Green Car Congress
APRIL 10, 2009
A new wind turbine assembly plant opening later this year in Novi, Michigan will create about 250 manufacturing jobs which are being sought by displaced autoworkers.The company received $7.3 million in tax credits from the Michigan Economic Growth Authority in December to create 256 direct jobs over six years. The Detroit News.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 2, 2013
Its board of directors, the private investment instruments it sets up, and the necessary tax changes should ideally be approved by referendum and could be annulled only by another referendum, the goal being to build the necessary level of confidence, they suggest. Hydrogen Production Natural Gas Power Generation Solar Wind'
Green Car Congress
MAY 26, 2010
The introduction of electric vehicles on a large scale in the UK can only have a beneficial effect on CO 2 emissions if low-carbon electricity, universal broadband provision and smart grids are in place to support the transition, according to a new report published by the UK Royal Academy of Engineering. Dr Chris Brace, Bath University.
Cars That Think
NOVEMBER 20, 2023
Among the most articulate and almost certainly the wonkiest is Jesse Jenkins , a professor of engineering at Princeton University, where he heads the ZERO Lab—the Zero-carbon Energy systems Research and Optimization Laboratory, that is. How fast can you ramp your power plants up and down to handle the variability from wind and solar?
Green Car Congress
APRIL 30, 2019
In contrast, the global experiences from carbon markets and taxes make clear that much less expensive ways to reduce CO 2 are available right now. —co-author Michael Greenstone, the Milton Friedman Distinguished Service Professor in Economics and director of the Energy Policy Institute at the University of Chicago (EPIC).
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 14, 2012
Pie charts show the proportion of different types of energy sources generating power and flowing between load areas if there were a carbon tax of $70 per ton. About 46% of the state’s power comes from gas-burning plants, 11% from hydroelectric, 14% from nuclear and 11% from other renewables: geothermal energy, wind and solar.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 5, 2012
Three different carbon tax scenarios are analyzed: no carbon tax, $55/metric ton carbon tax and $110/metric ton carbon tax. The impact of the chosen carbon tax is found to be limited relative to the impact of the H2 source on the H 2 Bioil break-even price. We’re in the ballpark.
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