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AllCell consortium launches Jordan solar EV project with Nissan

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A consortium of cleantech companies, led by AllCell Technologies, unveiled an off-grid solar charging station in Amman, Jordan. Jordan lacks fossil fuel resources and imports more than 90% of its energy.

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Northwestern/Princeton study explores air quality impacts of aggressive conversion to EVs

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For example, states in the western US (WUS) generally produce a larger fraction of their electricity from renewable and/or “emission-free” sources (i.e., —first author Jordan Schnell, a postdoc with the Ubben Program for Climate and Carbon Science in the Institute for Sustainability and Energy at Northwestern. 2019.04.003.

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Study Finds that US Subsidies for Fossil Fuels Are Almost 2.5x Those for Renewables

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US subsidies for fuels and renewable energy, 2002-2008. The study, “Estimating US Government Subsidies to Energy Sources: 2002-2008”, found that fossil fuels benefited from approximately $72 billion over the seven-year period, while subsidies for renewable fuels totaled $29 billion. More than half the subsidies for renewables—$16.8

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California lawmakers pass bill to extend life of Diablo Canyon nuclear plant, authorize $1.4B loan

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AB 846, was co-authored by Senator Bill Dodd, D-Napa and Assembly member Jordan Cunningham, R-San Luis Obispo, and had broad bipartisan support. SB 846 passed the Assembly with a bipartisan 69-3 vote and cleared the Senate 31-1.

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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. Statista reports that Google’s energy consumption reached 22.29

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Study finds EVs are lowering electricity bills for all customers, not just EV owners – Charged EVs

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The analysis , which was commissioned by the National Resources Defense Council, and performed by Synapse Energy Economics, compared the prices EV owners paid for electricity with the costs for utilities to build power plants and to generate and distribute the energy.

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

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The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. Renewable energy is another solution. Renewables, particularly biomass for heat, provided 14.6% Different that shale oil—i.e.,

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