Alaska, Energy, Renewable and Water

Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

Green Car Congress

JULY 15, 2022

Through the first-of-its-kind agreement, Twelve, Alaska, and Microsoft will work to advance production and use of Twelve’s E-Jet, a low-carbon jet fuel produced by a power-to-liquids process leveraging the company’s carbon transformation technology. SAF is a core part of Alaska’s five-part pathway to net zero by 2040. Earlier post.).

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Alaska Renewable Fuel CO2

DOE awards up to $40M for open-water, grid-connected wave energy testing facility

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced the award of up to $40 million, subject to appropriations, to design, permit, and construct an open-water, grid-connected national wave energy testing facility. For context, approximately 90,000 homes can be powered by 1 TWh per year.

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Puerto Rico Grid Connect Connected

PNNL team finds biocrude from kelp and fish waste via hydrothermal liquefaction could be viable fuel for remote Alaskan communities

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 3, 2021

Using existing fish processing plants, kelp and fish waste can be turned into a diesel-like fuel to power generators or fishing boats in rural, coastal Alaska, according to a team from Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL). —“ Kelp Energy Products and Marine Renewable Energy for Coastal Alaska Communities ”.

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USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

physically moving the macroalgae between deep nutrient-rich water at night and shallow depths within the photic zone during the day to optimize growth. An open-access paper on their work appears in the journal Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews. The researchers used a depth-cycling approach—i.e.,

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DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) is awarding $35 million to 11 projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Submarine Hydrokinetic And Riverine Kilo-megawatt Systems (SHARKS) program. These methodologies will significantly decrease the levelized cost of energy (LCOE) of the final HKT design.

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Mariner Universal Grid Water

Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

Green Car Congress

MAY 4, 2023

Twelve has developed an efficient polymer-electrolyte membrane (PEM) CO 2 electrolyzer that uses proprietary CO 2 -reducing catalysts to split CO 2 with just water and renewable electricity as inputs, syngas (CO and hydrogen) as the output, and pure oxygen as the only byproduct. Twelve and EFT upgrade the syngas to aviation fuel.

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Fuel Production Alaska Carbon

Battery-Electric Fishing Vessel Marks A Sea Change For Small Commercial Fishers

CleanTechnica EVs

AUGUST 23, 2023

On a brisk morning this fall, a 46-foot commercial fishing boat will cruise into the cold waters of Sitka, Alaska, and cut the diesel engine. This moment will mark a sea change for Sitka’s small-boat commercial fishing industry: a transition to energy-efficient […]

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Commercial Alaska Water Electric

DOE reports show major potential for wave and tidal energy production near US coasts

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2012

The US Department of Energy (DOE) released two nationwide resource assessments showing that waves and tidal currents off the nation’s coasts could contribute to the United States’ total annual electricity production. —Mapping and Assessment of the United States Ocean Wave Energy Resource.

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Puerto Rico EPRI Energy Alaska

Obama and Trudeau put majority of US and Canadian Arctic water off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 20, 2016

US President Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Trudeau jointly announced sweeping restrictions to offshore oil and gas leasing in the US and Canadian Arctic waters. Obama designated the vast majority of US waters in the Chukchi and Beaufort Seas as indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing. It’s uncharted waters.”.

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US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected 27 projects for more than $37 million in funding to accelerate the technological and commercial readiness of emerging marine and hydrokinetic (MHK) technologies, which seek to generate renewable electricity from oceans and free-flowing rivers and streams. Free Flow Energy, Inc.

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Mariner Energy Alaska New Jersey

Obama Administration releases implementation plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 31, 2014

Provide for Future US Energy Security. This entails promoting the development and deployment of available US energy resources such as wind, wave and solar.

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Obama Alaska United States 2016

Cal Energy Commission adopts report outlining how state transforming transportation system to meet climate goals

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

The California Energy Commission adopted its 2014 Integrated Energy Policy Report (IEPR) Update, which outlines, among many things, how the state is working to transform the transportation system to zero- and near-zero technologies and fuels to meet its climate and clean air goals.

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Transportation Climate Energy Gas-Electric

11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

In subsequent years, the Far North Fiber project will lay down a cable through the Northwest Passage, connecting Iceland to Greenland, then Canada, Alaska, and finally Japan. This first microGEO will launch in early 2023 , and start providing service to Alaska, tripling the state’s satellite bandwidth while cutting its cost.

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Boeing, UOP, Masdar Institute and Industry Team Launch Study on Sustainability Of Renewable Jet Fuel Made from Halophytes

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2009

UOP’s hydrotreated renewable jet fuel process and LCA. Boeing and Honeywell’s UOP are commissioning a study on the sustainability of a leading family of saltwater-based plant (halophytes) candidates for renewable jet fuel. Halophytes can be productive sources of biomass energy; for example, salicornia seed is 32% oil by mass.

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Renewable Fuel Industrial Industry

ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. Source: ORNL NSD. Click to enlarge.

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Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Its production is accompanied by a significant amount of energy product, including natural gas, some of which gets flared or vented off at the well site. to Alaska North Slope crude, to 30.98 The study showed that wells in the gas-rich zone used roughly twice as much energy as wells in the oil-rich zone, which used an average of 1.2%

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Oil Gas Emissions Davis

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2011

Obama was delivering a speech on energy policy at Georgetown University. He said that the Administration has already approved 39 new shallow water permits, and an additional 7 deepwater permits in recently weeks. We’re also exploring and assessing new frontiers for oil and gas development from Alaska to the Mid- and South Atlantic.

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Obama Oil Gas-Electric Purchase

US Global Change Research Program Issues Report on Impacts of Climate Change in US; Details Point to Potential Value of Early, Aggressive Action

Green Car Congress

JUNE 17, 2009

The study finds that Americans are already being affected by climate change through extreme weather, drought and wildfire trends and details how the nation’s transportation, agriculture, health, water and energy sectors will be affected in the future. Climate change will stress water resources.

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Climate Change Climate Global United States

DOE awards $10.5M for next-generation marine energy systems

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 28, 2015

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected six organizations to receive up to $10.5 In this project, the device structure will be optimized to improve its survivability characteristics, thus significantly reducing the cost of energy derived from the WEC.

Mariner

Mariner Energy Maintenance Alaska

ARPA-E to award $22M to 18 projects to accelerate production of macroalgae for energy and other uses; MARINER

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

The Department of Energy Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) will award $22 million in funding to 18 projects as part of the Macroalgae Research Inspiring Novel Energy Resources (MARINER) program. Finally, the team seeks to demonstrate a prototype harvester that could be adapted to renewable power sources.

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Mariner Production Energy Alaska

Alaska Senators Introduce Legislation Permitting Advanced Directional Drilling for ANWR

Green Car Congress

MARCH 1, 2009

US Senator Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, introduced legislation that would allow the use of advanced directional drilling to tap the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) coastal plain. Directional drilling would allow energy companies to reach oil deposits up to eight miles away with no surface occupancy in the refuge.

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Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

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APRIL 16, 2009

Cleantech Blog Cleantechblog.com, the premier cleantech site for commentary on news and technology relating to clean tech, greentech, energy, climate change and carbon, and the environment. A Perfect Storm for Water Counting Calories and Counting Carbon: The Role of. Renewables That Even Coal-Based Utilities Can Love.

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Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

Green Car Congress

MAY 23, 2017

The US Department of Energy (DOE) faces a $1.7-billion Clean and Safe Water. The Budget also provides $20 million for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act program, equal to the funding provided in the 2017 annualized CR. Although the overall budget for the US Department of Energy (DOE) is a requested $28.0

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2018 EPA 2017 Grant

Flow Rate Group Preliminary Best Estimate Puts Oil Flow from Deepwater BP Well Between 12,000 and 19,000 Barrels per Day; Obama Administration Extends Suspension of Offshore Drilling

Green Car Congress

MAY 27, 2010

Suspend the planned exploration of two locations off the coast of Alaska; Cancel the pending lease sale in the Gulf of Mexico and the proposed lease sale off the coast of Virginia; Continue the existing moratorium and suspend the issuance of new permits to drill new deepwater wells for six months; and. million to 11.3

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Obama Oil Universal Mexico

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

Green Car Congress

APRIL 10, 2010

The legislation would also provide new incentives for domestic oil and gas drilling, nuclear power plant construction, carbon capture and storage, and renewable energy sources like wind and solar. transportation sector; and industrial facilities would be exempted from a cap on emissions for several years before they are phased in.

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Twelve and Alaska Airlines to collaborate with Microsoft to advance sustainable aviation fuel derived from recaptured CO2 and renewable energy

DOE awards up to $40M for open-water, grid-connected wave energy testing facility

PNNL team finds biocrude from kelp and fish waste via hydrothermal liquefaction could be viable fuel for remote Alaskan communities

USC study shows promising potential for giant-kelp-based biofuel with depth-cycling approach

DOE awarding $35M to 11 projects for hydrokinetic turbine development; ARPA-E SHARKS

Twelve and Emerging Fuels Technology sign master license agreement to scale SAF production

Battery-Electric Fishing Vessel Marks A Sea Change For Small Commercial Fishers

DOE reports show major potential for wave and tidal energy production near US coasts

Obama and Trudeau put majority of US and Canadian Arctic water off-limits to offshore oil and gas leasing

US DOE Awards $37 Million for Marine and Hydrokinetic Energy Technology Development

Obama Administration releases implementation plan for the National Strategy for the Arctic Region

Cal Energy Commission adopts report outlining how state transforming transportation system to meet climate goals

11 Intriguing Engineering Milestones to Look for in 2023

Boeing, UOP, Masdar Institute and Industry Team Launch Study on Sustainability Of Renewable Jet Fuel Made from Halophytes

ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Argonne analysis shows greenhouse gas emissions similar for shale, conventional oil

Obama sets goal of reducing US oil imports by 1/3 by 2025; domestic and Western Hemisphere production, natural gas, biofuels, electric vehicles, fleet purchases

US Global Change Research Program Issues Report on Impacts of Climate Change in US; Details Point to Potential Value of Early, Aggressive Action

DOE awards $10.5M for next-generation marine energy systems

ARPA-E to award $22M to 18 projects to accelerate production of macroalgae for energy and other uses; MARINER

Alaska Senators Introduce Legislation Permitting Advanced Directional Drilling for ANWR

Cleantech Blog: Smart Grids and Electric Vehicles

Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

Flow Rate Group Preliminary Best Estimate Puts Oil Flow from Deepwater BP Well Between 12,000 and 19,000 Barrels per Day; Obama Administration Extends Suspension of Offshore Drilling

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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