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Utah EV charging costs rise in July, to subsidize lower gas prices

Green Car Reports

Utah EV drivers will soon pay more to charge their vehicles, all to subsidize lower gas prices. In July, gas prices in Utah are set to drop thanks to lower gas taxes, which are set to decrease from 16.5% to 14.2%, but EV drivers will be paying a 12.5% tax to use commercial charging stations.

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Intermountain Power Agency orders MHPS JAC Gas Turbine technology for renewable-hydrogen energy hub, operated by LA DWP

Green Car Congress

The Intermountain Power Agency (IPA) has awarded Mitsubishi Hitachi Power Systems (MHPS) a contract for two M501JAC power trains for the Intermountain Power Plant (IPP) in Delta, Utah. This transition will start in 2025, when the turbines will be commercially guaranteed capable of using a mix of 30% hydrogen and 70% natural gas fuel.

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California bidirectional charging, Utah charging tax, tailpipes on Earth Day: Today’s Car News

Green Car Reports

Utah takes from the EV drivers and gives to the gas guzzlers. California might require bidirectional charging. And when will new vehicles with tailpipes become tone-deaf? This and more, here at Green Car Reports. A cumulative 1.5 million plug-in vehicles have been sold in California, the state reported last week.

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Read Your Way Through Utah

Baua Electric

What is the state of reading in Utah? For the high desert emblematic of Utah’s national parks, consult “ The Geology of the Parks, Monuments and Wildlands of Southern Utah, ” by Robert Fillmore. Indigenous voices are strong and varied in Utah. It begins by reading the land. Ute historian Forrest S.

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4 companies jointly propose $8B green energy initiative for LA area; Wyoming wind, Utah storage, transmission

Green Car Congress

The project would require construction of one of America’s largest wind farms in Wyoming, one of the world’s biggest energy storage facilities (compressed air energy storage, CAES) in Utah, and a 525-mile electric transmission line connecting the two sites. billion CAES system at a site near Delta, Utah, 130 miles southwest of Salt Lake City.

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Obama Administration approves Anadarko major natural gas project for Uinta Basin in Utah; 3,675 new wells over next 10 years

Green Car Congress

Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved a major natural gas project in Utah’s Uinta Basin. By signing the Record of Decision ( ROD ) for the Greater Natural Buttes Project, proposed by Anadarko Petroleum Corporation, Secretary Salazar approved up to 3,675 new gas wells in an existing gas producing area in Uintah County, Utah.

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DOE closes on $504M loan guarantee for world’s largest clean hydrogen and energy storage project

Green Car Congress

million loan guarantee to the Advanced Clean Energy Storage project in Delta, Utah (ACES Delta)—marking the first loan guarantee for a new clean energy technology project from DOE’s Loan Programs Office (LPO) since 2014. The US Department of Energy (DOE) closed on a $504.4-million