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I-5 electric truck charging sites mapped out by electric utilities; West Coast Clean Transit Corridor

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The first phase would involve installing 27 charging sites along I-5 at 50-mile intervals for medium-duty electric vehicles, such as delivery vans, by 2025. Of the 27 proposed sites, 16 are in California, five are in Oregon and six are in Washington. HDR completed the study.

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The US just proposed 18 GW of new offshore wind sales

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New US offshore wind auction areas The offshore wind auction areas announced by the US Department of the Interior and the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) are off the Oregon coast and in the Gulf of Maine. Offshore wind is banned in Maine state waters to protect the commercial lobster harvesting industry. Get started here. –

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Element 1, CO-WIN road testing medium-duty fuel cell truck with onboard methanol-based hydrogen generation

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The M-Series units are methanol reformers that use water plus methanol to make hydrogen. The units uses two input streams (methanol/water mix and combustion air) and produces two output streams (product H 2 and combustion exhaust). Source: e1.

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DOE awards up to $47M each to 3 offshore wind projects

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The Energy Department selected three offshore wind demonstrations to receive up to $47 million each over the next four years to deploy innovative, grid-connected systems in federal and state waters by 2017. The projects are located off the coasts of New Jersey, Oregon, and Virginia.

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Velocys sells its second commercial license for FT renewable diesel and jet technology to Red Rock Biofuels

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Velocys plc, a developer of microchannel Fischer-Tropsch (FT) biorefineries, has received a “notice to proceed” action to commence manufacturing the FT reactors and catalyst for the Red Rock Biofuels LLC ( RRB ) biorefinery that will be located in Lakeview, Oregon. Velocys’ role will be as a licensor for its technology to the project.

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Departments of Energy and Interior award nearly $17M for advanced hydropower technologies

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By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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GE Receives $1.4B Contract to Supply Turbines for Largest Wind Farm Yet Built in the US

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billion contract from independent power producer Caithness Energy to supply wind turbines and provide services for an 845-megawatt (MW) wind farm project to be located in Oregon. A total of 338 turbines will be installed in 2011 and 2012. MW wind turbine, the world’s most widely deployed wind turbine with more than 12,000 installed.

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