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Tesla Model Y-backed ride service start operations in Downtown Tampa

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The service is now available for customers in Downtown Tampa. The Tesla-powered ride service makes transit in Downtown Tamp affordable and convenient. Tampa Downtown Partnership told Teslarati that the DASH ride service started operations on October 12. The Tesla Model Y is the face of the DASH ride service.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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The US Department of Energy has selected 13 projects for investment of up to $62 million over five years to research, develop, and demonstrate Concentrating Solar Power (CSP) systems capable of providing low-cost electrical power. eSolar will design, build, and test a CSP power plant system with fundamentally new components.

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AMPLY Power: Top 25 US cities could save avg. 37% on fuel costs by switching to electric vehicles and buses; up to 60% with managed charging

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A white paper by AMPLY Power, a company providing fleet charging as a service, finds that 25 of America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37% on fuel costs by electrifying their bus and light-duty vehicle fleets. —Vic Shao, founder and CEO of AMPLY Power. The liquid fuel cost baseline is $3.78/gallon.

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GE Technology Selected for Hydrogen Energy IGCC Project in California

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GE Energy has signed a technology licensing agreement with Hydrogen Energy (HEI) for a proposed 250-megawatt power plant that would use integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) technology. The Hydrogen Energy California County project would be the first power plant built under that alliance. Earlier post.).

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NREL researchers point toward building energy efficiency instead of long-term storage

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Incorporating energy efficiency measures can reduce the amount of storage needed to power the nation’s buildings entirely with renewable energy, according to analysis conducted by researchers at the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). —William Livingood, co-author.

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A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story

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Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. That’s good news, but in an interview published last week, its CEO doesn’t mention the fact that the vast majority of its power comes from natural gas or whether it plans to transition away from the methane-producing fossil fuel.

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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The US Department of Energy’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) has selected 12 projects to receive funding through its Crosscutting Research Program’s Transitional Technology Development to Enable Highly Efficient Power Systems with Carbon Management initiative. Alstom Power Inc. Electric Power Research Institute, Inc.

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