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DOE awards $1.95M for conceptual designs that extract critical minerals and rare earth elements from coal sources

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million in federal funding to develop conceptual designs of commercially viable technologies that will extract rare earth elements (REEs) from US coal and coal by-product sources. Concurrent Technologies Corporation (Johnstown, PA). West Virginia University Research Corporation (Morgantown, WV). Pittsburgh, PA) Project 2.

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DOE Selects 19 Projects to Monitor and Evaluate Geologic CO2 Storage

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Coal supplies nearly 50% of domestic electricity. In order for low-cost electricity from coal-fired power plants to remain available, the DOE said, economical methods for capturing and storing the greenhouse gas emissions from these plants must be developed. Schlumberger Carbon Services , Columbus, Ohio.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). The project will be implemented by a unique Texas not-for-profit corporation created to research, develop and implement smart grid clean energy systems. 24,978,264. 53,510,209.

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Rentech Planning to Build Biomass to Synthetic Fuels and Electric Power Plant in California

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Rentech has entered into a licensing agreement with SilvaGas Corporation for biomass gasification technology for the Rialto facility. That plant was built in partnership with the US Department of Energy, Battelle Columbus Laboratory and the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL). Product gas is cleaned in a scrubber.