Nevada Aims to Plug Vehicles into Renewable Energy
CleanTechnica EVs
MAY 15, 2021
By Max Baumhefner & Dylan Sullivan Nevada is considering legislation that would help the state drive on cleaner, cheaper electricity. Courtesy of NRDC.
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Green Car Congress
AUGUST 28, 2018
Ryze Renewables announced that construction is underway for two renewable diesel production facilities in Nevada. When completed, the two Ryze Renewables facilities are expected to produce a combined 11,000 barrels per day (BPD) of renewable diesel fuel for Western US and Canadian markets.
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FEBRUARY 3, 2023
US production capacity for renewable diesel could more than double from current levels by the end of 2025, based on several announcements for projects that are either under construction or could start development soon, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA). billion gallons per year (gal/y), at the end of 2022.
Green Car Reports
JUNE 8, 2020
Nevada is set to host the largest solar array in the United States. Last month, the U.S. Department of the Interior approved a proposal for the Gemini Solar Project, a $1 billion solar-generating facility to be located about 30 miles northeast of Las Vegas.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 18, 2014
DuPont Industrial Biosciences (DuPont) has selected Murex LLC to market the cellulosic ethanol produced from its 30-million-gallon-per-year plant in Nevada, Iowa. DuPont has made substantial investments in renewable fuels and has committed more than $200 million to the Nevada biorefinery, which will utilize corn stover.
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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.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 5, 2014
On Thursday, Nevada Governor Brian Sandoval and Elon Musk, Chairman and CEO of Tesla Motors, confirmed what had been widely leaked the day before: that Nevada and Tesla had reached an agreement—subject to legislative review and approval—that will result in the state being the site for the Tesla Gigafactory. Earlier post.)
Green Car Reports
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.
Teslarati
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Tesla sponsored a bilingual energy exhibit, Future of Energy, at the Terry Lee Wells Nevada Discovery Museum (The Discovery). The exhibit featured questions and answers from Tesla employees working at Gigafactory Nevada and focused on a future with clean energy and sustainability. Anyone can be a part of it, right here in Nevada.”
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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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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.
Baua Electric
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The plant will complement the company’s Nevada materials location, and will be used to recycle, refine and remanufacture anode and cathode components. Also like Redwood’s Nevada site, the new Battery Materials Campus will be powered by 100 percent renewable electricity.
Green Car Congress
AUGUST 26, 2013
A new Energy Department study conducted by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) indicates that by 2025 wind and solar power electricity generation could become cost-competitive without federal subsidies, if new renewable energy development occurs in the most productive locations. Source: Hurlbut et al. 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.
Creative Greenius
SEPTEMBER 14, 2017
SB 100 (De Leon) – California Renewables Portfolio Standard Program. SB 100 accelerates the existing renewable energy targets to 60 percent RPS by 2030, and requires retail energy sellers to plan, model, and invest over the next 28 years to reach the 100% clean, zero carbon, and renewable energy target.
Green Car Reports
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.
Green Car Congress
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
Teslarati
JUNE 7, 2023
percent, while renewable energy shares need to be increased to at least 32 percent of the EU’s usage. “We are strengthening our renewable energy activities in order to contribute to reducing CO2 emissions,” Tine Deheegher, Manager of Renewable Energy Solutions at Eneco, said. I’d love to hear from you!
Green Car Congress
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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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.
Green Car Congress
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.).
Green Car Congress
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.
Teslarati
DECEMBER 20, 2023
The Tesla Semi is not a mainstream vehicle, but it is one of the company’s products that could make a notable difference in the renewable energy transition. Then, we made it so efficient we didn’t need to do that.
Green Car Congress
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.
Teslarati
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
While Tesla has not released an official render for Gigafactory Texas’ completed design , speculations are abounding among the electric vehicle community that Gigafactory Texas’ roof would be filled with solar panels, allowing the company to power the massive facility using renewable energy.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
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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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.
Green Car Congress
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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MARCH 16, 2017
million gallons of renewable natural gas. Renewable natural gas (RNG) will be used at the station in Ontario to fuel UPS vehicles in the area with renewable compressed natural gas (RCNG). In 2016, UPS used more than 61 million gallons of natural gas in its ground fleet, which included 4.6 Orlando, Fla.; Salina, Kan.;
Green Car Congress
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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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.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2010
The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) released a report outlining both the current state of renewable transportation fuels efforts in the US and a plan to develop regional strategies to increase the production, marketing and distribution of biofuels. Arizona, California, Colorado, New Mexico, Nevada, Utah, Wyoming. billion gallons.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 16, 2016
Initial target markets are expected to include the marine and off-road markets in Arizona, Nevada, and Utah. Musket is a national fuel distributor under the umbrella of the Love’s Family of Companies. The supply program is expected to begin with railcar quantities of isobutanol (a railcar holds approximately 28-29 thousand gallons).
Green Car Congress
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.
Teslarati
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
The new Lathrop facility is likely a dramatic increase in production rate, considering Giga-Nevada, which produces numerous Tesla products , was previously the only production location for the Megapack. In the post shared on Instagram, Tesla states the new facility can produce over 10,000 Tesla Megapacks a year.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
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.
Green Car Congress
JULY 20, 2016
one of the ambitious new explorers shaking up the lithium mining scene in Nevada. Already price-competitive with diesel fuel for stand-alone renewables and remote locations, home storage applications with devices like Tesla's powerwall, and grid frequency modulation applications are now making major inroads in the grid storage market.
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2015
liter MidRange, factory-built, dedicated natural gas engine ( earlier post ), to the Type C School bus market at the North American School Bus Show – STN Expo Conference and Trade Show in Reno, Nevada. Cummins Westport Inc. is introducing its new 2016 ISB6.7 The ISB6.7 G natural gas engine is based on the Cummins ISB6.7 The ISB6.7
Teslarati
SEPTEMBER 5, 2022
Tesla Giga Nevada will source copper foil from Redwood Materials this year. Scandinavian countries are leaning more towards renewable power sources, like hydropower or wind. In July, Redwood Materials signed a partnership agreement with Volkswagen Group of America to recycle batteries from VW and Audi electric vehicles.
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