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President Obama Awards $2.3B for Tax Credits for New Clean-Tech Manufacturing Jobs; GE Gets Largest Battery-related Award

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billion in Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits for clean energy manufacturing projects across the United States. RE-Gen LLC will receive a $903,480 credit to support building a factory to produce Biomass Gasification Furnaces with a capacity of 250 systems/year. President Obama announced the award of $2.3

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How to Take Advantage of EV Charging Incentives for Fleets

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You can find incentives such as: Tax credits – These incentives lessen the amount of taxes that must be paid to the government for specific purchases. SmartWay The US Environmental Protection Agency has gathered resources for heavy duty fleet owners on their SmartWay Heavy Duty Electrification Resources page.

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What is Behind the Meter (BTM)?

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These systems enable energy users to manage their energy use more effectively, improve energy efficiency, and reduce dependence on the traditional grid. As a result, it would require notable investment in EVCI and grid upgrading to pare the growth.

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10 Reasons Your Next Car Should Be an EV

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This includes all of the resources used in manufacturing the vehicle, the battery, and powering the vehicle. EVs are Better for the Grid Electric vehicles are essentially mobile power storage that can get us where we need to go. grid actually diversifies U.S. Many EV models are eligible for up to $7,500 in income tax credits.

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Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit

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Arizona’s largest battery + Google Arizona utility company Salt River Project and renewables developer NextEra Energy Resources developed Sonoran Solar Energy Center, a 260-megawatt (MW) solar farm able to charge a 1 gigawatt-hour (GWh) battery energy storage system. Arizona is just another important step in that process.

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This utility in the US Midwest is going to add 3.6 GW of wind and solar

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GW of “always-available resources” by 2030 as backup power during peak demand. It only says that the resources “will only run when needed, meaning they’ll have very low emissions.” So, it could be more battery storage, or it could be grid upgrades – or it could be fossil fuels, and that would be disappointing indeed.

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Imperium3 consortium forms to establish Li-ion battery gigafactory in NY state; 3 GWh by Q4 2019 to grow to 15 GWh

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million in Excelsior Jobs Program tax credits. million in New York Investment Tax Credits. Magnis Resources, Ltd., To encourage this collaborative effort, Empire State Development has offered performance-based incentives totaling $7.5 million, including a $4 million Upstate Revitalization Initiative grant and $3.5

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