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Pennsylvania DEP awards more than $4.4M in alternative fuels grants to 12 projects; bulk for natural gas

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Waste Management of PA, Inc. will receive $400,000 for the construction of a compressed natural gas fueling station at its Delaware Valley North hauling facility in Bristol Borough. The fueling station will be used by Waste Management’s waste and recycling haulers and other local fleet operators.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Electric Vehicles, University of Delaware). Scalable Real-time Decentralized Volt/VAR Control Caltech will develop scalable, real-time, decentralized. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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“I would say that electricity is a vastly superior fuel for the light vehicle fleet,” said Willett Kempton , a professor and alternative energy specialist at the University of Delaware. Every scrap of waste food, garden trimmings and even sewage would be used to ferment gas. Powered by Blogrunner Latest From Green Inc.

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