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Xcel Energy wants 1.5M EVs in its service areas by 2030; 30x increase from today

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Xcel services customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, North and South Dakota, Texas and Wisconsin. If realized, EVs would make up 20% of all vehicles on the road in those areas—more than 30 times the number today.

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NREL study suggests cost gap for Western renewables could narrow by 2025

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The benchmark for the study is based on the projected future cost of a new combined-cycle natural gas turbine (CCGT) built in the destination market, with natural gas in 2025 at a nominal price of between $7.50/mmBtu mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu.

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Solar fuels company Joule commissions first plant to demo commercial readiness, launches Joule Fuels subsidiary to advance direct solar-to-fuels platform

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Joule has commissioned its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico ( earlier post ), where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production using a fraction of the land and capital investment required for algae-derived or agricultural biofuels.

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EBI study concludes potential contribution of microalgae biofuels in US will be modest due to resource constraints and cost

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low cost system designs, high. productivity algae cultivation, high oil content, low cost harvesting and processing).” The estimated capital costs for a 250-acre biofuel production system emphasizing oil production were about $21 million, with annual operating costs at around $1.5 their sizes.”

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

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Demonstrate competitively-priced, multi-megawatt, long-duration advanced flow batteries for utility grid applications. Design, build, and deploy a utility-scale, low-cost compressed air energy storage system to support the integration of renewable energy sources onto the grid. Public Service Company of New Mexico.

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DOE awards $34M to 19 projects to advance clean hydrogen

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plans to develop a novel membrane system from Osmoses’ proprietary polymer composition that can produce enriched oxygen from air for integration into modular gasification systems for low-cost hydrogen production. The team intends to demonstrate high-purity (greater than 98% by volume, preferably above 99.5%

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Cantwell said that cap-and-trade had been discredited by the Wall Street crisis, the Enron scandal and the rocky start to a carbon credits trading system in Europe that has been subject to dizzying price fluctuations and widespread fraud. Pricing GHGs will increase the prices consumers pay for greenhouse-gas-intensive products.

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