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US renewables’ installed generating capacity beats coal

Baua Electric

MARCH 29, 2024

Photo by Los Muertos Crew on Pexels.com Solar capacity additions hit the ground running in 2024, pushing renewables’ installed generating capacity past coal, according to new US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) data. That’s more than the installed capacity of coal (207.15 of the total. GW) but also hydropower (101.41

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Coal Installation Renewable Solar

How renewables could beat natural gas in US generating capacity within 3 years – in numbers

Baua Electric

MAY 21, 2024

Photo courtesy of Tom Brewster/BLM California US renewables’ electrical generating capacity could be close to – and may even surpass – natural gas within three years, according to FERC data. Three megawatts each of new biomass and oil capacity plus 1 MW each of new hydropower and natural gas capacity made up the balance.

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Renewable Gas Wind Solar

Modified SOFC anodes allow operation at lower temperatures with carbon-containing gases; potential for much more efficient and cleaner generation of electricity from coal

Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2011

Using barium oxide nanoparticles, a team of researchers led by Georgia Tech has modified the surface of conventional anodes for solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) to enable operation at lower temperatures (750 °C) with carbon-containing gases—e.g., gasified coal—by eliminating the coking problem. Click to enlarge.

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Coal Carbon Cleaner Water

DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 6, 2010

The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. DOE share: $404,404; recipient share: $101,212).

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Aqua America to transition portions of fleet to CNG

Green Car Congress

MAY 31, 2012

one of the largest US-based, publicly-traded water utilities, is going to transition portions of its larger vehicle fleet to compressed natural gas (CNG). Pennsylvania has always been an energy-rich state with natural gas being its latest form. Aqua America, Inc.,

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America Pennsylvania Fleet North Carolina

DOE to award Thar Energy $9.4M to help advance more efficient supercritical-CO2-based power cycles

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 4, 2015

The cycle is operated above the critical point of CO 2 so that it does not change phases (from liquid to gas), but rather undergoes drastic density changes over small ranges of temperature and pressure. SCO 2 turbines will have a nominal gas path diameter an order of magnitude smaller than utility scale combustion turbines or steam turbines.

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Power Powered Energy CO2

DOE awards ~$25M to 8 projects for CO2 capture and compression; $15M for novel Direct Fuel Cell system

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2015

Current research and development efforts are advancing technologies that could provide step-change reductions in both cost and energy penalty compared to currently available technologies. In a typical DFC application, natural gas is combined with ambient air for the fuel cell power generation process. FuelCell Energy Inc.

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Fuel Coal CO2 Exhaust

DOE Awarding $4.4M to Six Projects for Carbon Capture and Conversion

Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2010

The projects are located in North Carolina, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Georgia, and Quebec, Canada (through collaboration with a company based in Lexington, Ky.). PhosphorTech Corporation (Lithia Springs, Ga.). Total value of the projects, including cost sharing, is approximately US$5.9 million over two to three years.

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Conversion Carbon Rhode Island Massachusetts

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Jesse Jenkins and his collaborators used the REPEAT energy model to project the greenhouse-gas reductions resulting from recent U.S. Much of the data was made available, but some was redacted for various competitive concerns. And there are states like Georgia where public interveners don’t have any right to discovery.

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Clean Cleaning Energy Emissions

Georgia Tech study suggests unlinking EVs from CAFE and coordinating with power sector for low-cost benefits

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Only in the case of high EV market share and a high renewable electricity standard (RES) do EVs make a material contribution to greenhouse gas (GHG) reductions, they found. Change in total consumer expenditure for EVs and conventional vehicles (CVs) purchased in 2030 over the vehicle lifetime for 20% and 100% EV adoption scenarios.

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Low Cost Georgia Fuel Economy Gasoline-Electric

DOE selects 16 projects for funding to develop post-combustion carbon capture technologies

Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2011

The US Department of Energy has selected 16 projects for almost $29 million in funding to develop advanced post-combustion technologies for capturing carbon dioxide from coal–fired power plants. The application of ultrasonic energy forces dissolved CO 2 into gas bubbles. Georgia Tech Research Corp. Battelle (PNNL).

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Carbon Coal Gas-Electric Gas

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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OCTOBER 26, 2009

In July, the DOE announced that ARPA-E had received approximately 3,500 submissions for the approximately $150 million available as part of the first Funding Opportunity Announcement (DE-FOA-0000065) released 27 April 2009. Target energy density is 6-20 times that available state-of-the-art Li-ion batteries and at. Earlier post.)

Energy

Energy Grant Low Cost Li-ion

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

so-called “clean hydrogen,” including incentives for both its manufacture through less emissive processes (it has heretofore primarily been created using natural gas , which often comes from “fracking”) and for the purchase of vehicles – not only passenger cars such as the Toyota Mirai but commercial trucks and vans.

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Electric Vehicles Tax Credit Industrial Industry

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US renewables’ installed generating capacity beats coal

How renewables could beat natural gas in US generating capacity within 3 years – in numbers

Modified SOFC anodes allow operation at lower temperatures with carbon-containing gases; potential for much more efficient and cleaner generation of electricity from coal

DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

Aqua America to transition portions of fleet to CNG

DOE to award Thar Energy $9.4M to help advance more efficient supercritical-CO2-based power cycles

DOE awards ~$25M to 8 projects for CO2 capture and compression; $15M for novel Direct Fuel Cell system

DOE Awarding $4.4M to Six Projects for Carbon Capture and Conversion

The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Georgia Tech study suggests unlinking EVs from CAFE and coordinating with power sector for low-cost benefits

DOE selects 16 projects for funding to develop post-combustion carbon capture technologies

ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

Inflation Reduction Act – How It Supercharges the Electric Vehicle Industry

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