Triangle Clean Cities Rundown:

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Upcoming Events
Oct 31 | Hydrogen 101 Lunch and Learn Series Part 4: Hydrogen Production
Oct 30 | Moving Forward to Build a Diverse & Inclusive Transportation Workforce in the Southeast
Nov 2-3 | Making Energy Work Conference, NC Sustainable Energy Association
Opportunities
Read: Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator
Read: Joint office of Energy and Transportation Technical Assistance
Alternative Fuel News!
Read: BIL to send States $61 billion to repair roads and bridges
Read: New Electric Chargers for Aircraft in NC
Read: City of Wilson's microtransit service is booming
Read: Greensboro: A North Carolina City Imagines a “Car-Optional” Future
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Upcoming Events

Join Triangle Clean Cities and the Southeast Hydrogen Energy Alliance in our October webinar series on the all things hydrogen comes to a close. The 4th session webinar will delve into the topic of producing hydrogen for fuel. Readers interested are welcome to register at the link below!

October featured weekly Hydrogen webinars. Readers are welcome to visit our website to view the previous session recordings!

Driving Change: Moving Forward to Build a Diverse & Inclusive Transportation Workforce in the Southeast

Oct. 30 1:00 pm ET

Virtual

Registration is open for a workforce inclusion webinar hosted by the University of Florida's STRIDE center in conjunction with USDOT. This webinar addresses two recommendations from a previous project: (1) A Framework for the Development of a Diverse Transportation Workforce in the Southeast Region - the development of a repository on workforce development in the Southeast and (2) a transportation curriculum to address diversity equity and inclusion. Both topics will be addressed in this webinar via two distinct presentations.

Located in Hilton Raleigh, North Hills

Join stakeholders from across the country to engage in thought-provoking discussions, networking opportunities, and thought leadership designed to shape policies that advance an accessible and affordable clean energy economy for all. This year's Making Energy Work conference will cover the latest policy and regulatory happenings at the state and federal level to outline the potential pathways towards decarbonization of our electricity, transportation, and building sectors.

Opportunities

Electric Vehicle Charger Reliability and Accessibility Accelerator

The DOE has recently issued a Notice of Funding Opportunity intended to aid state and federal governments repair non-functional level 2 and DCFast EV chargers. The FOA is anticipated to set aside a combined $100 million for these activities. To be eligible, the charger must be publicly available, and listed as "temporarily unavailable" in the Alternative Fuels Data Center's Station. USDOT has put forth a list of eligible chargers in the supplementary materials. Applications due Nov. 13.

Click here to read more about this opportunity.

Technical Assistance 101 – How Can the Joint Office Support You

The US Joint Office of Energy and Transportation have recently put out a guide on how to receive technical assistance from them. They are available as a resource to entities pursuing grants in the clean transportation space, as well as others planning their fleet transition. Approaching them through this channel is a good first step to folding them in to future opportunities.

Click here to read more about this opportunity.

Alternative Fuels in the News

What if public transit was like Uber? A small city ended its bus service to find out

"Wilson landed federal and state infrastructure grants to support the shared, public rides residents summon — usually within 15 minutes — through a service operating like Uber and Lyft, but at a fraction of the cost to riders. Trips are now $2.50, a dollar more than they were at launch, and Bunn quips, “you can’t drive a Pinto for that.”

Read more about the City of Wilson's microtransit service

Biden-Harris Administration Sending States $61 Billion from the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law for America’s Roads and Bridges

“Anticipated EV manufacturing jobs in the Southeast grew 56% over the past 12 months, as manufacturing investments grew 97%. This 12-month growth was driven by Hyundai in Georgia, which committed $4.3 billion in battery manufacturing investments in partnership with LG Energy Solutions, and Toyota in North Carolina, which expanded its committed battery manufacturing investments to $5.9 billion"

Read more about the Biden Administrations efforts

Transportation Leaders Break Ground on State’s First Multimodal Electric Charging Stations

"Funded by the Joint Office of Energy and Transportation, the ChargeX Consortium includes a team of researchers from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), Argonne National Laboratory, and Idaho National Laboratory (INL). The national laboratories, led by INL, will collaborate with a cross section of the EV charging stakeholder community to address major charging experience challenges over the next two years."

Read More about the new EV chargers for aircraft in NC

Greensboro: A North Carolina City Imagines a “Car-Optional” Future

"Greensboro, North Carolina is a pleasant city of 300,000 with two big universities, located in the Piedmont Triad northeast of Charlotte. The city has already adopted a goal to be “car-optional ” by 2045. What kind of public transit would that goal require?"

Read more about Greensboro's future transit plans

More News

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