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Skanska is about to transform a Brooklyn marine terminal into a major offshore wind hub

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Image courtesy of Equinor Construction giant Skanska has been awarded a contract to turn the South Brooklyn Marine Terminal into one of the US’s largest offshore wind ports. Skanska’s $861 million critical infrastructure offshore wind hub project in Brooklyn will support the 2.1

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4 companies jointly propose $8B green energy initiative for LA area; Wyoming wind, Utah storage, transmission

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Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million megawatt-hours per year vs. 3.9 million megawatt-hours.

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Opinion: Why Buffett Bet A Billion On Solar: Miles Per Acre Per Year

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The cost to operate an EV, per mile, is already well below the cost to drive a standard ICE-age model, and the advantage is likely to widen. The average US residential customer pays 12 cents per kilowatt-hour (kWh) , which means the cost to drive one mile in an EV is somewhat less than 4 cents. New cars in 2015 get 25 mpg.)

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Nikola Motor selects Nel to build 16-station hydrogen refueling network spanning 2,000 miles; first two underway

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Nikola Motor Company, which is developing a Class 8 hydrogen-fuel-cell electric truck ( earlier post ) has chosen Nel ASA as the sole equipment supplier to build a 16-station hydrogen refueling network that will span 2,000 miles. Each Nikola truck will store between two and three megawatt hours (mWh) of energy.

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Watch the world’s first artificial energy island being built [video]

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Princess Elisabeth Island will be an electricity grid at sea that will connect offshore wind farms to the Belgian mainland and also serve as a hub for future interconnectors with the UK and Denmark. gigawatt (GW) offshore wind farm in the North Sea, around 45 km (28 miles) off the Belgian coast. Get started here. –ad*

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End of production for BMW i3; 250,000 units over 8 and a half years

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Four wind turbines on the site of the BMW Group plant in Leipzig supply the electricity needed for its production. kilowatt hours (kWh), it now enables ranges of up to 307 kilometers (191 miles) according to WLTP. Eucalyptus wood from certified cultivation in Europe serves as the raw material for parts of the instrument panel.

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Walmart to electrify fleet by 2040

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Walmart and the Walmart Foundation are also committing to help protect, manage or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030 to help combat the cascading loss of nature threatening the planet. Walmart announced it is targeting zero emissions across the company’s global operations by 2040.

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