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DOE to award $35M to 24 projects to support early-stage, innovative technologies and solutions in advanced manufacturing

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The team will apply atomic layer deposition technology to fabricate and modify the catalyst at the atomic level, with the goal of more than doubling catalyst lifetime, improving selectivity and conversion efficiency at reduced costs. Colorado State University. Solar Turbines Incorporated. Bio2Electric, LLC d.b.a. 2,089,647. .

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DOE launches Clean Energy Manufacturing Initiative; awards $23.5M to 5 more manufacturing R&D projects

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Key elements of the initiative include: Increasing funding for clean energy manufacturing research and development that will accelerate US-based manufacturing of cost-competitive clean energy technologies, from wind, solar, and geothermal to batteries and biofuels. Colorado School of Mines. Lead organization. Description.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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Colorado Energy. The project REFUEL COLORADO, A Roadmap to Increase Alternative Fuel. Use in Colorado will work to add alternative fuel vehicles to State. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. other fleets; create vehicle conversion inspection criteria; and train and.

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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. PV Solar Implementation at facilities: Install PV solar in a variety of facilities. Of that, $26.5 VIA Metropolitan Transit, Texas: $5,000,000.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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DOE Funding: $1,249,997; Non-DOE Funding: $312,516; Total Value: $1,562,513 Oxygen Integrated Unit for Modular Biomass Conversion to Hydrogen — Palo Alto Research Center Inc., The team intends to address the requirement of advancing modular air separation to support modular gasification-based hydrogen production. approximately 1400 °C).

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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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LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. It will also help develop carbon reduction technologies for use in the steel sector. DOE Funding: $1,487,794; Non-DOE Funding: $371,949; Total: $1,859,742. Susteon Inc.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. Novel Biological Conversion of Hydrogen and Carbon Dioxide Directly into Biodiesel. from solar PV) to convert carbon dioxide into liquid alcohol fuels. Electrofuels.

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