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an agricultural biotechnology and seed company enabling the production of high quality, low-cost and sustainable plant oil, protein and biomass, announced success in its program to create hybrid Jatropha which has both high yield and rapid time to maturity. Jatropha oil can be used as a biofuel feedstock.

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JANUARY 24, 2013

a developer and manufacturer of advanced batteries, has raised $10 million in Series C financing from existing investors, including New Enterprise Associates (NEA), Lightspeed Ventures, Sigma Partners and Walden International. headquarters, where its product R&D is located. Leyden Energy, Inc.,

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JANUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award some $118 million in funding for 17 projects to accelerate the production of sustainable biofuels. Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Canada-based Mangrove Lithium closed a $3-million financing from BDC Capital’s Cleantech Practice. Mangrove is the developer of a modular platform for the cost-effective production of battery-grade lithium hydroxide. Mangrove says that its process recovers more than 90% of the lithium from lithium concentrates.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

SGB will use the proceeds to expand research and development, advance commercialization efforts and scale global operations. SG Biofuels, Inc. SGB also announced that Pratik Shah, Ph.D., partner at Thomas, McNerney, and Jerry Caulder, Ph.D., managing director for Finistere Ventures, have joined the company’s board of directors.

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APRIL 3, 2021

James Breyer founded Hercules Electric Vehicles in 2018 with a vision to bring luxury eco-utility products to market, beginning with an electric pickup truck and followed by other electric mobility products. Such materials and the underlying technologies lend themselves to low cost manufacturing and production scale-up.

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OCTOBER 9, 2021

million project will diagnose sources of degradation in commercial electrolysis cells and will validate advanced designs that use higher stack currents. In June, Electric Hydrogen closed a $24-million Series A financing to support continued product development and expansion of its operations in the Greater Boston and San Francisco Bay areas.

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JANUARY 5, 2011

the developer of a Consolidated Bioprocessing (CBP) platform for low-cost production of cellulosic ethanol using the Q-microbe ( earlier post ), have formed a strategic partnership to accelerate commercialization efforts for industrial-scale cellulosic ethanol production.

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DECEMBER 24, 2021

The RFI also seeks input on how existing first-generation ethanol and other existing industries could be leveraged to provide low-cost feedstock and infrastructure for biofuels production, including information on practices that can reduce the carbon intensity of corn production.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Series-A funding round was led by CBMM—the world’s leading supplier of niobium products—and BGF—the UK & Ireland’s most active and dynamic investor of equity capital in growth economy companies—with the University of Cambridge, Origin Capital and other existing shareholders also taking part. Safe operating voltage.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The integration of Flybrid and Torotrak provides a platform for a joint development and commercial launch of M-KERS, Torotrak said. M-KERS can recover up to 70% of braking energy for around a third the cost of battery electric hybrids, the company says. Earlier post.). Torotrak has conditionally raised funds of £16.0

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FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Soelect recently completed its $11-million Series A financing. Soelect says that it has developed a unique manufacturing process for its products that can be scaled up for mass production at low cost. Lotte Ventures teamed with GM Ventures and KTB Network to make the investment.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Farasis Energy, a global developer and manufacturer of lithium-ion cells, modules and large battery systems, recently completed C-round financing exceeding 1 Billion US dollars. Presently, Farasis has two production bases in China: Ganzhou and Zhenjiang. The Farasis Energy contract award, valued at $5.9

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JANUARY 13, 2021

The goal of the program is to translate the performance achieved at the lab- and bench-scale by previously funded ARPA-E technologies to commercial viability, supporting promising energy technologies that require scaling-up or pre-pilot projects to enable a path to market and ultimately lead to realized commercial impact.

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AUGUST 16, 2018

ReNew ELP is commencing construction of a chemical recycling plant in Teesside, UK, with a target to recycle end-of-life plastic to produce raw material for a range of petrochemical products. Earlier post.).

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APRIL 29, 2022

The financing consists of a Senior Convertible Note provided exclusively by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc. The financing consists of a Senior Convertible Note provided exclusively by funds and accounts managed by BlackRock Financial Management, Inc.

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APRIL 27, 2012

Boulder Ionics Corporation, a startup that has developed a novel, high-throughput, low-cost synthesis platform for producing ionic liquid electrolytes for use in advanced energy storage devices, completed a $4.3-million million Series A financing. With this $4.3 Iolyte-U1 is currently under development.

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JULY 13, 2016

Alphabet Energy, a startup commercializing low-cost, efficient thermoelectric materials for power generation leveraging technology initially developed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ( earlier post , earlier post ), has closed a $23.5-million million Series C round of financing.

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AUGUST 15, 2018

has entered into two separate operating leases and service agreements with Shockwave LLC to install Shockwave’s Thermodynamic Corn Fractionation Process as well as related technology and equipment at Gevo’s production facility in Luverne, MN. The Shockwave Process is expected to be operational during the first quarter of 2019.

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JANUARY 16, 2014

million) in new financing from a combination of existing and new investors. The money will be used to increase production capacity to meet customer demand and to expand its commercial activities. YASA motors make more efficient use of key materials, and are produced with simple low cost manufacturing processes.

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JANUARY 3, 2011

an emerging natural gas production company which uses proprietary technology to convert both underground and mined low-rank coal to pipeline-quality methane biochemically at large scale and low cost, has raised equity in its second round of financing, led by new investor Khosla Ventures. Ciris Energy, Inc.,

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MAY 21, 2012

developer of a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), has signed an agreement with Henley Transmission Services, LLC, the largest franchise holder of AAMCO automotive service centers, to certify AAMCO technicians to install and service XL Hybrids’ hybrid-electric conversions.

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OCTOBER 20, 2021

RevFin a digital lending platform that finances electric vehicles for commercial use that has raised $4 million (about Rs 30 crore) in pre-series. The company’s founder, Sameer Aggarwal, said that “Revfin’s EV financing platform overcomes challenges of consumer underwriting and product risks to make financing convenient and accessible.

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MARCH 26, 2014

LanzaTech’s gas fermentation platform enables the regional production of low-cost energy from local wastes and residues, including gases as varied as industrial flue gas, gasified biomass wastes and residues, biogas, and high-CO 2 stranded natural gas.

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APRIL 2, 2012

This round of funding is being used to directly support Sapphire Energy’s active and on-schedule commercial demonstration in Luna County, New Mexico. Some proceeds from previous closes of the Series C financing already have been invested in Sapphire Energy’s continuing operations.

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JULY 22, 2009

Green Car Congress attended the Renewable Energy Finance Forum - Wall Street (REFF-Wall Street) conference (23-24 June) sponsored by Euromoney Energy Events and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). Costs are also falling due to classic economics. by Bill Cooke. M barrels/day of oil within the next 10 years ”.

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DECEMBER 21, 2011

Thermoelectric material developer GMZ Energy ( earlier post ) has secured $14 million in Series C financing. With the new funding, GMZ will expand its engineering and go-to-market capabilities as the company moves into production of its thermoelectric technologies. —Aaron Bent, CEO of GMZ Energy.

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MARCH 30, 2023

The businesses will provide low-cost loan terms and battery switching services to last-mile delivery partners so they may switch to environmentally friendly modes of transportation. Kotak Mahindra Prime Limited (KMPL) is a non-banking financial company (NBFC) that specializes in vehicle financing.

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MARCH 14, 2012

a company that has developed a low-cost hybrid electric powertrain designed specifically for class 1-3 commercial fleet use ( earlier post ), will display a Chevrolet Express 2500 cargo van fitted with the company’s hybrid technology at the 2012 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Energy Conference Energy Showcase on 16 March.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

The plant will convert abundant low-cost natural gas from the Utica and Marcellus shale region into high-value specialty products (solvents, lubricants and waxes), as well as transportation fuels. The company has agreed to commercial license terms with Velocys and made a down payment towards the FT reactors.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Planned cellulosic biofuel production by 2015. US Commercial-scale production of cellulosic biofuels reached about 20,000 gallons in late 2012, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). Nor, despite the growth potential over the next several years, has the path to commercial biofuels been smooth.

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JUNE 14, 2012

DOE also announced the “America’s Most Affordable Rooftop Solar” competition to aggressively drive down the cost of rooftop solar energy system as well as $8 million in awards to nine small businesses to lower the cost of financing, permitting, and other “soft costs,” which can amount to nearly half the cost of residential solar systems.

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MARCH 31, 2022

to pursue opportunities in large-scale, low-cost and permanent carbon capture and storage (CCS). FPX Nickel Corp., a Vancouver-based junior nickel mining company developing the large-scale Decar Nickel District in central British Columbia, has established a new subsidiary company, CO 2 Lock Corp., CO 2 Lock has raised $1.7

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MAY 21, 2012

billion from Wanxiang to finance and construct the first phase of a coal-to-natural gas facility that ultimately will have an annual production capacity of one trillion cubic feet (1 Tcf) (30 billion cubic meters) per year. As part of the transaction, GreatPoint Energy has raised equity investment and secured project funding of $1.25

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JULY 7, 2011

Earlier this year, the company announced it had received financing from France’s Total—which earlier had funded research on the technology at MIT ( earlier post )—and from a personal investment by Bill Gates. Patents for all liquid metal battery inventions were licensed from MIT. —Luis Ortiz, LMBC’s President.

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OCTOBER 4, 2017

Rapidly improving fitness to lower costs, release capital and finance growth. In the presentation to investors, Ford noted that its costs have grown as fast as its revenue, and that capital spending has grown even faster. Thus, Ford is attacking costs, reducing automotive cost growth by 50% through 2022.

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