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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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Eligible projects included those that replace, rehabilitate, lease, and purchase buses and related equipment as well as projects to purchase, rehabilitate, construct or lease bus-related facilities, such as buildings for bus storage and maintenance. million for hydrogen fuel cell buses. Description. City of Fairfield. 746,456.

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Embry-Riddle and Powering Imagination LLC partner on electric aircraft project to reduce noise and emissions; converting a Diamond HK36 motorglider

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campus, where students and faculty will convert a Diamond HK36 motorglider to electric power for testing in noise-sensitive areas. Embry-Riddle and Powering Imagination estimate that the aircraft will make its first flight in mid-2015 at the Daytona Beach Campus.

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United, Honeywell invest in Alder Fuels; 1.5-billion-gallon SAF offtake agreement

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As part of the agreement, United is committing to purchase 1.5 United’s purchase agreement, which is one and a half times the size of the known purchase commitments of all global airlines combined, makes this the largest publicly announced SAF agreement yet. Alder’s research is supported by the U.S.

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JERA and Uniper to collaborate on clean ammonia and LNG from the US

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Established in 2015, JERA (Japan’s Energy for a New Era) is an equal joint venture of two major Japanese electric companies, TEPCO Fuel & Power Incorporated and Chubu Electric Power Company and produces about 30% of all electricity in Japan. —Steven Winn, CEO of JERA Americas Inc.

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Sandia Labs project team building fuel cell cold ironing system for deployment at Port of Honolulu in 2015

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A Sandia National Laboratories project team, including a number of industry partners, is designing and building a cold-ironing fuel cell system that will be deployed in the Port of Honolulu in 2015. Earlier post.). —Joe Pratt.

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Texas utility signs first US Power Purchase Agreement for low-emissions electricity from commercial-scale coal-fired power plant with carbon capture

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CPS Energy of San Antonio has signed a Power Purchase Agreement for approximately 200 MW of power from the Texas Clean Energy Project (TCEP), located just west of Midland-Odessa. The agreement marks the first US purchase by a utility of low-carbon power from a commercial-scale, coal-based power plant utilizing carbon capture.

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Wanxiang and GreatPoint Energy close $1.25B deal for 1 Tcf/year coal-to-natural-gas plant in Xinjiang; Sinopec to purchase output, building pipeline to east

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The first phase is expected to commence operation in 2015 with an initial annual natural gas production capacity of 30 billion cubic feet (0.85 By comparison, syngas resulting from conventional gasification cannot be converted to pipeline quality natural gas without further processing. China Petroleum and Chemical Corp. pure methane).

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