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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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ConocoPhillips will demonstrate new advancements that improve conversion efficiency and economies of scale for carbon capture systems at a petcoke-based 683-megawatt integrated gasification combined cycle (IGCC) power plant adjacent to its existing refinery in Sweeny, Texas. DOE Share: $3,000,000). Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc.

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Phillips 66 to convert Alliance Refinery to terminal facility

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The conversion is expected to take place in 2022. The Alliance Refinery, located on the Mississippi River in Belle Chasse, Louisiana, 25 miles south of New Orleans, employs approximately 500 employees and 400 contractors. The refinery can also receive foreign crude oil by pipeline connected to the Louisiana Offshore Oil Port.

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SCOPE Biofuels Project Releases Assessment on Environmental Effects of Biofuel Technologies

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On the production side, options exist for improving technologies in terms of new feedstocks and conversion technologies as well as more efficient use of biomass. The first steps towards sustainable energy and resource management should aim for significant reductions on the demand side, with greater conservation and improved efficiency.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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The project will include the purchase and conversion of 283 alternative fuel vehicles for numerous fleets including taxis, cities, schools, and delivery vehicles. to Florida to Mississippi to create the nation’s first propane corridor. Total DOE award: $12,299,828. Clean Fuels Ohio’s Ohio Advanced Transportation Partnership (OATP).

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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at San Diego, Mississippi State. Concentrating Solar Power/Nuclear: High Efficiency Solar Electric Conversion Power Tower Abengoa Solar will develop a high efficiency solar-electric. conversion tower that utilizes new system architecture. unprecedented solar-to-fuel conversion efficiencies of more. Mississippi State.

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EVndeavoring to Do a Month or Two in Review Since July, August. with "Spirit of DC" Hang'in in Phoenix and EVJerry Taking on "Power of DC".

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EVADC was sponsoring "Power of DC" (see www.PowerofDC.com , which is a NEDRA EVent with Auto Xing and eRacing) and what was being set up as the EVADC "East of the Mississippi" EAA Chapters Conference and in conjuntion with the Xtreme BugE: Fun Run in the Sun -- its christening so to speak.

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