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BP acquiring upstream portion of Clean Energy’s renewable gas business for $155M

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BP will acquire the upstream portion of Clean Energy’s renewable natural gas business and sign a long-term supply contract with Clean Energy to support the firm’s continuing downstream renewable natural gas business. Renewable natural gas (RNG) fuel—biomethane—is produced entirely from organic waste. and Atlanta, Ga.

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UPS to invest $130M in > 700 natural gas vehicles and infrastructure; > $1B invested in alt fuels since 2008

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This $130-million dollar investment in CNG capacity for 2018 builds on previous UPS investments of $100 million dollars in 2016 and $90 million dollars in 2017. Building CNG and LNG capacity is an important enabler for increasing UPS’ use of renewable natural gas (RNG). UPS is a catalyst for wide scale adoption of natural gas vehicles.

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Captis Aire LLC, “Renewable Blending Components to Enable 100% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF)”, $2,000,000. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components. Hundreds of millions of gallons of drop-in 100% SAF will be unlocked. Comstock Inc.,

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UPS collaborating with Workhorse to deploy 50 electric trucks; rivaling acquisition cost of conventional; no subsidies

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UPS will test the vehicles primarily on urban routes across the country, including Atlanta, Dallas and Los Angeles. The company also has pledged to obtain 25% of the electricity it consumes from renewable energy sources by 2025 and replace 40% of all ground fuel with sources other than conventional gasoline and diesel, an increase from 19.6%

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CMU team details impact of regional and drive-cycle variations on degradation of a PHEV battery pack

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To estimate daily travel behavior of the vehicle, the team used GPS sample data from the Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) Regional Travel Survey with GPS Sub-Sample, available at the Transportation Secure Data Center (TSDC) of the National Renewable Energy Lab- oratory (NREL). 2016.10.104.

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IEEE Power & Energy Society President Dies at 69

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He worked at Georgia Power in Atlanta for more than 20 years, and he was a principal research engineer at the National Electric Energy Testing Research and Applications Center at Georgia Tech for more than 25 years, becoming NEETRAC's associate director. Ferreira was the 2015–2016 president of the IEEE Power Electronics Society.

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