article thumbnail

NuScale and DOE Complete SMR cooperative agreement; initiates up to $217M funding of NuScale SMR development

Green Car Congress

NuScale expects to submit the application for design certification in the second half of 2016. This will allow NuScale to meet a commercial operation date of 2023 for its first planned project, in Idaho, with partners Energy NorthWest and Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems.

Idaho 218
article thumbnail

Glamping With the Stars

Baua Electric

I climbed aboard a shuttle bus that would take me two hours east to Utah, where I planned to spend a starry night at Under Canvas Lake Powell-Grand Staircase. George, Utah, I rented a car and headed southeast, the Pine Valley Mountains hovering to the north. Hoping for good weather In St. But would the weather cooperate?

Utah 52
article thumbnail

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

Green Car Congress

University of Utah, “Entrained-Flow Biomass Gasification with Syngas Fermentation for Production of Sustainable Aviation Fuels” $2,000,000. Scale-up of Hydrothermal Liquefaction with Supercritical Water Oxidation in an Integrated Biorefinery”, $579,673. MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

article thumbnail

IKEA Teams Up With Electrify America To Provide Charging in The United States.

Get Electric Vehicle

As a result, more than 200 public chargers will be installed at IKEA retail sites in 18 states, including Arizona, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Kansas, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and Washington. Watering the Sustainability Dream.

article thumbnail

Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

Green Car Congress

On another front, DOE will partner with industry, the National Laboratories, and other stakeholders to develop a study that will examine the vehicle, battery, infrastructure, and economic implications of direct current (DC) fast charging of up to 350 kW, which is expected to be completed by the end of 2016. Eugene Water & Electric Board.

Obama 150
article thumbnail

Researchers generate methane from CO2 in one light-driven step using engineered bacteria

Green Car Congress

Using an engineered strain of the phototropic bacterium Rhodopseudomonas palustris as a biocatalyst, a team from the University of Washington, Utah State University and Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University have reduced carbon dioxide to methane in one enzymatic step. Fixen, Yanning Zheng, Derek F. Dean, Lance C. 1611043113.

Light 150