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UGI and Vertimass in 15-year agreement to produce renewable fuels in the US and Europe; $500M investment; propane and SAF

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 6, 2022

UGI Corporation has entered into a 15-year agreement with California-based technology developer Vertimass to utilize their catalytic technology to produce renewable fuels from renewable ethanol in the US and Europe. The technology enables flexible production of the renewable fuels to align with regional market demand.

Renewable

Renewable West Virginia Europe Pennsylvania

Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

Baua Electric

MARCH 5, 2024

Amazon will develop an up to 960-megawatt (MW) data center at the Salem Township site in Luzerne County, Pennsylvania. The plant has two General Electric boiling water reactors within a Mark II containment building that are licensed through 2042 and 2044. Read more: Should the US convert coal plant sites to nuclear?

Power

Power Powered Solar Pennsylvania

Wegmans’ Warehouse Operations Launches 50 Fuel-Cell Powered Pallet Trucks

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APRIL 27, 2010

Wegmans hopes to convert its entire lift truck fleet at the Pottsville facility to hydrogen fuel cells over the next few years. The warehouse installation is the first commercial site in Pennsylvania to move consumer goods using hydrogen-powered material handling equipment.

Power

Power Powered Pennsylvania Fuel

Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour It's flexible.

Molten Salt

Molten Salt Solar United Arab Emirates Albuquerque

Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Cars That Think

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Leading the boom is the photovoltaic (PV) panel, which converts sunlight into electricity using semiconductors. Inside the tower, molten salts are heated to 565 °C and flow down into storage tanks, turning water into steam to drive turbines. The closed-loop system has a record 17.5-hour It's flexible.

Molten Salt

Molten Salt Solar United Arab Emirates Albuquerque

Renmatix unveils supercritical hydrolysis process for biomass sugars

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 29, 2011

At Renmatix’s demonstration facility in Kennesaw, Georgia, the company has already scaled its process to convert three dry tons of woody biomass to sugars daily. Basic stages of the process include: Biomass which has undergone size reduction as necessary is mixed with water to form a slurry and pumped into a fractionation reactor.

Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Georgia Water Industrial

US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. Total Project Value: $300,000.

Mariner

Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey

PNAS study finds Vertimass CADO efficient way to convert ethanol to biohydrocarbons; 40 to 96% reduction in GHGs, based on feedstock

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NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Unlike prior processes for converting alcohols into hydrocarbons with multiple steps for dehydration, oligomerization, and hydrogenation, the Vertimass consolidated alcohol dehydration and oligomerization (CADO) conversion is accomplished in a single reactor system using a metal exchanged zeolite catalyst. HE = heat exchangers. Hannon et al.

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Convert Conversion Water Juice

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. This process is less than 1% efficient at converting sunlight to stored chemical energy. Water will be the primary byproduct.

Carbon

Carbon Batteries Battery Li-ion

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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JUNE 26, 2021

Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). DME as a Renewable Hydrogen Carrier: Innovative Approach to Renewable Hydrogen Production, $1,500,000. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. BioBlend Renewable Resources (Elk Grove Village, Illinois).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Combined with AC Transit’s already-installed solar capacity, this solar installation will produce the renewable electricity equivalent to what will be required to produce 180 kg/day of green hydrogen. Red Rose Transit Authority – RRTA, Pennsylvania: $2,450,000. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance

DOE awards $7.4M to 4 projects for advanced components for wave and tidal energy systems

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AUGUST 10, 2015

million to spur innovation of next-generation water power component technologies, designed for manufacturability and built specifically for marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) systems. and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, will develop and test a novel mechanical solution for converting from alternating current to direct current power.

Energy

Energy Pennsylvania Mariner USA

DOE and USDA award $10M to advance biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products

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MAY 10, 2016

million, and selections include the University of California-Riverside; the University of Montana; Missoula; the North Carolina Biotechnology Center; the State University of New York; and Pennsylvania State University. The USDA is funding five projects for a total of $7.3

North Carolina

North Carolina Production Montana MIT

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 26, 2009

Renewable Power (4 projects). Water (1 project). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. A novel process known as Syngas Chemical Looping (SCL), in which coal and biomass are converted to electricity and CO 2 is efficiently captured, has been successfully demonstrated on a laboratory scale.

Energy

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion

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UGI and Vertimass in 15-year agreement to produce renewable fuels in the US and Europe; $500M investment; propane and SAF

Amazon just bought a 100% nuclear-powered data center

Wegmans’ Warehouse Operations Launches 50 Fuel-Cell Powered Pallet Trucks

Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Thermal Solar Goes Where PVs Can’t

Renmatix unveils supercritical hydrolysis process for biomass sugars

US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

PNAS study finds Vertimass CADO efficient way to convert ethanol to biohydrocarbons; 40 to 96% reduction in GHGs, based on feedstock

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

DOE awards $7.4M to 4 projects for advanced components for wave and tidal energy systems

DOE and USDA award $10M to advance biofuels, bioenergy, and biobased products

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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