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Air Products and AES plan to invest ~$4B for mega-scale green hydrogen production facility in Texas; 200 metric tons per day

Green Car Congress

Air Products and The AES Corporation plan to invest approximately $4 billion to build, own and operate a green hydrogen production facility in Wilbarger County, Texas. It will yield a clean source of energy on a massive scale, and, if all the green hydrogen were used in the heavy-duty truck market, it would eliminate more than 1.6

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What’s A Fair Tax On EV Drivers? It’s Debatable, But Texas Is Definitely Gouging Us

CleanTechnica EVs

Texas recently upped the ante with a special one-time $400 fee […] It’s becoming fashionable for state governments to charge EV drivers an extra fee with their annual registration every year. Dozens of states are now doing something like this, with some charging as little as $50, and at least 8 states charging $200 or more.

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Texas installs another big solar + battery storage project

Baua Electric

Photo: Enel North America Power-hungry Texas needs solar and battery storage to help meet demand and balance the grid, so its largest utility-scale storage operator is delivering. Texas consumes more energy than any other state, and demand is growing. The project pairs a 186-megawatt (MW) solar farm with 115 MW/169 MWh battery storage.

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Texas Bill SB 2718 Will Punish Tesla & EV Owners Unfairly In The Name Of “Fairness”

CleanTechnica EVs

Proposed Texas Senate Bill 1728 (SB 1728) will make Tesla and EV owners pay an additional $200 EV tax if passed. The claim is that EV owners need to “pay their fair share” and “make up for” fuel taxes they don’t pay that support the state’s road and transportation infrastructure.

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Texas Continues Its Attack On Electric Cars & Trucks — To Implement $200 Annual Fee On EVs

CleanTechnica EVs

… First, Texas decided to not allow people to buy Teslas in the state. It’s a long and complicated story, but the funny thing is that you still can’t go into a Tesla store and buy a Tesla in Texas, yet Tesla’s global headquarters is now located there and “Giga Texas” is set […]

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IL Suspends Clean-Car Rebates; GA Tax Credit In Trouble Too; Texas Next?

Green Car Reports

State tax credits and purchase rebates have proven effective in kickstarting the early market for plug-in electric cars and other green vehicles. Then there''s Texas, where a. Then there''s Texas, where a. Green Georgia Illinois Texas incentives plug-in cars rebates state laws tax credit'

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

Cars That Think

Congress has provided hundreds of billions of dollars to speed the deployment of clean-energy technologies. can meet its emissions goals The Rapid Energy Policy Evaluation and Analysis Toolkit —REPEAT—which you developed at Princeton with Evolved Energy Research , influenced Congress to create massive incentives for clean-energy tech.

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