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ExxonMobil invests $15M in University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute; renewable energy, battery technologies and power grid modeling

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ExxonMobil will invest $15 million as a leadership member of the University of Texas at Austin Energy Institute to pursue technologies to help meet growing energy demand while reducing environmental impacts and the risk of climate change. E-ffiliates fosters collaboration with industry in pursuing energy and environmental innovation.

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Stockton school district partners with Mobility House for electric school bus charging; savings of $500K over 5 years

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million for this project was provided to Stockton Unified School District by California Climate Investments. The intelligent Charging and Energy Management system ChargePilot and underlying EV Aggregation Platform enable customers and partners to integrate electric vehicles into the grid for optimized and future proof operations.

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The Greening of Transportation

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According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change , approximately 15 percent of net anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions come from the transportation sector. To meet global climate targets, we must devise ways to get people and goods from point A to point B without burning fossil fuels.

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Policy Options for Expanding and Modernizing the US Power Grid

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Local opposition and other siting difficulties, along with traditional reliability-focused planning, also have impeded the development of a modern grid. —Chi-Jen Yang of the Duke-based Climate Change Policy Partnership (CCPP). Because of these, there has been a sustained under-investment in transmission for several decades.

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The Solangelist is Back! Greenius & GRID Alternative Get to Work Installing Solar in Inglewood

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Tags: citizen volunteer climate change environment renewable energy solar power GRID Alternatives.

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Canada, US and Mexico commit to align light- and heavy-duty fuel efficiency and GHG standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively

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As one of the outcomes of the “Three Amigos” meeting in Ottawa, Canada Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, US President Barack Obama, and Mexico President Enrique Peña Nieto committed to an “ambitious and enduring” North American Climate, Clean Energy, and Environment Partnership. 50% clean power target.

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Wind-to-Hydrogen Tech Goes to Sea

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Many countries have met their climate goals and are on track to be completely carbon neutral. Then, as now, wind farms are operating off the world’s coasts—but not all of these offshore sites are connected to the mainland via underwater power cables. Imagine this hopeful, and not impossible, energy scenario for the year 2040.

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