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NREL: battery second use offsets EV expense, improves grid stability; recommendations

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Researchers at the US Department of Energy (DOE) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) are identifying battery second use (B2U) strategies capable of offsetting vehicle expenses while improving utility grid stability. —Mike Ferry, Center for Sustainable Energy.

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ARB posts six new LCFS pathway applications for comment; new PFAD biodiesel approach

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The plant was originally fueled by coal but was converted to natural gas in 2010. However, the Raizen COPI mill exports surplus co-generated electricity to the public grid. The six new pathways are: Heron Lake BioEnergy , LLC (HLBE) produces ethanol from corn at a dry mill plant in Heron Lake, Minnesota. gCO 2 e/MJ fuel.

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A solar farm comes online on a coal ash landfill site in West Virginia

Baua Electric

megawatt (MW) solar farm just came online in Rivesville, West Virginia, on a brownfield site near a shuttered coal-burning power station. The new Rivesville solar farm sits on around 27 acres of FirstEnergy-owned coal ash disposal landfill along Morgan Ridge Road. Photo: FirstEnergy A 5.5-megawatt MW), and Weirton, Hancock County (8.4

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Switching to electric cars ‘could increase emissions’

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Director at the ETA, Andrew Davis, said: “Whilst the report is not intended to dampen enthusiasm for electric vehicles, their introduction should not be viewed as a panacea; significant changes to the way we produce and tax power are needed before we will reap any benefits.&#. National Grid.

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California ARB considering four new low-carbon fuel pathways; Neste renewable diesel and sugarcane molasses ethanol

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Surplus electricity produced is exported to the local electrical grid. This is accomplished via reactive distillation using the Davy process. The Pantaleon facility also generates and utilizes process heat and electricity from bagasse combustion for all its industrial operations. An LFG capture and processing efficiency of 77.2%—the

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Toyota "Moves"

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Four years ago, the professor at the University of California at Davis and a team of engineering students created a plug-in vehicle. clip) Despite some concerns that plugging in might stress the electric grid, or actually increase carbon dioxide emissions by relying on coal-fired power plants, Kramer is not worried.

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Plug-In Hybrids (or Plugin Hybrids)

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Plug-In Hybrids Are Cleaner (Even on a Coal Grid) [ to top ] This entire section is finally obsolete -- because we now have a definitive study by the Electric Power Research Institute and the Natural Resources Defense Council. Three more points: Both reports match up well with previous studies. The GREET 1.6