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DOE to award up to $1.2M to project converting wastewater solids to biogas and liquid fuels; hydrothermal processing

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SoCalGas is part of a consortium conducting the pilot, which will be required to share the cost at a minimum of 50% in order to receive federal funds. DOE funding is expected to pay for about half of the design and planning of a pilot plant to produce these renewable fuels at a municipal wastewater treatment facility near Oakland, California.

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Ford Focus Electric in California qualifies for $10K in tax credits, HOV access

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Traffic congestion continues to worsen in California where, according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s annual Urban Mobility Report, Los Angeles and the San Francisco-Oakland metropolitan area rank No. In Los Angeles alone, this congestion contributed to a total of 38 million gallons of wasted fuel over the course of a year.

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California Energy Commission awards more than $2.5M for clean transportation projects

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will receive $1,211,370 to design and install a new system to pre-process solid food waste for use in two existing anaerobic digesters at a solid waste facility in Chino. The digesters will use the waste to produce biomethane to be converted into renewable compressed natural gas fuel. Big Valley Ford, Inc.,

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California Energy Commission awards $9.6M to 8 projects on electric vehicles, natural gas and biofuels

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If the testing is successful, the team will consider building smaller-scale ethanol plants distributed across the Valley to be close to the sorghum fields to lower transportation costs. The project lowers the price of biodiesel by reducing the cost of distribution in the southern part of the San Francisco Bay area.

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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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Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. AC Transit, California (Hayward, headquarters in Oakland): $6,400,000. Capital District Transportation Authority, New York: $3,520,000.

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Why Warren Buffett is investing in electric car company BYD - Apr. 13, 2009

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BYD has also begun selling a plug-in electric car with a backup gasoline engine, a move putting it ahead of GM, Nissan, and Toyota. In place of the robotic arms used on Japanese assembly lines, which cost $100,000 or more apiece, BYD actually cut costs by hiring hundreds, then thousands, of people. executive who has studied BYD.

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