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Study finds hybrid tugboat delivers significant reduction in criteria pollutant emissions compared to conventional version

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It also has 126 soft gel lead acid batteries for power storage that are separated into two arrays with 63 batteries each. Built by Seattle-based Foss Maritime, it began working the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach in January 2009. Each array stores 170.1 kWh of energy when fully charged.

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

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Los Angeles Department of Water and Power. Notrees Wind Storage. Deploy a wind energy storage demonstration project at the Notrees Windpower Project in western Texas. These technologies are estimated to improve the reliability and efficiency of the distribution system 30-40%. 21,806,232. 43,612,464.

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Electric Cars and a Smarter Grid - Green Inc. Blog - NYTimes.com

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February 17, 2009 10:39 am Link I think within a very short time the need for electricity will stabilize because of all the changes by conservation, minimal population growth in the industrialized countries, and better transmission from power sources. Wind, solar and nuclear could easily change our electrical sources.

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