West Virginia and Wind

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

It is a non-starter, and puts the entire state of West Virginia and the coal industry in a terrible light. ’ West Virginia would be much smarter to stay at the table.” West Virginia Chamber of Commerce President Steve Roberts immediately expressed disappointment with Byrd’s essay.

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West Virginia Virginia Coal Future

Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2023

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. Rank State Proportional amount of emissions relative to 100% hydro 1 West Virginia 163.9 Nuclear 0 0 Wind 2.5 Natural gas 87.9 Geothermal 16.5

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West Virginia Emissions Carbon Vermont

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

These results indicate that coal and oil are the energy sources leading to most emissions, and that hydro, wind, and nuclear are the energy sources leading to least emissions. West Virginia. West Virginia. West Virginia. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Natural gas.

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Coal West Virginia North Dakota Cleaner

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

Other: West Virginia University Research Corporation aims to focus on the expansion and transformation of the use of coal and coal-based resources, including waste streams, to produce products of high value to the 21st century energy and manufacturing ecosystem. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,500,000.

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EGEB: No. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022

Electrek

APRIL 23, 2021

West Virginia’s electric car drivers made a film about why they chose to embrace electric. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022 appeared first on Electrek. In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): Texas is expected to add record utility-scale solar in the next two years.

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Texas West Virginia Wind Solar

EPA power to reel in coal power emissions challenged, now elevated to Supreme Court

Green Car Reports

MARCH 3, 2022

Fossil fuel-producing states and coal companies, led by West Virginia, argued that the EPA does not have the authority to shift electricity generation from coal to renewable sources like wind and solar, according.

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Coal West Virginia EPA Emissions

OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 23, 2012

Wind accounted for 2.3%. PJM data shows that peak time for renewable energy generation from wind is generally between 10 p.m. According to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA), US electricity generation in 2010 was 70% fossil fuels (coal 44.9%, natural gas 23.8%); 20% nuclear; and 10% renewable, of which 6.2%

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Volt Google Renewable Chevrolet

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Green Car Congress

APRIL 5, 2011

cents/kWh in West Virginia—a 23.59 Even with the implementation of the smart grid it seems unlikely that we will all be able to buy our power from West Virginia. in West Virginia to $6.12 cents/kWh, with a range from 29.20 cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 cents/ kWh or 240% swing between states.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Energy USA

Orbital ATK successfully tests hypersonic engine combustor produced through additive manufacturing

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 22, 2016

The combustor, produced through an additive manufacturing process known as powder bed fusion (PBF), was subjected to a variety of high-temperature hypersonic flight conditions over the course of 20 days, including one of the longest duration propulsion wind tunnel tests ever recorded for a unit of this kind.

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Manufacturer West Virginia Engine Virginia

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

Results from the study also suggest that with sufficient coal plant retirement and sufficient wind power, controlled charging could result in positive net benefits instead of negative. High Wind Future: In this scenario, they modified the future case to add wind plants sufficient to produce 20% of generation.

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Charging Coal Grid District of Columbia

PSA evaluating Aquarius Engines’ free-piston linear generator for range-extender

Green Car Congress

JULY 21, 2016

A number of groups have recently or are currently investigating the use of free piston engine power generation applications with a focus on automotive, including academic work at West Virginia University (WVU), Sandia National Laboratory (SNL), Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden), and Shanghai Jiaotong University.

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Engine Range Exhaust West Virginia

ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 17, 2016

Small Scale Ammonia Synthesis Using Stranded Wind Energy (Category 1) The University of Minnesota Twin Cities team will insert an inorganic absorbent material in the ammonia synthesis loop of a traditional Haber-Bosch process to remove ammonia from the gas stream. West Virginia University Research Corporation.

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Carbon Fuel Energy Hydrogen

American energy and American made

Electric Auto Association

JULY 7, 2022

July 4th thoughts on EVs BY Robert FernatT, Member of West Virginia Electric Auto Association. This article was first posted on the West Virginia Electric Auto Association (WVEAA) site. That is true whether the electricity is produced from solar, wind, hydroelectric, nuclear, natural gas, or coal—it's all local.

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West Virginia Virginia Energy Oil Prices

New England to become the second coal-free region in the US

Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

It will be integral in supporting reliability daily during peak hours and acting as storage for the wind power now being built off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and in the Gulf of Maine. There’s almost 33 GW of wind, solar, and storage planned for New England. That will make New Hampshire the 16th coal-free state.

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Coal New Hampshire West Virginia Sierra

AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

The Pickens Plan proposes to generate up to 22% of the nation's electricity from wind and supports development of an extra-high voltage transmission system to facilitate that expanded use of renewable electricity generation.

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Corporation Energy West Virginia Virginia

Report: Energy Jobs Grew Faster Than Overall U.S. Employment in 2021

CleanTechnica EVs

JUNE 30, 2022

Annual U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER) Shows Strength in Clean Energy Jobs WASHINGTON, D.C. — Department of Energy (DOE) this week released the 2022 U.S. Energy and Employment Report (USEER), a comprehensive study designed to track and understand employment trends across the energy sector and within key energy technologies.

Energy

Energy Washington Cleaning Clean

One Year Later, IRA Responsible for Tens of Thousands of American Jobs & Billions in Investment

Plug in America

AUGUST 14, 2023

The IRA provides funds for a variety of activities from increasing solar and wind energy capacity and home improvements to save money on energy to installing EV charging and reducing the upfront cost of EVs. From just last year, West Virginia has seen 4,755 new jobs from clean energy projects.

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West Virginia Virginia Solar Cleaning

6 Spectacular North American Train Trips

Baua Electric

MARCH 13, 2025

WEST VIRGINIA Potomac Eagle Scenic Railroad West Virginia is a hotbed of heritage railroading. On select weekend nights, the Junction turns into the Glen Blair Bar , a watering hole hidden among the redwoods with live music, games and smores and only reachable by the Skunk Train.

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3 Electric Vehicle Trends in the Growing Market

EV Connect

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But, at this point, the only states that don’t have incentives to some degree are the Dakotas, Kansas, Kentucky and West Virginia. The more EV infrastructure available, the more EVs wind up on the road, and the more customers you have. It would be impractical to try and list all of them.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Market Vehicles West Virginia

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. manufacturing (some of which overlaps with the EV-related aspects – more on that in a moment) appeared all but doomed earlier this summer.

Electric Vehicles

Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry

EV Driven

West Virginia Senator Robert Byrd: Coal Must Embrace The Future

Carbon emissions from generating electricity for electric vehicles vary greatly across the individual US states

As states continue to use less coal for electricity, driving electric vehicles becomes even cleaner

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

EGEB: No. 1 wind state Texas to add record solar by end of 2022

EPA power to reel in coal power emissions challenged, now elevated to Supreme Court

OnStar and Google demonstrate concept service for managing charging Chevrolet Volts with renewable energy

Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

Orbital ATK successfully tests hypersonic engine combustor produced through additive manufacturing

CMU study finds controlled EV charging can reduce generation cost, but at greater health and environmental costs depending upon the generation mix

PSA evaluating Aquarius Engines’ free-piston linear generator for range-extender

ARPA-E awards $35M to 16 REFUEL projects for energy-dense carbon-neutral liquid fuels; leveraging ammonia

American energy and American made

New England to become the second coal-free region in the US

AEP Signs on as Corporate Sponsor of Pickens’ Energy Plan

Report: Energy Jobs Grew Faster Than Overall U.S. Employment in 2021

One Year Later, IRA Responsible for Tens of Thousands of American Jobs & Billions in Investment

6 Spectacular North American Train Trips

3 Electric Vehicle Trends in the Growing Market

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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