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OCTOBER 9, 2014

million for seven research projects designed to advance a broad range of renewable energy technologies, including solar cells, batteries, renewable fuels and bioenergy. The new funding will be shared by six Stanford research teams and an international group from the United States and Europe. Light trapping in high?efficiency,

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AUGUST 11, 2023

Unfortunately, OHP-based photoanodes suffer from two undesired losses that limit their efficiency: An internal loss resulting from a recombination of photogenerated charge carriers (required for electricity generation) within the anode itself, which, in turn, hinders water splitting.

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AUGUST 14, 2021

Levelized cost of driving (LCOD) across powertrains for light-duty SUV, MY 2025. The report covers light-duty passenger vehicles as well as medium-/heavy-duty commercial vehicles: semi-tractors; medium-duty vans and pickups; transit buses; box, utility aerial and dump trucks; and garbage trucks.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Neste, the world’s leading producer of renewable diesel, and American Airlines, the world’s largest airline, have entered into an agreement to explore opportunities to further reduce American’s environmental footprint through the use of Neste’s renewable fuels. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 4, 2022

Early in July, Rhode Island’s governor signed legislation mandating that the state acquire 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2033. But watching this tiny state go about its policy business, analysts say, might show other states how to light their own ways into a renewable future.

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OCTOBER 19, 2022

Covering a total area of 15,000 sq meters, the plant generates its own energy with solar panels and other photovoltaic and wind power technologies, purchases additional energy from renewable sources and buys carbon credits to fully offset its CO 2 emissions. The adoption of Industry 4.0

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

Using current technologies, all evaluated biofuel, battery electric, and hydrogen fuel cell vehicle pathways offer significant C2G GHG emissions reduction compared to the current gasoline internal combustion engine vehicle. C2G emissions are a sum of WTW emissions and emissions associated with vehicle manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2016

As part of that effort, the leaders committed to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from light- and heavy-duty vehicles by aligning fuel efficiency and/or GHG emission standards out to 2025 and 2027, respectively. Collaborating on cross-border transmission projects, including for renewable energy. 50% clean power target.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Low-carbon eFuel is a drop-in synthetic fuel made by reacting CO 2 , captured either directly from the atmosphere or from an industrial facility, with renewable hydrogen. In Saudi Arabia, Aramco and ENOWA (Neom Energy and Water Company) are working to demonstrate the production of synthetic gasoline for light-duty passenger vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Ensyn ( earlier post ) has been granted a key regulatory approval from the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for its renewable gasoline product, RFGasoline. This approval follows the recently announced Part 79 approval of Ensyn’s renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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AUGUST 22, 2017

However, although the state has made considerable progress decoupling economic growth from greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the rate of emissions decline appears to be slowing, due in part to a spike in transportation emissions attributed to an increase from light-duty vehicles. In 2015, California increased renewable electricity to 21.9%

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JANUARY 27, 2021

Chan School of Public Health, and consulted by dozens of experts in academia, updates ethanol’s carbon intensity score to reflect how continuous improvements in technology and practices have driven further emissions reductions in the lifecycle of ethanol and will lead to net zero renewable fuel in the future.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

Results of a study led by a team from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory on the impact of butanol-gasoline blends on light-duty vehicle emissions suggest that widespread deployment of n-butanol or i-butanol in the gasoline pool could result in changes to the estimated emissions of alcohols and carbonyls in the emissions inventory.

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OCTOBER 21, 2020

As part of a strategic collaboration, Covestro received a first delivery of 1,000 tons of renewable phenol from Borealis , produced with renewable hydrocarbons from Neste. Neste produces these ISCC Plus certified hydrocarbons (ISCC: International Sustainability and Carbon Certification) entirely from renewable raw materials.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2015

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently granted Ensyn Corporation ( earlier post ) Part 79 registration for its renewable diesel product, RFDiesel. Product vapors are rapidly quenched, or cooled, and recovered as a light liquid product. The RTP process is actually an analog to FCC.

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AUGUST 20, 2016

A team from the University of Vaasa (Finland) and UPM-Kymmene Corporation has examined how the blends of fossil and renewable diesel produced from crude tall oil (CTO) affect the performance and exhaust emissions of the modern common-rail off-road diesel engine. UPM BioVerno renewable diesel is produced from wood-based tall oil.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

One pathway produces methanol from biomass gasification, which is blended with a petroleum gasoline blendstock and designed to improve engine efficiency for light-duty multi-mode (MM) engines. Co-Optima). Further, a new co-processing module is intended to examine the impact of co-processing of bio-feedstocks in petroleum refineries.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Oberon Fuels, the first company to produce renewable DME (rDME) in the US, is a supporting partner. WM International Engineering L.L.C. in Darrien, Illinois, for a project entitled “High Pressure Fast Response Direct Injection System for Liquified Gas Fuels Use in Light-Duty Engines”. WM International Engineering L.L.C.

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MAY 15, 2014

They developed the LDV CO 2 glide paths using a modified version of the Sustainable Mobility Project (SMP) model developed by the International Energy Agency (IEA) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD). The SMP model calculates 2000?2050 The near- and mid-term glide paths over the next 5?15

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MAY 4, 2021

The production location in Lower Bavaria will manufacture the stack housing made of light metal, which holds the fuel cells, and the media end plate made of plastic and light metal castings, which creates an air and watertight seal around the stack housing. This is a constructive way of responding to the climate debate.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

An open-access paper on the study is published in Angewandte Chemie International Edition. A third route could involve first storing the energy from the sun in light-sensitive materials and then releasing it as needed. This corresponds to a closed cycle of energy capture, storage and release.

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JULY 23, 2021

Tenneco is putting its 100-plus years of powertrain expertise in improving vehicle fuel efficiency and reducing emissions to work to explore synthetic fuels (e-fuels) as a viable near-term solution to further maximize the efficiency and minimize the carbon footprint of internal combustion engines (ICE).

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NOVEMBER 22, 2017

The two companies, renewing their strategic commitment to a low-carbon future and in line with Italy’s National Energy Strategy, will combine their respective expertise, experiences and know-how to reduce the sector’s level of CO 2 emissions.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

For FY 2014, the Hydrogen Production sub-program continued to focus on developing technologies to enable the long-term viability of hydrogen as an energy carrier for a range of applications with a focus on hydrogen from low-carbon and renewable sources. There are multiple DOE offices are engaged in R&D relevant to hydrogen production.

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MAY 5, 2011

Through the new International Institute for Carbon-Neutral Energy Research (I 2 CNER) and the Research, Engineering, and Applications Center for Hydrogen (REACH), Sandia hopes to expand its hydrogen research activities and engage the global hydrogen research community even more ambitiously than it has in the past.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Fulcrum licensed its gasification system from ThermoChem Recovery International. These loans would provide financing to produce renewable fuels from woody biomass, municipal solid waste and energy grasses such as switch grass, miscanthus and arundo donax. INEOS New Plant Bioenergy, located in Vero Beach, Fla.,

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APRIL 23, 2021

With renewable power technologies well developed, delivering cleaner power to buildings and manufacturing, and driving the electrification of road transport present the clearest initial path for decarbonization. Speeding up this shift will be vital to meeting climate targets.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Blue World Technologies and Karma Automotive will collaborate to explore the viability of a methanol fuel cell system ( earlier post ) to provide primary propulsion power for a variety of future passenger and light commercial vehicles. Testing and validation will take place in the United States and Denmark over the next few months.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Researchers at the Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division (NAWCWD) at China Lake have developed a process for the synthesis of high energy density renewable fuels through the selective dimerization of α-pinene, camphene, limonene and crude turpentine using the heterogeneous catalysts Nafion, Nafion SAC-13, and Montmorillonite K-10.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2017

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Department of Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao announced that EPA intends to reconsider its final determination issued on 12 January 2017 which recommended no change to the greenhouse gas standards for light duty vehicles for model years 2022- 2025. Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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JULY 5, 2014

The use of 3D printing allows construction of light-weight, low-cost electrolyzers and the rapid prototyping of flow field design. This development opens the door to the fabrication of light-weight and inexpensive electrolyzers as well as related electrochemical devices such as flow batteries and fuel cells, they suggested.

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JULY 12, 2023

The Yarwun Hydrogen Calcination Pilot Demonstration Program received the green light after a A$32.1-million million) co-funding boost from the federal government’s Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA). Rio Tinto and Sumitomo Corporation will build a first-of-a-kind hydrogen plant in Gladstone, Australia as part of a A$111.1-million

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DECEMBER 1, 2021

The IRMA certification builds on this requirement as it encourages comprehensive, third-party assessments of mining practices while advancing a range of issues including health and safety, waste management, and compliance with local and international laws.

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JUNE 23, 2022

E-fuels offer a way to expand the carbon-neutral transport fuel pool beyond biomass-based renewable fuels to replace fossil fuels in existing internal combustion engines. The end product is a transportation fuel suited for aircraft, ships as well as heavy and light road vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) waived a limitation on selling gasoline that contains more than 10% ethanol for model year (MY) 2001 through 2006 passenger vehicles, including cars, SUVs, and light pickup trucks. On 13 October 2010, EPA had approved a waiver allowing the use of E15 for MY 2007 and newer cars and light trucks.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Tenneco has established new test facilities for hydrogen-powered internal combustion engines at its Powertrain test centers in Burscheid, Germany, and Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Utilization of renewable solar energy is crucial for addressing the global energy and environmental concerns and achieving sustainable development. The sources of error and standard reporting protocols for hydrogen evolution rate, light source calibration, and solar-to-hydrogen (STH) efficiency have been revisited and recommended.

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