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ARPA-E awarding $9.4M to 4 projects focused on removing sulfur hexafluoride from US grid

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SF 6 has been the standard gas used inside high voltage electrical equipment as an insulating and arc-quenching medium. However, SF 6 is also an extremely potent greenhouse gas with 23,500 times the comparative Global Warming Potential of CO 2 and a lifetime of 3,200 years in the atmosphere. Georgia Tech in Atlanta, Ga.;

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Southern Company acquiring AGL Resources for $8B, creating 2nd largest US electric and gas utility by customer base

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After closing, AGL Resources will continue to maintain its own management team and board of directors, and, as is the case with Southern Company’s other operating subsidiaries, AGL Resources will continue to maintain its own corporate headquarters, which for AGL Resources is in Atlanta.

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UPS to add 40 series hydraulic hybrid vehicles to its fleet

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UPS is deploying 40 new medium-duty series hydraulic hybrid vehicles (HHVs): 20 in Baltimore and 20 in Atlanta. The HHVs in Baltimore will be deployed immediately while the vehicles in Atlanta will be introduced before the end of 2012. UPS currently has one HHV in operation in Laguna Hills, Calif.,

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USDOT FTA announces $182M in Low-No grants for transit vehicles & facilities nationwide

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FTA’s Low-No Program supports transit agencies in purchasing or leasing low- or no-emission buses and other transit vehicles that use technologies such as battery electric and fuel-cell power to provide cleaner, more efficient transit service in communities across the country. Broome County (NY). Capital Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

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Mirant and RRI Energy to Merge to Create GenOn Energy; Second-Largest Independent Power Producer in US

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Mirant Corporation and RRI Energy, Inc. have entered into a definitive agreement to create GenOn Energy, which will be the second-largest independent power producer in the United States (behind Exelon), with approximately 24,700 megawatts (MW) of electric generating capacity and a pro forma market capitalization of $3.1

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

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Concentric Ring Gas Atomization Die Design for Optimized Particle Production, $150,000 Praxair, Indianapolis, Ind. Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Ga. Madison, Wis.

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Air Products’ Hydrogen and Technology in Materials Handling Demo at Fourth Defense Warehouse

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Air Products is a subcontractor on this project to the Center for Transportation & the Environment (CTE) in Atlanta, Ga. The hydrogen will be produced from anaerobic digester gas from a wastewater treatment plant located on base. Air Products is a subcontractor to CTE on this project.

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