Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2011

If the US military increases its use of alternative jet and naval fuels that can be produced from coal or various renewable resources, including seed oils, waste oils and algae, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces, according to a new RAND Corporation study. —Alternative Fuels for Military Applications.

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Alternative Fuels Fuel Energy Coal 244

Green Car Congress

MAY 1, 2012

At present, BEVs are sold as a complete purchase, purchase of vehicle and lease of battery, and combined lease of vehicle and battery. Industry could assist by exploring new business models such as vehicle leasing, which already makes up a share of US and UK vehicle markets. —Tran et al.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

California’s largest owners and operators of hydrogen refueling stations (HRS) are in negotiation to purchase the plant’s output to supply current and future HRS to be built in the state over the next ten years. It does not depend on particular weather conditions, and does not require as much land as solar- and wind-based projects.

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Waste Hydrogen Green California 345

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 25, 2012

nation’s electricity will come from clean sources, including renewable energy sources such as wind, solar, biomass, and hydropower; nuclear power; efficient natural gas; and lower emission coal. The EIA’s Reference case for 2035 projects 66% fossil (coal and natural gas), 18% nuclear and 16% from renewables.).

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 25, 2013

In addition, the President has directed his Administration to purchase cleaner alternatives to HFCs whenever feasible and transition over time to equipment that uses safer and more sustainable alternatives. Going forward, the Administration will continue to use these bilateral and multilateral efforts to promote advanced coal technologies.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 1, 2015

The technology allows a building owner to purchase electricity during times of low demand and low prices—after midnight, for example—store it in the on-site battery units, and then use that power during periods of high demand when prices peak, typically in the late afternoon and early evening.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 12, 2022

By replacing the coal-fired blast furnaces with direct reduction plants in which iron ore is reduced with low-carbon hydrogen, thyssenkrupp Steel intends to make steel production climate-neutral in the long term. thyssenkrupp Steel accounts for 2.5% The steel and energy industries have of course long been closely linked.

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Hydrogen Carbon Renewable Power 170

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2013

Change in total consumer expenditure for EVs and conventional vehicles (CVs) purchased in 2030 over the vehicle lifetime for 20% and 100% EV adoption scenarios. The controlled charging of EVs can reduce electricity costs and improve the integration of wind energy. A negative value means the case has a lower TCE than the reference case.

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Low Cost Georgia Fuel Economy Gasoline-Electric 236

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Unlike coal-fired and natural gas-fired power generation plants, geothermal plants produce virtually no greenhouse gas emissions. The project’s total output will be sold to Idaho Power Company under a 25-year power purchase agreement. Bliem and G.L.

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Oregon Idaho 2002 Water 170

Green Car Congress

JUNE 13, 2011

71% of respondents said they are now more likely to purchase a BEV than they were a year ago while only 9% said they are less likely. Respondents said the MINI E met 90% of their daily driving needs. 71% of respondents drove fewer than 40 miles/day; 95% drove fewer than 80. 99% of respondents said home charging was easy to use.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 6, 2010

If a cap-and-trade program includes offsets, regulated entities have the opportunity to purchase the “emission credits” generated by carbon offset projects to help them meet their compliance obligations. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. Emission reductions from regulated sources (e.g.,

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 7, 2020

JetBlue has agreed to purchase sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) from Neste, the world’s largest producer of renewable diesel and a pioneer in renewable jet fuel, starting in 2020. All of JetBlue’s purchased carbon offsets are audited, verified and retired on the airline’s behalf.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

The investment consists of an initial investment and additional purchases of CRI equity over a 3-year period. Vulcanol is CRI’s brand name for renewable methanol, produced from CO 2 and hydrogen from renewable sources of electricity (hydro, geothermal, wind and solar). million in Carbon Recycling International (CRI). Methanol in China.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Starting around the middle of 2024, the Shetlands—and also part of mainland Scotland—will be powered by the 443-megawatt Viking wind farm , consisting of 103 wind turbines on the main island of Shetland. According to Plet, wind energy is driving an acceleration of HVDC installations in Europe.

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are four guidelines to follow: Refrain from using or burning oil, gas or coal. If an EV is charged with electricity that is generated from renewable sources (such as solar, wind, geothermal, or hydroelectric), then there are no fossil fuel emissions associated with that charging or driving process.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. In the future, 100% of additional purchased electricity will come from verifiable renewable sources, such as wind- and hydropower.

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Revenge of the Electric Car

MARCH 20, 2009

As a receptive audience of engineers and workers cheered his plans, Obama pledged to put a million plug-in hybrid vehicles on the road by 2015, and highlighted his offer of up to $7,500 in tax credits for Americans who purchase electric vehicles. The new $2.4-billion

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Green Car Congress

JULY 2, 2013

Thus, in IDES, substitutes for conventional oil include NGLs; enhanced oil recovery (EOR); low-quality hydrocarbons such as bitumen and extra-heavy oil; coal-derived fuels (CTL); natural gas-derived fuels (GTL, CNG, LNG); biofuels; and electricity. Historical scenario. (A)

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2009

power from renewable sources—wind, solar, geothermal, biomass or landfill gas, hydropower, and marine and hydrokinetic—for retail electricity suppliers beginning at 6% in 2012 and gradually rising to 25% in 2025 and continuing at that level through 2039. Federal Purchases of Renewable Electricity. Clean Fuels and Vehicles.

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Climate Standards Carbon California 186

Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Coal still supplies more power in the US than anything else, with natural gas next. However, building more coal and gas power plants to make miles for transport is counter-productive if the game plan is to reduce carbon output. They had better think seriously about financing solar and wind arrays.

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Miles Solar Gasoline-Electric MPG 150

Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

If an EV is charged with electricity that is produced by burning fossil fuel such as coal or natural gas, there are still greenhouse gas emissions associated with running the vehicle. While electric school buses cost more than diesel buses to purchase, the savings in fuel and maintenance costs even out over the lifetime of the bus.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In the 2030s, the grid will have less coal and there will be some constraints on gas. The purchase came with 300 megawatts of behind-the-meter electricity. Google, for its part, is backing Kairos Power with a 500 MW plant development and power purchase agreement. After closing the deal, Amazon requested another 180 MW.

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EV Info

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

This is mainly due to our reliance on purchasing natural gas on the spot market to feed our power stations to make electricity and gas that is pumped into millions of homes for heating and the cost of gas has increased significantly over the last 6 months. In the U.K., Europe has wedged itself between a rock and a hard place.

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Europe Energy Coal Wind 52

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

DOE is seeking to facilitate the market penetration of hydrogen and fuel cell products through higher volume purchases (e.g., Hydrogen produced by water electrolysis has the potential to be a useful means of storing excess electricity generated using wind, solar, and other intermittent renewable energy.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 29, 2025

Commitment to Phasing Out Coal Power : Plans to shut down remaining coal power plants and transition to cleaner alternatives such as wind, solar, and nuclear energy. Home Energy Efficiency Initiatives : Programs such as the Green Homes Grant to improve insulation and promote low-carbon heating solutions.

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Baua Electric

JUNE 26, 2024

The solar farm has a 114 MW power purchase agreement with the utility Basin Electric Power Cooperative. However, the Mount Rushmore State is a wind powerhouse – in 2022 , wind provided 55% of South Dakota’s total in-state net generation, a larger share than in all other states except Iowa.

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Baua Electric

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Cambridge, Massachusetts, has signed the largest-ever virtual power purchase agreement (VPPA) by a US city to help build a utility-scale solar farm in Illinois. This marks Cambridges second major renewable energy deal, following last years VPPA for a wind farm in North Dakota. Photo: BayWa r.e. Why solar in Illinois?

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 18, 2023

When we turn up the heat in our homes and workplaces, we must balance our personal need for warmth with the global impact of burning fossil fuels like oil, gas, coal, and biomass. The electrical grid also supports the efficient distribution of power and makes use of energy generated through renewable means like wind and solar.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

Green hydrogen is hydrogen produced in sustainable ways, using solar or wind-powered electrolyzers to split water molecules into hydrogen and oxygen. The plant will replace an existing coal-fired plant and generate hydrogen—which can be used in fuel cells—using solar photovoltaics. According to the International Energy Agency, only.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 20, 2023

The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. ones that burn coal) still see a significant amount of emissions from workplace EV charging. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Then, in 2009, I was recruited into Google’s effort to make renewable energy cheaper than coal (an initiative we called RE While that last project didn’t pan out as hoped, I learned a lot from it. The Possibility of Designer Nuclear Reactions In 2018, Google’s funding of cold fusion was winding down. Today, the U.S.

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Baua Electric

APRIL 1, 2024

Dominion, which has the second-largest solar fleet in the US, will own or acquire four solar farms totaling 329 MW, and it’s also made 13 power-purchase agreements (PPAs) totaling 435 MW with independently owned solar projects. That’s enough to power nearly 200,000 homes at peak output. million homes and businesses in the state.

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Electric Auto Association

APRIL 4, 2021

Subsequently, McNeil traveled to Seattle to purchase an already converted AMC Hornet 4-door sedan, and then towed the car back to Colorado. “I We like to do in person meetings when we can actually visit something,” he continued, describing chapter trips to battery manufacturing plants, wind farms, and the solar array at the U.S.

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Baua Electric

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Netherlands also uses fossil gas for home heating, and is one of the most gas-reliant countries in Europe with over 90% of homes using it for heating. This has also affected their energy security during the continent-wide gas crisis that came with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 20, 2009

I heard that you can change zones 3 times and then you have to purchase another car. Neutral Kaitou KID @ Apr 19th 2009 4:45PM not if the electricity is from ultra efficient solar panels, hydroelectric dams or wind. That being said, even a car that derives its energy from coal power plants would be far more clean.

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Green Cars News

APRIL 30, 2009

From April 2010 the new 13 bands will be further separated out to strengthen the environmental message and first-year rates of VED* will be introduced to further persuade new vehicle purchasers to choose lower emitting, more fuel efficient cars. From the second year of purchase onwards they will then pay the standard rate.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 28, 2009

The big utilitys ability to meet the demand for power created by a shift from gasoline to electric-powered cars will depend on how many of them are purchased, as well as when people recharge them, Hoagland said. Alternatives that would reduce pollution include nuclear energy and renewable sources, such as wind and solar power.

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