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Vermont Passes Feed-In Tariff Measure

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Vermont legislators have passed House Bill 446 , also known as the Vermont Energy Act of 2009, which implements a feed-in tariff—an approach allowing owners of small renewable energy facilities to sign long-term contracts for the sale of power produced by their facilities to the larger grid. megawatts in capacity.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. When it arrived, the Oldsmobile Eighty Eight became the first production car available in the United States with a GPS navigation system. It was available on all three models for 1996. Acura followed with hard drive navigation in the 1996 3.5

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The Growing List of EVmatch Partners

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EVmatch and Burlington Electric Department (BED) are partnering to deploy a limited number of charging stations for free at qualifying multi-unit dwellings in Burlington, Vermont. A Tesla Model Y charges at a publicly available EVmatch charger at a fourplex in Burlington, VT. Green Mountain Power. Green Mountain Power. Charged Future.

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Day Of Reckoning For US Shale Will Have To Wait

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That amounts to just 2 percent of available credit lines, much lower than the 15 percent reduction expected by analysts. Maintaining access to finance can come at a price. Bond markets have essentially been ruled out as a new source of finance for high-yield producers. That will keep the pressure on US shale.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. The Key Actions are: Promote the availability and effective marketing of all plug-in electric vehicle models in the states and support these efforts. Assessment of creative vehicle financing innovations.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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According to the Global Commercial Vehicle Drive to Zero program, there 180 models of battery electric MHD trucks and cargo vans available now in the U.S. Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules. Growth in the MHD manufacturing sector is helping accelerate adoption as well.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Indiana, will work to make existing municipal fueling stations available to. availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The Unlocking Private Sector Financing for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and. Governments. Project activities include: harmonizing. 500,000.

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