Green Car Congress

AUGUST 24, 2010

The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There also was a decline in natural gas use and increases in solar, hydro and geothermal power according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. 51 in 2008.

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JANUARY 17, 2015

The cost of generating power from renewable energy sources has reached parity or dropped below the cost of fossil fuels for many technologies in many parts of the world, according to a new report released by the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA). Solar PV module prices have dropped 75% since 2009 and continue to decrease.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 17, 2010

In 2009, combined global revenue for the three major clean-energy sectors—solar photovoltaics (PV), wind power, and biofuels—grew by 11.4% over 2008, reaching $139.1 Solar PV will grow from a $30.7 billion industry in 2009 to $98.9 billion in 2008. billion in 2008 to $2.2 billion in 2008 to $2.2

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AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 17, 2015

There are three possible responses to the crisis in the European refining industry. European demand for petroleum products has declined 15% since 2008, shrinking outlets for the continent’s refining industry. A European Union directive sets a target of 10% renewables in transportation in 2020.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 24, 2023

When Ifeanyi Orajaka was an undergraduate engineering student in 2008, he had his career all mapped out. In 2008 only about half of Nigeria’s 152 million citizens had electricity, according to a Macrotrends report. He began researching how solar energy technology worked.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

Electricity generation from variable renewable electricity sources (VRE) such as wind and solar power has grown rapidly and is expected to continue to do so. This is necessary because power generation from renewable energies depends on availability of sun and wind and can therefore only be controlled to a limited extent.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

Since 2008, JetBlue has already offset more than 2.6 Carbon offsetting is a bridge to other industry-wide environmental improvements such as fuel with lower emissions. Neste MY Renewable Jet Fuel is produced 100% from waste and residue raw materials. billion pounds of CO 2 emissions in partnership with Carbonfund.org.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 27, 2014

Metals such as Al can be used in renewable energy cycles. In a two-step thermochemical cycle, an exothermic reaction between metal and water produces hydrogen gas, followed by endothermic reduction of the metal-oxide product assisted by solar energy to regenerate metal fuel. Their paper is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

In 2015, the difference in emissions between the transportation and industrial sectors widened as transportation sector CO 2 emissions increased while industrial sector CO 2 emissions declined. The non-fossil electricity generation share, including both nuclear and renewables, in 2015 equaled that of coal at 34% in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). We reached peak oil consumption in the US in 2008 and the same is true in the EU and Japan. ” Billion in 2008).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 16, 2009

million as one of 21 DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy grants through the Geothermal Technologies Program. A new study by NYU Stern found that geothermal and wind energy are more efficient, and are yielding greater returns on the R&D invested in them, than most other renewable energy alternatives. PNNL is receiving $1.2

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Creative Greenius

NOVEMBER 11, 2013

Here he is singing it solo acoustic in 2008. ” No terrorist organization or foreign country has the power or ability to destroy what we love most about our country the way the oil, coal and gas industries are doing right now using our climate as a weapon of mass destruction. That’s not the way I roll.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 28, 2009

Barcelona has made environmental sustainability a key policy initiative through the use of renewable sources of energy and the reduction of CO 2 emissions. The Alliance has a strong industrial presence in Spain. The Valladolid engine plant recycles a 100% of its industrial waste. In 2008 135,568 vehicles were produced at NMISA.

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Creative Greenius

MARCH 8, 2009

In a deal brokered by the city’s newly commissioned Citizens Environmental Task Force, Exxon/Mobil, owners of the Exxon/Mobil Refinery in the City of Torrance agreed today to fund a bond that will make low cost financing of solar energy systems for home and apartment owners. That’s too much democracy for Torrance.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 30, 2009

(Separately, PNNL is also a member of the Shewanella Federation, a cross-institution consortium consisting of teams of scientists from academia, national laboratories, and private industry working collaboratively to achieve a systems-level understanding of how Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 ( S. Tags: ARPA-E Bio-hydrocarbons Solar.

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DECEMBER 10, 2013

The goal is to complete fuel certifications to ready Sapphire Energy’s renewable crude oil for wide-scale oil refining. This new relationship with Sapphire Energy complements other Phillips 66 renewable fuels collaborations in academia and other sectors to convert a range of sustainable feedstocks into transportation fuels.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

An article in the latest issue of IEA Energy: The Journal of the International Energy Agency reports that Estonia, which has the most developed oil shale industry in the world, is collaborating in pursuing wider use of oil shale in a cleaner, more sustainable manner. Renewable energy is another solution. In 2012, Estonia mined 15.86

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MARCH 22, 2009

to support the company’s construction of a commercial-scale manufacturing plant for its proprietary cylindrical solar photovoltaic panels. This self-tracking design allows Solyndra’s PV systems to capture more sunlight than traditional flat-surfaced solar panel.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2017

These include cleaner, more fuel-efficient cars and zero emission vehicles, low-carbon fuels, renewable energy, waste diversion from landfills, water conservation, improvements to energy efficiency in homes and businesses, and a Cap-and-Trade Program. The first Scoping Plan required by Assembly Bill 32 (AB 32) was adopted in 2008.

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JULY 20, 2012

tonnes per capita—within the range of 6 to 19 tonnes per capita emissions of the major industrialized countries. tonnes per capita, despite a decline due to the recession in 2008-2009, high oil prices and an increased share of natural gas. Including hydropower, total renewable energy sources presently supply 8.5%

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

I’ve followed Tesla since 2008 and invested in the company after it went public in 2010. Either way, it seemed to be the only way to meaningfully move the industry toward battery-electric vehicles. They were great early communicators of the feasibility of electrifying the auto industry and the necessity to do it.

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Green Cars News

AUGUST 3, 2009

per cent of the shares in Aleo solar AG - an established brand name in the solar market. Aleo manufactures models on the basis of in-sourced mono- and polycrystalline solar cells. The company has enjoyed some extensive recent success and in 2008 generated sales of roughly €360million.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 5, 2009

At team of researchers from Solix Biofuels ( earlier post ), Colorado State University and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory have calculated both an absolute upper limit to solar-based algal oil production as well as a feasible target range for production based on realistic efficiencies (calculated for six global sites).

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. 2) Examples of Renewable Energy Projects. TYPES OF OFFSETS. 3) Examples of Energy Efficiency Projects.

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MARCH 24, 2017

In conjunction with state actions to reduce mobile source emissions, the South Coast AQMP includes a broad spectrum of measures to transition residential and commercial homes and buildings to cleaner energy sources, from electrification and fuel cells to solar power. SLCP emission reductions will support achieving this target.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

The Administration is pushing the oil industry to produce on leases already held. We have to discover and produce cleaner, renewable sources of energy with less of the carbon pollution that threatens our climate. So there’s no reason we shouldn’t be using these renewable fuels throughout America. And we have to do it quickly.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Among its findings, the report notes that in DOE’s assessment, “ although significant progress has been made ”, fuel cell cost is still too high and durability still too low to enable industry to meet the deployment goal of 100,000 hydrogen-fueled vehicles by 2010, as specified in EPACT. Market development RFI. Report to Congress.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Plug-in 2008 in San Jose, California witnessed a noon-time address by new heavy-weight convert, Andy Grove, former CEO of Intel. One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C.,

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 21, 2009

Right now the world is looking at well over a 2 degree rise in temperatures from the pre-industrial age. Available technology such as diesel particulate filters for vehicles and cleaner- burning biomass and solar cookstoves can significantly reduce black carbon emissions. Wallack and Ramanathan. Earlier post.)

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 28, 2008

90 million per year authorized (2008-2012). Here is the outline of what the bill intends to do: SECTION 131 TRANSPORTATION ELECTRIFICATION SEC 131 Transportation Electrification DOE to establish competitive grants for electric vehicles and PHEVs to encourage early widespread use and advance production of electric (And PHEV) vehicles in USA.

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JUNE 29, 2011

Volkswagen, in cooperation with 6 project partners and the German Ministry of the Environment, presented in Berlin the current status of the “Fleet study in electric mobility” that was initiated in July 2008. Representing the energy industry is energy provider E.ON. Earlier post.) These vehicles must be operated sustainably—i.e.,

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APRIL 21, 2009

The three-point, 400-volt plug, which will allow electric cars to be recharged anywhere in a matter of minutes , will be unveiled Monday at the world’s biggest industrial technology fair in Hanover, northern Germany. No time frame for the introduction of the plug was mentioned, saying that talks between the companies were ongoing.

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Creative Greenius

AUGUST 31, 2009

Because of our interest in horticulture we’ve also watched sadly as both native plants and our state’s legendary agriculture industry have already suffered the consequences of accelerating climate change and related climate conditions for growing. Things don’t grow well anymore in the places they have for generations.

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Creative Greenius

JUNE 11, 2009

We’ve now got some Mo going with: California solar loan financing that will eliminate the big up front cost of solar. With the coming solar feed-in tariff legislation moving through Sacramento that will pay us for the extra solar energy we produce and feed back into the grid.

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Green Cars News

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Despite its progress however, it seems there is still an uphill battle to be fought both in terms of changing the perception of and reliance on fossil fuels – with a new study highlighting the startling gap between Federal subsidies for fossil fuels and renewable energy. Why renewable fuels should receive more help. Our verdict.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 31, 2009

Among the wide variety of technologies under development that might become available in the future, this report focuses on those with the best prospects of fully maturing during the three time periods considered: 2008–2020, 2020–2035, and 2035–2050. million barrels per day in 2008) will be challenging.

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