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Nevada Aims to Plug Vehicles into Renewable Energy

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By Max Baumhefner & Dylan Sullivan Nevada is considering legislation that would help the state drive on cleaner, cheaper electricity.

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Tesla sponsors bilingual ‘Future of Energy’ exhibit at Terry Lee Wells Children’s Discovery Museum

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Tesla sponsored a bilingual energy exhibit, Future of Energy, at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery). The exhibit featured questions and answers from Tesla employees working at Gigafactory Nevada and focused on a future with clean energy and sustainability.

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US DOE Awards More than $47M in Recovery Act Funding to Advance Smart Grid Development; New Smart Grid Report and Smart Grid Clearinghouse

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The US Department of Energy delivered more than $47 million in funding under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for eight projects to further smart grid demonstration projects in seven states. The $47 million in new Recovery Act awards will support existing projects that are advancing demonstration-scale smart grid technologies.

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New Tesla Energy products teased in internal meeting: report

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Apart from sightings of large numbers of the grid-scale battery outside Gigafactory Nevada, several Megapack installations have been reported recently across the United States as well. . As stated by NineDot in a press release, the Tesla Megapack installation is expected to be a model for urban clean energy projects.

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CATL reaches deal to supply energy storage systems to US firm HGP

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This helps meet the growing demand for clean energy in Texas and North America and highlights CATL's and HGP's commitment to achieving sustainable development, the Chinese battery giant said. HGP is based in Dallas, Texas, and has decades of market experience deploying grid investment-grade energy storage assets.

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DOE finalizes $1.6B loan guarantee for BrightSource Energy Inc.

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will be located on federally-owned land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, near the Nevada border, and will be one of the world’s largest concentrated solar power complexes. The project will be interconnected to the electricity grid via an upgraded SCE transmission line.

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DOE Announces Nearly $1.4B in Conditional Loan Guarantees for BrightSource Energy

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The three-plant Ivanpah Solar Complex will be located on federally-owned land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, near the Nevada border, and will be the world’s largest operational concentrated solar power complex. Once operational, the project will supply clean electric power to approximately 140,000 California homes.

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