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US DOT Awards $100M in Recovery Act Funds to 43 Transit Projects to Reduce Energy Consumption and Greenhouse Gas Emissions

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Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Renewable Wind Energy: MBTA will design and construct wind energy generation turbines in eastern Massachusetts (from among Kingston, Newburyport, Bridgewater). Paul Metropolitan Council, Minnesota: $1,100,000.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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Honeywell (Plymouth, Minnesota). Offshore Wind Turbine Digital Twin for the Prediction of Component Failures, $200,000. Alumina Energy, LLC (Los Angeles, California). Carl ZEISS Industry Metrology (Maple Grove, Minnesota). Assessment Robot for Resilient Optimized Wind Energy ARROW(e), $1,000,000.

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DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

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Energy Plant Design The University of California, Los Angeles, will re-engineer. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. superconducting wire that can be used in future advanced wind turbine generators. has traditionally been too expensive to use in wind generators.

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The EV Transition Explained: Policy Roadblocks

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The fight over how to fairly implement EV charging networks in Minnesota is another example of the tricky politics PUCs are involved with. Permitting issues also bedevil wind power projects. For example, Iowa is one of the best states for wind power farms. Nichols projected on the screen, in Los Angeles Thursday, Jan.

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More Electric Cars in Las Vegas with Stan Hanel's Story on the RAR'ster. with EVJerr Back to Webblogging, Sunday, 13 September 2009

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He drew support from members of both groups in planning a detailed itinerary from New York City to Los Angeles and then north along the California coast to San Francisco in 17 days. Michael Craner is a member of both the Tesla Roadster Owners Forum and the Electric Auto Association, aligned with the Eastern EV Club.