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DECEMBER 30, 2010

Massachusetts Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA) Secretary Ian Bowles has set the statewide greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions limit for 2020 required by the Global Warming Solutions Act of 2008 at 25% below 1990 levels, the maximum authorized by the Act, saying that measures already in place will get Massachusetts much of the way toward that goal.

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APRIL 15, 2012

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc. XiMo AG is a Swiss-based company focused on the development and application of proprietary metathesis catalysts for use in the specialty chemical, agro chemical, renewables, pharmaceutical, flavors and fragrances, polymers and advanced materials sectors.

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OCTOBER 26, 2010

The following awards have been selected to receive funding: Bayesian Integration for Marine Spatial Planning and Renewable Energy Siting. The project team has experience with two such methods that, when integrated, can support the needs of ocean renewable energy planning in the context of coastal and marine spatial planning and beyond.

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OCTOBER 26, 2012

BP is renewing its commitment to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) through an agreement to provide another $25 million for continued energy research over the next five years, bringing the company’s total program funding to $50 million.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Elevance Renewable Sciences, Inc., which is commercializing olefin metathesis technology for renewable fuels and chemicals ( earlier post ), has completed a licensing agreement with XiMo AG, a company founded by renowned chemists Amir H. Hoveyda and Richard R. —K’Lynne Johnson, CEO of Elevance.

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JULY 22, 2022

On Thursday, the Massachusetts House and Senate both passed a major new climate bill, An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind. The legislation now goes to Governor Baker for signature.

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JUNE 20, 2022

Rhode Island just passed legislation that requires the state’s electric suppliers to procure 100% renewable electricity by 2033, using the highest quality (“Class I” or “new”) Renewable Energy Certificates.

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JULY 3, 2014

To date, the DOI’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) has awarded five commercial wind energy leases off the Atlantic coast: two non-competitive leases (Cape Wind in Nantucket Sound off Massachusetts and an area off Delaware) and three competitive leases (two offshore Massachusetts-Rhode Island and another offshore Virginia).

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OCTOBER 6, 2009

UOP’s hydrotreated renewable jet fuel process and LCA. Boeing and Honeywell’s UOP are commissioning a study on the sustainability of a leading family of saltwater-based plant (halophytes) candidates for renewable jet fuel. Jennifer Holmgren, general manager of UOP Renewable Energy & Chemicals. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 14, 2022

This blog covers strategies outlined in Massachusetts’ final Clean Energy and Climate Plan (CECP) to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in the electric power sector. For more background on the CECP for 2025 and 2030, read this blog.

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JANUARY 27, 2014

A Massachusetts startup has signed a license agreement with Battelle to commercialize battery technology that can help store large amounts of renewable energy and improve the reliability of the nation''s power grid. Earlier post.) PNNL suggests that the license with Lowell, Mass.-based

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Batteries Battery Grid Massachusetts 247

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JULY 27, 2009

Joule Biotechnologies uses proprietary, highly-engineered product-specific organisms to produce renewable fuels and chemicals. Such yields would far eclipse productivity levels of current bio- or renewable fuels. There is no question that viable, renewable fuels are vitally important, both for economic and environmental reasons.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. RFS2 becomes effective on 1 July 2010. In 2009, the United States produced 10.75

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OCTOBER 6, 2022

By 2028, ONE Circle will drive down carbon emissions by 45% by onshoring its supply chain and integrating materials refinement with its Massachusetts-based partner 6K Energy into its manufacturing processes, while leveraging renewable energy for 50% of its power needs.

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JANUARY 20, 2010

Founded in 2007 by Flagship Ventures, Joule is privately held and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At full-scale production, via future commercial sites, the company estimates the potential to deliver 25,000 gallons/acre/year of ethanol and 15,000 gallons/acre/year of diesel at competitive market pricing.

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JUNE 30, 2021

As mayors representing a diverse group of communities across Massachusetts, we are in a unique position to be on the front lines of how the big global issues manifest from block to block in our neighborhoods. One of the many ways we see this is in how our residents want to power their homes and businesses.

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JULY 15, 2020

FLECCS project teams will work to develop carbon capture and storage (CCS) processes that better enable technologies, such as natural gas power generators, to be responsive to grid conditions in a high variable renewable energy (VRE) penetration environment. Flexible Oxy-Fuel Combustion for High-Penetration Variable Renewables - $717,658.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2023

The propane industry has been advocating for the use of renewable propane to reduce emissions for their customer base. According to 2022 American Community Survey estimates, 153,000, or about 5 percent, of homes across Massachusetts and Rhode Island use propane as their primary heating fuel.

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AUGUST 3, 2016

The joint research initiative will study transformational energy innovations including integrating renewable energy sources into the current supply mix and advancing traditional energy sources in ways that improve efficiency and reduce impacts on water, air and climate.

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JUNE 30, 2021

As mayors representing a diverse group of communities across Massachusetts, we are in a unique position to be on the front lines of how the big global issues manifest from block to block in our neighborhoods. One of the many ways we see this is in how our residents want to power their homes and businesses.

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OCTOBER 19, 2010

Integrated conceptual lignocellulosic biorefinery for the production of renewable chemicals and liquid fuels. The four-step process to make straight-chain alkanes is highlighted in the shaded box. Source: Xing et al. Click to enlarge.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Lithium from Home. Massachusetts Institute of Technology – Nanoporous Graphene Membrane. University of Massachusetts Dartmouth – Lirix-nano Sengupta. is administered by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory and funded by the Geothermal Technologies Office.

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DECEMBER 9, 2016

Nuclear-renewable hybrid energy systems (N-R HESs) can enable low-carbon, on-demand electricity while providing reduced-emission thermal energy for industrial processes. Together, these three reports indicate nuclear renewable hybrid energy systems can reduce industrial emissions and support the power system.

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DECEMBER 31, 2009

The Commonwealth’s Clean Energy Biofuels Act, signed in July 2008, also required Massachusetts to seek an agreement with its fellow RGGI member states to implement a LCFS on a regional basis. The regional LCFS initiative is being coordinated by the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).

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Carbon Fuel Massachusetts Emissions 210

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Size of the diameter of the circle represents the size of the project.

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APRIL 14, 2010

a Massachusetts company developing an innovative compressed air energy storage system, has signed an agreement with ConocoPhillips to develop compressed air energy storage (CAES) projects, beginning with a pilot project in Texas, using General Compression’s Advanced Energy Storage (GCAES) technology. General Compression , Inc.,

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JULY 16, 2009

million as one of 21 DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy grants through the Geothermal Technologies Program. A 2006 technical and economic analysis conducted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology estimated that enhanced geothermal systems could provide 10% of the nation’s overall electrical generating capacity by 2050.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2022

National Grid, one of the major utilities in Massachusetts and New York, has produced a document with its vision of a clean energy future. If you read through the paper carefully, you will see how important it is to the gas utility to mix Renewable Energy Gas (RNG) and hydrogen with natural gas (fracked methane).

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APRIL 10, 2013

Anellotech’s core technology—catalytic fast pyrolysis (CFP) for Biomass to Aromatics—is based on research performed in Professor George Huber’s research laboratory at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst ( earlier post ) and on process and catalyst developments by Anellotech.

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MAY 7, 2019

Anellotech’s core technology, Thermal Catalytic Biomass Conversion (Bio-TCat) was developed to produce chemicals and fuels from renewable, non-food biomass. 30,000 tonnes of carbon monoxide (CO) and other by-product gases will also be produced, for use in generating renewable electricity or used for chemical feedstock.

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Commercial Massachusetts Renewable Carbon 207

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FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Full-Spectrum Stacked Solar-Thermal and PV Receiver The Massachusetts Institute of Technology will develop a hybrid solar converter that integrates a thermal absorber and a solar cell into a layered stack. Massachusetts Institute of Technology. MicroLink Devices.

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JUNE 17, 2014

of Billerica, Massachusetts will receive $1.5 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. Southwest Research Institute of San Antonio, Texas will receive $1.8

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JULY 12, 2018

BYD recently delivered five electric buses to the Vineyard Transit Authority (VTA) in Martha’s Vineyard, Massachusetts; a sixth is scheduled to be delivered by the end of the July. VTA is the first transit agency in Massachusetts to commit to going all-electric. VTA had placed the order for the buses in August 2017.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The rest of the top five, California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and Ohio, have a cumulative total that is less than Michigan on its own. AB8 provides funding for at least 100 hydrogen stations with a commitment of $20 million a year from the Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program (ARFVTP).

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DECEMBER 20, 2011

A123Systems is also launching a pilot project with NSTAR—the largest Massachusetts-based, investor-owned electric and gas utility— to study and showcase the performance and reliability benefits of implementing a GBS within a suburban electric grid.

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MAY 1, 2014

ABBI brings together companies and institutions developing and using microorganisms and its derivatives to deliver renewable products for industries and consumers worldwide. The founding members of ABBI are Amyris, BASF, BioChemtex, BP, Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, Dow, DSM, DuPont, GranBio, Novozymes, Raízen and Rhodia.

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DECEMBER 3, 2010

Global infrastructure company Ferrovial and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) just signed a five-year agreement, with Ferrovial joining the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Energy Initiative (MITEI) to support a range of research projects on transforming critical urban infrastructures of the future.

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