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Vermont Passes Feed-In Tariff Measure

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Vermont legislators have passed House Bill 446 , also known as the Vermont Energy Act of 2009, which implements a feed-in tariff—an approach allowing owners of small renewable energy facilities to sign long-term contracts for the sale of power produced by their facilities to the larger grid. megawatts in capacity.

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8-state alliance releases action plan to put 3.3M ZEVs on their roads by 2025

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The partner states are California, Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Oregon, Rhode Island and Vermont. It also includes working with automakers and dealers to identify, evaluate, and implement creative financing approaches and other effective strategies to reduce vehicle purchase price and increase ZEV sales.

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Abandoned History: Oldsmobile's Guidestar Navigation System and Other Cartography (Part VI)

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Half a decade later Smith was gone, and the remaining brass began to unwind the costly EDS and Hughes deals and return GM to its standard operating procedure. But behind the layers of finance and paperwork, Guidestar GPS was developed. And the first time the public got to see it was in 1994 in a very exciting debut.

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The State of Medium- and Heavy-Duty Vehicle Electrification

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Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Washington, and Vermont are adopting the same rules. To succeed, public charging networks will require standardization to ensure interoperability. Environmental Protection Agency, California now requires half of all heavy-duty trucks sold by 2035 to be electric.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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availability of transportation fuels across Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts and Rhode Island. the use of alternative fuels; and coordinating standards for fuel quality. The Unlocking Private Sector Financing for Alternative Fuel Vehicles and. Alternative Fuels Markets in New England will work to diversify the.

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EV Tax Credit: The Guide Your Car Dealer Doesn’t Want You To Read

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EV Climate Loan: Getting the Most Out of Your EV Incentives Traditional auto lenders don’t believe EVs should be financed differently than gas-powered cars, but we do. Finance your EV for less. How to determine if you can use the EV tax credit? How our EV Climate Loan works: Pre-qualify in minutes.

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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It covers ten Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic states (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, and Vermont). Auction revenues may be used for the public good by allocating the allowance value to: households as dividends; financing investments and other public expenditures; and.

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