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EPA awards $5M to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) for cleaner big rigs

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The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $5 million to the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) to help Southern truckers and small businesses to buy cleaner big rigs. The Clean Trucks Make Cents program will finance up to 100% of the purchase or lease of a pre-2007 tractor-trailer. Rush Enterprises, Inc.

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GE and CPECC Sign Agreements with USTDA to Advance Commercial Scale IGCC in China

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This follows the memorandum of understanding signed between CPECC and USTDA in November as part of the US-China Clean Energy Announcements made by President Obama and President Hu in November 2009. and the Polk Tampa Electric IGCC plant in Florida that helped demonstrate the commercial feasibility of IGCC.

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DOE, RTI to Design and Build Coal Syngas Cleanup System for IGCC Power Plants to Reduce Cost of Removing Contaminants, Capturing CO2; Potential for Synthetic Chemicals and Fuels

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RTI’s syngas cleanup technologies will be tested at Tampa Electric Company’s 250-MW IGCC power plant, using up to 20% of the syngas produced by the coal gasifier. Data on thermal efficiency, emissions, and cost benefits will be gathered during more than 5,000 hours of testing the warm syngas cleaning system. Background.

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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The project will conduct small-scale testing and prepare the technology for a pilot scale test. TDS is a concentration of minerals dissolved in water which requires treatment before the water can be used for other processes.

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US DOE Awarding Up To $62M for Concentrating Solar Power Research and Development

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Abengoa is currently the only company with a full-scale, operational power tower, and thus proving this technology could help it reach commercial maturity. There is currently no commercial storage mechanism that is compatible with CSP solar dishes, and thus this storage technology could be a breakthrough for the CSP solar dish industry.

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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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The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. performance to the best commercial magnets and be significantly less expensive. Florida, Tampa).

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