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Energy Vault to provide 1.6 GWh of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels SAF projects

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gigawatt hours (GWh) of gravity energy storage to support DG Fuels across multiple projects, with the first project slated for 500 megawatt hours (MWh) in Louisiana. DG Fuels expects to complete its Louisiana SAF project by mid-2022. The Louisiana facility is the company’s first major project.

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Amyris processes Ceres sweet sorghum into renewable diesel using soluble and cellulosic sugars

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Amyris is presenting a summary of the results at the 34 th Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals in New Orleans, Louisiana. The pilot-scale project use both free (soluble) sugars and biomass (cellulosic) sugars from Ceres’ sweet sorghum hybrids grown in Alabama, Florida, Hawaii, Louisiana and Tennessee.

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DOE to award ~$13.5M to 16 R&D projects for solid-oxide fuel cell technologies

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SOFC technologies enable efficient, cost-effective electricity generation from abundant domestic coal and natural gas resources, with minimal use of water and near-zero atmospheric emissions of carbon dioxide and pollutants. Sputtered Thin Films for Very High Power, Efficient, and Low-Cost Commercial SOFCs.

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DOE Awards $20M to Boost Development of Innovative Geothermal Technologies

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However, most low temperature geothermal resources are not hot enough to be harnessed through traditional geothermal processes, including dry steam or flash steam power plants, which typically use water at temperatures greater than 360 °F (182 °C). Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.

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LiveFuels Starts Operations at Pilot Algal Biofuels Facility

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While many algae-to-biofuels companies grow monocultures of algae within expensive enclosures, LiveFuels grows a mix of native algae species in low-cost, open-water systems. The results will be used for an expansion to full-scale commercial operations along the coast of Louisiana.

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

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Development of a Low-cost and Hardware Friendly Instantaneous Waveform Measurement Technology for Distribution System, $1,000,000. Prometheus Innovations (Lafayette, Louisiana). Mesofluidic Inline Separation for Produced Water Treatment, $246,979. Prometheus Innovations, LLC (Lafayette, Louisiana).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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The opportunities for private-parties to buy and sell emissions allowances, and to purchase any allowances auctioned by the state, lie behind cap and trade’s potential to achieve emissions reductions at low cost to the overall economy. Finally, in all previous emissions allowance auctions in the U.S.,

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