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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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The project includes quick-charging stations at this terminal layover in route to recharge bus batteries. Grid sourced electrical energy used to recharge the bus batteries will be augmented with solar energy collected with panels procured and installed under this project. Montgomery Area Transit System, Alabama: $2,675,000.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Arlington). University of Alabama. type Hexaferrite The University of Alabama led team will demonstrate. thermoelectric energy converters to recharge the hot and. transportable like fuels, 100% renewable, rechargeable like a. . $2,319,474. Pacific Northwest. National Laboratory. If developed. and electric vehicles.

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