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UPS makes largest purchase of renewable natural gas yet in the US: 170M gallon equivalents over 7 years

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This is the largest commitment for use of RNG to date by any company in the United States, with a range of 22.5 - 25 million gallon equivalents per year. This is equivalent to planting 17,000,000 trees, removing 228,000 cars off the road or recycling 374,000 tons of waste that would otherwise be sent to the landfill. Atlanta, Ga.;

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Velocys wins UK patent case against CompactGTL on smaller scale GTL technology

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Velocys has a substantial patent portfolio comprising more than 900 patents, covering a broad range of countries, which protects key inventions relevant to smaller scale GTL. Velocys technology is also the basis for the construction of a commercial small scale GTL plant at Waste Management’s East Oak landfill site in Oklahoma.

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DOE and USDA Select Projects for More Than $24M in Biomass Research and Development Grants

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Yenkin-Majestic Paint Corporation (Columbus, OH) up to $1,800,000: to demonstrate, at scale, the operation of a dry fermentation system that uses pre- and post-consumer food wastes from supermarkets and restaurants, waste sawdust, grass, leaves, stumps and other forms of wood waste to produce biogas, heat, and electrical power.

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DOE to award $11M to 20 new Clean Cities projects for alt fuel cars and trucks

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The Michigan Fuel Forward project will work with a wide range of partners. gas-fueled school buses and solid waste collection vehicles and develop a. Oklahoma, will recommend building codes to accommodate alternative. Clean Energy. to convene an Alt-Fuel Task Force; include alternative fuels in regional and. Gas Technology.

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DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

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The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced more than $30 million in federal funding, matched by more than $35 million in private sector funds, for 68 projects that will accelerate the commercialization of promising energy technologies—ranging from clean energy and advanced manufacturing, to building efficiency and next-generation materials.

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Waste Heat Capture (2 projects). In this project, Lehigh University will apply EFSA to high surface area conductive solid carbon sorbents for the adsorption and desorption of CO 2 across a wide range of process conditions. WASTE HEAT CAPTURE. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects).

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