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Boost Your Savings: Best US States for Electric Vehicle Incentives

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Colorado Colorado offers a state tax credit of up to $4,000 for the purchase or lease of a new electric vehicle. Additionally, some Colorado utility companies offer discounted rates for electric vehicle charging during off-peak hours, helping to lower the overall cost of EV ownership.

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DOE announces $11.5M in Phase 1 funding for carbon capture and storage program; ARPA-E FLECCS

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The post-combustion outlet gas is more easily separated into water and CO 2 to the pipeline, thereby lowering the electricity costs of grids with high levels of VRE. Colorado State University. Georgia Institute of Technology. The proposed technology easily separates the CO 2 and H 2 O in the flue gas of an oxy-combustor.

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A New Fund Helps IEEE HKN Student Chapters Flourish

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The officers of the Mu Chapter at the University of California, Berkeley , spent the money to offset the cost of announcement whiteboards, which it uses to increase the visibility of its tutoring programs and events. A new HKN chapter, Nu Epsilon, was installed in April at Kennesaw State University , in Georgia.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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(XGS) of Lansing, Michigan will develop a low-cost advanced Li-ion battery anode material for electric drive vehicle applications using graphene platelet Si stabilization technology ( earlier post ) and advanced hydrogel-type binders to overcome the technical challenges with Si anode self-pulverization and solid-electrolyte interphase instability.

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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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The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. MARTA anticipates that the power produced by these photovoltaic panels will be sold to Georgia Power under their Distributed Generation Contract Program. The largest PV installation in Georgia. Of that, $26.5

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USDOT awarding $55M to support purchase of Low-No buses; electric buses and infrastructure

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The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. State of Colorado Department of Transportation. Georgia Department of Transportation.

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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. The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne. 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.

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