Green Car Congress

APRIL 11, 2013

PNNL’s thermochemical conversion device is installed in front of a concentrating solar power dish. A new concentrating solar power system developed by Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) can reduce the fuel consumption of a modified natural-gas combined-cycle (NGCC) power plant by about 20%. Photo: PNNL. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2009

Oregon Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a series of bills constituting a climate change package that includes a low carbon fuel standard (LCFS), a B2 mandate, and other transportation-related measures. The bill also requires 20 megawatts of large scale solar be integrated into utility loads. House Bill 3463. House Bill 3039.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

to construct a 23 megawatt (net) geothermal power project in Malheur County, in southeastern Oregon. Additional DOE-supported projects include two of the world’s largest solar thermal projects, the world’s largest wind farm, and the nation’s first nuclear power plant in three decades. DOE initially offered a $102.2-million

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The increases occurred only in Alaska (from 11% to 13%) and Oregon (from 2% to 3%). On the two extremes, coal and oil result in about 176 times the emissions from hydro. Energy source. Proportional amount of emissions relative to hydro. Natural gas. Geothermal.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 12, 2015

The company is poised to begin construction of its first refinery located in Lakeview, Oregon in early 2016. Red Rock Biofuels LLC will refine waste biomass residues into high value, low carbon renewable jet and diesel fuels, utilizing waste forest residues as a feedstock at its Lakeview, Oregon facility.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 18, 2024

billion, 1,150-megawatt (MW) Horse Heaven Clean Energy Center combines wind, solar, and battery storage. The original plan was for the project to feature 244 wind turbines across 24 miles of hills, and three solar farms over 5,447 acres south of the Tri-Cities, near the Oregon border. Get started here. –

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Lightsource bp, together with Xcel Energy and EVRAZ North America , launched its new 300-megawatt Bighorn Solar project. The Bihorn Solar project is primarily located on 1,800 acres of land on EVRAZ Rocky Mountain Steel property in Pueblo.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 8, 2021

Oregon EV drivers speak their minds — and hearts — about legislation and policy BY Al LePage: Vice-President, Emerald Valley Electric Vehicle Association. I reported the results of my survey in Promoting Electric Vehicles in Oregon.

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Teslarati

JULY 2, 2022

The Reddit user writes in their post that, when faced with buying a new vehicle , they came across a shop in Portland Oregon called EV Rides that would take older Nissan Leafs and retrofit them with batteries from newer models. And because their workplace has solar charging available, the vehicle essentially charges for free.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 30, 2013

Further, the network of qualified Fit EV Honda dealers in California, Oregon, New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Maryland, Rhode Island and Connecticut will expand from 36 to more than 200 by the end of June. Fit EV customers also can take advantage of Honda’s partnership with SolarCity to install solar power with no upfront cost.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2015

The Sonata Hybrid is available to rent at airports including Los Angeles, Orange County, San Francisco, Atlanta, Dulles International and Chicago, as well as cities such as San Jose, San Diego and Long Beach in California; Portland, Oregon; and Denver.

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Green Cars News

JULY 26, 2009

Significant steps have been taken by the US state of Oregon as Governor Ted Kulongoski signed into law a series of bills that constitute a climate change package. House Bill 3039: Focuses on the development of a pilot programme that will integrate 25megawatts for small scale solar energy into the state’s electricity mix.

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Green Car Congress

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. Geothermal Power Generation Solar Wind'

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2019

Oregon State University, Freshwater Recovery System for Hydraulic Fracturing (FRESH-Frac) Using a Thermally-Actuated Nozzle-Demister – $2,972,000. Oregon State University (OSU) is developing a system for extracting clean irrigation water from hydraulic fracturing wastewater using low-grade solar or industrial waste heat.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 31, 2013

This is a “flat cluster” of one form of aluminum oxide that’s relevant to large scale productions of thin films and nanoparticles, and may find applications in transistors, solar energy cells, corrosion protection, catalytic converters and other uses.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2011

AeroVironment provides electric vehicle charging stations and installation services for Nissan North America’s Nissan LEAF, BMW’s ActiveE, NRG Energy’s eVgo network, and for the Oregon Department of Transportation and the Washington Department of Transportation as part of the “Green Highway” initiative.

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EV Adoption

MAY 25, 2021

More impressively, 4 of these states (California, New York, Washington, and Oregon) accounted for 50.8% Different charging habits by EV drivers: In the early days of EV adoption, an estimated 30% of EV owners also had solar panels on their home, but as more people adopt EVs, fewer of them also have solar. of US EV sales in 2020.

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Electric Auto Association

AUGUST 17, 2021

The Southern Oregon chapter tests new ways to spark interest. Jim Hartman with his Nissan LEAF in front of solar trackers. The leaders of the Southern Oregon Hybrid and Electric Vehicle Association (SOHEVA) do not rest on their laurels when it comes to convincing the public to drive electric. Should I Buy an Electric Car?”

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Electric Auto Association

OCTOBER 2, 2022

“Utilities here have a big incentive to promote driving electric because every EV registered in their service area gets them special credits from the state of Oregon.”. NDEW event in Las Vegas. Robco Electric employees showcased a Powerpoint presentation entitled "How Do I Charge The Electric Car.”. NDEW event in Denver.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar? Energy Information Administration (EIA) and IEA vastly under project ed wind and solar deployments. We did downscaling of where you would build all the wind and solar generation that the model suggested.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Lane Transit District, Oregon: $3,000,000. PV Solar Implementation at facilities: Install PV solar in a variety of facilities.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

of renewable energy generation in the United States, with geothermal plants and small power units online in nine states including California, Nevada, Alaska, Hawaii, Idaho, New Mexico, Oregon, Utah and Wyoming. According to the EIA, geothermal energy accounts for about 3.5%

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. A new assessment conducted by Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has identified more than 65 gigawatts of untapped hydropower potential in US rivers and streams.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

Because the charging stations will utilize Jacksonville Electric Authority's Solar Smart Power program, the buses will truly have zero emissions. This project is unique in that the buses will be charged during the day to take advantage of the renewable energy made available by the abundant solar and wind energy available on the island.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

In 2015, Recargo hired Ashley Horvat, fresh from her role in the Oregon State government as the Chief Electric Vehicle Officer. We want to provide an experience similar to Tesla’s and also link it more tightly to solar, creating sites that are more scalable where there is substantial renewable energy. Redundancy is another advantage.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2015

To measure freight efficiency, DTNA ran vehicle testing on highway routes in Oregon and Texas; one city route in Portland, Ore.; Solar panels run the length of the top of the SuperTruck’s trailer, helping to charge the hybrid battery, which in turn powers the eHVAC system. and anti-idle testing in both a cold chamber and hot chamber.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

JULY 9, 2012

Everyone who’s anyone in the Oregon sustainable business sector was there to catch the film and the post-film Q&A. The EV wagon train encircled andlassoed their extension cords into the Oregon State University Solar Charger, which had made its way up from Corvallis, OR earlier in the day.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 19, 2010

In November, EnerDel was selected to supply the batteries that will power a DOE-funded smart grid energy storage project by Oregon's Portland General Electric (PGE) that will help manage peak demand and smooth the variations in power from renewable sources like wind and solar.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2019

Metro Transit will receive funds for the design and construction of indoor overhead quick chargers as well as a solar power supply and a battery storage system. Tri-County Metropolitan Transportation District of Oregon. SMART and the Detroit Department of Transportation will receive funds to purchase electric buses and charging units.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 11, 2012

The three winning companies are: Umpqua Energy , a startup company based in Medford, Oregon, is using an Argonne National Laboratory technology to develop a system that allows a gasoline engine to operate in an extreme lean burn mode in order to increase gasoline mileage.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 27, 2023

USDA’s Agricultural Research Laboratory (ARS) in Corvallis, Oregon will assess biochar quality for soil uses, including returning carbon to forest. The ethanol will be converted to sustainable aviation fuel at LanzaJet’s Freedom Pines Fuels facility, in Soperton, Georgia. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

Photo: BLM The Biden administration has updated the roadmap for solar development to 22 million acres of federal lands in the US West. The updated roadmap refines the analysis in the original six states and expands to five more states – Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. million homes. million homes.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 11, 2010

Evapotranspiration returns about 60% of annual precipitation back to the atmosphere, in the process using more than half of the solar energy absorbed by land surfaces. —Beverly Law, a professor of global change forest science at Oregon State University. Data indeed show that some areas are wetter than they used to be.

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Cars That Think

MAY 13, 2023

Bhoopalam, a senior majoring in chemical engineering with a minor in electrical and computer engineering, feels that the physics, materials science, and engineering courses she has taken, combined with research lab experience fabricating thin films and solar cells, have prepared her well. She plans to pursue a Ph.D.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 14, 2024

The Freightliner eM2, made at Daimler Truck North America’s factory in Portland, Oregon, is being distributed to customers across the US. If you’re considering going solar, it’s always a good idea to get quotes from a few installers. Series production of the medium-duty electric trucks started at the end of 2023. Get started here. –ad*

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CleanTechnica EVs

DECEMBER 18, 2022

A decommissioned nuclear power plant from the 1980s is repurposed for agrivoltaics and prairie restoration.

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