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AMPLY Power: Top 25 US cities could save avg. 37% on fuel costs by switching to electric vehicles and buses; up to 60% with managed charging

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A white paper by AMPLY Power, a company providing fleet charging as a service, finds that 25 of America’s largest metropolitan areas could save an average of 37% on fuel costs by electrifying their bus and light-duty vehicle fleets. AMPLY developed an interactive map to compare gas and electric fleet fueling costs.

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Study suggests widespread use of EVs may negatively impact land use

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1 km 2 (depending on adoption rate and the fuel price to electricity price ratio) and an equally-large North-American city to increase by about 1?4 Lyon, France; Tampa, FL, USA), a mere 0.5 % increase of these would imply the loss of 1.5 For example, in a city with 300 km 2 of impervious surfaces (e.g.

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A Florida utility ditches coal, doubles its solar, and leaves out a big part of its story

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Florida utility Tampa Electric Co. That’s good news, but in an interview published last week, its CEO doesn’t mention the fact that the vast majority of its power comes from natural gas or whether it plans to transition away from the methane-producing fossil fuel.

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GE Technology Selected for Hydrogen Energy IGCC Project in California

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IGCC plants gasify solid fuels into syngas, which then is used by a gas turbine combined-cycle system to generate electricity, providing a cleaner, economical coal-to-power option. Chemical scrubbers would filter out pollutants and would separate CO 2 , leaving a hydrogen-rich fuel to power the gas turbine combined-cycle system.

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TomTom launches Congestion Index based on traffic database; congestion levels in 57 cities in North America and Europe

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Tampa, 25%. The top ten most congested cities in North America, ranked by overall congestion level, between January and March 2012 were: Los Angeles, 33%. Vancouver, 30%. Miami, 26%. Seattle, 25%. San Francisco, 25%. Washington, 24%. Houston, 23%. Toronto, 22%. Ottawa, 22%.

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GE and CPECC Sign Agreements with USTDA to Advance Commercial Scale IGCC in China

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Gasification technology has become a critical tool in the expansion of the Chinese economy, allowing a wide variety of industrial products and fuels to be created from low-cost, abundant coal resources. and the Polk Tampa Electric IGCC plant in Florida that helped demonstrate the commercial feasibility of IGCC.

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DOE NETL selects 12 fossil-fuel power systems projects for funding

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Success will lead to increased operational reliability of the chemical looping technology with impacts for CO2 capture from solid and gaseous fuel conversion. DOE: $750,000 Non-DOE: $705,000 Total: $1,455,000 (49% cost share). Process Systems Enterprise Limited. DOE: $749,322 Non DOE: $255,131 Total: $1,004,453 (25% cost share).

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