A 100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin
Electrek
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin.
A 100-MW solar farm just broke ground in Wisconsin
Baua Electric
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
Image: National Grid Renewables National Grid Renewables has broken ground on its 100 MW Apple River Solar Project in Polk County, Wisconsin. The Wisconsin solar farm, which will use US-made First Solar Series 6 Plus bifacial modules, will be constructed by The Boldt Company, creating 150 construction and service jobs.
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DOE to award $590M to renew four existing Bioenergy Research Centers
Green Car Congress
MARCH 18, 2023
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award $590 million to renew its four existing Bioenergy Research Centers (BRCs). The decision to renew the four BRCs followed a successful review by a panel of outside peer reviewers on each center’s past five years of performance.
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USDA invests $26 million in biofuel infrastructure to expand availability of higher-blend renewable fuels in 23 states
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 20, 2021
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) is investing $26 million to build infrastructure to expand the availability of higher-blend renewable biofuels by 822 million gallons annually in 23 states. USDA is making the awards under the Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program.
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EnTech Solutions, Peterbilt, Maki Trucking Partner to transport renewable natural gas with electric truck
Green Car Congress
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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Cornell energy center receives $12.6M in renewed funding for alkaline fuel cell work
Green Car Congress
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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ANGI to supply hydrogen fuel dispensers to Nikola
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 13, 2023
As a leader in alternative fuels, ANGI remains at the forefront of rapid technological changes delivering innovative, accessible, and safe solutions to meet our customers’ evolving energy needs in compressed natural gas, renewable natural gas and now hydrogen. Earlier post.)
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Tesoro to acquire renewable fuels company Virent
Green Car Congress
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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DOT awards U-M-led hub $15M for connected and automated transportation
Green Car Congress
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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Three sustainable marine fuels showcased at Miami International Boat Show
Green Car Congress
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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Stanford’s GCEP awards $10.5M for research on renewable energy; solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy
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OCTOBER 9, 2014
million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. The Global Climate and Energy Project (GCEP) at Stanford University has awarded $10.5 Maximizing solar-to-fuel conversion efficiency in photo-electrochemical cells.
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USDA awards $3M biorefinery grant to support conversion of lignin into renewable alternative for ABS Resin
Green Car Congress
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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150 USDA: $210M to be invested in renewable fuel pump infrastructure through the Biofuel Infrastructure Partnership
Green Car Congress
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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Optimus Technologies closes $17.8M Series A to advance Vector System for heavy-duty engines on 100% biodiesel
Green Car Congress
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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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today
Green Car Congress
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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DOE to award more than $27M to 12 plastics recycling R&D projects
Green Car Congress
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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321 USDA providing $700M to provide economic relief to more than 100 biofuel producers and 195 facilities
Green Car Congress
JUNE 4, 2022
For example: In Iowa, Southwest Renewable Energy LLC is receiving a payment of $3 million. USDA is making payments to 195 biofuel production facilities to support the maintenance and viability of a significant market for agricultural producers of products such as corn, soybean or biomass that supply biofuel production. million gallons.
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186 DOE awards $4M to two DME projects
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. The funded projects include: University of Wisconsin Madison for “Efficiency Mixing Controlled Compression Ignition Combustion of Propane DME Blends”. As an energy-dense, cost-effective means to transport and store renewable hydrogen.
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Renewable plastic precursor could reduce cost of cellulosic ethanol by >$2/gallon
Green Car Congress
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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Univ. of Wisconsin team reports on new process for converting hemicellulose to furfural and levulinic acid as renewable fuel precursors and chemicals
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 25, 2012
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin led by Dr. Jim Dumesic report the conversion of the hemicellulose fraction of lignocellulosic biomass to furfural and levulinic acid using biphasic reactors with alkylphenol solvents in a new paper in the journal ChemSusChem. Source: Gürbüz et al. Click to enlarge.
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DTF: Diesel dominates commercial truck, transit and school bus fleets in US
Green Car Congress
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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468 Diesel Technology Forum: 57% of all commercial diesel trucks on the roads in US are near-zero emissions models
Green Car Congress
JULY 11, 2023
Next in the rankings is Utah (66.2%), Pennsylvania (66.0%), the District of Columbia (65.4%), Texas (63.6%), Oklahoma (62.6%), Florida (62.3%), Illinois (60.6%), Louisiana (59.2%), and Wisconsin (59.1%). California lags the national average, taking the 35 th spot (51.6%). There isn’t a one-size or one-fuel fits all answer.
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284 Study finds that optimized integrated catalytic processing of biomass could produce renewable jet fuel with selling price as low as $2.88/gallon
Green Car Congress
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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Corporate America is investing in record levels of solar and storage
Baua Electric
NOVEMBER 19, 2024
Looking ahead, both offsite and onsite energy storage are expected to play a bigger role in corporate renewable energy strategies. To further accelerate their renewable energy investments, businesses are calling for improvements in interconnection processes, new community solar legislation, and simpler tax credit monetization.
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Mercedes to use Alpitronic’s Hypercharger 400 for its HPC public EV charging network – Charged EVs
Baua Electric
JUNE 16, 2024
Manufactured in Wisconsin, the Hypercharger 400 offers charging power levels up to 400 kW, and support for a wide range of output voltages. Each charging site utilizes 100% carbon-neutral renewable energy sources, the company said. Mercedes plans to make both CCS and NACS (J3400) cables available to drivers.
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DOE renews funding for three Bioenergy Research Centers for 5 more years; $375M investment
Green Car Congress
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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Argonne and University of Illinois to form Midwest Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Coalition
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 14, 2019
The states of Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, North and South Dakota, Nebraska and Kansas are home to a quarter of the US population and consume 30% of electric power generated in the US. As a consequence, the Midwestern states have some of the highest levels of renewable energy on their grids.
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186 Wisconsin Researchers Devise Process to Convert Biomass Intermediate Product into Drop-in Transportation Fuels Without Use of External Hydrogen or Precious Metal Catalysts
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 26, 2010
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin, led by Dr. James Dumesic, have developed a process to convert aqueous solutions of ?-valerolactone Not requiring hydrogen or precious metal catalysts could contribute to a lower cost for a commercial-scale version of the process than some other renewable hydrocarbon fuel technologies.
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ExxonMobil and UW Madison extend research collaboration on conversion of biomass to transportation fuels
Green Car Congress
JULY 17, 2017
The University of Wisconsin-Madison and ExxonMobil announced a two-year renewal of an agreement to research the fundamental chemistry of converting biomass into transportation fuels. This technology could potentially allow larger diesel and jet fuel molecules to be produced from renewable sources.
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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production
Green Car Congress
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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Virent successfully produces full range of bio-aromatics
Green Car Congress
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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DOE announces additional MEGA-BIO: Bioproducts to Enable Biofuels award; $1.8M for deconstruction of biomass
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 2, 2017
Lignin can be utilized as a renewable source for creating valuable aromatic chemicals, which have various industrial applications and can be used as the building blocks for fragrances, flavors, and novel bio-based foams and adhesives.
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150 Office of Naval Research awards UW-Madison ERC $2M grant to develop model to characterize performance of drop-in renewable fuels
Green Car Congress
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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218 DOE awarding up to $13.4M for 5 projects for advanced biofuels and bioproducts
Green Car Congress
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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Warburg Pincus to invest up to $355M in First Green; focus on early-stage technologies in the carbon value chain; renewable fuels and chemicals, and green-black tech
Green Car Congress
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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U Wisc. scientists develop new method to convert lignin to simple chemicals under mild conditions
Green Car Congress
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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UW-Madison Team Shows Good Yield of Renewable Diesel and Jet Hydrocarbons from Processing of Biomass-Derived GVL
Green Car Congress
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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170 Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center broadening focus to advanced biofuels
Green Car Congress
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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Hyrax licenses ionic liquids hydrolysis technology from WARF
Green Car Congress
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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Xcel Energy launches EV smart charging pilot in Colorado; Transportation Electrification Plan for New Mexico approved
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 4, 2021
Xcel Energy has launched a new pilot for customers of five major automakers to make it easier for consumers to make the switch to electric vehicles in Colorado and to charge their EVs at times when renewable energy production is high and demand on the energy grid is low. —Alice Jackson, president, Xcel Energy-Colorado.
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DOE award to support commercialization of RCCI dual-fuel combustion technology
Green Car Congress
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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Kohl’s Department Stores expands charging station initiative with 18 additional locations; 101 stations in total
Green Car Congress
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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Green Car Congress
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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