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US Hybrid awarded contract to deliver plug-in fuel cell shuttle bus to Hawaii County Mass Transit Agency

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California-based US Hybrid Corporation has been awarded a contract by the Hawaii Center for Advanced Transportation Technologies (HCATT) for the design, integration and delivery of its H 2 Ride Fuel Cell Plug-In Shuttle Bus for operation by the County of Hawaii Mass Transit Agency’s (MTA) HELE-ON Big Island bus service.

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Hawaii Hydrogen Initiative seeking to ramp up hydrogen fuel-cell vehicles and fueling infrastructure

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Ten companies, agencies and universities have joined an initiative between The Gas Company (TGC), and General Motors to support a ramp up of hydrogen-powered vehicles and associated fueling infrastructure in Hawaii by 2015. In Hawaii, we want to address the proverbial chicken or egg dilemma. Earlier post.).

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Neste Oil signs an algae oil off-take agreement with Cellana for renewable fuel

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Cellana expects to be able to produce algae oil on a commercial scale from late 2015 onwards. Based in Hawaii and California, Cellana has almost a decade of experience in growing oil-rich algae in its pilot- and demonstration-scale facilities in Hawaii using sea water in its photo-bioreactors and open ponds.

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US and Japan collaborating on smart grid project in Hawaii; EV operation and charging, including grid-balancing services

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The project is supported by Japan’s New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO), in cooperation with the State of Hawaii, Hawaiian Electric Company, Inc., Based on the results of the feasibility study, the project is expected to be implemented by the end of March 2015. Hitachi Ltd.

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ICL, CMU study associates PM2.5 air pollution in US with >30,000 deaths and reduced life expectancy

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Air quality in the US may be linked with increased mortality and reduced life expectancy according to new research from Imperial College London and the Center for Air, Climate and Energy Solutions at Carnegie Mellon University. excluding Alaska and Hawaii) between 1999 and 2015. across all counties in the contiguous US (i.e.,

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NDEW: Profile rising

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Smith pointed out that Carrborro, a neighboring city to Chapel Hill, is home to many students and faculty at nearby universities. “So Four-island spectacular Hawaii Electric Vehicle Association will host 4 NDEW events, all on September 24. It was a great idea because so many people go down to the market every weekend.”

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New one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade biofuel from the bacterial biopolymer PHB

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A team from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, University of Hawaii at Manoa is developing a new one-pot process to produce gasoline-grade (C 6 –C 18 ) hydrocarbon oil from polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB)—an energy storage material formed from renewable feedstock in many bacterial species. 2015.07.107.

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