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CEC funds $11M project to fast-track commercialization of clean energy technologies: CalTestBed

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CalTestBed is a collaboration between the CEC, the University of California Office of the President, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Momentum, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and New Energy Nexus. The initiative will provide $8.8 million in vouchers ranging from $10,000 to $300,000.

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Study: consumer products overtake transportation as largest source of VOCs air pollution in cities

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Contributors to ambient air pollution in Los Angeles. (A Christopher Cappa, professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Davis, said that there has been a persistent gap between levels of fine particles measured in urban air and predictions from models. The new work has the potential to close this gap, he said.

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California Energy Commission approves plans to invest nearly $500M in electricity R&D and alternative fuels

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million grant to the University of California, Davis, to establish a National Center for Sustainable Transportation. 300,000-grant to the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power to install a compressed natural gas fueling station. 299,910-grant to Santa Barbara County to develop an Alternative Fuels Readiness Plan.

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Evatran completes 1500+ hours of wireless charging trials with fleets

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The last of the Apollo Program Plugless units will be installed next month at UC Davis and the City of Sacramento. Participants in the Program were asked to provide feedback on the system, including logging daily usage routines and providing qualitative feedback on the user interfaces and functionality of the system.

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California Energy Commission awards UCLA $1.9M for research on sustainable communities; reduction in use of automobiles and VMT

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The California Energy Commission has awarded the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) $1.9 UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability will serve as the lead for the center, which will be a multi-campus effort that includes UC Berkeley and UC Davis.

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Study first to quantify amount of US pollution resulting from Chinese manufacturing for exports

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—Steve Davis, UC Irvine Earth system scientist and co-author. Los Angeles experiences at least one extra day a year of smog that exceeds federal ozone limits because of nitrogen oxides and carbon monoxide emitted by Chinese factories making goods for export, the analysis found. Click to enlarge.

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California makes first investments in $100M energy research & development program; also biogas and H2

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Two of the awardees, Halotechnics and the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), also received funds from the Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E). University of California, Davis: $1 million to improve the accuracy of short-term forecasting of wind power production in the Tehachapi Wind Resources Area.