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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

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billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. To meet our growing energy needs and prevent the worst consequences of climate change, we need to increase our supply of nuclear power and today’s announcement helps to move us down that path. —President Obama.

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ICCT study finds state EV incentives playing a significant role in driving sales

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A study by a team from the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) shows that state electric vehicle incentives are playing a significant early role in reducing the effective cost of ownership and driving electric vehicle sales. Source: ICCT. Click to enlarge. —Jin et al. —Jin et al. electric vehicle incentives ”.

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The Complex Calculus of Clean Energy and Zero Emissions

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Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. presidential election, it seemed that we were entering one of those rare windows where you might see substantial policy action on climate and clean energy. C in this century. clean-tech legislation.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne. Georgia Tech Research Corporation plans to develop and test MIL-101(Cr)-based sorbents in the form of powders, in composite polymer/MOF fibers and on the surface of monoliths.

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Obama Administration launches series of actions to accelerate EV adoption; inc. $4.5B in loan guarantees, pursuing 350 kW fast charge

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Georgia Power. NextGen Climate America. Southern Company: Georgia Power. A multi-partner team, led by PNNL as part of the Battery500 research consortium, will receive an award of up to $10 million per year for five years to drive progress on DOE’s goal of reducing the cost of vehicle battery technologies. General Motors.

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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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that substantially reduce costs of the motor. the cost of wind turbines and electric vehicles by developing a. potential to substantially reduce the costs of an electric. for climate control in automobiles. and smaller footprint TES system at a low cost representing. almost a 75% reduction in the cost of TES.

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The Aftershocks of the EV Transition Could Be Ugly

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The perturbations caused by transitioning EVs to scale are not market-driven, but government policy-driven to meet a climate-emergency. and especially California,” he says, “has come at the cost of exacerbating the air, water and soil pollution of Asian societies.”