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AUGUST 13, 2020

Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. A residential smart charging pilot launching later this year that will reward customers in Colorado for conveniently optimizing their charging times to benefit the grid and use more renewable energy.

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MAY 9, 2014

Integrated processing of hardwood to renewable jet and chemicals. Huber (2014) “Production of renewable jet fuel range alkanes and commodity chemicals from integrated catalytic processing of biomass,” Energy Environ. Click to enlarge. Murat Sen, Christos T. Maravelias, Robert Malina, Steven R. Barrett, Raul Lobo, Charles E.

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AUGUST 12, 2022

US Gain, a division of Wisconsin-based US Venture, Inc., The Peterbilt Model 579EV will deliver the RNG to the Dane County landfill facility, where it will be injected into the natural gas pipeline to be used as clean transportation fuel on the west coast. offtakes the RNG for distribution to the transportation market in California.

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APRIL 4, 2013

The three Centers—including the BioEnergy Research Center (BESC) led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory; the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center (GLBRC) led by the University of Wisconsin-Madison in partnership with Michigan State University; and the Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) led by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory—were established (..)

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

Renewable fuels and chemicals company Virent and petroleum refiner and marketer Tesoro have reached an agreement for Tesoro to become Virent’s new strategic owner. Tesoro will operate Virent as a wholly owned subsidiary which will be located in Madison, Wisconsin. Earlier post.).

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OCTOBER 18, 2020

The BOTTLE: Bio-Optimized Technologies to Keep Thermoplastics out of Landfills and the Environment funding opportunity is jointly funded by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office and Advanced Manufacturing Office. Partners include Allonia and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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DECEMBER 17, 2022

SAF is typically a blend of a renewable synthetic paraffinic kerosene (SPK) fuel—such as HEFA—and petroleum-based Jet A fuel.

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JULY 14, 2022

Last year, Indiana had the largest number of new-generation diesel trucks registered (69.3%), followed by Utah (63.2%), Pennsylvania (62.8%), Texas (60.1%), Oklahoma (60.0%), Florida (59.1%), the District of Columbia (58.4%), Illinois (56.2%), Maryland (55.7%), and Wisconsin (55.5%). For the largest commercial trucks (Class 8), 62.5%

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

First Green will invest in early-stage companies that focus on developing methods to convert renewable carbon—such as non-food biomass and carbon dioxide—to fuels and chemicals, and applications of clean or green technologies in the conventional energy process, sometimes known as green-black technologies.

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JUNE 22, 2012

The US Office of Naval Research (ONR) has awarded a team led by Dr. Rolf Reitz at the University of Wisconsin-Madison a $2-million grant to develop a tool to characterize the performance of hydrogenated vegetable oil (HVO) drop-in fuels.

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OCTOBER 29, 2015

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is partnering with 21 states through the Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership (BIP) nearly to double the number of fueling pumps nationwide that supply renewable fuels to American motorists. The final awards are estimated to expand infrastructure by nearly 5,000 pumps at more than 1,400 fueling stations.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2010

Alliance Federated Energy (AFE) last week announced the development of “Project Apollo,” a $225-million, 25MW energy project located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Approximately 30% of the waste feedstock is already committed from Badger Disposal of Wisconsin, one of region’s leading industrial waste management services companies.

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MAY 4, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have demonstrated that it is possible to achieve good yields of renewable hydrocarbons in the molecular weight range suitable for jet and diesel fuel applications through the processing of C 9 alkenes produced from biomass-derived ? Source: Alonso et al. Click to enlarge.

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AUGUST 15, 2010

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin–Madison led by James Dumesic have developed a catalytic process to convert cellulose into liquid hydrocarbon fuels (diesel and gasoline), using a cascade strategy to achieve the progressive removal of oxygen from biomass, allowing the control of reactivity and facilitating the separation of products.

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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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SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

The expansion spans three new states, including Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin and adds additional locations to the company’s Texas EV program. to install 30 EV charging stations at 15 Kohl’s locations across Illinois, Texas and Wisconsin. Additionally, Kohl’s has expanded its partnership with ECOtality, Inc.

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MARCH 1, 2023

The US Department of Transportation has awarded a $15-million grant to renew the Center for Connected and Automated Transportation (CCAT), based in Ann Arbor and led by the University of Michigan. The new additions are Northwestern University, the University of Minnesota and the University of Wisconsin.

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OCTOBER 22, 2012

Renewable cellulosic fuels and chemicals startup Hyrax Energy has licensed an ionic liquids hydrolysis technology developed in the laboratory of Ron Raines, a University of Wisconsin–Madison biochemistry professor and a Hyrax founder, from the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation ( WARF ). Earlier post.)

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JANUARY 15, 2018

Lignocellulose, or lignin, is ubiquitous in biomass, and yet it is highly-resistant to the chemical, biological, and other processes historically used for the conversion and refining of biomass into renewable products.

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OCTOBER 9, 2014

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory will receive up to $2.5 Researchers have been exploring the microbial synthesis of muconic acid from renewable carbon sources. The University of Wisconsin of Madison, Wisconsin will receive up to $3.3 Natureworks, LLC of Minnetonka, Minnesota will receive up to $2.5

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AUGUST 27, 2022

Cornell’s Center for Alkaline-Based Energy Solutions (CABES) has received renewal funding of $12.6 million for a four-year period to continue its work developing advanced fuel cell technologies in alkaline media. million grant from the DOE Office of Science.

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MAY 1, 2013

The jet fuel was produced at a new Virent demonstration plant built to produce drop-in jet and diesel fuels from 100% renewable plant sugars. The plant was constructed at the company’s facility in Madison, Wisconsin under a $1.5-million The validation plan includes fit-for-purpose, fuel system and combustor rig testing.

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AUGUST 18, 2011

Wisconsin Engine Research Consultants (WERC, LLC) last week was awarded $1.5 million by the US Department of Energy’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy as one of 40 projects to target new innovations and accelerate the development of the next generation of fuel-efficient vehicles. Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 12, 2014

The company has broadened its product offerings for renewable chemicals through this process. Virent’s production of paraxylene at its Madison, Wisconsin laboratory, has reached a capacity of 10 tons per year which will allow Virent to serve the needs of multiple collaborators for product validation and market demonstrations.

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APRIL 10, 2017

The Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is in charge of licensing the technology. For example, the same pathway could be used to produce two other plastic precursors—1,4 butanediol and 1,6-hexanediol—currently derived from petroleum and which together represent an annual market of more than $6 billion.

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JUNE 27, 2009

Electric cars and trucks charged at the stations will have their emissions offset through renewable energy. and purchases and distributes natural gas to 141,000 customers in seven south-central and western Wisconsin counties. The project is the first of its kind in the United States. MGE’s parent company is MGE Energy.

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OCTOBER 16, 2014

Amyris received the Small Business award for its renewable hydrocarbon farnesane for use as diesel and jet fuel. Farnesene is a building block hydrocarbon that can be converted into a renewable, drop-in replacement for petroleum diesel without certain drawbacks of first-generation biofuels. Professor Shannon S.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2014

Researchers at the University of Wisconsin have disclosed a new method to convert lignin, an important component of biomass waste, into simple chemicals. Stahl sees lignin as a key to future biorefineries that would use renewable biomass rather than petroleum as the feedstock to produce fuels or chemicals while reducing environmental impact.

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FEBRUARY 19, 2018

Of them, the Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center ( GLBRC ), led by the University of Wisconsin–Madison, had a goal of turning more of the corn plant—the stalk and leaves that makes up the stover—into ethanol, while developing perennial plants like switchgrass and miscanthus (also called silvergrass) into potential feedstocks.

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JANUARY 6, 2012

Virent is replacing crude oil by creating the chemicals and fuels the world demands using a wide range of naturally-occurring, renewable resources. These patents join the more than 175 domestic and foreign issued and pending applications in Virent’s portfolio representing more than 25 different technology families.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Neste MY Renewable Diesel: Reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 75% relative to conventional fossil‐based diesel fuel. EcoGen Ethanol‐free Gasoline with Renewable Content by VP Racing: A partially renewable gasoline that reduces CO 2 emissions by up to 30% more than E10 gasoline and does not contain ethanol.

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APRIL 28, 2023

The round included participation from one of North America’s largest commercial fleets, Chevron Renewable Energy Group, and Pittsburgh regional investors including: Idea Foundry, Inc., ​ Optimus Technologies recently announced a $17.8-million million Series A funding round led by Mitsui & Co. out of Tokyo, Japan.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Molar carbon selectivities for different renewable petroleum refinery feedstocks obtained by hydrocycloaddition and hydrodeoxygenation of condensed furfural–acetone mixtures. These renewable feedstocks can be further processed in existing petroleum refineries to make common refinery products. Source: Olcay et al. Click to enlarge.

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DECEMBER 15, 2012

University of Wisconsin, Madison $496,109. University of Wisconsin, Madison, $345,327. Texas A&M University, $255,972. Texas AgriLife Extension, $499,619. Washington State University, $349,993. West Virginia University, $349,952. USDA Agricultural Research Service, $500,000.

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MAY 15, 2021

As a result, there is a critical need to create new pathways for biofuel conversion that reduces carbon waste, prevents the loss of CO 2 emissions, and in turn, maximizes the amount of renewable fuel a conversion process yields. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stanford University.

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DECEMBER 27, 2010

The lineup of speakers includes: Dr. Adam Brown of the International Energy Agency; Professor Timothy Donohue of the University of Wisconsin-Madison/ Great Lakes Bioenergy; Dr. Arthur Grossman of Solazyme, Inc.; Professor Lonnie Ingram of the University of Florida; Professor Jay D.

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JANUARY 5, 2010

This contract will allow C&D Technologies to establish a world class research and development facility in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, including pilot production capability dedicated to large-format lithium-ion batteries, and will establish a domestic manufacturing base for C&D designed lithium battery systems.

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