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APRIL 26, 2017

Toyota Motor Corporation has begun trial operations of the pressurized combined power generation system which has been installed at Motomachi Plant in Toyota City, Aichi Prefecture. The hybrid power generation system combines the use of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) and micro gas turbines.

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DECEMBER 13, 2013

The California Energy Commission (CEC) is awarding $1,135,862 to 12 small-scale projects to research that will reduce the cost of producing electricity, save energy and improve the environment. will receive $95,000 to research a gas stove burner that is 30% more efficient than conventional gas stove burners.

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MARCH 25, 2021

The locomotive will show the potential of hydrogen fuel-cell technology to reduce transportation air pollutant and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. The demonstration will facilitate the improvement of local air quality, a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, noise and odor.

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OCTOBER 23, 2012

Siemens is researching technologies that would allow waste heat from vehicles and industrial facilities to be used efficiently. To date, exhaust gas has generally only been used if it was hundreds of degrees Celsius hot. However, the lower the grade (lower heat), the more difficult it is to use.

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AUGUST 16, 2020

Chevron Corporation made a Series A investment in Zap Energy Inc. , Conventional nuclear power uses nuclear fission which involves the splitting of a large unstable nucleus into smaller elements and generates long-lived radioactive waste. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma.

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JUNE 16, 2010

Alberta, Canada’s Climate Change and Emissions Management (CCMEC) Corporation is awarding more than C$37.5 million) to five Alberta-based renewable energy projects including waste to biofuels and energy, concentrating solar power, biogas and home generation. million (US$36.6 City of Medicine Hat , C$3 million (US$2.9

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JULY 17, 2020

Enovix Corporation. Structurally and Electrochemically Stabilized Silicon-rich Anodes for Electric Vehicle (EV) Applications. Solid Power Inc. AOI 02: Low Cost Electric Traction Drive Systems Using No Heavy Rare Earth Materials. Low Cost, High-Performance, Heavy Rare Earth-Free 3-In-1 Electric Drive Unit.

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JULY 29, 2019

Mainstream Engineering Corporation is developing a hydrothermal liquefaction (HTL) process to convert food wastes to renewable diesel and jet fuels that will improve yield and quality, and reduce aqueous byproducts to advance commercial adoption. is developing Lithium metal batteries with improved cycle life for electric vehicles.

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AUGUST 26, 2010

(MHI) has developed a generator-integrated hybrid turbocharger for marine propulsion diesel engines which utilizes engine exhaust gas not only to drive the turbocharger but also to generate electricity. The MET83MAG is capable of supplying all electric power necessary during normal sea going. Click to enlarge.

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MARCH 6, 2012

Four new corporate partners—Best Buy, Johnson Controls, Pacific Gas and Electric, and Veolia—are joining the US Department of Energy’s (DOE) National Clean Fleets Partnership, a broad public-private partnership that assists the nation’s largest fleet operators in reducing the amount of gasoline and diesel they use nationwide.

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FEBRUARY 28, 2019

has set goals to offer Zero-Carbon Redeem renewable natural gas (RNG) at all of its fueling stations by 2025. By transitioning exclusively to Redeem by 2025 and by achieving zero carbon-intensity, Clean Energy would outdistance other alternative fuels, including electricity for EVs, which are not excepted to hit that mark until 2045.

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JUNE 2, 2013

A combined team of engineers and technicians from Ad Astra Rocket Company and Cummins Power Generation have successfully powered a Cummins-built electrical generator using mixtures of hydrogen and biogas. The electrical generator designed and manufactured by Cummins is part of an experimental 7.5

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JANUARY 26, 2015

Hydrogenics Corporation will supply a 1MW electrolyzer and provide engineering expertise to a consortium of companies working on the European project MefCO2 (methanol fuel from CO 2 ) in Germany. CO 2 will be captured from the flue gases in a special downstream flue gas scrubber (Post-Combustion Capture, PCC). tonnes of CO 2.

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JANUARY 3, 2013

Waste-to-Energy company Covanta Energy Corporation and Clean Energy Fuels Corp., North America’s largest provider of natural gas for transportation, will co-develop compressed natural gas (CNG) stations at select Covanta facilities throughout the US.

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APRIL 26, 2018

In Japan, Aichi Prefecture, Chita City, Toyota City, Chubu Electric Power, Toho Gas, Toyota Motor Corporation, and Toyota Industries have launched the Chita City and Toyota City Renewable Energy-use Low-carbon Hydrogen Project. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society. The project.

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JANUARY 17, 2020

Daimler Trucks is taking the next step in its electrification of trucks with the battery-electric low-floor heavy-duty truck Mercedes-Benz eEconic. The eEconic is based on the eActros electric truck for heavy distribution, which will already go into series production in 2021.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2018

AK Steel Corporation. AK Steel Corporation’s Research & Innovation Center will conduct alloy design, lab validation, manufacture, and testing of novel low density steels that possess mechanical properties exhibited by currently available advanced high strength steels. Boston Electrometallurgical Corporation. Organization.

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OCTOBER 21, 2013

Eligible entities include Indian tribes, State or local governments, corporations, farmer co-ops, agricultural producer associations, higher education institutions, rural electric co-ops, public power entities or consortiums of any of the above.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Ford was one of the first full-line US automakers to pledge to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from its vehicles, operations and supply chain in alignment with goals of the accord. A significant portion of related financing will go toward accelerating Ford’s leadership in electric vehicles. Vigeo Eiris, an arm of Moody’s Corp.,

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MARCH 6, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced 16 major US employers and two stakeholder groups have joined the Workplace Charging Challenge ( earlier post ), while another 3 US corporations have joined the National Clean Fleets Partnership. National Clean Fleets Partnership.

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APRIL 25, 2016

NEC Corporation, NEC TOKIN Corporation and TOHOKU UNIVERSITY have jointly created a thermoelectric (TE) device using the spin Seebeck effect (SSE) with conversion efficiency 10 times higher than a test module that was produced based on a multi-layered SSE technology published by the Tohoku University group in 2015.

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JUNE 2, 2013

Concurrent Technologies Corporation (CTC) has been awarded a $15-million increase on an Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) contract. The Indefinite Delivery Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract was awarded in June 2009 and had an original ceiling value of $98 million.

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MARCH 7, 2017

Audi has introduced the natural-gas-fueled A4 Avant g-tron; dealers in Europe will begin taking orders for the midsize model starting in early summer 2017. Additionally, Audi is now offering e-gas to power the A3 Sportback g-tron as standard; customers will pay only the regular natural gas price. lb per 62.1

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MAY 11, 2009

a Fischer-Tropsch process company, plans to build a plant in Rialto, California for the production of synthetic fuels and electric power from renewable waste biomass feedstocks. The carbon footprint of the plant is designed to be near zero as the fuels and power would be produced only from renewable feedstocks.

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It makes use of two stacks tailored from Hyundai’s Nexo gas mobile crossover with changes to suit business car utilization. The machine converts hydrogen to electrical energy to run the powertrain. The family has about 60 hydrogen fueling stations, all in California, consistent with the Area of Power.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Capstone Turbine Corporation released the CR200 Low Btu microturbine product; landfill gas applications are a key market for the Capstone CR200 200 kW. Capstone microturbines are capable of burning waste gases with methane contents as low as 30%, which can be challenging for competing combustion technologies.

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JANUARY 28, 2014

Five technology paths for very-low-NO x and GHG emissions from heavy-duty natural gas engines. The “Pathways to Near-Zero-Emission Natural Gas Heavy Duty Vehicles” report, authored by GNA on behalf of Southern California Gas Co. Click to enlarge. Click to enlarge. Background. grams per brake horsepower-hour (g/bhp-hr).

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Under this cost-shared research and development (R&D), DOE is awarding $51 million to nine new projects for coal and natural gas power and industrial sources. This work will focus on designing a carbon capture system capable of capturing 50 to 70 percent of CO 2 emissions from blast furnace gas. LH CO 2 MENT Colorado Project.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2014

The use of electricity to generate hydrogen is considered potentially to be a key technology for the storage of surplus energy from renewable sources (e.g., Audi’s e-gas, earlier post ); it could also play an important role in the transition of the energy system and the stabilization of grids. an e-gas system).

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

Toyota Motor Corporation (TMC) and Aisin Seiki Co., Aisin) plan to provide 60 2010-model residential, solid-oxide fuel-cell (SOFC) cogeneration systems jointly developed by Osaka Gas Co., Five companies are participating in the project: Hokkaido Gas Co. Tokyo Gas Co., Toho Gas, Ltd., Osaka Gas Co.,

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MARCH 13, 2017

(DGD is a joint venture between Diamond Alternative Energy LLC, a subsidiary of Valero Energy Corporation and Darling Ingredients to process recycled animal fat, used cooking oil, and other feedstocks into renewable diesel fuel.). All of these co-product streams go to the adjacent Valero refinery. Proposed Pathway Carbon Intensity (CI).

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SEPTEMBER 17, 2015

These projects, funded through the Next Generation Electric Machines funding opportunity, could cut energy waste by as much as 30%. WBG components—which control or convert electrical energy into usable power—operate at higher temperatures, voltages, and frequencies than silicon-based technologies.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Novozymes has joined Nidus Partners LP as a corporate partner and will collaborate with Nidus and its other partners Bunge Limited and Monsanto Company to select and to develop early-stage energy technologies.

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APRIL 14, 2011

has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee from the US Department of Energy (DOE) under the Section 1705 Title XVII Loan Guarantee Program, for an advanced-stage renewable power project in Port St. Joe, Florida, that would employ a Rentech-SilvaGas biomass gasifier to produce renewable power. Rentech, Inc. The Port St.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

These projects are to demonstrate the technical and economic feasibility of non-conventional geothermal energy technologies in three research areas: low temperature fluids, geothermal fluids recovered from oil and gas wells, and highly pressurized geothermal fluids. Historically, this coproduced hot water has been treated as a waste product.

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JULY 22, 2010

DOE anticipates that large volumes of CO 2 will be available as fossil fuel-based power plants and other CO 2 -emitting industries are equipped with CO 2 emissions control technologies to comply with regulatory requirements. The project team plans to process CO 2 -laden flue gas from a Capital Aggregates, Ltd. DOE Share: $24,243,509).

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FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Navistar International Corporation has reached a development agreement with EcoMotors International in support of the company’s opoc (Opposed-Piston, Opposed-Cylinder) engine architecture. The opoc engine has very high power density of nearly one horsepower per pound. Cutaway diagram of the opoc engine. Click to enlarge.

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