During the Singapore Maritime Week, the U.S. Department of Energy endorsed a strategy to achieve net-zero emissions in the marine transportation sector by 2050. To make this goal a reality,…
https://gcaptain.com/u-s-department-of-energy-commits-to-decarbonizing-the-maritime-sector-by-2050/
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has released the findings from a two-year-long study evaluating transmission options to support offshore wind energy deployment along the East Coast. The Atlantic Offshore Wind…
By Curtis Williams HOUSTON, Oct 30 (Reuters) – U.S. Department of Energy reviews for liquefied natural gas (LNG) export permits have lengthened under President Joe Biden’s administration to 11 months…
https://gcaptain.com/lng-export-permit-reviews-slow-under-biden-administration/
This week saw some developments in the rail car manufacturing space:
Specially designed rail car for spent nuclear fuel could be cleared for use by 2023’s endThe U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy says a specially designed, 12-axle rail car that would carry spent nuclear fuel could be ready for operational use by the end of this year.
DOE has been busy conducting final tests of the Atlas rail car, which is designed to transport spent nuclear fuel and high-level radioactive waste...
LAS VEGAS — For the $20 million it spent on the Freightliner Cascadia SuperTruck II program, Daimler Truck North America expects some of the advanced technology to find its way into production.
That’s what happened after SuperTruck I, an $80 million split between DTNA and the Department of Energy that ran between 2010 and 2015. The DOE matched DTNA’s $20 million for SuperTruck II.
The investment from the first SuperTruck program paid off. Current generation Freightliner Cascadias have a...
The methodology change for producing the weekly average retail diesel price published each week by the Department of Energy has taken the survey base up to 590 outlets, according to a spokesman for the agency.
In response to a series of questions submitted by FreightWaves regarding the methodology shifts, Chris Higginbotham of the Energy Information Administration’s media relations team identified two major changes in how the weekly price, which is the basis for most fuel surcharges, is now...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/doe-methodology-for-determining-diesel-prices-sees-2-key-changes
My favorite scene in the movie adaptation of Michael Lewis’ “Moneyball” occurred during 2003 in the darkened Oakland A’s locker room where Billy Beane, the team’s general manager, reluctantly slid a folded piece of paper across a table to his math genius assistant Peter Brand.
Unfolding the paper, Brand stared at the number written, telling Beane after a pause the offer from the Boston Red Sox would make Beane the highest-paid general manager in sports.
“So?” So what? Beane replies somewhat...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/commentary-its-not-about-the-money-its-what-the-money-says
What is the safest railcar in North America? The Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy and the Navy might argue that the railcars that they’re producing to transport high-level radioactive material are the safest. What’s more, the designs for these railcars are in the public domain.
The Navy and DOE have been working together to develop railcars that would carry high-level radioactive waste and spent nuclear fuel, which is the fuel that has been used at nuclear power plants. The Navy...
The final results won’t be known until the end of the year, but participants in the Department of Energy’s SuperTruck II program are racking up serious efficiency gains aimed at diesels that could ultimately help electric trucks go farther on a single charge.
The goals of SuperTruck II are 55% brake thermal efficiency (BTE) improvement for heavy-duty diesel engines and double the freight efficiency, as measured in miles per gallon multiplied by the freight tons carried.
Daimler Truck North...
Boosted by billions of dollars for electrification, the rapidly advancing market for battery-powered commercial trucks will soon learn whether there is enough juice to begin scaling a transformation from diesel to zero tailpipe emission electric transport.
It doesn’t look good.
“We’ve got to worry about supply and demand, and we’ve got to make sure that all these things come together, and that means like now. The race is on right now,” Britta Gross, managing director of the Carbon Free Mobility...
https://www.freightwaves.com/news/electric-truck-charging-can-infrastructure-keep-pace-with-demand