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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 will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Arlington Transit – ART, Virginia: $1,500,000. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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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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wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. Arlington). Protection Alliance, Tennessee Valley. Tennessee – Knoxville, Waukesha Electric. Terpenoid Pathways Texas A&M University will address a major inefficiency of. photosynthesis, the process used by green plants to capture. light energy. Lawrence Berkeley.

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