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Starfire Energy closes major funding round; green ammonia and hydrogen solutions

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The investment round was led by AP Ventures, a significant investor in breakthrough hydrogen technologies, and included New Energy Technologies, Chevron Technology Ventures, Osaka Gas USA, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries. The process can scale back to a zero capacity factor and rapidly scale right back to 100% or anywhere in between.

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Oil Majors Plan New Spill Capture and Containment System for Gulf of Mexico; Initial $1B Investment

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Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Shell plan to build and deploy a rapid response system that will be available to capture and contain oil in the event of a potential future underwater well blowout in the deepwater Gulf of Mexico. The companies have committed $1 billion to fund the initial costs of the system.

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This Nigerian Startup’s Minigrid Began as a School Project

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The company’s current minigrids have a total stored capacity of about 5.1 climate envoy John Kerry in September visited the Wuse market in Abuja, Nigeria, where he joined other dignitaries to celebrate that GVE had connected the market to the power grid with a 1 MW microgrid. MWs and the number of customers to double.

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Clearing the roadblocks to electrification of heavy-duty trucks

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So we set out to show the industry what needed to be done so that the Flying Js, the Chevrons, the BPs of the world would understand that this needs to be built and that they had some support in doing so. If Tesla needs to come in and build a charging site, they’ve got to pay for the grid connection. What are they good at?

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