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Toyota Georgetown to generate electricity from landfill gas; 1MW/h initially, scaling up to 10 MW/h

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manufacturing plant will begin generating electricity—1 megawatt per hour—from methane, a byproduct of trash decomposition at the nearby Central Kentucky Landfill on 23 November, 2015. Alternative energy sources such as wind, solar, and locally produced renewable energy also will be required to achieve the goal.

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Ford to build new EV and battery plants in Tennessee & Kentucky; $11.4B total investment in two mega-sites; 129 GWh/year total

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Ford Motor Company will build two new massive, environmentally and technologically advanced campuses in Tennessee and Kentucky that will produce the next generation of electric F-Series trucks and the batteries to power future electric Ford and Lincoln vehicles. An all-new $5.6-billion billion mega-campus in Stanton, Tenn. (a

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NSF announces $55M toward national research priorities; intersection of food, energy and water systems

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Sensing and Educating the Nexus to Sustain Ecosystems (SENSE) This project expands and enhances the capabilities of Kentucky and West Virginia to study surface water, providing a foundation for understanding how agriculture and hydropower production affect water quality. Murray State University. David White. Jackson State University.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

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Kentucky Clean Fuels Coalition’s Hybrid Electric School Buses Provide New Horsepower for Kentucky. The project will replace 190 older diesel school buses with hybrid electric school buses to be used in school districts throughout Kentucky. Total DOE award: $13,181,171. Total DOE award: $5,519,862.

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ARPA-E Selects 37 Projects for $106M in Funding in Second Round; Electrofuels, Better Batteries and Carbon Capture

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Electrofuels approaches will use organisms able to extract energy from other sources, such as solar-derived electricity or hydrogen or earth-abundant metal ions. The project also includes a proprietary process to convert waste biomass into carbon dioxide and hydrogen to feed the bioreactor, allowing butanol production from waste feedstocks.

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DOE awarding $72M to 27 projects to develop and advance carbon capture technologies, including direct air capture

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SUNY, in collaboration with University at Buffalo and Trimeric Corporation, plans to develop highly porous membrane adsorbents comprising CO 2 -philic polymers and self-assembled inorganic nanocages for rapid temperature swing adsorption using electricity-free solar heating and radiative cooling, enabling an economically viable approach for DAC.

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Hitachi Restructures, Spinning Off Automotive Systems Business; to Launch Group-Wide Strategies for Li-ion Battery and Renewables Businesses

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With the aim of strengthening the business base in the sharply contracting North American market, Unisia of Georgia and Tokico (USA) will be brought under Kentucky-headquartered Hitachi Automotive Products (USA) Inc., which will oversee North American operations. Resource Recycling Businesses.

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