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APRIL 22, 2013

The US Department of Energy (DOE) will award nearly $18 million to four innovative pilot-scale biorefineries in California, Iowa and Washington that will produce and test drop-in renewable biofuels that meet military specifications for jet fuel and shipboard diesel. The projects selected for negotiation are: Frontline Bioenergy LLC (up to $4.2

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DECEMBER 23, 2013

New geothermal power came on line in Kenya, New Zealand, Nicaragua, Turkey, and Mexico, as well as Oregon, Nevada and Utah in the United States. In Nevada, NV Energy is looking to replace coal plants with 300 MW of renewable energy, including geothermal.

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OCTOBER 2, 2017

Researchers at Washington State University and the University of Nevada developed a novel process for synthesizing dense jet fuel from mint, pine, gumweed, eucalyptus or other plants. A variety of technologies have been developed to produce renewable jet fuels from biomass feedstocks. Cyclic hydrocarbons (i.e. Ounkham, Stephen M.

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

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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JULY 25, 2012

The Department of the Interior and the Department of Energy are publishing the Final Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) for solar energy development in six southwestern states—Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, and Utah. Click to enlarge.

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JULY 30, 2020

Selected by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office these projects align with the goals of the 2019 GeoVision study, which outlines a path to unlock the full potential of geothermal power as a clean, reliable, and affordable energy source for American homes and businesses. Ormat Nevada, Inc.

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FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Outside of a few Western States, utility-scale geothermal may be considered a more limited energy source than some other renewable technologies, but that is changing. Year-end data also shows that Nevada, the nation’s second leading geothermal capacity state behind California, now has more than 500 MW of installed capacity.

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JANUARY 22, 2016

Tesoro Corporation plans to foster the development of biocrude, made from renewable biomass, which can be co-processed in its existing refineries along with conventional fossil crude oil to produce lower-carbon drop-in fuels. Virent, Inc.: Earlier post.).

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JUNE 18, 2020

Disclosed in a Tesla filing Tuesday, and first spotted by Reuters, the deal sets terms for production capacity commitments by Panasonic at the jointly-operated Nevada Gigafactory, as well as purchase volume commitments by Tesla over the first two years of.

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MAY 16, 2022

The VERBIO Nevada (Iowa) Biorefinery began producing renewable natural gas (RNG) on an industrial scale in December 2021. Renewable natural gas from the VERBIO Nevada Biorefinery is injected into an Alliant Energy pipeline before being distributed across the country. Nevada is just the beginning.

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AUGUST 6, 2012

by Fulcrum, will fully fund construction of the municipal solid waste to renewable transportation fuel facility. The Sierra BioFuels Plant will be located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in Storey County.

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OCTOBER 5, 2017

The governors of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah and Wyoming signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding to create a unified regional electric vehicle plan to allow electric vehicles to recharge and travel easily along the 5,000 miles of freeways in the western region. Earlier post.).

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MAY 6, 2019

The projects selected by the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy’s Geothermal Technologies Office focus in two areas: machine learning for geothermal exploration and advanced analytics for efficiency and automation in geothermal operations.

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SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

BP and JM have developed a simple-to-operate and cost-advantaged FT technology that can operate both at large and small scale economically to convert synthesis gas, generated from sources such as municipal solid waste and other renewable biomass, into long-chain hydrocarbons suitable for the production of diesel and jet fuels.

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DECEMBER 17, 2021

Fulcrum completed the construction of the first commercial-scale MSW-based biofuels refinery in Nevada in July 2021. Fulcrum’s process combines gasification technology with a Fischer-Tropsch (FT) fuel process for the efficient, low-cost production of renewable transportation fuels.

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MAY 29, 2015

US Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will invest up to $100 million in a Biofuels Infrastructure Partnership to support the infrastructure needed to make more renewable fuel options available to American consumers. USDA will post a Notice of Solicitation of Applications in June.

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MAY 2, 2012

Lincolnway Energy of Nevada, Iowa; and Corn, LP of Goldfield, Iowa are the latest additions to the EAG. Biobutanol is a high performing drop-in biofuel that can be blended at higher concentrations than ethanol, without the need for infrastructure changes while delivering twice the renewable energy content of current biofuel blends.

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OCTOBER 5, 2014

The Cool Planet plant will produce approximately 8 million to 10 million gallons of high-octane, renewable gasoline blendstocks (reformate), as well the biochar, all made from sustainable wood residues. The output from each catalytic array when cooled is comprised of volatile gases, renewable fuel and water. Earlier post.).

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JULY 21, 2019

The ad is a mind-bender, giving an up-close look at Nevada's Hoover Dam, which the National Park Service calls the "Greatest Dam in the World" for.

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JANUARY 17, 2012

The year-long study , conducted by the consultancy ICF International, looked at seven military bases in California and two in Nevada. The study also looks at two Air Force bases located in the Nevada desert, Creech and Nellis.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2016

Isobutanol offers a number of properties that are more attractive for a renewable gasoline blendstock than ethanol, including: Properties of butanol are closer to gasoline than properties of ethanol; e.g. heating value, blending vapor pressure, water tolerance, corrosivity and polarity.

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AUGUST 22, 2012

Source: Beta Renewables. Once operational, the facility is expected to convert 600,000 tons of energy grasses per year into an estimated 20 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol using the Beta Renewable’s PROESA enzymatic hydrolysis process. Click to enlarge. PROESA combines an enzymatic pre-treatment process with fermentation.

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DECEMBER 14, 2018

Fulcrum BioEnergy has selected Gary, Indiana as the location of its Centerpoint BioFuels Plant, which will convert municipal solid waste (MSW) into low-carbon, renewable transportation fuel. In late 2017, Fulcrum began construction on the Sierra BioFuels Plant located near Reno, Nevada.

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SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

Ethanol producer Lincolnway Energy, LLC, based in Nevada, Iowa, will receive a $1.9 million payment award from the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) to reimburse the firm for costs to modify a boiler to burn wood and other biomass. The company produces 55 to 60 million gallons per year of fuel-grade ethanol.

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JUNE 5, 2013

Comprehensive federal and state regulatory process flowcharts have been completed for eight geothermal-rich states: Alaska, California, Hawaii, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, and Utah. The next states slated for review are Colorado and Texas. The roadmap includes links to permit application forms, policies, and supporting documents.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

It also appears that some projects seeking final construction permits are having difficulty acquiring them because of the tremendous demands being placed on federal, state, and local agencies by a wave of renewable energy project applications. California. Mississippi. New Mexico. Washington. unspecified. and 7,109.9

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JANUARY 13, 2022

This work also supports the creation of new clean energy jobs, helping transition some of the oil and gas workforce to the production of renewable energy. Transitional Energy will install state-of-the-art, American-made geothermal heat engines at Blackburn Oilfield in Nevada for electrical power production.

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JULY 20, 2009

Renewable Energy Institute International (REII), Toledo’s Red Lion Bio-Energy , the University of Toledo, Midwest Terminals/Port of Toledo, SolarTurbines/Caterpillar, and other partners are working to build a biomass-to-liquids demonstration plant in South Toledo, Ohio.

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OCTOBER 27, 2010

Earlier this month, Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar approved the first five renewable energy projects ever on public lands—Imperial Valley Solar Project, Chevron Lucerne Valley Solar Project, Ivanpah Solar Electric Generating System and the Calico Solar Project, all in California; and the Silver State North Solar Project in Nevada.

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JANUARY 5, 2021

the joint venture between Hyundai Motor Group and Aptiv, plans to conduct Level 4 driverless tests on public roads in Nevada. Hyundai Motor Group will apply Level 3 autonomous driving technology to mass production models in 2022 and push for commercialization projects for autonomous driving technologies such as robotaxi services in 2023.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2010

The Sierra BioFuels Plant will be located approximately 20 miles east of Reno, Nevada in Storey County. million gallons of ethanol annually along with 16 megawatts of renewable electricity by processing post-sorted municipal solid waste (MSW). The plant will produce 10.5

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FEBRUARY 23, 2010

This would nearly double the existing generation capacity of this type of renewable energy in the US. The three-plant Ivanpah Solar Complex will be located on federally-owned land in the Mojave Desert in southeastern California, near the Nevada border, and will be the world’s largest operational concentrated solar power complex.

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MARCH 28, 2016

with an $11-million loan guarantee through the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical, and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. million cubic feet of renewable natural gas, 350 gallons of liquid fertilizer, and 11.2 The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) will support Novus Energy’s new biorefinery project in Boardman, Ore.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2012

IPAT , a startup company based in Nevada, Iowa, is using gas atomization technology developed at Ames Laboratory to make titanium powder with processes that are ten times more efficient than traditional powder-making methods—significantly lowering the cost of the powder to manufacturers.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2017

The plant will be located in the State of Nevada and will have the capacity to produce 10 million gallons of biofuels per year, to be used in the aviation sector.

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OCTOBER 11, 2016

will be deployed beginning in January 2017 starting in Arizona, Texas, Nevada, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia and Florida, and, possibly in other states as well. In addition to its use of alternative vehicles, UPS uses millions of gallons of lower carbon footprint renewable diesel and renewable natural gas (RNG) in its fleet each year.

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JANUARY 3, 2016

Sierra BioFuels’ MSW-to-FT diesel fuel facility , which is currently under construction in Nevada, consists of a Feedstock Processing Facility and a biorefinery. This renewable FT syncrude will be upgraded and processed into a low-carbon diesel or jet fuel product.

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