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GM and Hawaii Gas Company to Collaborate on Hydrogen Infrastructure Pilot; Different Approach to Provisioning Fueling Stations

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The cost of deploying a PSA system and associated refueling pump at a fueling stations will be on the order of $300,000 to $500,000, said Jeff Kissel, president and CEO of TGC during a briefing on the announcement—about one-quarter of the cost of currently installing a more conventional hydrogen fueling station in the US.

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DOE to invest $30M to further H2 and fuel cell technology as industry continues strong growth

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These efforts, in California, Hawaii, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, include grant funding for station development and rebates for the purchase of FCEVs. According to the DOE’s 2015 Fuel Cell Technologies Market Report, many U.S.

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Rentech Takes 25% Stake in Biomass Gasification Company

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ClearFuels has begun project development of multiple commercial scale biomass-to-energy projects in the Southeastern US, Hawaii and internationally that will use the integrated ClearFuels-Rentech design and will be co-located at sugar mills and wood processing facilities. Between 1987 and 2004, Pearson Technologies, Inc.

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Renewable Energy Generation: Change is not a destination, just as hope is not a strategy, a lesson exported from Detroit

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cents/ kWh in Hawaii to 5.61 Even ruling Hawaii out as an outlier, the cost of electricity in Connecticut was 17.79 In contrast, imagine the public outcry if the cost of gasoline varied from $3.00 In examining the latest EIA data for average retail prices of electricity, it shows the average retail price in the USA is 9.74

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Massachusetts Governor Proposes $0.19 Increase in State Fuel Tax to Support Transportation Projects

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That would give Massachusetts the highest gasoline tax in the US, and the fourth highest tax on diesel (behind Hawaii, New York and Connecticut), according to recent figures from the American Petroleum Institute. Future increases in the state fuel tax would follow the Consumer Price Index. Business as usual will not suffice. ”.

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How Ted Hoff Invented the First Microprocessor

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Besides reducing the cost of the systems to the telephone company, such chips would enable companies to build small branch exchanges that handled switching electronically. Editor’s note: Hoff retired from Teklicon in 2007. And I know that I was where the action was.”.

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

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So far Israel, Denmark, Australia , Hawaii and California’s Bay Area have plans to implement the Better Place model. At current transportation battery prices, that is well beyond the cost of spinning reserve. Battery recharging would typically take two to four hours, he said.

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