropy alloy that has a higher strength-to-weight ratio that they say is unmatched by any other metallic material. The work was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under grant number DMR-1104930. Youssef et al.
The grants will fund projects such as retrofitting older school buses to improve air quality for children riding to school, upgrading marine propulsion and agriculture engines, and replacing long haul truck engines. NorthCarolina. New Jersey Clean Cities Coalition is repowering seven marine vessels with 13 Tier 3 engines.
The 24-month, $945,000 grant is focused on the design and demonstration of a one ton per day OmniGas gasifier to process biomass, coal, and blends thereof. Earlier post.). OmniGas uses a patent-pending molten slag approach to produce syngas that can be used by more than 14,000 US industrial consumers of large volumes of natural gas.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is announcing the availability of grant funding to implement projects aimed at reducing emissions from the nation’s existing fleet of older diesel engines. EPA anticipates awarding approximately $44 million in Diesel Emission Reduction Program (DERA) grant funding to eligible applicants.
Regulatory Assistance Grants pathway, which provide direct support for resolving design regulatory issues, regulatory review of licensing topical reports or papers, and other efforts focused on obtaining certification and licensing approvals for advanced reactor designs and capabilities. million to the Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.
Researchers from Duke University Medical Center, the University of NorthCarolina, and Brazil have sequenced the genome of PE-2, a strain of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae that thrives on turning sugarcane into ethanol. Mieczkowski, of the Department of Genetics at the University of NorthCarolina, Chapel Hill.
Researchers from NorthCarolina State University have developed an artificial enzymatic pathway for synthesizing isoprenoids, or terpenes, in E. The work was supported in part by the National Institutes of Health (grant GM104258). A paper on their work is published in the journal ACS Synthetic Biology. 8b00383.
GKN Driveline will invest nearly $179 million to expand manufacturing facilities in Alamance, Catawba, Lee and Person counties in NorthCarolina. The investment and new jobs have been added to support growing All-Wheel-Drive and eDrive business for several North American automotive manufacturers. million in 2015.
The Production Certificate grants Honda Aircraft the authorization to produce, flight test and issue airworthiness certificates for the HondaJet for customer deliveries. Honda Aircraft Company is building the HA-420 HondaJet, an advanced light jet, at its world headquarters in Greensboro, NorthCarolina. Earlier post.).
In addition, Wolfspeed expects to grant the initial purchasers of the notes an option to purchase, for settlement within a 13-day period from, and including, the date on which the notes are first issued, up to an additional $200 million aggregate principal amount of the notes. —Gregg Lowe, President and CEO for Wolfspeed.
Bill Roberts, professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering at NC State and primary investigator of the grant. The $2 million grant is part of the federal stimulus package and comes from NSF’s Emerging Frontiers in Research and Innovation program. Dunaliella. Source: Texas A&M. Click to enlarge.
The first two Mercedes-Benz Signature ShadeFund Entrepreneurs, Connecticut-based City Bench and Bluebird Hill Farm out of NorthCarolina, will receive their loans by the end of the year. During a time when even the most creditworthy businesses are having a hard time getting loans, green entrepreneurs face an especially steep challenge.
The US Federal Communications Commission ( FCC) granted SpaceX and T-Mobile temporary authority to provide coverage through Starlink Direct-to-Cellular to cellphones in areas affected by the devastating category 4 hurricane. Hurricane Helene hit several states, including NorthCarolina, Georgia, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
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