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MAY 12, 2015

Although the SAE World Congress has been running panel sessions on fuel cell vehicle commercialization since 2005, this year was the first in which three participating automakers—Toyota, Hyundai and Honda—had fuel cell vehicles that customers can buy now or within a year. Earlier post.) —Jesse Schneider.

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JULY 12, 2018

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) announced that greenhouse gas emissions in California in 2016 fell below 1990 levels for the first time since emissions peaked in 2004—a reduction roughly equivalent to taking 12 million cars off the road or saving 6 billion gallons of gasoline a year. How the inventory is compiled.

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MAY 1, 2023

Coal trains and terminal operations add a significant amount of fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) pollution to urban areas—more so than other freight or passenger trains— according to a study conducted in Richmond, California, by the University of California, Davis. The results indicate coal trains add on average 8.32

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OCTOBER 1, 2020

EV ARC units are independently rated to withstand winds up to 120 mph and floods up to 9.5 The additional 22 EV ARC charging stations will be deployed in other rural areas of the state and will be available by the end of 2020. The investment is part of Electrify America’s California Cycle 2 ZEV Investment Plan.

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JULY 18, 2020

The SMUD (2020 Sacramento Municipal Utility District) Board of Directors adopted a climate emergency declaration that commits to working toward an ambitious goal of delivering carbon-neutral electricity by 2030.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2021

Energy company SG H2 Energy; the City of Lancaster, California; and Iwatani, Japan’s leading hydrogen industrial gas company and a developer of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) in California, are launching California’s first closed-loop green hydrogen ecosystem for transportation.

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AUGUST 22, 2017

Between 2006 and 2015, California’s GDP per capita grew by almost $5,000 per person, nearly double the growth experienced by the US as a whole. Job growth between 2006 and 2015 in California outpaced rates experienced prior to 2006, and outpaced total US employment gains by 27%. Commute times in California increased 2.8%

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JANUARY 21, 2017

The California Air Resources Board (ARB) released the proposed scoping plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. For the past decade, California has been reducing emissions through a series of actions, innovative solutions and advances in technology.

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DECEMBER 2, 2016

The California Air Resources Board (CARB) released its initial draft plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 40% below 1990 levels by 2030—the most ambitious target in North America. Managing farm and rangelands, forests and wetlands so they can store carbon. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 6, 2020

Enovix replaces electrode winding in a standard pouch lithium-ion battery production process with proprietary laser patterning and high-speed stacking tools to increase line MWh capacity by 30%. The result is both a significant increase in energy density and high cycle life. Source: Enovix. —Harrold Rust, Enovix co-founder and CEO.

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DECEMBER 30, 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced the first comprehensive list of 244 proposed renewable energy projects that could produce up to 69,925 MW of clean energy annually. Currently California facilities produce just more than 8,000 MW of renewable energy annually.

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OCTOBER 12, 2011

All of the offsets covered by the agreement are expected to be compliant with the California Air Resources Board’s approved standards. With its first auction scheduled for mid-2012, this program is part of AB32, California’s comprehensive program to reduce carbon emissions.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2012

The California Energy Commission has issued a competitive grant solicitation ( PON-12-606 ) to award up to a combined $28.59 California at Irvine (UCI). of transportation fuels by 10% by 2020. The Energy Commission held three public workshops throughout California to. Click to enlarge. emission vehicles, and.

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JANUARY 29, 2020

Moreover, to comply with IMO’s 2020 global sulfur limit, ships must either switch from HFO to more expensive very low sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) or use HFO with a scrubber, if they have one installed. Nikita Pavlenko, Bryan Comer, Yuanrong Zhou, Nigel Clark, Dan Rutherford (2020) “ The climate implications of using LNG as a marine fuel ”.

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JULY 20, 2020

By the end of 2020, Bloom expects to ship a 100 kW pilot server to South Korea to power an SK E&C facility in early 2021. —Jack Brouwer, professor of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and director of the National Fuel Cell Research Center (NFCRC) at the University of California, Irvine.

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JANUARY 21, 2012

The California Independent System Operator Corporation (ISO), California’s non-profit grid operator, released its new five-year (2012-2016) strategic plan. Between now and 2020, wind and solar generation will quadruple within the ISO transmission grid at the same time electric vehicle charging increases significantly.

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MARCH 17, 2020

Researchers at the University of California, Irvine and other institutions have conducted a statistical analysis of pollution exposure and yields from 1980 to 2015 on a key sector making up about 38% of the state’s total agricultural output: perennial crops such as almonds, grapes, nectarines, peaches, strawberries and walnuts. Mueller, N.D.,

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APRIL 29, 2009

On 20 April, the opening day of the SAE 2009 World Congress, the AVL Technology Leadership Theater presented a forum on “Green Mobility—The Long View”. Professor Robert Cervero, Department of City and Regional Planning, University of California-Berkeley. by Bill Cooke. Organized by Shane Chang at Honda Research Institute USA Inc.,

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2009

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger will veto two bills passed early Saturday morning by the California Legislature, which include a Renewable Power Standard (RPS) mandating that by 2020 at least 33% of all electrical power delivered to Californians come from solar, wind, geothermal, biomass or small-scale hydroelectric sources.

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MAY 31, 2011

With all permits finalized and the debt financing in place, Gemma Power Systems California, Inc. California is requiring the largest addition of renewable generation of any US state. When the wind doesn’t blow or the sun doesn’t shine, CPV Sentinel can backstop the lost generation. times oversubscribed.

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APRIL 5, 2011

On May 25, 1961 President John F Kennedy, in a special joint session of Congress, declared, “I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him safely to the earth. In France, renewable energy consumption will be 20 percent by 2020.

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MARCH 20, 2013

The Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) has taken steps to transition out of the use of coal-fired electricity earlier than mandated by California state law. IPP is owned by 23 municipal utilities in Utah and supplies power to 30 utilities in Utah and six utilities in Southern California, including LADWP.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2012

The least expensive way for the Western US to reduce greenhouse gas emissions enough to help prevent the worst consequences of global warming is to replace coal with renewable and other sources of energy that may include nuclear power, according to a new study by University of California, Berkeley, researchers.

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DECEMBER 23, 2020

Data from the report illustrate that California now must reduce emissions by an average of 4.9% each year from 2020 to 2030 to cut emissions to 40% below 1990 levels by 2030, as mandated by SB 32. While 2020 may see a similar emissions drop, the state has never cut emissions more than 2.6%

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MARCH 4, 2016

Quiet Nozzle Concepts for Low Boom Aircraft; $575,000 over two years to University of California, Irvine. NASA and its partners have made advances toward sonic boom reduction with the development and validation of new boom-reduction aircraft shaping tools, wind tunnel testing and flight experiments.

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APRIL 1, 2009

The bill also directs the President to work with the relevant Federal agencies and California to harmonize, to the maximum extent possible, the federal fuel economy standards, any emission standards promulgated by EPA, and the California standards for light-duty vehicles. trucks, construction machines, ships and planes.

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OCTOBER 8, 2019

California will meet its 2030 climate targets more than three decades late, in 2061, and could be more than 100 years late in meeting its 2050 target if the average rate of emissions reductions from the past year hold steady, according to a new study tracking more than a decade of environmental and economic indicators in the state.

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AUGUST 6, 2013

Aspirational targets among seven countries participating in the Electric Vehicle Initiative would see growth from just under 2 million EV and PHEVs to just under 20 million by 2020. In 2012 the German government declared a goal of having one million EVs registered by 2020. Source: “Electric Vehicle Grid Integration”. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 1, 2015

The California Air Resources Board released the latest edition of the state’s Greenhouse Gas Emission Inventory , which shows that emissions fell by 1.5 The law set a target of reducing emissions to 1990 levels by 2020. The drop in hydropower has now been completely replaced by in-state wind and solar power.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

China has developed a draft plan to invest $17 billion in central government funds in fuel economy, hybrids, plug-in hybrids, electric and fuel cell vehicles, with the goal of producing 5 million new energy vehicles and 15 million fuel-efficient conventional vehicles by 2020. Renewable Energy. Solar fuels.

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OCTOBER 2, 2012

In a new report , Pike Research forecasts that global sales of electric vehicle (EV) charging equipment (EVSE) will grow at a steady pace from 2012 to 2020 as the global market for plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) grows. million in 2020 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 37%, according to Pike’s projections.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). by Bill Cooke. Energy Markets in a State of Change. Cap and Trade Disappointment. Interest rates go up with the chance of default.

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DECEMBER 7, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. It followed an earlier, $10 million award to MP Materials, in November 2020. Wind turbines, too. So magnets go into motors.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2016

While the Niro Hybrid was preceded by clean mobility products such as the Optima Hybrid and Soul EV, Niro is the first Kia to make use of an all-new, dedicated eco-car platform and is an important next step on the path to nearly tripling the brand’s global green car line-up by 2020. The Niro features an all-new, advanced Kappa 1.6-liter

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JUNE 12, 2012

Low-cost carbon fiber has widespread application in automobiles, wind turbines, and various other industrial applications. Technology; University of California Santa Barbara; and The Pennsylvania State. Collaborators include Agenda 2020 Technology. Potentially this novel. DOE award is $9,000,000, with cost-share of $4,500,432.

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APRIL 16, 2009

Asked when there might be one million electric vehicles on the road that could also feed their battery capacity back into the grid in a two-way exchange, the panelists generally said between 2017 and 2020. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources. the biggest cuts anywhere in the world. — Dean Hewitt 20.

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APRIL 10, 2010

Waxman of California and Edward J. But in trying to assemble a majority to pass it, Mr. The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. Representatives Henry A. Overview of RGGI.

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