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DOE to Award Up to $300M in Stimulus Bill Funding for Projects to Expand Use of Alt-Fuel and Advanced Technology Vehicles

Green Car Congress

The FOA modifies a much smaller and earlier-issued FOA by incorporating a supplemental $300 million appropriated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) of 2009 (the stimulus bill) for the Energy Policy Act (EPACT) of 2005 Section 721 to fund a competitive grant pilot program to be administered through the Clean Cities Program.

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The Most Powerful Greenius In America

Creative Greenius

The first step to stopping the building of any future coal-fired power plants in the USA is to mandate that every single housing unit in this country cut it’s energy use by at least 40% over the next 12 years and then by 80% by 2050. Not when we can take such simple, easy steps to fight back instead. How powerful will that make you?

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Smart Meters and Electric Cars

Revenge of the Electric Car

“The idea is for electric cars to take advantage of “off-peak&# hours of low energy demand late at night, when the lights are out and TVs are off, but power plants are still producing, explained Ed Kjaer, director of electric transportation at Edison.&#. Photo by Eric Tom). Edison’s answer: new meters.

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Nissan plans to start selling electric car in Seattle next year

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Local Weather Transportation/Traffic Education Environment Politics Real Estate Joel Connelly Webtowns/Neighborhoods Obituaries Special Reports Corrections US/World U.S. If we do things the wrong way, thats going to mean building more power plants, more dirty coal plants," he said. Washington, D.C.

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

This is the same government who gave us Light Rail, Tram, and are proposing building a new stadium. See more in Economy Send To A Friend | Print this | Permalink Reddit Digg del.icio.us Google Facebook COMMENTS (1) Post a comment Posted by tombdragon on 04/21/09 at 12:05AM The Government needs to intervene for our benefit???

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