Resource, Wind and Wyoming

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2021

San Juan River-Raton-Black Mesa Basin (Arizona, Colorado and New Mexico): New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology plans to determine the rare earth elements and critical minerals resource potential in coal and related stratigraphic units in the San Juan and Raton basins in New Mexico. DOE Funding: $1,499,999. DOE Funding: $1,483,787.

West Virginia

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DOE finalizes $21.9M award to support rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant

Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 6, 2021

million to a project led by General Atomics for the engineering, construction and operation of a rare earth separation and processing demonstration plant to be located in Wyoming. Rare Element Resources (RER) is a subrecipient to General Atomics in the demonstration project, which will incorporate RER’s proprietary technology.

Wyoming

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PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is currently less desirable to automotive manufacturers, but provides an additional resource benefit to PHEV/BEVs by theoretically doubling their capacity value to the grid. Frank Tuffner, Michael Kintner-Meyer (2011) Using Electric Vehicles to Meet Balancing Requirements Associated with Wind Power (PNNL-20501).

Wind

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DOE to leverage fossil energy expertise to develop and explore geothermal energy resources

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

DOE’s Office of Fossil Energy and Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy will combine efforts to have experts test and validate low temperature geothermal power generation technologies at the Rocky Mountain Oilfield Testing Center (RMOTC) near Casper, Wyoming. million homes a year from these resources by 2020.

Energy

Energy Wyoming Oil Water

NREL study suggests cost gap for Western renewables could narrow by 2025

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. mmBtu and $8.43/mmBtu. Source: Hurlbut et al.

Renewable

Renewable Wyoming Wind Montana

DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 21, 2021

Critical materials are used in many products important to the US economy and energy technologies, such as rare-earth elements used to manufacture high-strength magnets for offshore wind-turbine generators and lithium and cobalt in lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles. Partners: American Lithium Corporation, DuPont Water Solutions.

Li-ion

Li-ion Wyoming Lithium Ion Corporation

The unique role some Tribal nations are taking in the EV transition

Plug in America

APRIL 24, 2024

Kids are coming up to him and saying that they want to start their own renewable energy companies, and it’s dawning on many that while casinos are an important revenue source for many Tribal nations, the resource potential of EVs and renewable energy could be much more impactful—trillions vs. billions, as Mr. Blake likes to say.

Wyoming

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EPA draft findings of Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation indicate water contamination likely associated with fracking; open for public comment and independent scientific review

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 9, 2011

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released a draft analysis of data from its Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation, indicating that ground water in the aquifer contains compounds likely associated with gas production practices, including hydraulic fracturing. Source: EPA Draft Report. Click to enlarge. —Draft Report.

Wyoming

Wyoming Water EPA 2010

MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

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FEBRUARY 15, 2020

In general, the researchers find that when air pollution is generated in one state, half of that pollution is lofted into the air and carried by winds across state boundaries, to affect the health quality of out-of-state residents and increase their risk of early death. Dedoussi, I.C., Eastham, S.D.,

MIT

MIT Pollution Emissions 2005

ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

Kansas, Missouri, Pennsylvania and Wyoming led the rest of the country in new stream-reach hydropower potential. The US Department of Energy (DOE) tasked ORNL with evaluating the new stream-reach development resource potential of more than 3 million US streams. Source: ORNL NSD. Click to enlarge.

Missouri

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IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

Green Car Congress

JANUARY 3, 2014

The extracted rock can be used directly as a power plant resource or it can be processed to produce shale oil, which in turn can be refined into gasoline, diesel or jet fuels. Different that shale oil—i.e., Besides Estonia, countries with large oil shale reserves include Australia, Brazil, China and Russia.

Estonia

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The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

Cars That Think

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Perhaps most importantly, though, they’re essential components of the permanent magnets used in the motors of most electric vehicles and many appliances, and also in the generators in most wind turbines. Wind turbines, too. Within the lights, there are two elements that everyone is chasing, neodymium and praseodymium.

Australia

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The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar

Baua Electric

JANUARY 18, 2024

The updated roadmap refines the analysis in the original six states and expands to five more states – Idaho, Montana, Oregon, Washington, and Wyoming. It also focuses on lands within 10 miles of existing or planned transmission lines and moves away from lands with sensitive resources. million homes.

Solar

Solar Montana Wyoming Idaho

EV Driven

DOE awards $19M to 13 initiatives in fossil-fuel areas to produce rare earth elements and critical minerals

DOE finalizes $21.9M award to support rare earth processing and separation demonstration plant

PNNL study finds that PHEVs and BEVs could serve as feasible resource to offset grid imbalances caused by integration of large amounts of intermittent wind generation

DOE to leverage fossil energy expertise to develop and explore geothermal energy resources

NREL study suggests cost gap for Western renewables could narrow by 2025

DOE awarding more than $50M to 15 projects to advance critical material innovations

The unique role some Tribal nations are taking in the EV transition

EPA draft findings of Pavillion, Wyoming ground water investigation indicate water contamination likely associated with fracking; open for public comment and independent scientific review

MIT study: half of US deaths related to air pollution are linked to out-of-state emissions

ORNL assessment finds >65 GW of untapped hydropower in US rivers and streams

IEA: Estonia is pioneering technologies for more efficient and cleaner use of oil shale

The Coming Boom in Rare Earths

The US government opens 22 million acres of federal lands to solar

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