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million in grants to Community Fuels, the Sacramento Area Council of Governments, and the South Coast Air Quality Management District to support their alternative fuels programs. The plant converts waste grease, agricultural waste, and other low-grade feedstock into biodiesel fuel.

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Other technical partners are Railpower Tech LLC, Ballard Power Systems, Optifuel Systems LLC, UC Davis Institute of Transportation Studies, Valley Vision, Velocity Strategies, and the Sacramento Metropolitan Air Quality Management District. Sierra Northern Railway is the freight division of privately-owned, Sierra Railroad Company.

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JUNE 13, 2017

Porvoo is the first city in Finland to start using Neste MY Renewable Diesel, produced 100% from waste and residues, in all of its diesel-fueled vehicles during this year. In California in the US, our products are already used in Sacramento and San Diego.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

The Autocar E3 equipped with RunWise technology is also available to waste management companies on a rent-to-own basis through Big Truck Rental. Sacramento, Calif., Sacramento, Calif., —Shane Terblanche, general manager, hybrid drive systems at Parker Hannifin. Tacoma, Wash, and Houston and Austin, Texas.

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OCTOBER 9, 2016

The majority of the renewable raw materials the company uses to refine the product, consists of waste and residues. Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology makes it possible to produce top-quality renewable diesel and other renewable products out of waste and residue materials and vegetable oils.

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JUNE 14, 2019

The CEC formally approved the award at its monthly Business Meeting yesterday in Sacramento. This project is a building block to statewide production of rDME from California’s methane, removing this greenhouse gas from waste streams and converting it to an ultra-low carbon or carbon-negative transportation fuel.

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NOVEMBER 6, 2019

The City of Sacramento has signed a contract for an expected 650,000 gallons of Redeem to fuel approximately 100 solid waste vehicles. Likewise, the County of Sacramento inked a deal for 550,000 gallons of RNG to fuel about 100 vehicles.

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JUNE 1, 2012

will receive $5 million to develop, build and test a pilot facility to demonstrate an innovative gasification process to produce renewable biomass diesel from local municipal solid waste, including green refuse, railroad ties, construction and demolition waste, and plastics that typically wind up in landfills. SacPort Biofuels Corp.

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JANUARY 18, 2017

Production of Neste MY Renewable Diesel is based on Neste’s proprietary NEXBTL technology which can be used for producing premium-quality renewable diesel and other renewable products from almost any waste fat or vegetable oil. The company is engaged in continuous development work to further expand the raw material base.

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MAY 5, 2015

RNG (biomethane) can be derived from many abundant and renewable sources, including decomposing organic waste in landfills, wastewater treatment and agriculture. UPS fueling stations in Sacramento, Fresno and Los Angeles will utilize Redeem RNG for refueling tractors and delivery vehicles in UPS’ fleet beginning this month.

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OCTOBER 18, 2012

Commission in Sacramento, California, and execution of a grant agreement. 2,422,740 to develop a system for anaerobic digestion of food waste to create. Of the seven Round 2 proposed award recipients, two produce diesel substitutes ($8,641,723); two produce gasoline substitutes ($9,664,657); and three produce biomethane ($8,589,993).

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The Energy Department also announced today that three new corporate partners—AMP Americas, Kwik Trip and Waste Management—are joining the National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

LLC, a Sacramento, California-based biofuels company, has licensed a biomass pyrolysis process from the University of Georgia Research Foundation, Inc (UGARF). Dead trees resulting from infestations of the mountain pine beetle are one of the major sources of waste biomass for Tolero, according to Churchill. Tolero Energy.

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JANUARY 13, 2012

The California Energy Commission approved a first-in-the-nation energy efficiency standard that will reduce wasted energy by battery chargers commonly used to power cell phones, laptop computers, power tools, and other devices. Energy consumed to charge batteries is increasing in California.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Greyrock, a company headquartered in Sacramento, California, provides systems that produce premium synthetic diesel fuel and gasoline blends from various sources such as flare gas, natural gas, industrial waste gas, CO2, and biomass.

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MAY 2, 2018

Two 520 refuse haulers will be tested by Sacramento County and a waste hauler will operate one truck. The 80,000-pound, short-haul Peterbilt 579 drayage trucks will support operations at ports throughout California, including Los Angeles, Long Beach, San Diego, and Oakland.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The first hydrogen refueling station in Northern California was dedicated in West Sacramento. Colony Energy Partners Tulare, LLC: $5 million to construct a digester for processing waste that will produce 2.8 First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open. It marks the 10 th retail hydrogen refueling station in the State.

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AUGUST 26, 2015

Bimbo Bakeries, currently fueling a fleet of CNG trucks at a Clean Energy station in Sacramento, CA, will deploy nine additional CNG trucks in Pennsylvania that are expected to consume over 40,000 DGEs a year. Clean Energy will open five additional stations for the fleet that is expected to consume 450,000 DGEs a year.

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JUNE 12, 2010

FedEx has deployed 20 gasoline hybrid electric vehicles (gHEVs) on parcel delivery routes in the Sacramento and Los Angeles areas. gHEV deceleration events allow for the recapture of energy via regenerative braking, while this energy is unrecoverable and wasted by the diesel vehicle.

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JUNE 14, 2012

The award recipients are: Clean World Partners, LLC , will receive $6 million to increase the Sacramento BioRefinery’s capacity from 25 tons to 100 tons a day. This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17

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AUGUST 26, 2009

The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St. Total DOE award: $5,519,862.

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DECEMBER 15, 2018

Their buses drive in stop-and-go traffic where conventional internal combustion engines waste fuel while idling. They operate largely in urban centers, where pollution and noise are of greater concern. And their fleets run out of central depots where charging infrastructure can be installed and conveniently accessed.

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MAY 9, 2013

The program funds projects to encourage the development and use of new technologies and alternative and renewable fuels, including electricity, natural gas, biomethane, hydrogen, and gasoline and diesel substitutes, such as cellulosic ethanol (derived from woody materials, including agricultural waste), and biodiesel from waste grease.

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MARCH 21, 2013

The facility will create biodiesel from renewable waste-based materials such as used cooking oil from restaurants. based in West Sacramento, was awarded $94,959 to determine the feasibility of using a catalyst to transform food waste into fuel in a single unit, thus simplifying production and lowering costs. C/e Solutions, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2013

The first phase of this $32-million refinery is slated to be operating within a year of funding, producing 5 million gallons a year of biodiesel made from waste vegetable oils obtained from restaurants and commercial food producers, and animal fats obtained from rendering operations. The eight award recipients are: Eslinger Biodiesel, Inc.

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JANUARY 18, 2011

The same is true of Sacramento: traffic to the north, south, and west is largely cut off for 1 week or so, with gradual recovery thereafter. Congress deemed the cost of the study to be too high at the time. Even so, the authors noted, their assessment likely underestimated the impact on highways due to a number of factors.

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OCTOBER 2, 2013

Waste Management. In addition, four public workshops were held over the summer in Los Angeles, Fresno, Sacramento and San Francisco in an effort to consider comments prior to developing the draft. The focus areas include: Energy. Transportation, Land Use, Fuels, and Infrastructure. Agriculture. Natural and Working Lands.

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JUNE 7, 2013

At an event in Sacramento, California, Volvo Trucks announced that it will commercialize dimethyl ether (DME)-powered heavy-duty commercial vehicles in North America, with limited production beginning in 2015. Volvo VNL D13 with DME. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 13, 2013

Waste Management of California, Inc., The Electric Power Research Institute, based in Palo Alto (Santa Clara County), will receive $220,908 to augment a current grant for the demonstration of five Odyne plug-in hybrid electric work trucks in the cities of Sacramento, Los Angeles and San Francisco.

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