USDA Announces $100 Million for American Biofuels Infrastructure

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture intends to make available up to $100 million in competitive grants for activities designed to expand the availability and sale of renewable fuels. Funding like this has helped fleets and fuel sites in Virginia and can help you gain access to these lower emission biofuels.

The Higher Blends Infrastructure Incentive Program (HBIIP) consists of up to $100 million in funding for competitive grants or sales incentives to ...

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Decarbonize Transportation with Renewable Natural Gas

This is a call to action for all fleet to consider renewable low carbon sources of fuel. Click Here for more information on growing RNG use in transportation. Click Here for a shareable info graphic on decarbonizing transportation.

We should be capping methane sources and using them for fuel and RNG is 39% of NG while renewable fuels are only ~10% of gasoline / diesel. In the available information there are suggestions for how best to go about implementing ...

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New Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP)

The U.S. EPA Landfill Methane Outreach Program (LMOP) is pleased to inform its Partners and other interested stakeholders about a new LMOP resource related to landfill gas (LFG) collection systems. LMOP has developed two new chapters for the program’s LFG Energy Project Development Handbook (PDH): 

  • Chapter 7. Best Practices for Landfill Gas Collection System Design and Installation provides information on site-specific factors that influence the design of a gas collection system and discusses a variety ...
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VTA update on COVID relief 3-26-20

The U.S. Senate has reached an agreement on a $2 trillion coronavirus relief bill, which contains $25 billion in emergency relief funds for transit operators.  Transit agencies can use the funding to cover lost revenue, costs to maintain service, expenses for increased cleaning of vehicles and facilities and paying administrative leave of operations personnel in response to the coronavirus pandemic. Below is a summary of other components of the bill:

  • FTA must apportion the funds within ...
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EVgo is offering charging discounts to critical workers

EV charging network EVgo is offering an incentive for critical workers.  If you know anyone who still needs to drive an EV for work in health care, grocery, food services, rideshare, delivery or are otherwise experiencing hardship due to COVID19, call EVgo to work with drivers on a special time-limited deep discount. Contact EVgo: (877) 494-3833 or support@evgo.com.

EVgo is working with DEQ Virginia on a statewide charger network powered entierly by renewable electricity.

 

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BYD makes masks to aid public health

Electric Bus manufacturer BYD’s overseas plant, which is mass-producing sanitary face masks, is now running at capacity. The plant can produce 5 million masks and 300,000 bottles of disinfectant per day. BYD is growing its efforts to help alleviate severe shortages that have affected hospitals ozpills in the face of the COVID-19 global outbreak.

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Four Hoos. Two teams. One (gas vs. electric) race.

Generation 180 new “Going Electric” pledge comes with a fun video of UVA basketball greats and sports announcers racing in their traditional gas vs. electric cars. Who will win? Find out here. If the video isn’t your cup of tea you can follow the link to take the pledge and automatically be entered to win a pair of courtside tickets to a UVA men’s basketball home game next season.

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Teleworking and its Benefits

Telework means working at any alternative location other than your central worksite. A telework program gives selected employees and managers the option of working off-site on a full-time, part-time, or even temporary basis. Staff may choose to work from home offices, telework centers, or satellite offices. How formal or informal your telework arrangement is depends on your company and employee needs. Some teleworking arrangements require nothing more than a phone line, while others involve a full home office setup. How ...

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Eliminating Charging Barriers at Multi-Unit Dwellings

Providing expanded options for home charging of plug-in electric vehicles (PEVs) will be important as the market for PEVs continues to grow. Studies have estimated that as much as 90% of PEV charging occurs at residences. Though many organizations are working on charging solutions for single family homes, multi-unit dwellings (MUDs) present some unique challenges including the variety of property styles and architectures, models for access to electric service, parking, and potential capital costs.

The Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) ...

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Alternative Fuel Vehicles and Smarter Parking

Parksmart creates opportunities for parking structures to reduce operational costs up to 25 percent compared to the national average through improved lighting, ventilation, controls and commissioning measures.

Parksmart can accelerate the growth of business models integrating connected cars, consumer choice, multimodal mobility, smart parking and intelligent transportation innovations and other rapidly advancing technologies. The program can accelerate the use of alternative fuel vehicles. There are potentially 21 points that relate in some manner to alternative fuel vehicles.

High-performance structures, technologies and practices ...

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