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West Virginia brings first of 5 solar farms online – why that matters

Baua Electric

Mon Power and Potomac Edison said they plan to seek final approval from the PSC later this year to build the fourth and fifth solar farms in Davis, Tucker County (11.5 Coal has also historically been a significant employer in West Virginia, but coal-mining employment has nearly halved in just over a decade. Get started here. –ad*

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Royal Academy of Engineering Report Says EV Success Depends on Low-Carbon Electricity, Universal Broadband Provision and Smart Grids

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While technical development of electric and plug-in hybrid electric vehicles is proceeding—driven by an industry than sees their potential as the future of personal transport—market success will rely on a number of infrastructural improvements and early agreement on standards and protocols, the report says. Davy Thielena, KEMA Consulting.

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UC Davis study highlights results of MINI E field trial in US; MINI E met 90% of daily driving needs

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The University of California, Davis and the BMW Group released the largest publicly available study of electric-car users yet conducted, including more than 120 families who drove the fully electric MINI E automobile more than 1 million miles in California, New York and New Jersey from June 2009 to June 2010.

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Toyota "Moves"

Plug In Partners

Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. The average person who drives 40 miles per day or less wouldn't use any gasoline at all ," he says. clip) But if Toyota's announcement caught some by surprise, it was certainly no surprise to Andy Frank.

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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

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The sponsor is the person who is responsible for the overall execution and has the greatest risk/reward. Grant Davis is a Managing Director at New York Life Investments. Davis is responsible for the firm’s Energy and Project Finance group and has more than 25 years of experience in corporate finance and investments.

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Using the PHEV (Plug-In Hybrid Electric Vehicle) to Transition Society Seamlessly and Profitably From Fossil Fuel to 100% Renewable Energy

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and UC-Davis Emeritus and Catherine JJ DeMauro. He holds more than 35 patents (12 of which belong to UC Davis), has published more than 100 papers, and is an internationally recognized subject matter expert. A thinking person should ask, “How did the Leaf owner travel the unaccounted miles, the ones that were not e-miles?”

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Buffett's Chinese electric car company

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Innovation appears to be Mr. Wang’s personal passion. This is a company that has already invented new processes (the way it makes batteries) and products (the battery in its electric car) and it is focused on innovation. BYD’s forward-thinking management. Once approved it will be visible for the public. You are not logged in.

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