Sentences with phrase «use of natural gas vehicles»

The county made reductions by boosting the use of natural gas vehicles, installing LED lighting around county facilities, but mostly by purchasing more electricity from cleaner sources.

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As described by the Energy Department, LNG is principally used for transporting natural gas to markets, where it's turned back into a gas and distributed for a variety of uses, including running nat gas vehicles.

At the start of 2018, about 60 % of California's natural gas vehicle fleets used renewable natural gas, and that number is expected to reach 90 % by year end.

On May 2, at the ACT EXPO in Long Beach, Calif., AJR Trucking, PACCAR subsidiary Kenworth, and the California Natural Gas Vehicle Partnership announced that AJR had taken delivery of the first class 8 truck using this new engine.

In 2010, the United States used 683 trillion cubic meters of natural gas in anything from creating electricity to powering stoves, water heaters, and even vehicles.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

Osman is hoping to continue his research into how these catalysts can be further improved and explore the opportunities for commercialisation of biofuel production or use the modified alumina catalyst in the catalytic converters in natural gas vehicles.

A new report from M.I.T. predict that the U.S. will expand its use of natural gas to produce electricity and as vehicle fuel — but will eventually need to capture its carbon dioxide emissions

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Among Freeman's specific recommendations are a «20 percent federal tax credit to electricity and natural gas utilities that gives highest priority to the efficient use of the energy they supply,» and ban on new coal or nuclear plants and retirement of the existing plants within the next 30 years, government - funded demonstration plants for Big Solar and hydrogen, increasing federal fuel economy standards one mile - per - gallon a year over the next 24 years, tax credits for plug - in hybrids or flex - fuel vehicles, and an excess - profits tax on oil to fund the tax credits.

A well - to - wheels analysis of the use of natural gas for passenger vehicles by a team of researchers from Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has found that, with a high... Read more →

In collaboration with Linköping - based energy recovery specialists Tekniska verken, Scania Engines is currently testing one of its engines using raw gas, biogas that is untreated — i.e., not cleaned or upgraded to remove wastewater, CO2 and other particles, as happens with the production of compressed natural gas for vehicle fuels.

Chevrolet is taking compressed natural gas - powered vehicles seriously with so many of its trucks being used in commercial fleets, so it was perhaps no surprise that we'd see a version of the 2015...

[166] The study considered the mix of power sources for 13 U.S. regions that would be used during recharging of vehicles, generally a combination of coal, natural gas and nuclear energy, and to a lesser extend renewable energy.

Many of the Group's customers are already planning to convert their fleets to vehicles that use natural gas throughout the next year.

Chrysler is producing vehicles that utilize compressed natural gas, and said it is exploring use of other alternative fuel sources.

Since 2008, FedEx has saved more than 158 million gallons of vehicle fuel by replacing vehicles with more efficient models and making greater use of electric vehicles, fuel cells, natural gas, hybrids and clean truck technologies.

Meanwhile, a lot of the «clean energy» options (like hybrid / electric vehicles) still require the power grid, which — you guessed it — largely uses traditional energy sources (like natural gas).

LNG (liquefied natural gas) is increasingly used to replace gasoline for use in heavy trucks, buses, and other types of vehicles.

Based on the just released Low Carbon Fuel Standard prepared by the University of California for the Governor, «regular» gasoline as a value of 85 — 92 g CO2 eq / MJ, while natural gas has a value of ~ 80 g CO2 eq / MJ, electricity in California has an average value of 27 g CO2 eq / MJ (when used to drive an electric vehicle), and cellulosic ethanol derived from municipal solid waste is ~ 5 g CO2 eq / MJ.

Last year, more than 150 members of Congress from both sides of the aisle produced legislation providing incentives to use clean - burning natural gas in our vehicles instead of oil.

A standardized unit of measure, the global warming index (GWI) namely the grams of carbon dioxide equivalent per megajoule of fuel delivered to the vehicle (gCO2e / MJ) is to be reported, adjusted, of course, for differences in the in - use energy efficiency of different fuels (e.g., gasoline versus diesel, versus natural gas or hydrogen).

We've got to expand nuclear; we've got to do clean coal, we've got to expand the use of hybrid vehicles, wind, solar, hydroelectric, liquid natural gas, natural gas, domestic oil, more refineries....

Fittingly, President Obama today was at Georgetown University, where he outlined a broad initiative to cut oil imports, boost domestic production of oil and gas, and increase the use of cellulosic ethanol and natural gas to power vehicles.

The use of compressed natural gas (CNG) as an alternative fuel reduces vehicle emissions substantially.

One exception has been some use of liquid natural gas (LNG) and other fuels for fleets of buses or delivery vehicles, although not substantially for privately - owned ones, and the use of corn - derived ethanol mixed with gasoline in proportions up to 10 per cent ethanol («gasohol») in some states.

If the U.S. were instead to use that natural gas to generate electricity as part of a portfolio with renewable sources of electricity, the analysis shows that «if the entire vehicle fleet were converted to electric vehicles and high efficiency natural gas combined - cycle power plants were used to generate all the additional electricity required, the increase in natural gas demand would be significantly less» than if the entire fleet was burning natural gas in its combustion engines — roughly a decrease in natural gas usage of 19 billion cubic feet per day.

«With a clean electricity system comes opportunities to reduce fossil fuel usage in these sectors: for example, electric vehicles displace petroleum use and electric heat pumps avoid the use of natural gas and oil for space and water heating in buildings.»

The analysis finds that, although a massive shift to CNG vehicles would also lower oil consumption and emissions dramatically, it wouldn't be nearly as effective as simply electrifying a gigantic portion of our transportation sector and then using our abundant natural gas to provide the electricity.

In addition to purchasing renewable electricity and green natural gas for the event, GHG emissions associated with the use of diesel generators and event vehicles (i.e. shuttle buses and courtesy vehicles) will be neutralized through the purchase and retirement of high quality carbon offsets, helping to ensure event operations are carbon neutral.

36 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

51 Fig. 20 - 14, p. 481 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleause (especially coal) Shift from coal to natural gas Improve energy efficiency Shift to renewable energy resources Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Reduce deforestation Use more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse more sustainable agriculture and forestry Limit urban sprawl Reduce poverty Slow population growth Remove CO 2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Sequester CO 2 deep underground Sequester CO 2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Sequester CO 2 in the deep ocean Repair leaky natural gas pipelines and facilities Use animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleaUse animal feeds that reduce CH 4 emissions by belching cows Solutions Global Warming PreventionCleanup

These prefectures and cities have also designated compressed natural gas (CNG) vehicles, liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) vehicles, electric vehicles and hybrid vehicles as low - emission vehicles and promoted the use of these cars.

While US emissions are decreasing slightly — both as a result of the administration's policies on renewable energy and vehicle fuel economy standards and because of sharply lower natural gas prices that have reduced coal use for electricity generation — it is unlikely that without additional regulation or legislation that the US will meet its 2020 target.

Natural gas vehicles have great potential, but even if consumption doubled that total market would be less than 1 % of the gas used for electricity.

-- expand drilling / fracking to extract as much domestic energy as possible, — use clean natural gas, where possible, to replace dirtier coal and for heavy transportation vehicles; — support basic research efforts aimed at finding economically viable green energy technologies; — at the same time, install new nuclear power generation capacity in place of new coal plants, wherever this makes economic sense.

PALO ALTO, Calif. - July 19, 2007 - The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) today released a comprehensive assessment that finds that widespread use of plug - in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) in the United States could reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and potential for improve ambient air quality.

The US Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory and the sustainable energy NGO Energy Vision released two case studies assessing the results of projects that were among the first to produce Renewable Compressed Natural Gas (R - CNG) vehicle fuel by using anaerobic digesters to capture the biogases from decomposing organic waste....

Obama noted that there has been progress in the transportation sector, including the increased use of vehicles that are powered by biofuels and natural gas, as well as the auto industry's more efficient production methods involving traditional engines.

Natural gas liquids (NGLs) ethane and propane get extracted and sent to a «cracking facility» where ethane is made into ethylene (the foundation of polyethylene - the most common plastic in the world, frequently used for packaging, bottles, and synthetic clothing), and at a dehydrogenation plant, propane is made into propylene (the foundation of polypropylene - a plastic commonly found in food packaging and vehicle manufacturing).

44 Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Solutions Global Warming Prevention Cleanup Cut fossil fuel use (especially coal) Remove CO2 from smoke stack and vehicle emissions Shift from coal to natural gas Store (sequester) CO2 by planting trees Improve energy efficiency Sequester CO2 deep underground Shift to renewable energy resources Sequester CO2 in soil by using no - till cultivation and taking cropland out of production Transfer energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies to developing countries Figure 20.14 Solutions: methods for slowing atmospheric warming during this century.

Westport Innovations Inc. is introducing a new on - board liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage solution that supports the use of cold (unsaturated) LNG fuel for large SI - engine vehicles that would have earlier required warm (saturated) LNG.

The production of Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) from organic waste for use as a vehicle fuel is an emerging strategy that businesses, states, and municipalities in the United States are pursuing to make use of waste - derived methane and lower the carbon footprint of vehicle fleets.

In passing the Act, Congress intended to replace 30 percent of petroleum vehicle fuel use with alternative fuels by 2010, through federal purchase of less polluting vehicles, and by harnessing the purchasing power of the federal government to spur the market for natural gas, propane, ethanol and electric vehicles, which produce less pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.

At present the environment would be better off if - instead of using natural gas to produce fertilizer and steam for the ethanol plant - the natural gas was just burned directly in CNG vehicles.

H.R. 1622 — a bill that [directs] the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct a five - year program of natural gas vehicle research, development, and demonstration; and (2) coordinate with the natural gas vehicle industry and with the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regarding streamlining the certification of natural gas conversion systems to federal certification requirements and in - use emission standards.

«The bill also seeks to improve the reliability and efficiency of natural gas fueling station infrastructure and boost the use of natural gas engines in hybrid vehicles,» according to Detroit News.

Natural gas vehicles comprise 15 % of the private vehicle fleet by 2050, even with more widespread use of biofuels.

In comparison, analogous damages associated with the generation of electricity to power a midsize electric vehicle (EV; 2013 Nissan Leaf, 0.29 kWh mile − 1 (fueleconomy.gov)-RRB- are $ 840 yr − 1 for electricity from coal, $ 290 yr − 1 for electricity from natural gas and miniscule for nuclear or renewables (again the contrast is slightly larger using US - specific valuation; see ESM).