Rich Simmons, director of research and studies of the Strategic Energy Institute at Georgia Tech discusses latest energy news updates and innovations with the state of Georgia public service commissioner Tim Echols in his Energy Matters radio show. Click here to listen to the conversation.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s proposal to increase biofuel blending mandates through 2025 would lead to a near-term increase in greenhouse gas emissions, before yielding reductions in the longer-term, according to agency documents.
Researchers from Georgia Tech are using funding from the U.S Department of Energy to reimagine Atlanta’s electric power infrastructure. Part of the project includes educating communities about energy planning.
A pair of 2,000-gallon water tanks standing 15 feet tall occupy a cordoned-off portion of a parking lot down the street from Georgia Tech University's Carbon Neutral Energy Solutions Laboratory. They're being used to grow algae, but in an extreme and novel way. Researchers at Georgia Tech are seeing if it's possible to take existing carbon dioxide in the air, capture it and feed it to the algae. Once the algae is refined, it can be used in things from food to fuel.
South Korean conglomerates SK Innovation and Hyundai Motor Group plan a sprawling electric vehicle battery plant in Bartow County, northwest of Atlanta, a project that is expected to create more than 3,500 jobs and rank as the third-largest corporate investment in state history.
Georgia Power, Plant McDonough-Atkinson Hydrogen Demonstration Project
A multi-organizational effort proved successful in completing what Georgia Power calls the world’s largest hydrogen fuel blending demonstration, paving the way for future hydrogen implementation in the Southeast.
Coal-fired power plant. Plant Bowen in Bartow County, Georgia. Ross Williams/Georgia Recorder.
Environmental groups are calling on the U.S. Congress to take action after a U.S. Supreme Court limiting the ability to enforce carbon emission pollution dealt a blow in the fight against climate change. But as the nation’s president and environmental organizations sound alarms, some experts say the ruling likely won’t impede progress in Georgia toward closing air polluting coal-fired power plants and moving toward cleaner forms of energy.
Georgia Power and partners complete the world’s largest hydrogen fuel blending demonstration, paving the way for future hydrogen implementation in the Southeast.