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U.S. Invests $251 Million to Expand Infrastructure to Support CO2 Transport and Storage Infrastructure
As part of President Biden's Investing in America agenda, the U.S. Department of Energy this week (May 17) announced $251 million to support 12 selected projects across seven states that will bolster the nation's carbon management capabilities. The projects, funded by President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, will expand carbon dioxide (CO2) transportation and storage infrastructure to ...
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Biden Administration Announces $2.5 Billion for Carbon Management Programs
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy, this week (Feb 23) announced $2.52 billion in funding for two carbon management programs to catalyze investments in transformative carbon capture systems and carbon transport and storage technologies. Funded by President Biden's Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, the two programs Carbon Capture Large-Scale Pilots and Carbon ...
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Biden-Harris Administration Launches $2.6 Billion Funding Programs To Slash Carbon Emissions
The Biden-Harris Administration, through the U.S. Department of Energy, this week (July 13) issued Notices of Intent to fund two programs that will advance carbon capture demonstration projects and expand regional pipeline networks to transport carbon dioxide (CO2) for permanent geologic storage or for conversion into valued end uses, such as construction materials. The two programs - the Carbon ...
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Honeywell and Duke Energy to Develop Energy Resiliency Solutions for Smart Cities
Honeywell and Duke Energy Sustainable Solutions (DESS), a nonregulated commercial brand of Duke Energy, this week announced an agreement to jointly develop and deliver comprehensive energy resiliency solutions to targeted markets across the United States. The strategic alliance will strengthen energy security, focusing on communities with pressing resiliency needs, and develop scaled solutions to ...
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Baker Hughes Partners with NET Power to Advance Development of Zero-Emissions Power Plants
Baker Hughes, an energy technology company, has joined a strategic partnership with and invested in NET Power to advance the technical and commercial deployment of NET Power's low-cost, electric power system that generates no atmospheric emissions and inherently captures all carbon dioxide (CO2). The partnership, which brings together industry expertise to enable the global deployment of NET ...
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Bioelectricity: A Critical Contribution to the Decarbonisation of the EU’s Energy System
Brussels, 5 May 2020 – Bioenergy Europe launches the first chapter of its Statistical Report 2020 on Bioelectricity, providing an in-depth analysis of the role of the bioenergy in the decarbonisation of EU’s power grid. While renewables account for 33% of the EU energy mix - of which 5,8% generated by bioenergy - 67% of the electricity in the EU is still generated by non-renewables ...
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U.S. Department of Energy Announces $25 Million for Grid Management Systems and Risk Assessment Systems
The U.S. Department of Energy recently (4/23) announced $25 million in funding for 10 projects as part of the Performance-based Energy Resource Feedback, Optimization, and Risk Management(PERFORM) program. These projects will work to develop innovative management systems that represent the relative delivery risk of each asset, like wind farms or power plants, and balance the collective risk of ...
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ENVEA have donated respirator masks to Poissy-Saint-Germain-en-Laye inter-municipal hospital (Paris area).
With health workers nationwide running low on masks and other protective gear, a growing list of companies are successfully sourcing such equipment and donating them to those on the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic. ENVEA, leading provider of monitoring solutions for air pollution, industrial emissions, process optimization and related services, is donating respirator masks to local ...
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Starwood Energy, OGCI Climate Investments and Elysian Ventures Launch New Carbon Capture Project
Starwood Energy Group Global, Inc. recently announced that it has finalized agreements with OGCI Climate Investments to invest in the development of a large-scale carbon capture facility to be integrated with a natural gas power plant. Starwood and OGCI CI will co-invest in the initial development of the project, which will use commercially available CO2 capture technology and is expected to ...
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Genesis Systems LLC and the Department of Energy
The Department of Energy (DOE) identified Genesis Systems LLC to represent the United States’ water start-up community in the development and launch of the DOE’s Water Security Grand Challenge. Anthony Contento, Ph.D. (Water and Sustainability Scientist for Genesis Systems LLC) and Mr. Mitchell Walrod (current owner) attended all development activities at the National Renewable ...
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Bechtel Establishes Cyber Security Lab for Industrial Control Systems
Responding to increasing cyber threats to industrial controls and supervisory control and data acquisition systems, Bechtel announced the opening of a new cyber security lab aimed at protecting equipment and software that control complex government facilities, power plants, chemical plants, and other large-scale critical infrastructure. The lab will also leverage Bechtel's experience in designing ...
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Technology partnership to provide vital new information to coastal engineers
The National Oceanography Centre (NOC) has entered into a two year Knowledge Transfer Partnership (KTP) with Marlan Maritime Technologies Ltd to develop innovative remote sensing services for the survey of intertidal zones. The partnership builds on the existing collaborative R&D between Marlan, the NOC and the University of Liverpool which included a successful ERDF-funded collaboration as ...
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Monitors arrive after radioactive waste site fire in Nevada
Radiation wasn't immediately detected during fly-overs of a burned trench containing long-buried radioactive waste at a commercial disposal site in rural southern Nevada, state and federal officials said Monday. Ground testing was scheduled next, headed by a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency radiological emergency team sent to the site about 115 miles northwest of Las Vegas, said Rusty ...
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GE Predix Software Platform Offers 20% Potential Increase in Performance Across Customer Base; New GE Offerings Accelerate Transformation into a Digital Industrial Company
Launch of Predix.io – a dedicated cloud environment for app developers – will grow GE’s Industrial Internet platform and create the world’s largest app marketplace for industry Launch of Brilliant Factory offers GE’s proven digital manufacturing capabilities to other companies; P&G among customers that could see the same 10-20% reduction in unplanned downtime ...
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Abengoa to develop a new transmission project in Argentina
The project, which will supply power to a new steel plant, is worth more than $27 million. Abengoa (MCE: ABG.B/P SM /NASDAQ: ABGB), the international company that applies innovative technology solutions for sustainability in the energy and environment sectors, has been selected by Gerdau (Sipar Aceros S.A.) for a new power transmission project in central Argentina that will supply ...
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EPA, DOJ reach agreement with CNMI and CUC Saipan to move forward with work on oil spill cleanup and prevention at CUC power plants
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced an agreement as part of a Federal District court order today with the Commonwealth Utilities Corporation (CUC) and the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (CNMI) that furthers oil spill cleanup, preparedness and response efforts and critical infrastructure improvements at all of CUC’s power ...
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EIA mapping tool shows which U.S. energy facilities are in areas at risk of flooding
The public now has a new online tool to help inform them about energy facilities' exposure to flooding caused by hurricanes, overflowing rivers, flash floods, and other wet-weather events. Developed by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), the Flood Vulnerability Assessment Map, shows which power plants, oil refineries, crude oil rail terminals, and other critical energy ...
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Federal Issues - TSCA/FIFRA/IRIS/EPCRA
Limited Space Still Available For Sustainable Futures Training Workshop: There are still spaces available for the Sustainable Futures Training workshop scheduled for August 5-7, 2014, at the George Washington University campus in Washington, D.C. Attendees at the three-day workshop will get firsthand experience with the tools, methods, and models used by the U.S. Environmental Protection (EPA) in ...
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Study: Municipal Solid Waste Could Contribute Significant Supply of Alternative Energy to U.S. Businesses, Communities
A new study conducted by the Earth Engineering Center (EEC) of Columbia University has found that if all of the municipal solid waste (MSW) that is currently put into landfills each year in the United States were diverted to waste-to-energy (WTE) power plants, they could generate enough electricity to power nearly 14 million homes annually, or 12 percent of the U.S. total. According to the study, ...
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Just in time for hurricane season, EIA`s U.S. Energy Mapping System is now accessible on all mobile devices
With the 2014 hurricane season now underway, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is making it possible for the public to track from all types of mobile devices and tablets the power plants, oil refineries, major electric transmission lines, and other critical energy infrastructure that are in the path of upcoming storms and significant weather events. From any touchscreen anywhere ...
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