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DOE announces $139M in funding for 55 projects to advance innovative vehicle technologies

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Enovix Corporation. Exelon Corporation. Regents of University of Minnesota. Westinghouse Air Brake Technologies Corporation (Wabtec Corporation). Municipality of Anchorage Department of Solid Waste Services. Pilot Heavy-Duty Electric Vehicle Deployment for Municipal Solid Waste Collection.

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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

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Greater Lafayette Public Transportation Corporation, Indiana: $2,180,000. The project will allow these 3rd rail heaters to be remotely monitored and turned on and off from a central control location depending on weather conditions, thus minimizing electricity use and eliminating wasted energy. Ames Transit Agency, Iowa: $1,600,000.

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CMU county-level study shows plug-ins have larger or smaller lifecycle GHG than gasoline ICE depending on regional factors

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All vehicles have higher emissions in Minnesota, a colder state, compared to California. Both batteries and engines are less efficient when cold, but gasoline vehicles are able to use waste heat from the engine to heat the cabin, while BEVs and EREV PHEVs need to draw energy from the battery to heat the cabin.

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First application of GE ORegen organic rankine cycle waste heat recovery system at Alliance Pipeline Compressor Station in Alberta

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ORegen is the largest organic rankine cycle single unit available in the market for gas turbines waste heat recovery. The ORegen technology qualified for partial government funding through the Alberta Climate Change and Emissions Management Corporation. The Alliance Pipeline transports approximately 1.6

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

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Northrup Grumman Corporation (Elkton, Maryland). Microsoft Corporation (Redmond, Washington). Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Eaton Corporation (Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin). Robust Carbonic Anhydrases for Novel Biological, Sustainable and Low Energy CO2 Scrubbing Process from Waste Gases, $250,000.

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Environmental Charter High School Gets Solar; Greenius Goes EcoMedia

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The on-stage banner heralding the ribbon cutting event @ ECHS. Courtesy of CBS EcoMedia). And in the next three months he’ll be in Cambridge, Massachusetts; back in Minneapolis; the Port of Los Angeles; Long Beach, California; Long Island, New York and Denver Colorado for the latest batch of environmental projects EcoAds have helped to fund.

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