$610,000 in funding available for 2 to 5 candidates to advance new technology, solutions to improve well reclamation Foresight Cleantech Accelerator Centre and NAL Resources have announced the ARCTIC Innovation Challenge, an effort to find technologies to improve oil and gas wells abandonment and reclamation, according to a press release. “We are seeking solutions to make the abandonment […]
Also in this brief: US Energy Dept. gives $46.2 million for 48 solar tech projects, US fuel ethanol production continues to grow in 2017 Canadian government looking to fund next-generation clean energy infrastructure projects Investing in next generation clean energy infrastructure and technologies will advance Canada’s efforts to build a clean economy, create well-paying jobs for middle-class Canadians
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Electric battery development fund to help protect economy at Britain leaves EU On Monday, Britain launched a £246 million ($320 million) fund to boost electric battery development, a growing industry linked to both the automotive and energy sectors. With automakers like Tesla in the race to build more environmentally friendly vehicles with better charge times
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New solar energy tech can produce over 50 per cent more energy per day By A’ndrea Elyse Messer UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — A concentrating photovoltaic system with embedded microtracking can produce over 50 per cent more energy per day than standard silicon solar cells in a head-to-head competition, according to a team of engineers who
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China looking for EVs, hybrids to be 20% of sales by 2025 Global automakers have urged China to delay and soften planned quotas for sales of electric and hybrid cars, saying its proposals will be impossible to meet and would severely disrupt their businesses, according to a letter seen by Reuters. The June 18 letter
Porsche EVs sales could reach 25 per cent of total sales by 2025 Porsche says it will spend one billion euros to overhaul its main Stuttgart plant where it will build its first battery-only model, the Mission E saloon. The car is expected to be available in 2019. The company sees a switch in markets
Also in this brief: 1) Smart street lights transforming local utilities 2) Virtual power plants, “trans-active energy” platforms putting consumers in charge Draft study not yet vetted by political staff, renewable energy industry fears political interference from Trump Administration A draft of a study by the US Department of Energy shows the expansion of renewable
Governments beginning to approve legislation to allow commercial deployment on public roads Governments are starting to approve legislation allowing deployment of vehicles with increasingly automated capabilities, finds a new report from Navigant Research. It analyzes regional markets for light duty passenger vehicles (LDVs) and medium or heavy duty commercial vehicles with highly automated driving capability,
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Chevy Bolt sales amount to 7,592 in first six months of 2017 General Motors is extending the shutdown of its plant in Michigan that builds the Chevy Bolt electric car. The company says the move is part of a broader effort to take control of growing inventories of unsold vehicles in the US. In June,
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Also in this brief: Wireless sensing energizes oil/gas pipeline monitoring, Alberta engineering sector begins recovering in 2017 Lithium from SADG wastewater process pilot plant completed in Alberta MGX Minerals Inc. – a Canadian company with a patent to extract lithium from SAGD (steam assisted gravity drainage, used in oil sands production) wastewater – has completed an operating
