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GM makes its largest green energy purchase to date; 50 MW wind deal

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General Motors has made its largest renewable energy procurement to date, purchasing enough wind power to equal the electricity needs of 16 of its US facilities, including business offices in Fort Worth and Austin, Texas, a major assembly and stamping complex in Arlington, Texas, and 13 parts warehouses east of the Mississippi River.

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Groundwork Renewables Inc., Amesbury, Mass. Touchstone Research Laboratory, Triadelphia, W.

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DOE FCTO selects 11 fuel cell incubator projects for up to $10M in awards; exploring alkaline exchange membrane FCs

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Develop reversible fuel cells for energy storage applications based on alkaline exchange membrane technology. Develop a novel photocatalyst particle-based slurry reactor with the potential for low-cost renewable hydrogen production via solar water splitting. Giner, Inc. Northeastern University. University of California, Irvine.

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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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Combined with AC Transit’s already-installed solar capacity, this solar installation will produce the renewable electricity equivalent to what will be required to produce 180 kg/day of green hydrogen. The primary use of electrical energy by GLPTC is by its garage and maintenance facilities. VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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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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National Renewable. Energy Laboratory, SuperPower, Tai-Yang. Ames Laboratory, Electron Energy Corp, United Technologies. Arlington). Fluctuations for Advanced Thermal Energy Storage NAVITASMAX will develop a novel heat storage method for. energy density over existing systems by an order of.

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