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Report from the REFF-Wall Street; Themes in Renewable Energy Finance

Green Car Congress

The stimulus package is designed to address the recession and in the short term people were anxiously awaiting two key components of the plan: clarification on the details behind “ grants in lieu of tax credits ” and awards of loan guarantees by the DOE from section 1705. Billion vs. $28.3 Billion in 2008). Five months ago.

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Honda May Develop Plug-In as Obama Alters U.S. Policy (Update2) - Bloomberg.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Tax Credits Instead, Obama backed tax credits of as much as $7,500 inthe stimulus package approved in February for buyers of plug-incars. are also developingfuel-cell cars, those companies, as well as Honda, don’t expecthydrogen to be competitive with gasoline autos until about 2020. millionthis year from $211.9

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California Goes To Hell In A Handbasket But Greenius Says AB 811 is Our Route To Green Heaven

Creative Greenius

The treasure chest was cleverly disguised in the form of Federal stimulus money from the ARRA, the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Let’s start off first with the PUC strategic plan, which has a goal of achieving an average 40% energy reduction on every home in California by 2020 – roughly 11 years from now.

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2020 Top 10 Countries in the Global EV Revolution

EV Sales

Welcome to the 7th Annual Top 10 EV Countries list — my own very personal version of March Madness! New for 2020: this is an EV ranking, not a complete ranking for how cool countries are. Including complete tables for Israel in 2019-2020 which I calculated and handed over to Jose! in 2019 to 4% in 2020.

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