arizona Archives – The Green Optimistic green tech news, since 2008 Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:16:29 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 2667534 States Competing for Tesla Gigafactory to Build Within Their Borders https://www.greenoptimistic.com/states-competing-tesla-gigafactory-build-within-borders-20140325/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/states-competing-tesla-gigafactory-build-within-borders-20140325/#respond Tue, 25 Mar 2014 14:15:44 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=46639 Economically speaking, the Tesla Gigafactory promises to be a boon to, not only Tesla Motors, but also to whichever state Tesla Motors ends up building the grand industrial complex. The Tesla Gigafactory’s promised economic benefits, aside from being estimated at some $5 billion to construct and supplying lithium-ion battery packs for some 500,000 electric vehicles […]

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]]> https://www.greenoptimistic.com/states-competing-tesla-gigafactory-build-within-borders-20140325/feed/ 0 46639 New Plant in Arizona Turns Garbage Into Gas https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-new-plant-in-arizona-turns-garbage-into-gas-20130507/ https://www.greenoptimistic.com/a-new-plant-in-arizona-turns-garbage-into-gas-20130507/#respond Tue, 07 May 2013 19:16:53 +0000 https://www.greenoptimistic.com/?p=37000 The Spanish engineering company Abengoa announced that they will invest $110 million to build a plant, which will turn garbage into electricity. The new factory will be located in the city of Glendale, Arizona. Abengoa states that the construction will take around 20 months. The factory will be owned by Vieste Energy, a Chicago-based energy […]

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