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DECEMBER 30, 2013

Additionally, neither mechanism would compromise the greenhouse gas reduction goals set by Assembly Bill 32. California is a clear leader in enacting greenhouse gas policies in the United States and around the world. Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis, Research Report UCD-ITS-RR-13-23.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

California’s transition to zero emission vehicles (ZEVs) will begin to save the state money by as early as 2030, according to a study by researchers at the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis). Institute of Transportation Studies/UC Davis).

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OCTOBER 16, 2015

Shale oil production generates greenhouse gas emissions at levels similar to conventional crude oil production, according to a pair of new studies released by the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory. These are shale formations with low permeability and must be hydraulically fractured to produce oil and gas.

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SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The University of California, Davis, and the China Automotive Technology and Research Center (CATARC) have entered a new agreement to work together to help speed the commercialization of plug-in and fuel cell electric cars in China. Signatories to the MOU include UC Davis Chancellor Linda P.B.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

One program, Reducing Emissions using Methanotrophic Organisms for Transportation Energy (REMOTE, earlier post ), provides $34 million to 15 projects to find advanced biocatalyst technologies that can convert natural gas to liquid fuel for transportation. process intensification approaches for biological methane conversion. 1,000,000.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The US Department of Transportation (DOT) is awarding up to $435 million in grant awards for 34 University Transportation Centers (UTC). It will concentrate research activities in three critical domains: vehicle technology to accelerate lower greenhouse gas emissions, infrastructure provision, and reshaping travel demand.

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MARCH 25, 2014

The home, located on the West Village campus of the University of California, Davis, is capable of producing more energy on-site from renewable sources than it consumes annually, including enough energy to power a Honda Fit EV for daily commuting. Honda Smart Home is expected to generate a surplus of 2.6

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AUGUST 14, 2009

The federal government’s Cash for Clunkers aims to stimulate the economy, provide relief for automobile manufacturers and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. His analysis, titled “The Implied Cost of Carbon Dioxide Under the Cash for Clunkers Program,” was published online 13 August by the University of California Energy Institute.

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JUNE 11, 2010

The California Center for Sustainable Energy (CCSE) will lead a joint research study of how the useful lifespan of electric vehicle batteries could be extended by repurposing them as household electric storage devices with a $992,000 grant from the University of California. of Monrovia, Calif.; Flux Power of Vista, Calif.;

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JUNE 14, 2012

This will divert 100 tons per day of food waste from landfills and use that to produce enough renewable natural gas to replace 566,000 gallons of diesel fuel and generate 3.17 The anaerobic digester system that will be used was developed as a pilot project at the University of California, Davis. tmdgroup, Inc.

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APRIL 23, 2014

Another is an annual clean transportation investment plan that is designed to spark innovation in projects that will help transform California’s fleet to meet greenhouse gas and clean air goals. EPIC is funded by electricity ratepayers of Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

Alternative Fuels

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MAY 5, 2017

A new report from a team at the University of California, Davis, and the New York-based nonprofit Institute for Transportation & Development Policy (ITDP) has concluded that shared mobility is a critical enabler for realizing the benefits of electrification and autonomous driving.

Davis

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NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Strong utilization on the campuses of UC Davis and California State University - Sacramento has led to consumer and business demand in the city, making it possible for Zipcar to invest in Sacramento and make it our 26 th metro market. —Zipcar President Mark Norman.

Sacramento

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AUGUST 15, 2014

And a new study just released by the University of California--Davis suggests that we are "tantalizingly close to the beginning of a hydrogen.'

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MAY 5, 2021

Yet 20 percent of California PHEV owners have gone back to gas-powered vehicles. Published in Nature Energy on April 26th by the Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California, Davis, the study found that PHEV buyers in California were abandoning the technology at a rate of […].

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APRIL 30, 2013

This project includes $150,000 in match funding from San Diego Gas & Electric. University of California, Davis was awarded $900,000 to investigate emissions and leakages within California’s natural gas infrastructure. The project includes $437,093 in match funding from Anaergia.

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The program’s 2012-2014 plan calls for investing $330 million between 2014 and 2015 in innovative technologies that provide benefits to electric ratepayers served by Pacific Gas and Electric Co., Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co.

California

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APRIL 16, 2014

High levels of the greenhouse gas methane were found above shale gas wells at a point in production (i.e., drilling) not thought to be an important emissions source, according to a study jointly led by Purdue and Cornell universities. —Caulton et al.

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JULY 12, 2011

A new modeled study by researchers at Colorado State University, the University of Illinois, and the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) finds that biofuel grasses have the potential to replace corn-based ethanol in a way that is both environmentally and economically beneficial. —Davis et al. —William Parton.

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JULY 29, 2014

In addition, in December 2013, Honda supplied an Accord Plug-In Hybrid with a bi-directional on-board charger to the University of Delaware’s Science, Technology and Advanced Research (STAR) Campus. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 18, 2019

Researchers at Stony Brook University, with colleagues from The City College of New Tyork, Alloy Surfaces and Innoveering, explored the catalytic partial oxidation (CPOX) reforming of three potential transportation-relevant fuels—gasoline, diesel, and natural gas—for use in low-temperature combustion (LTC) engines.

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MAY 15, 2021

The LT team will develop a gas fermentation process that leverages affordable, renewable hydrogen to capture and fix CO 2 directly into valuable fuels and chemicals. University of Wisconsin-Madison. Stanford University. University of Delaware.

Carbon

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MARCH 23, 2010

We certainly can reduce our greenhouse-gas production, but not by consuming less meat and milk. In developing countries, we should adopt more efficient, Western-style farming practices to make more food with less greenhouse gas production —Frank Mitloehner. Producing less meat and milk will only mean more hunger in poor countries.

Global

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DECEMBER 1, 2009

The Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) adopted by the California Air Resources Board (CARB) earlier this year ( earlier post ) requires a 10% reduction in the average greenhouse gas (GHG) emission intensity of the state’s transportation fuels by 2020.

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MARCH 23, 2010

Our experience in advanced hot gas and liquid hydro separations for both conventional and alternative energy applications, as well as our global leadership in industrial membrane separations, will enable us to help ensure a marketable outcome of the consortium’s work. Under the contract, Pall also becomes a member of the NABC.

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MAY 1, 2013

Of the credits, 78% were generated from ethanol from corn, other grains and sugarcane; 12% from natural gas and bio-based gases, such as liquid and compressed natural gas; 9% from biodiesel and renewable diesel; and 1% from electricity. UC Davis researchers helped create the framework for the LCFS, the US’ first, in 2007.

2013

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AUGUST 6, 2014

Davis (UC Davis), R.Sankaran (ORNL). reciprocating and gas- turbine internal-combustion engines) are widely recognized. Schulten, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Bernardi (University of Illinois). Dahms (SNL), Christopher Stone (Computational Science and Engineering), R. 75,000,000 (Oak Ridge).

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JANUARY 14, 2010

The selected projects consist of leading scientists and engineers from universities, private industry, and government, and will facilitate sharing expertise and technologies. Catchlight Energy, LLC; Colorado School of Mines; Iowa State University; Los Alamos National Laboratory; Pall Corporation; RTI International; Tesoro Companies Inc.;

St. Louis

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NOVEMBER 7, 2014

Honda next year will offer Californians futuristic sedans that can travel 300 miles (480 km) or more on a tank of hydrogen gas while emitting nothing more toxic than pure water vapor. Hydrogen is the most abundant element in the Universe but, on earth, it must normally be extracted from water or organic compounds.

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SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

PCC 6803—and demonstrated that the organism remained stable through at least four generations, producing ethylene gas that could be easily captured. Conversely, the process recycles carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, since the organism utilizes the gas as part of its metabolic cycle. into a cyanobacterium— Synechocystis sp.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2012

200,000 to the Ventura County Air Pollution Control District. 200,000 to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. 200,000 to the Sacramento Area Council of Governments. The will allow the council, the project’s lead entity, to create the “Capital Area Plug-in Electric Vehicle Coordinating Council (CAPEVCC).” Sullivan Automotive Group.

San Diego

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MARCH 25, 2015

The Sectran Security PHEV- Renewal Natural Gas Truck Demonstration Project. The Regents of the University of California (Irvine); NextGen American Fuel Cell Bus Project. The Leland Stanford Junior University; Stanford University 100% Battery Electric Coach Bus Demonstration Project. CALSTART, Inc.

California

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APRIL 6, 2011

For the field test, researchers will deploy aged EV batteries at the University of California (UC), San Diego’s campus-wide electric power grid. The NREL award to the CCSE team leverages an ongoing UC Davis-CCSE-TSRC study funded by the California Energy Commission on the repurposing of used EV batteries for home energy storage.

Li-ion

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AUGUST 30, 2015

A working paper by a team at the Energy Institute at Haas, University of California, Berkeley, has found that 60% of the $18 billion in US federal income clean energy tax credits issued between 2006 and 2012—e.g., Source: Borenstein and Davis. —Borenstein and Davis (2015). —Borenstein and Davis.

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Published in an open access paper in Nature Communications , the research suggests that the ability of these insects to efficiently digest cellulose could be exploited for industrial processes, such as the production of sustainable low carbon fuels to cut greenhouse gas emissions associated with fossil fuel use. Davies, Paul H.

Universal

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NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Alternatively, a feebate type approach, with subsidies given to PEVs and other low-carbon, fuel efficient vehicles and a tax on higher fuel-consuming cars (and a still higher tax on extreme “gas guzzlers”) that averages $500 per taxed car to pay for the PEV subsidies would certainly be possible. Fuel Efficiency Plug-ins Policy'

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AUGUST 17, 2012

Nanostellar was founded in California in 2004 by scientists from Stanford University and NASA Ames Research Center. Co-founder and Chief Science Officer Dr. Kyeongjae (KJ) Cho, currently professor of materials science and engineering and physics at the University of Texas, Dallas, is a senior author on the Science paper. and Pt (?).

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