Convert, Design, Tennessee and Waste

Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

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AUGUST 17, 2019

The technologies work as a system that converts organic waste into renewable hydrogen gas for use as a biofuel. The system combines biology and electrochemistry to degrade organic waste—such as plant biomass or food waste—to produce hydrogen. —Alex Lewis, CEO.

Waste

Waste Convert Hydrogen Tennessee

Piedmont Lithium selects Tennessee for second lithium hydroxide project; 30,000 metric tons per year

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

Piedmont Lithium has ( earlier post ) selected Etowah, Tennessee as the location of the company’s planned 30,000 metric ton per year (tpy) LHP2 lithium hydroxide operation (“Tennessee Lithium”). Conceptual design of the 30,000 TPY Tennessee Lithium plant. Planned completion and start of production is in 2025.

Tennessee

Tennessee Ghana North Carolina Financing

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Actions such as the debt tender offer and the issuance of 0% convertible notes earlier this year, together with anticipated broader access to capital from the new sustainable financing framework, are consistent with Ford’s objectives to further strengthen its balance sheet and financial flexibility and return its credit ratings to investment grade.

Financing

Financing Ford Clean Cleaning

ClearFuels to Develop Co-Located Commercial-Scale Biorefinery for Renewable Jet or Diesel Production in Tennessee

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FEBRUARY 27, 2010

The renewable energy facility will be co-located with Hughes Hardwood’s wood component products manufacturing facility in Collinwood, Tennessee. These projects are expected to use an integrated ClearFuels-Rentech design and be co-located at sugar mills, wood mills and other biomass processing facilities.

Tennessee

Tennessee Renewable Commercial Diesel

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

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JULY 17, 2020

Announced by Secretary Brouillette in January 2020, the Energy Storage Grand Challenge is designed to create and sustain US global leadership in energy storage technology, utilization, and exports. Rational Electrolyte Design for Li-ion Batteries with Micro-Sized Silicon Anodes. University of Maryland. Enovix Corporation. 2,500,000.

Lithium Ion

Lithium Ion Vehicles Li-ion Universal

DOE to award up to $13M to four advanced biofuels projects

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JULY 1, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) has selected four research and development projects designed to bring next-generation biofuels on line faster and to drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The projects represent up to a combined $13-million Energy Department investment. Virent, Inc. (up

Oklahoma

Oklahoma Idaho Oil Convert

ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

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NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. Bio2Electric will develop a small-scale reactor that converts natural. Conventional large-scale gasto-liquid reactors produce waste-heat, reducing the energy. convert natural gas into transportable liquids in one step. Capturing this energy would reduce both waste.

2012

2012 Energy Lithium Sulfur Conversion

USDA, FAA and other partners extend partnership agreement on aviations biofuels for five more years

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APRIL 16, 2013

The renewed agreement focuses on future goals—such as designating personnel, evaluating current and potential feedstock types and systems, developing multiple feedstock supply chains, developing state and local public-private teams, communicating results, and issuing periodic reports.

Washington

Washington 2010 Renewable Tennessee

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

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JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Multiscale Manufacturing Design Tool Based on Machine Learning Workflow, $250,000. Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000.

Commercial

Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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NOVEMBER 13, 2009

A fundamental modeling capability will enable the widespread design of feedstock-flexible biomass gasifiers that are cost-effective and scaled to match the regional distribution of biomass feedstocks. Yenkin-Majestic will use these products to demonstrate a distributed stand-alone system for the operation of a large industrial facility.

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Grant Tennessee Waste North Carolina

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

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. streamline the process by which green plants convert carbon. production of oil, which is stored in seeds and is convertible to. wasted energy in plants into energy-dense fuel molecules. converted into a type of diesel fuel.

Energy

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid

Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

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JANUARY 24, 2013

25% less energy and water consumption, waste and emissions. The solar park contains 33,600 polycrystalline solar panels (each rated at 285 watts) from JA Solar designed to produce 13.1 Ten SMA inverters and 5 transformers (rated at 1500 KVA each) convert the 9.58 MW of DC power to 7.6 MW of AC power connected to VW’s substation.

Solar

Solar Phoenix 2012 Power

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

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SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority, Tennessee: $650,000. Bay Area Transportation Authority (BATA) will provide technical assistance to TBTA.

Emissions

Emissions Gas Energy Maintenance

EV Driven

Startup licenses ORNL technology for converting organic waste to hydrogen

Piedmont Lithium selects Tennessee for second lithium hydroxide project; 30,000 metric tons per year

Ford, Ford Credit introduce sustainable financing framework prioritizing EV, clean production, community investments

ClearFuels to Develop Co-Located Commercial-Scale Biorefinery for Renewable Jet or Diesel Production in Tennessee

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

DOE to award up to $13M to four advanced biofuels projects

ARPA-E awards $130M to 66 “OPEN 2012” transformational energy technology projects

USDA, FAA and other partners extend partnership agreement on aviations biofuels for five more years

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

DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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

Volkswagen inaugurates 9.5 MW solar park at Chattanooga plant in US; key element of VW Group’s strategic sustainability targets

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

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