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Harvey Gulf orders Wärtsilä 746 kWh battery systems for another four LNG-powered supply vessels

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Louisiana-based Harvey Gulf placed this latest order with Wärtsilä in October. When stationary in the field or in port, the boats will be able to operate on battery power only, thereby greatly reducing both fuel consumption and exhaust emissions. A fifth vessel in this class was earlier fitted with a Wärtsilä ESS. © Harvey Gulf.

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DOE Awarding More Than $3.3M to 7 Universities To Conduct Advanced Turbine Technology Studies for Advanced Coal-Based Power Generation

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The universities—located in Georgia, Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, California, and New York—will investigate the technology needed for the efficient operation of turbines using coal-derived synthesis gas (syngas) and high hydrogen content (HHC) fuels. Louisiana State University and A&M College , Baton Rouge, La.

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EPA awards $8M in FY2014 clean diesel grants in 21 states, Puerto Rico

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San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution Control District is replacing 48 trucks model year 1991-2003 with trucks powered by 2013 or newer model year engines. is repowering two Tier 1 marine propulsion engines with new Tier 3 engines and replacing two generator sets powered with Tier 0 engines with new Tier 3 generator sets.

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DOE to Award $106M to Six CO2 Conversion Projects; $156M in Matching Private Funding

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DOE anticipates that large volumes of CO 2 will be available as fossil fuel-based power plants and other CO 2 -emitting industries are equipped with CO 2 emissions control technologies to comply with regulatory requirements. The six projects were initially selected for a first-phase funding in October 2009 as part of a $1.4 Alcoa, Inc.

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DOE Makes First Awards from $1.4B for Industrial Carbon Capture and Storage Projects

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for this reason, the capture and storage of CO 2 emissions from fossil fuel power plants must be aggressively pursued.The scale of CCS needed to make a significant dent in worldwide carbon emissions is staggering. Wolverine Power Supply Cooperative Inc. At geological storage densities of CO 2 (0.6 DOE Share: $3,000,000).

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Perspective: US Needs to Transition to Hydrous Ethanol as the Primary Renewable Transportation Fuel

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Brazil introduced its current generation of ethanol-powered cars in 2003, the same year in which anhydrous ethanol consumption peaked. a first-of-its-kind waiver for the purpose of testing hydrous E10, E20, E30 & E85 ethanol blends in non-flex-fuel vehicles and flex-fuel vehicles in the State of Louisiana. Earlier GCC post.]

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Perspective: The Role of Offsets in Climate Change Legislation

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For example, a covered source (an entity in the power generation, chemicals, steel, and cement industries) can make reductions beyond its compliance obligations and then sell these reductions as credits to other covered sources. coal-fired power plants) would either be required by the emissions cap. 1) Additionality.