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Addax Bioenergy signs loan agreement for €258M renewable energy project in Sierra Leone; sugarcane ethanol and biomass power

Green Car Congress

a subsidiary of the Swiss-based energy group, The Addax and Oryx Group Limited (AOG), recently signed a loan agreement with seven European and African development institutions for an integrated renewable energy and agriculture project near Makeni, in Sierra Leone. Addax Bioenergy S.A. ,

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Fulcrum BioEnergy files LCFS application for municipal solid waste to FT diesel pathway with low CI of 37.47 g/MJ

Green Car Congress

Fulcrum BioEnergy, the parent company of Fulcrum Sierra BioFuels, has applied for a new fuel pathway under the California Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCSF) for its process of converting municipal solid waste (MSW) into Fischer-Tropsch (“FT”) diesel fuel. For 2016, the target for diesel and diesel substitutes is 99.97

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Advocating electric in the heartland

Electric Auto Association

These homeowners generate their electricity and many of them put energy back into the grid, and they’ve still had to pay these ridiculous charges,” said MAEAA President Al Pugsley. You buy your own solar panels, you power your house and your car, and the utility wants to get paid for your doing that.”

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem

Charged EVs

Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals? Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. It’s a great sustainability story.

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Aqua Metals is building a more sustainable battery recycling ecosystem – Charged EVs

Baua Electric

Charged : Do different companies handle different steps of the process that converts spent battery packs to minerals? Grid stabilization, solar arrays, wind farms, and even home energy storage systems—some of those are coming offline and already going to their second set of batteries. It’s a great sustainability story.

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Plug In America - Links and Resources

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Congresswoman Linda T. org EV1 Club Home page [link] Original GM web site (circa Gen II model) www.evchargernews.com Owner's experience driving a RA4 EV www.prossen.com/ev RAV4 EV original TV ad www.a52.com com Vigil to save last remaining 78 EV1 cars www.pluginamerica.com/saveev1.htm htm Advocates of the Th!

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

Electric cars and a smart electric grid have a bright future, according to panelists at a roundtable discussion on the subject that I attended last Friday in Boston. “I Vehicle-to-grid is, I believe, the salvation of the automotive industry in the United States,” declared Marc Spitzer, an agency commissioner who was also on the panel.

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