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First natural gas GM half-ton pickups with 5.3L DI engines delivered in Texas

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The 2015 model vehicles were purchased by local Houston company NewTex Plumbing and San Antonio-based Pioneer Energy Services. Nat G CNG Solutions has delivered the first natural gas half-ton pickup trucks with General Motors’ 5.3-liter liter direct injection engine.

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SwRI, UTSA partner on biofuel project

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Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) and The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) Office of the Vice President for Research have selected a new biofuel project to receive $125,000 through the Connecting through Research Partnerships (Connect) Program. Funding 1 begins September 2015.

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SwRI opens new high-horsepower dynamometer facility to service marine, rail and petroleum industries

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The first cell was completed in September and the second cell will be available in early 2015. SwRI established a separate locomotive engine facility in 1990 in a San Antonio railyard to facilitate work on engines installed in locomotives.

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Transit Connect Electric receives GSA contract award; estimated value more than $112M

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d/b/a Northside Ford) in San Antonio, TX. GSA is an important instrument in support of the Administration’s initiative that all new cars and trucks purchased by the federal government starting in 2015 will be hybrids, electric vehicles or other alternative-fuel vehicles.

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Juniper GTL to invest $100M to retrofit plant to new small-scale GTL facility in Louisiana

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Additional hiring will take place as the project nears completion in early 2015. Tuesday, April 30, 2013: 8:35 AM Bonham B (Grand Hyatt San Antonio) Juan Inga and Lindsay Hernandez (2013) Successful Operation of a 1 BPD Fischer-Tropsch Pilot Plant (Paper NÂş 293251, 2013 AIChE Spring Meeting).

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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 facility is expected to be fully operational in 2015.

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Clean Energy wins $10M, multi-year transit deal with New Jersey Transit

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Dillon currently operates 72 CNG and liquefied natural gas (LNG) trucks out of Dallas, San Antonio, Midland and Houston which now fuel with Redeem to meet its customers’ sustainability goals. In 2015, Dillon’s fleet consumed 1.1 million GGEs of natural gas in Texas.