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AUGUST 26, 2013

A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. Source: Hurlbut et al. Click to enlarge.

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APRIL 12, 2018

Dürr is building a paint shop in Mexico for the BMW Group that meets the requirements for connected Industry 4.0 The use of renewable energy sources will ensure that the plant is supplied with 100% CO 2 -free electricity. production. San Luis Potosí will build the BMW brand’s best-selling model series, the BMW 3 Series Sedan.

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MAY 29, 2015

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $100 million in a Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership to support the infrastructure needed to make more renewable fuel options available to American consumers. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, LLC, and has negotiated a long-term supply agreement with Fulcrum for 375 million gallons of sustainable aviation fuel over 10 years. USDA awarded the first loan guarantee in 2009 to Sapphire Energy in New Mexico. This would represent about 2% of the airline’s annual fuel consumption.

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OCTOBER 20, 2009

ASA, which is responsible for all fuel management and airplane refueling operations in Mexico, together with Boeing made the announcement last week on the eve of the annual ALTA Aviation Leaders Forum, a gathering of more than 400 senior airline and aviation industry executives. Earlier post.)

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FEBRUARY 10, 2009

a contract to supply hydrogen for the production of second-generation renewable diesel from tallow (animal fat) at its biorefinery in Carlsbad, N.M. MM from the City of Carlsbad, New Mexico to commercialize algae oil to renewable diesel. Cetane Energy , LLC, has awarded Praxair, Inc.

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

More transmission is also needed to deliver renewable energy from remote locations to load centers, but the LTRA acknowledges that build-time and siting are additional constraints that need to be considered in planning and policy setting. Developing sufficient flexible resources to support increasing levels of variable generation uncertainty.

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JULY 30, 2019

Eni has released the 18 th edition of the World Oil, Gas and Renewables Review , the annual statistics report on oil, natural gas and renewables sources. The first volume of the report, the World Oil Review, is devoted to oil reserves, supply, demand, trade and prices with a special focus on crude oil quality and on refining industry.

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MARCH 31, 2010

The plan we are proposing calls for 4 more lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico by 2012 and, in the years beyond, would open up two-thirds of the oil and gas resources in the Eastern Gulf while protecting Florida’s coast and critical military training areas.

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MARCH 11, 2022

European Energy is a global renewable energy company and project developer (wind, solar and Power to X). It develops, builds, and operates renewable electricity projects globally with a pipeline consisting of 20 GW renewable energy capacity. Maersk intends to offtake the full volume produced. European Energy (Denmark).

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MARCH 28, 2016

with an $11-million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. Novus will use waste from onion and potato processing plants, dairy manure, seasonal plant by-products and other waste supplied by local growers and processors as the primary feedstock.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2011

Aeromexico is using a 15% blend of Honeywell Green Jet Fuel, produced from camelina using process technology from Honeywell’s UOP, on flights on its Mexico City to San Jose, Costa Rica route, marking one of the first uses of renewable fuels in everyday airplane passenger service.

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JUNE 5, 2024

Photo: Cypress Creek Renewables In Q1 2024, the US saw the largest quarter of solar manufacturing growth in its history, bringing its total installed capacity to 200 GW. Once this capacity fully ramps up, it will be enough to supply about 70% of US demand. A record-setting 11.8 GW in Q1 2024 compared to 15.6 GW in Q4 2023.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

To meet our long-term needs, we will be building battery cell factories with our partners, each with an annual capacity of up to 20 GWh, at six locations in key markets for us: two in China, two in Europe and two in USMCA [United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement]. The cell module level is thus eliminated. Earlier post.)

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For over a decade, Panasonic has been supplying 18650 cells for the Model S sedan and Model X SUV and 2170 cells for the Model 3 and Model Y. The Japanese tech company has supplied billions of cylindrical cells to the American EV maker. for the buildout of two factories each in China and Europe.

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JUNE 24, 2010

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. billion gallons.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2015

Joule, a pioneer in producing liquid fuels from recycled CO 2 , and Red Rock Biofuels, a leading developer of renewable jet and diesel fuel bio-refineries using the Fischer-Tropsch process, announced that they intend to merge. The transaction is expected to close during the coming 30 days. —Serge Tchuruk.

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JUNE 19, 2015

One of Nissan’s CO 2 emission goals is to increase the usage rate of renewable energy in its global business activities to 9% by fiscal year 2016. Nissan is utilizing a number of proven forms of sustainable energy generation to help minimize its corporate carbon footprint.

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APRIL 24, 2017

The sustainable biofuel is produced by AltAir Fuels from used cooking oil and supplied by SkyNRG. One example is Air Canada’s participation as an airline partner in Canada’s Biojet Supply Chain Initiative ( CBSCI ).

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JUNE 23, 2015

Established LIB competitors are advantaged due to production expertise, supply chains optimization, and partnerships initially developed to serve consumer electronics applications. Asia currently dominates automotive LIB cell production with a robust upstream supply chain from processed materials to complete cells. —CEMAC report.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Source: Beta Renewables. Once operational, the facility is expected to convert 600,000 tons of energy grasses per year into an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using the Beta Renewable’s PROESA enzymatic hydrolysis process. About 30,000 acres will be required to supply the facility with sufficient feedstock.

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MAY 18, 2018

The smart plant in Hambach already obtains all its electrical energy from renewable energy sources and is therefore CO 2 -neutral. —Markus Schäfer, Member of the Divisional Board of Management of Mercedes-Benz Cars, Production and Supply Chain. The preparations for the new model in Hambach will start shortly.

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APRIL 23, 2011

The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has changed a reporting category in its World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report to reflect that for a given bushel of corn used for ethanol, some of it returns as byproducts including animal feed. Delta Farm Press. The change does not reflect the relative proportions.

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JUNE 25, 2013

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert 6MW of input power, utilizes renewable electricity for electrolysis to produce oxygen and hydrogen. Because there is not yet a widespread hydrogen infrastructure, the hydrogen is reacted with CO 2 in a methanation unit to generate renewable synthetic methane, or Audi e-gas. Earlier post.).

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MARCH 5, 2013

Once operational, this unit will supply LNG along the Mississippi River, the Intra-Coastal Waterway and to the offshore Gulf of Mexico and the onshore oil and gas exploration areas of Texas and Louisiana. LNG-powered Offshore Supply Vessels. These vessels will be used to support Shell’s operations in the US Gulf of Mexico.

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DECEMBER 30, 2022

United States’ Wind on the Wire The largest renewable-energy infrastructure project in U.S. The wind part of the project plans a total of 3,000 megawatts from wind farms it will build in three counties in New Mexico. The transmission line will sidestep the growing difficulties of connecting renewable-energy sources to the power grid.

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MARCH 30, 2011

To increase domestic supply, Obama said: The Administration is encouraging offshore oil exploration and production—as long as it’s safe and responsible. This includes almost 24 million inactive leased acres in the Gulf of Mexico, which potentially could hold more than 11 billion barrels of oil and 50 trillion cubic feet of natural gas.

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DECEMBER 19, 2009

The six awards will promote collaborative long-term analysis and planning for the Eastern, Western and Texas electricity interconnections, which will help states, utilities, grid operators, and others prepare for future growth in energy demand, renewable energy sources, and Smart Grid technologies. North American Interconnections.

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APRIL 25, 2024

“With major projects such as the shore power supply for container ships in the Port of Hamburg, we are looking positively to the future,” adds Michael Blass, Managing Director of e-chain systems at igus. igus now supplies a wide range of products for this purpose, all tested in specially built dry labs.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels. —Peter Erich, President of Joule Fuels.

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JULY 20, 2011

With the implementation of the renewable energy portfolio standards, the penetration of wind and solar energy generation will only increase along with the variability it places on the grid. Mexico is adding a 1GW energy warehouse to its grid to improve its reliability. India is deploying an energy storage plan to address the 1.2%

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DECEMBER 17, 2010

compete for a decreasing supply of allowances. The cap-and-trade program also works in concert with other measures, such as standards for cleaner vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable electricity and energy efficiency, and complements and supports California’s existing efforts to reduce smog-forming and toxic air pollutants.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

New Mexico. At the high end, that would be enough baseload power to supply about 20% of California's total electric power in 2008—or enough generating capacity to supply the power needs of about 7.2 Washington. unspecified. The report found a total of 144 projects under development that could add between 4,699.9 and 7,109.9

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APRIL 7, 2010

Non-OPEC supply is projected to increase by 600,000 bbl/d in 2010, about 50,000 bbl/d more than last month's Outlook, because of a revised forecast for production in North America. Non-OPEC supplies are then expected to fall slightly in 2011, as declining production in mature areas more than offsets any new production growth.

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JANUARY 21, 2014

Under the agreement, GBE will supply Audi with isooctane derived from isobutene produced at its new pre-commercial pilot system at the Fraunhofer CBP in Leuna. A renewable bio-isooctane would address renewable fuel content issues without perturbing the consumer.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.)

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DECEMBER 10, 2014

The Outlook for Energy provides ExxonMobil’s long-term view of global energy demand and supply. The outlook is developed by examining energy supply and demand trends in 100 countries, 15 demand sectors covering all manner of personal and business needs and 20 different energy types. Outlook for Energy.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

The new solar park is an integral part of Volkswagen’s worldwide sustainability strategy, which includes generating more power within the Group from renewable energy sources, said Volkswagen Group Officer for the Environment, Energy and New Business Areas, Wolfram Thomas. All our 100 plants are to be environmentally optimized.

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