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DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $19 million for 13 projects in traditionally fossil-fuel-producing communities across the country to support production of rare earth elements and critical minerals essential to the manufacturing of batteries, magnets, and other components important to the clean energy economy.

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Utah-based Energy Fuels to enter commercial rare earth business in Q1-2021

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REEs are the building-blocks of a wide array of clean energy and advanced technologies, including wind turbines, electric vehicles, cell phones, computers, flat panel displays, advanced optics, catalysts, medicine, and national defense applications. The monazite sands will be from Chemours’ Offerman Mineral Sand Plant in Georgia.

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DOE awards $17M to FY 2014 SBIR Phase II projects; includes Si/graphene anodes, motor windings, exhaust treatments

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The selected projects include 6 vehicle-related technologies and 2 hydrogen and fuel cell technologies, as well as new hydropower, heat pump, solar and manufacturing technologies. Vehicle technologies span a range from new Si/graphene Li-ion anode materials and composites for motor windings to diesel aftertreatment and advanced lubricants.

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Report: EV factories may be leading utilities to dirtier decisions

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Anticipated demand from the auto industry—as well as solar-panel manufacturing and data centers—is leading utilities to forecast single-digit percentage growth every year through the end of the decade in some regions, according to report. That’s a big change considering that demand has stayed flat—or declined—in most of the U.S.

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The Kia EV9 Starts at Around $55,000 and Goes On Sale in Late 2023

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The EV9 Wind gets two motors and up to 379 horsepower and 443 pound-feet of torque. The EV9 will go on sale later in 2023, and Kia will start manufacturing the SUV domestically in 2024 at its plant in Georgia. The base EV9 Light gets a single electric motor making 215 horsepower and 258 pound-feet of torque.

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Obama Administration Announces $8.33B in Loan Guarantees for New Nuclear Power Reactors in Georgia; First New US Nuclear Power Plant Project in Nearly 3 Decades

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billion in loan guarantees for the construction and operation of two new nuclear reactors at a plant in Burke, Georgia. Southern Nuclear, a subsidiary of Southern Company, will oversee the construction as well as operate the two new units for Georgia Power and the other owners. —President Obama.

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Qcells to supply Microsoft with a whopping 12 GW of solar panels

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billion to build a solar supply chain in Georgia – the largest-ever investment in clean energy manufacturing in the US to date, following the passage of the Inflation Reduction Act. Qcells expects to bring its total solar panel production capacity in Georgia to 8.4 GW this year.

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