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Renewable hydrogen fuel being studied for the Port of Seattle

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Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. 770,000 DOE award, $185,000 City Light, $145,000 Port of Seattle = $1.1

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False Starts: The Story of Vehicle-to-Grid Power

Cars That Think

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Corvus Energy’s marine lithium polymer battery pack used in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat

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Completed on 6 March, the converted RT Adriaan, now renamed E-KOTUG RT Adriaan, has rejoined the KOTUG fleet. Canada, Corvus Energy provides a compact, modular lithium-ion battery system to commercial marine, aviation GSE, transportation, ports machinery, remote community, off grid and grid energy markets. Earlier post.)

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Texas Clean Energy Project signs long-term CO2 offtake agreement with Whiting Petroleum for enhanced oil recovery; 90% CO2 capture from IGCC coal polygen plant

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gasifiers along with limited amounts of nearly pure O 2 gas and converted into syngas comprising H 2 and CO, varying amounts of CO 2 , nitrogen (N 2 ), sulfur species, methane, volatilized metals, and PM. converted to CO 2 and the steam would be converted to additional H 2 in the syngas stream. Natural gas would be used to.

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

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Grid-Edge Intelligent Distribution Automation System for Self-Healing Distribution Grids, $550,000. Hydrogen Based Power Grid Support Using ElectrolyzeRs with Value Stacking (HYPER-V), $250,000. High-Power Oak Ridge Converter (ORC) for Extreme Fast Charging (XFC) Applications, $750,000. Seattle, Washington).

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

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Transitioning the fleet to all electric will eliminate emissions from diesel buses and emissions from shipping diesel fuel by barge 900 miles from Seattle. VIA’s use of 100% renewable grid power ensures the battery electric buses will truly be zero emissions. The City of Madison has a goal to convert the fleet to 50% electric by 2035.

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V2G Test Drive

Plug In Partners

Xcel Energy announces six-month test drive of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles DENVER - Six plug-in hybrid electric vehicles ( PHEVs ) will be on the road by the end of 2007 as part of a demonstration test of vehicle-to-grid ( V2G ) technology by Xcel Energy. in Seattle, Wash.; With every U.S. in Boulder, Colo.; V2Green Inc.