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JUNE 16, 2012

By comparison, average households in states like California, New York, Illinois and Michigan use between 562 kwh and 799 kwh monthly. At the same plant, a new 500-kilowatt solar panel system has been installed to generate renewable energy for production of Ford vehicles like Focus and Focus Electric.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2015

The PJM Interconnection is a regional transmission organization (RTO) that coordinates the movement of wholesale electricity in all or parts of Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia. —Weis et al.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

In collaboration with the farming community of the Indian Creek Watershed in central Illinois, researchers from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) are finding ways to meet three agrarian land management objectives simultaneously: maximizing a farmer’s production; growing feedstock for bioenergy; and protecting the environment. 2015.04.012.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Fertilizer applied to cornfields in the central US—including states such as Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and Wisconsin—is the primary source of nitrogen pollution in the Mississippi River system, which drains into the Gulf of Mexico. In some cases, decomposition of algae consumes much of the oxygen in the water. Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2015

billion gallons in 2015 (original RVO of 15 billion gallons for 2015 to the waivered RVO of 13.4 billion gallons in 2015). In this scenario, the analysis found that 4,520,000 tonnes of additional CO 2 emissions would be incurred in 2015.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2015

The corresponding range for GHG savings with corn stover was 57% to 95% and marginally below the threshold of at least 60% for biofuels classified as cellulosic biofuels under the Renewable Fuels Standard. —Dwivedi et al. Cellulosic ethanol Lifecycle analysis'

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 17, 2023

Knowing how many net jobs the transition to EVs and related renewable energy will create, change or eliminate—and over what time period—is critical to determining the impacts of governmental policies and whether they need revision. Each mine and factory will need hundreds of workers to operate them.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2015

Biofuel solutions such as farnesane have been proposed; however, these offer only modest GHG reduction benefits and the wide boiling range requirement for jet fuels sets a limit on the amount of single-component renewable fuels that may be blended. —Corinne Scown, one of three corresponding authors on the paper. Gokhale, Corinne D.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. In 2015–expanded to emissions from residential, commercial, and other industrial combustion, and transportation fuels.

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