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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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Montgomery Area Transit System, Alabama: $2,675,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). An additional manual charging station would be installed at Operations Base.

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The origins of NDEW and DEED

Plug in America

She spoke at our press conference, for which we issued a media alert with a big request: “Today we congratulate President Barack Obama, who has called for one million plug-in cars by 2015,” said PIA co-founder Paul Scott. And media from Vermont to Alabama to Hawaii and beyond continue to carry our message of change.

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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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conferring hydrocarbon biosynthesis, enhanced carbon. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. used to make a wind turbine generator lighter, more powerful, and more efficient. 3,123,750.

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