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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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Assuming an average biorefinery size of 40 million gallons per year, USDA estimates it meeting the RFS2 advanced biofuels goals will mean building of 527 biorefineries, at a cost of $168 billion. Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste).

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

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Building Efficiency (3 projects). Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). Seaweed is a potentially sustainable source of biomass for the production of fuels, expanding and building opportunities for bio-butanol as a fuel and fuel extender. BUILDING EFFICIENCY. Low-cost Electrochromic Film on Plastic for Net-zero Energy Building.

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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. Nebraska – Lincoln). Non-strategic Elements having Secure Supply Chains A Virginia Commonwealth University led team will. power supply from concentrated solar-thermal power (CSP). residential and commercial buildings, where there are. light energy.

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Smart-grid project matches wind to electric cars | Green Tech - CNET News

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Getting a handle on power supply and demand in real time helps address the variable nature of wind and solar power, he said. Better balancing electricity supply from wind or solar energy with demand means that utilities do not need to build "stand-by" power plants that can delivery electricity reliably, Schurr said. "If

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