Remove Corporation Remove Grant Remove Michigan Remove Waste
article thumbnail

American Process Waste-to-Cellulosic Ethanol Project Launches in Michigan

Green Car Congress

American Process Incorporated (API) recently launched a waste-to-cellulosic ethanol biorefinery project in Alpena, Michigan. API is one of Michigan’s bioenergy Centers of Energy Excellence (COEE). The $4 million in COEE funding to API helped secure a US Department of Energy (DOE) grant for $17.9

Michigan 225
article thumbnail

Michigan awards $285K to new mobility initiatives that improve roadway safety and sustainability, and customer service

Green Car Congress

Michigan will enable four new mobility services to help address challenges across the state related to sustainable transit, roadway safety, parking and staffing shortages in the service industry. To help develop an environmentally and spatially friendly urban mobility solution, Nimbus received a $15,000 MMFP testing grant.

Michigan 435
article thumbnail

USDA providing $405M in conditional loan guarantees for three biorefinery projects

Green Car Congress

The process leverages proprietary microorganisms and efficient bioreactor designs in a three-step conversion process—gasification, fermentation, separation—that can produce fuel-grade ethanol from virtually any carbon-based feedstock, including wood and wood waste, agricultural waste, energy crops, and municipal solid waste.

Waste 199
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

Transit agencies began submitting their proposals after the FTA announced rules for the Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER) grant program as part of the Recovery Act last March. Since President Obama signed ARRA into law in February, grants totaling more than $7.2 The DOT is making $48.1

Emissions 256
article thumbnail

Parker Hannifin Commercializing Series Hydraulic Hybrid System for Delivery Vehicles; Initial 20 Unit Order from Freightliner Custom Chassis

Green Car Congress

Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC), a subsidiary of Daimler Trucks North America, has made an initial 20 unit commercial commitment for a series hydraulic drive system from Parker Hannifin. The hydraulic hybrid is able to recover and reuse about 70% of the energy that otherwise would have been wasted during the braking process.

Hybrid 150
article thumbnail

Energy Research projects receive financial boost

Green Cars News

In all, the grants are spread across 17 states with 43 per cent of the cash going to small businesses, 35 per cent to educational institutions and 19 per cent to large corporations. They have received a grant of $4,462,162.

Energy 39
article thumbnail

ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

Green Car Congress

The grants will go to projects in 17 states. Of the lead recipients, 24% are small businesses, 57% are educational institutions, 11% are national labs, and 8% are large corporations. Michigan State). Sion Power Corporation. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. (UC BASF, LBNL, PNNL).

Carbon 249