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31 Things to Do for the 2024 Total Solar Eclipse

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What’s better than an indoor water park, like the one at the Great Wolf Lodge in Sandusky, Ohio? Interior rooms are still available for $1,199 on the Emerald Princess , departing from Los Angeles on April 5. rentals with campground sites from Texas to Ohio. Give yourself extra time.

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US DOE offers conditional loan guarantee commitments to support nearly $4.5B in Loans for 3 California Cd-Te photovoltaic solar power plants

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billion to support three alternating current Cadmium Telluride (Cd-Te) thin film photovoltaic (PV) solar generation facilities: DOE is offering a conditional commitment for a loan guarantee to AV Solar Ranch 1, LLC to support the Antelope Valley Solar Ranch 1 project. The Topaz Solar project will use more than 8.5

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DOE awarding >$24M to 77 projects through Technology Commercialization Fund

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Remote Area Modular Monitoring for Critical Facilities, $300,000 Embedded Planet, Cleveland, Ohio Simulation Tool for Energy-Efficient Connected and Automated Vehicle Control Development, $600,000 Hyundai America Technical Center, Superior Township, Mich. Los Alamos National Laboratory. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc.,

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Honda CEO: Honda Studying Battery Electric Commuter Car, But Holds Fuel Cell Vehicle as the Ultimate Eco-car

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This month, we will begin operation of a next-generation solar hydrogen station at our Los Angeles R&D center. The potential of a solar hydrogen station is one reason a fuel cell electric vehicle is the ultimate eco-car—the bast path to reduce CO 2. in 1998, and Managing Director of Honda R&D Co.,

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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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Laredo Bus Facility Solar Canopies: Provide shade structures with integrated, grid tied photovoltaic cells to be erected on the bus storage lot at the Laredo Bus Maintenance Facility. Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, California: $4,466,000. Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority, Ohio: $2,257,000.

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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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The project will result in the development of approximately 184 liquid propane Autogas refueling stations in the following major metropolitan areas: Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Denver, Sacramento, Los Angeles, Dallas, Phoenix, Indianapolis, Seattle, Orlando, San Diego, St. Total DOE award: $12,299,828. Total DOE award: $9,950,708.

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DOE Awarding $620M for Smart Grid Demonstration and Energy Storage Projects

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Smart grid regional demonstrations involving plug-in vehicles include (ranked by DOE funding): Columbus Southern Power Company (doing business as AEP Ohio). Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. A full list by state of the all the projects is available here. Pecan Street Project (TX). 24,063,978. 48,127,957. 10,877,258.