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LEED Certification and EV Charging Stations: What you need to know

Blink Charging

LEED can be applied to newly designed, built, or renovated commercial buildings, homes, neighborhoods, and even entire cities. For example, a building with solar panels would be worth points in the LEED system. indoor environmental quality. Many federal, state, and municipal branches of government have adopted LEED incentive programs.

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US DOE Awards $300 Million in Clean Cities Grants to Support Alternative Fuels, Vehicles, and Infrastructure Development

Green Car Congress

New vehicles to be deployed include 55 CNG vehicles, 363 propane vehicles, 89 hybrid electric vehicles, and 56 neighborhood electric vehicles. The project includes 45 E85 and B20 stations, eight propane stations, and 132 electric vehicle recharging sites. Total DOE award: $12,975,388. Total DOE award: $12,633,080.

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How to Add Value to Parking Facilities With EV Parking and Charging

EV Connect

That added value feature can be enough to draw an EV-driving customer away from a rival store, or into a neighborhood they might otherwise have ignored. The icing on the cake is that right now, there are even generous federal tax credits available to offset the cost.

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Proud of its roots

Electric Auto Association

We like to do in person meetings when we can actually visit something,” he continued, describing chapter trips to battery manufacturing plants, wind farms, and the solar array at the U.S. The technology emphasis has also influenced DEVC member gatherings. “We Air Force Academy. “We Even with climate change, they’ve had to be educated.”

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The electric car and grid parity - OregonLive.com

Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

The solar market, for example, has been around for some time, but it has been a fringe technology in commercial terms. But with Japan mandating that 70 percent of the countrys new houses will be powered by photovoltaic solar energy by 2020, "that creates a market," McCabe notes. (It

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