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Zymetis Seeking to Commercialize Marine Bacterium for Breaking Down Biomass

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A pin-off from the University of Delaware, Zymetis , is seeking to commercialize a marine bacterium that the company says is the fastest known degrader of whole plant biomass. The company’s technology is protected by four patents and 10 patents pending, with more in line for filing.

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PA Governor Wolf announces $8.5M from Volkswagen Settlement to reduce transportation pollution

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Valley Waste Service, Inc.: A $32,500 rebate to replace an older diesel commercial shuttle bus with a new diesel commercial shuttle bus. In this second set of awards, the following recipients will receive grants and rebates: Statewide. Multi-county. Beaver County. Bedford County. Cambria County. McIlwain Charters, Inc.:

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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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University of Delaware. Co-optimization of Vehicle Specification and Routing to Improve Commercial Transportation System Efficiency and Reduce Deadheading. Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection. Waste Not, Want Hot?

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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USDA Report Provides Regional Roadmap To Meeting the Biofuels Goals of the Renewable Fuels Standard by 2022; Southeast to Provide ~50% of Advanced Biofuels

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Woody biomass, municipal waste potential. Delaware, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Maryland, Minnesota, Nebraska, North Dakota, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Wisconsin, Virginia. 0.3% (this is only for dedicated energy crops and woody biomass from logging waste). 2.0% (mostly woody biomass).

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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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will prepare an initial engineering design study to use commercial-scale membrane CO 2 capture technology at the CEMEX Balcones cement plant in New Braunfels, TX. Praxair will complete an initial engineering design study for a Linde-BASF CO 2 capture system at a commercial steam methane reforming (SMR) hydrogen plant in Convent, LA.

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DOE awards $35M to 15 projects in ARPA-E ECOSynBio program to reduce carbon footprint of biofuel production

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These fermentation processes create carbon as a byproduct, with some processes wasting more than 1/3 of this carbon as CO 2 emissions. At commercial scale, the inputs to the proposed “carbon refinery” process are carbon-free renewable energy, water, and CO 2. University of Delaware.

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