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Waste Management added a 1,000 th natural gas truck to its fleet, making it the largest owner and operator of heavy duty refuse trucks in North America. property, the company commemorated the delivery of the 1,000 th natural gas vehicle with LongBeach Mayor Bob Foster starting up the new recycling truck that will serve LongBeach residents.
the developer of a gasification-based process that converts waste into clean hydrogen fuel for mobility, microgrids and power generation ( earlier post ), closed an investment from Pacific6 Enterprises, led by founding partner John C. Ways2H is a joint venture between US-based Clean Energy Enterprises, and Japan Blue Energy Corporation.
announced an increased demand for renewable natural gas (RNG) from the refuse sector, particularly in California, where refuse trucks can be fueled by the very solid waste they haul. It is derived from capturing biogenic methane that is naturally sourced by the decomposition of dairy and landfill waste. Clean Energy Fuels Corp.
UrbanX Renewables Group of LongBeach, CA, executed a front-end engineering design (FEED) contract with Hyundai Engineering Co., The company will produce its XRD renewable diesel from vegetable oil, fats and waste cooking oils through a proprietary process. It can also yield a prime sustainable aviation fuel (SAF).
Ecology is one of the largest trucking and transportation companies in the Western United States, providing services for transportation, heavy haul and oversize loads, and containers to and from the ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach.
Redeem was the first commercially available RNG vehicle fuel, derived from capturing biogenic methane that is produced from the decomposition of organic waste from dairies, landfills, and wastewater treatment plants. Clean Energy has extended its multi-year LongBeach Transit maintenance agreement. Homewood Disposal Inc.,
Toyota and Kenworth will deploy a total of 10 trucks as part of the Zero and Near-Zero Emissions Freight Facilities Project (ZANZEFF) ( earlier post ), hauling cargo received at the Ports of Los Angeles and LongBeach, throughout the LA Basin. 2), and Southern Counties Express (1).
Republic Services, a provider of recycling and solid waste collection, transfer and disposal in the United States and Puerto Rico, announced that 20% of the trucks it is adding to its fleet in 2010 will be powered by natural gas. Beginning in April, the Company will be adding 226 NGV trucks to 10 facilities in its Western region.
s (TMNA) Logistics Services Center at the Port of LongBeach in California. Anaergia was created to eliminate a major source of greenhouse gases by cost-effectively turning organic waste into renewable natural gas, fertilizer and water, using proprietary technologies. Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3
Tomorrow morning I’ll be in LongBeach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. .
At the Los Angeles Auto Show, Toyota Motor North America announced that it will build the world’s first megawatt-scale carbonate fuel cell power generation plant with a hydrogen fueling station to support its operations at the Port of LongBeach. When it comes online in 2020, Tri-Gen will generate approximately 2.35
The Sonata Hybrid is available to rent at airports including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles International and Chicago, as well as cities such as San Jose, San Diego and LongBeach in California; Portland, Oregon; and Denver.
This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 The biodiesel, to be blended with conventional diesel, is derived from waste oils, including used cooking oil. Aemetis, Inc. Kent BioEnergy Corp.
Since it first began operation in April 2017, the Project Portal “Alpha” truck has logged nearly 10,000 miles of testing and real-world drayage operations in and around the Ports of LongBeach and Los Angeles while emitting nothing but water vapor. —Andrew Lund, chief engineer for the project.
Clean Energy has begun a major fueling infrastructure upgrade for trucks operating in the Port of Los Angeles and Port of LongBeach. The City of Sacramento has signed a contract for an expected 650,000 gallons of Redeem to fuel approximately 100 solid waste vehicles.
Audi introduced the battery-electric Audi A3 e-tron US pilot program at TED2012 in LongBeach, California. Water flows around the 30 modules which constitute this battery; the waste heat is utilized to heat the vehicle’s interior. A3 e-tron BEV. Click to enlarge. It stores 26.5
The agenda included: Bob Foster, Mayor of LongBeach; Jeremy Snyder, General Manager of Tesla Motors; Steve Westly, Former State Controller, Bobby Shriver from the Santa Monica City Council, John Chiang, the California State Controller; Bill Locker, the California State Treasurer and the once and future Governor of California, Jerry Brown.
The 80,000-pound, short-haul Peterbilt 579 drayage trucks will support operations at ports throughout California, including Los Angeles, LongBeach, San Diego, and Oakland. Two 520 refuse haulers will be tested by Sacramento County and a waste hauler will operate one truck.
Tomorrow morning I’ll be in LongBeach, California for another project ribbon cutting at City Hall for their new sustainable edible gardens that Waste Management’s EcoAd is providing the financial support for. .
California State University, LongBeach - $1,390,252. The goal of this research area is to research and develop the next generation of nuclear reactors that will produce more energy and create less waste. Actual project funding will be established during contract negotiation phase. Clemson University - $614,690.
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NREL presented its initial calorimeter—initially fabricated by Calorimetry Sciences Corporation and later improved upon by NREL—at the LongBeach Battery Conference in January 1998. to distinguish energy stored from waste heat generated) for use in estimating vehicle energy consumption. Accuracy is better than 3%.
During his keynote address at the 2012 Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Ford Motor Company Executive Chairman Bill Ford outlined a plan for connected cars to help avoid a potential future of what he called “ global gridlock—a never-ending traffic jam that wastes time, energy and resources. ”.
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Process intensification breakthroughs can dramatically shrink the footprint of equipment needed on a crowded factory floor or eliminate waste by using the raw input materials more efficiently. Georgia Institute of Technology; Idaho National Laboratory; Jet Propulsion National Laboratory; Lamar U.; Missouri U. Purdue U.
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And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; LongBeach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.
Renewable natural gas made from organic waste is not a fossil fuel and does not involve drilling, making it appealing. Clean Fleet Report had the opportunity, at the 2023 Acura Grand Prix of LongBeach, to sit down with Jim Crouse, the president and CEO of Capstone Engineered Solutions.
Case New Holland brought out a methane-powered tractor that [runs on methane] made from farm waste. The primary customers right now are the ports—Port of LongBeach, Port of Los Angeles—and the ports around the country are usually in urban environments. Every one of the major OEMs is launching an electric truck series.
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Bonnie Reiss, who in addition to her other credentials has spent four years as one of Governor Schwarzenegger’s advisers had four key points to make when it was her turn to speak and she wasted no time putting things in perspective, There is no more important issue that we can all be focusing on right now in this country and on this planet.
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