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JANUARY 14, 2012

A better understanding of how algae can be used to make biofuels is the aim of a new joint project between UC Davis and the University of Tokyo, Japan. UC Davis’ share will be about $1.5 million over three years, with the possibility of renewal for another two years.

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NOVEMBER 9, 2010

At the current pace of research and development, replacing gasoline and diesel with renewable fuel alternatives could take some 131 years, according to a new University of California, Davis, study using a new sustainability forecasting approach based on market expectations. —Nataliya Malyshkina, UC Davis postdoctoral researcher.

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JULY 16, 2021

Chevron USA, through its Chevron Products Company division, and Cummins announced a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to explore a strategic alliance to develop commercially viable business opportunities in hydrogen and other alternative energy sources. —Amy Davis, vice president and president of New Power at Cummins.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Cummins’ three-year project aims to automate the manufacturing of SOECs to make production of the electrolyzer systems more efficient, reducing capital costs and facilitating the scale-up of the hydrogen economy. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins.

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JUNE 16, 2021

Rio Tinto has partnered with the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) to study whether hydrogen can replace natural gas in alumina refineries to reduce emissions. In a 2017 open-access paper exploring the use of concentrated solar thermal (CST) radiation for alumina calcination, Davis et al. Dominic Davis, Fabian Müller, Woei L.

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MARCH 24, 2023

But the net-zero target would never have been reachable without innovations in renewable- energy generation that let structures generate power on- site. But with a price tag topping US $1 million each, it is easy to see why there is an urgent push for production innovation to bring the cost way down.

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Due both to the unprecedented nature of the program as well as to the uncertainty regarding the ability of the renewable fuel industry to produce volumes of low CI fuels necessary to meet the required reductions, it is difficult to predict market outcomes and compliance scenarios in the market in coming years. LCFS Policy'

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OCTOBER 22, 2016

A new analysis from Argonne National Laboratory, funded by the US Department of Energy’s Bioenergy Technologies Office (BETO), shows the potential of an algae fractionation process to produce renewable diesel fuel with 63%–68% lower greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions than conventional diesel. The study is published in the journal Algal Research.

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JUNE 18, 2013

Myriant Corporation, a global renewable chemicals company, announced the successful start-up at its flagship bio-succinic acid plant located in Lake Providence, Louisiana. Myriant has produced on-spec commercial product at the plant and anticipates that customer shipments will commence soon. —Stephen J. Gatto, Chairman and CEO.

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MARCH 29, 2012

As part of the alliance, DaniMer will utilize Myriant’s bio-succinic acid for the production of high-performance, bio-based polymers used to make a broad range of products. Myriant utilizes its technology platform to develop renewable chemicals utilizing low-cost sugars.

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DECEMBER 23, 2021

This will include offering electrolyzers for both small-scale hydrogen production—such as a hydrogen fueling system for on-site hydrogen generation—as well as for large-scale hydrogen generation installations capable of 100 megawatts and beyond. —Amy Davis, Vice President and President of New Power at Cummins.

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DECEMBER 5, 2016

In addition, RNG use could be much higher if the LCFS credits were combined with US federal RIN credits (Renewable Identification Number, part of the Renewable Fuels Standard, RFS), the study found. Given the appropriate policy and market measures, the state’s RNG production potential is 90.6 Of the 14 bcf projected total, 6.3

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FEBRUARY 10, 2016

A new biorefinery process developed by scientists at the Energy Department’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has proven to be significantly more effective at producing ethanol from algae than previous research. This work was funded by DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s (EERE) Bioenergy Technologies Office.

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JANUARY 14, 2016

A new comparative study by researchers at the Department of Energy’s BioEnergy Science Center (BESC), based at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, finds the natural abilities of unconventional bacteria could help boost the efficiency of cellulosic biofuel production. Davis, Brian H. Paye, Anna Guseva, Sarah K. Hahn and Lee R.

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AUGUST 5, 2019

The funding will help Sierra Energy further develop and commercialize its FastOx gasification technology, which converts virtually any waste into clean, renewable energy and fuels without burning. Sierra Energy was founded in Davis, California in 2004. —Mike Hart, Sierra Energy’s CEO.

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MARCH 20, 2013

Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. The CI of a fuel is determined by the sum of all greenhouse gas emissions associated with the production, transportation, processing and consumption of a fuel (its pathway). Earlier post.)

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APRIL 24, 2013

The site is on the campus of the University of California, Davis; the building process will be documented and shared through the Honda Smart Home US website. Separately, Ford Motor Company and KB Home announced that products from the Ford-led initiative MyEnergi Lifestyle ( earlier post ) will be featured in the homebuilder’s ZeroHouse 2.0

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It additionally calls for electrical energy from renewable resources. It does no longer require automakers to change engines, gas gadget parts or emissions methods, a perception that Greg Davis, a mechanical engineering schoolteacher at one of the vital crowd’s greatest colleges for auto engineers, Kettering College, concurs with.

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APRIL 14, 2011

has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Section 1705 Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program, for an advanced-stage renewable power project in Port St. Joe, Florida, that would employ a Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier to produce renewable power. Rentech, Inc. The Port St.

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MARCH 1, 2015

This agreement builds upon the existing collaboration, announced in March 2014, under which Rennovia and Johnson Matthey Davy Technologies are working together on the engineering and construction of a mini-plant to optimize and scale the process, which will enable commercial production of these products. Rennovia Inc.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The Commission also approved grants for the operation of a hydrogen fueling station, biofuel production, geothermal exploration and rooftop solar for schools. The seven awards approved will fund applied R&D projects that will develop utility-scale renewable energy generation technologies. First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open.

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MARCH 26, 2012

Researchers with the US Department of Energy (DOE)’s Joint BioEnergy Institute (JBEI) have developed a new synthetic system and approach that can significantly boost the engineered microbial production of renewable fuels or chemicals. However, product titers and yields are often limited by metabolic imbalances.

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APRIL 22, 2016

and UC-Davis Emeritus and Bruce R. These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ from University of California, Davis and years of experience as an agricultural researcher. About the authors. Dr. Andrew A. Dr. Bruce R.

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JUNE 6, 2016

Despite Arun stem containing high levels of a component thought to inhibit bioethanol production, this appears to be negated by a high level of an easily fermentable sugar. Burton (2016) “Prospecting for Energy-Rich Renewable Raw Materials: Sorghum Stem Case Study” PLOS ONE doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0156638. 0156638.

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APRIL 30, 2013

Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system. Anaergia Services of Carlsbad received $395,121 to demonstrate a process which will convert green waste into renewable natural gas.

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Electrolysis using low-cost renewable electricity could be a key technology for CO 2 -free hydrogen production in the Shell Rheinland Refinery. In the future, it is also expected to play a key role in integrating energy storage and power grid balancing, thus enabling a reliable and growing share of renewables in the energy system.

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JUNE 8, 2017

At the close of the meeting, Governor Brown and Chair Nichols agreed to establish a new working group through the China-US ZEV Policy Lab at UC Davis to expand cooperation with Chinese zero-emission vehicle and battery technology companies. China’s production of zero-emission vehicles has skyrocketed over the past two years.

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DECEMBER 29, 2009

The statue assumes that marginal electricity comes from NGCC plants (79%) and renewable power (21%), with a GHG emissions rate of 104.7 Renewable power does not operate on the margin and marginal generation from dispatchable power plants is unlikely to come entirely from NGCC plants operating with average heat rates. Click to enlarge.

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Recognised for its revolutionary product range and rapid international growth, the Lincolnshire-based company has quickly grown from a team of two to a workforce in excess of 200. myenergi production staff manufacturing products here in the UK. myenergi production staff manufacturing products here in the UK.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

A study by a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has found that the amount of sugars contained within cellulosic biomass from bioenergy crops that can be converted into fuels is of equal economic importance to the yield. Davis, M.F., Happs, R.M., Bartling, A.W., Doeppke, C.,

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OCTOBER 11, 2019

Second, the production cost of all of blendstocks identified is significantly higher than fuels on the market today; finding ways to value the enhanced fuel properties could help, along with process improvements. George, Anthe, Monroe, Eric, Davis, Ryan W., Gaspar, Daniel J., West, Brian H., Ruddy, Danial, Wilke, Trenton J.,

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JULY 9, 2013

Car buyers are more likely to buy a plug-in electric vehicle (PEV) if they know that the electricity used to charge it is from a renewable energy source, according to a study in the IOP journal Environmental Research Letters (ERL).

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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). The renewable energy community may prefer “areas of concern” over the term schism, but significant issues were reiterated.

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MAY 1, 2012

Renewable process for production of p-Xylene from glucose. The plastics industry currently produces p -xylene from petroleum; the new renewable process creates exactly the same chemical from biomass. Dauenhauer says this is a major breakthrough since other methods of producing renewable p -xylene are either expensive (e.g.,

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NOVEMBER 8, 2011

The specific goals are to develop new techniques to increase the production of renewable biofuel and reduce pesticide use. This project will leverage advanced instrumentation to identify and characterize important metabolites related to biomass and oil production in plants.

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AUGUST 12, 2011

The investments are part of a broader effort by the Obama administration to develop domestic renewable energy and advanced biofuels. Because these crops will be optimized to tolerate conditions such as drought and poor soils, they can be grown on marginal lands unsuitable for food crops, thereby avoiding competition with food production.

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

If powered by renewable energy sources, electrolysis could produce fuels and chemical feedstocks more sustainably and reduce the use of fossil fuels. Davis, Jeffrey A. These findings open the avenue toward an atomic-level understanding of the oxygen evolution of catalytic centers under in operando conditions. —Zheng et al.

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