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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,204,129. DOE Funding: $1,499,999.

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Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems introduces 63% efficient, 540MW JAC gas turbine; -70% CO2 compared to older coal-fired plants

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Replacing older coal-fired power plants with the enhanced JAC can reduce CO 2 emissions nearly 70%. Seven technical selections by utilities and independent power producers in just the past few months are providing industry endorsement of the revolutionary JAC.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. DOE share: $404,404; recipient share: $101,212).

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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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Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. Many of these R&D efforts can be applied across both the energy and the industrial sectors. AOI 1 (Subtopic 1.1): CO 2 Capture and Compression from Industrial Sources.

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Aqua America to transition portions of fleet to CNG

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As both a former DEP [Department of Environmental Protection] and Economic Development Secretary for the Commonwealth, I believe that the natural gas industry in Pennsylvania will become the biggest economic driver in the state since days of coal and steel.

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DOE selects 7 Solid Oxide Fuel Cell research projects for further development

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The ultimate goal is the generation of efficient, cost-competitive electricity from domestic coal with near-zero emissions of carbon dioxide and air pollutants. Georgia Tech Research Corporation. SECA is comprised of three groups: the Industry Teams, the Core Technology Program, and Federal government management.

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DOE awards ~$25M to 8 projects for CO2 capture and compression; $15M for novel Direct Fuel Cell system

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The selected projects focus on advancing the development of a suite of post-combustion CO 2 capture and supersonic compression systems for new and existing coal-based electric generating plants, specifically: (1) supersonic compression systems; (2) small pilot-scale (from 0.5 FuelCell Energy Inc. Click to enlarge. Supersonic CO 2 compression.

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