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Truck diesel PM emissions at Port of Oakland down 98% in past decade; ship emissions down 75%

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Diesel PM emissions from trucks serving the Port of Oakland, California declined 98% between 2005 and 2015, according to an emissions inventory released by the Port. According to the Port’s study, truck Diesel Particulate Matter (DPM) emissions have decreased from 16 tons in 2005 to 0.4 tons in 2015.

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Ener1 Partners With Russias Federal Grid Company to Develop Grid Energy Storage Opportunities

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FGC operates power grid equipment in 73 regions of the Russian Federation, with 118,045 km (73,350 miles) of electricity transmission lines and 758 sub-stations with a total installed transformer capacity of more than 286,000 MVA, with voltage ranging from 35-1150 kV.

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

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The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Bunting-Dubois (Dubois, Pennsylvania). Survalent Technology Inc.

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How Carmakers Are Responding to the Plug-In Hybrid Opportunity

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Beginning in 2005, we excerpted individual statements of intentions by carmakers, but by the start of 2008, the number of comments became too numerous for us to track. Cischke, Ford senior vice president for sustainability, environment and safety engineering. "By Does it make good business sense, and how does it affect the environment?"

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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Home Page Todays Paper Video Most Popular Times Topics Search All NYTimes.com Energy & Environment World U.S. The other byproduct of such conversion is HEAT ( see below for more discussion, as well as other factors that affect energy conversion efficiency), usually dissipated into the environment.

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