Remove Corporation Remove Cost Of Remove Georgia Remove Solar
article thumbnail

Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

Green Car Congress

billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. Total cost of the new units is currently projected to be approximately $14 billion. President Obama announced that the Department of Energy has offered conditional commitments for a total of $8.33

Georgia 231
article thumbnail

Profiteering Hampers U.S. Grid Expansion

Cars That Think

About 40 corporations, valued at a trillion dollars, own the vast majority of transmission lines in the United States. For instance, four proposed high-voltage lines totaling 600 kilometers along the seam of regional networks in the upper Midwest could connect at least 28 gigawatts of wind and solar.

Grid 135
article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

The winning project proposals (by award amount) are: Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority, Georgia: $10,800,000. Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Of that, $26.5

Emissions 256
article thumbnail

DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

Green Car Congress

Topic Area 1: Pre-Pilot Scale-Up of Integrated Biorefineries Algenesis Corporation, “Pre-Pilot Scale Production of Algae-based Jet Fuel and Polyurethane Monomers”, $4,987,974. The pilot will consist of a low cost, easy to operate, air blown gasifier coupled with LanzaTech’s second generation bioreactor (2GBR). MicroBio Engineering Inc.,

article thumbnail

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

Green Car Congress

The funding is for the incremental cost of a battery electric bus over a CNG bus and leverages federal, state, local utilities and local match to purchase the battery electric buses for service expansion. Delaware Transit Corporation. Georgia Department of Transportation. Broward County. Bloomington-Normal Public Transit System.

Purchase 191
article thumbnail

DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

Green Car Congress

The project will attempt to achieve DOE’s transformational carbon capture performance goal of CO 2 capture with 95 percent CO 2 purity at a cost of $30 per tonne. Georgia Tech Research Corporation plans to develop and test MIL-101(Cr)-based sorbents in the form of powders, in composite polymer/MOF fibers and on the surface of monoliths.

Carbon 236
article thumbnail

Georgia Tech study suggests unlinking EVs from CAFE and coordinating with power sector for low-cost benefits

Green Car Congress

However, managed EV adoption can reduce the cost of achieving GHG reductions through a RES, they concluded in their paper published in the ACS journal Environmental Science & Technology. They considered biomass, wind, solar, and municipal waste resources within the Eastern Interconnection eligible to meet RESs. Credit: ACS, Choi et al.

Low Cost 236