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APRIL 11, 2023

Whenever new technologies are introduced into the power grid, there’s always a chance they could disrupt the system, possibly even leading to blackouts. Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Yi Cui has developed nanoparticle copper hexacyanoferrate (CuHCF) battery cathode materials that demonstrate long cycle life and high power for use in grid storage applications. Short-term transients, including those related to wind and solar sources, present challenges to the electrical grid. A team at Stanford led by Prof.

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JANUARY 19, 2010

US-based lithium-ion battery producer EnerDel is partnering with the real estate arm of Japan’s industrial trading giant, ITOCHU Corporation, to develop and produce the advanced battery systems for a residential smart grid energy storage project to be installed in a major apartment building near Tokyo. Earlier post.).

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JANUARY 2, 2014

Ford Motor Company announced the C-MAX Solar Energi Concept, a sun-powered hybrid vehicle that can deliver the efficiency of a plug-in hybrid without depending on the electric grid for recharging. This could be especially important in places where the electric grid is underdeveloped, unreliable or expensive to use. and Georgia Tech.

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MAY 29, 2015

The announcement comes four weeks after Tesla Motors announced its own entry into the ESS market with the home PowerWall Li-ion battery system ( earlier post ), although Daimler has been considering the move for several years. The battery modules with an energy capacity of 2.5 kWh (residential) and 5.9

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APRIL 26, 2013

A vehicle-to-grid (V2G) project between the University of Delaware and NRG Energy has begun selling power to PJM Interconnection for the power grid. Frequency regulations is used to balance supply and demand on the grid second-by-second. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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DECEMBER 8, 2011

Researchers at the US Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) released a technical report that provides an interim test plan for evaluating vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications. The global vehicle-to-grid (V2G) market is expected to grow at a rapid pace, reaching the $2.25 1547 tests. Resources. Chakraborty, W.

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DECEMBER 12, 2011

China Southern Power Grid (CSG) and Better Place opened their Switchable Electric Car Experience Center in Guangzhou’s Pearl River New Town. A switchable battery electric car today drove out from the experience center, marking Guangzhou as the starting point for EV network infrastructure in the five Southern provinces served by CSG.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2018

For electric and plug-in hybrid vehicles the carbon intensity of the power grid is also a key factor in terms of the vehicle’s full life cycle emissions. However, if a race for bigger and bigger batteries is left unchecked, EVs doing low mileages could undermine some of the potential benefits, the report finds.

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APRIL 8, 2011

At Hannover Messe 2011, Siemens presented a development project for inductive charging (“Contactless Charging of Battery-Electric Vehicles”), developed in cooperation with BMW. The charging station is connected to the public grid by a primary coil that is completely underground. microteslas.

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JANUARY 24, 2011

has been selected by a major US utility to provide a 1.5MWh capacity Lithium Ion SuperPolymer®Battery Energy Storage System for grid storage applications. The Electrovaya system will provide energy storage for renewable energy integration and the Smart Grid. Electrovaya Inc. Sankar Das Gupta, CEO of Electrovaya.

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MAY 3, 2012

Hydro-Québec’s research institute, IREQ, is teaming up with B3CG Interconnect, based in Saint-Eustache, and its partners to test vehicle-to-grid (V2G) and vehicle-to-home (V2H) power exchanges. The battery will be designed with IREQ-patented materials, such as lithium iron phosphate. TIVE electric powertrain system.

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JULY 22, 2021

announced a battery and power electronics development and supply agreement and an investment in eNow, Inc., a provider of solar and battery power systems that enable fully-electric Transport Refrigeration Units (eTRUs) for Class 8 commercial trailers. XL Fleet Corp.

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JANUARY 20, 2012

CODA Holdings, a developer of advanced battery systems and all-electric vehicles (the CODA sedan), has created CODA Energy , a new business arm targeting stationary grid storage systems. CODA believes that renewable energy combined with enhanced grid efficiency provides the key to ending global reliance on fossil fuels.

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MAY 18, 2011

have been selected as contractors for a joint US-Japan collaboration supporting a Smart Grid project on the Hawaiian island of Maui. and the other five participating companies will conduct a feasibility study expected to be completed by the middle of September 2011. Hitachi, Ltd., Cyber Defense Institute, Inc., Hitachi Ltd.

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DECEMBER 2, 2010

Mitsubishi Corporation (MC), Mitsubishi Motors Corporation (MMC) and Mitsubishi Electric Corporation (MELCO) have agreed to collaborate on a smart grid research project incorporating electric-vehicle-to-X (e.g., MC, MMC and MELCO have worked on Smart Grid systems to utilize these batteries since last March. home, factory, etc.)

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JANUARY 7, 2011

Chrysler Group Global Electric Motorcars LLC (GEM), a wholly owned subsidiary of Chrysler Group LLC, recently launched the 2011 GEM vehicle line of low-speed battery-electric vehicles. More than 45,000 GEM vehicles are on the road worldwide.

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JULY 18, 2011

In its new report Energy Storage on the Grid (ESG), Pike Research forecasts that global spending in the ESG market will reach a little over $22 billion over the next 10 years. Electric grids require balance in order to function properly. Energy storage on the grid is reaching a turning point. 2010 vs 2011 forecasts.

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MAY 15, 2018

ION Energy, a startup energy storage company, launched UDYR, an intelligent, modular and portable 48V, 32 Ah lithium-ion battery supported by ION’s proprietary battery management system, software platform, and backend analytics. The company formally launches at The Battery Show Europe 2018 with growing list of key customers.

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OCTOBER 2, 2010

Combining functionality with consumer friendly form from industrial designer Yves Behar, the Level 2 GE WattStation on average decreases electric vehicle charging time from 12-18 hours to as little as four to eight hours compared to standard Level 1, assuming a full-cycle charge for a 24 kWh battery. Residential WattStation. Click to enlarge.

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JUNE 21, 2016

BMW i announced a home stationary energy storage system solution integrating its BMW i3 vehicle battery at EVS 29 in Montréal. The system utilizes BMW i3 high-voltage batteries and can be expanded to incorporate second-life batteries as they become available in the market.

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APRIL 1, 2023

Building on ANSI EVSP roadmaps developed in the 2011-14 timeframe, the draft document seeks to describe the current and desired future standardization landscape that will support and facilitate EVs at scale. Topics covered include standards to address high power DC charging; storage (i.e.,

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MAY 26, 2011

Yet-Ming Chiang (co-founder of A123 Systems), report on their development of a new energy storage concept—a semi-solid flow cell (SSFC) combining the high energy density of rechargeable batteries with the flexible and scalable architecture of fuel cells and flow batteries—in a paper published in the journal Advanced Energy Materials.

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AUGUST 10, 2011

According to a recent report from Pike Research, hybrid locomotive sales will reach nearly 500 units during the period from 2011 to 2020, representing an increasing portion of the total market. In Europe, track electrification will eliminate the need for either diesel or battery storage in many areas. Source: Pike Research.

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AUGUST 18, 2009

Ford Motor Company has developed an intelligent vehicle-to-grid communications and control system for its plug-in hybrid electric vehicles that communicates directly with the electric grid. All 21 of Ford’s fleet of plug-in hybrid Escapes eventually will be equipped with the vehicle-to-grid communications technology.

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JULY 14, 2010

Using smart grid technology, GE WattStation allows utility companies to manage the impact of electric vehicles on the local and regional grids. GE WattStation will be commercially available globally in 2011. GE introduced the GE WattStation, a Level 2 plug-in vehicle (EV) charger.

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OCTOBER 10, 2011

The California Energy Commission has awarded $1,585,490 to spur research on projects including a solid-state Li-ion battery system for grid-scale energy storage. to develop and test a 25 kWh prototype battery system based on nanostructured polymer electrolytes. Commissioners approved $600,000 to Seeo Inc. Earlier post.).

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JUNE 9, 2022

microgrid, distributed energy resource management systems) integrated with DC charging, vehicle grid integration, high-power scalable/interoperable wireless charging, and vehicle-oriented systems. Outputs of the EVSP in the 2011-2014 timeframe included a Standardization Roadmap for Electric Vehicles (Version 2.0,

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MAY 14, 2013

The Li / Support is the electrode made possible with the convection battery technology. Galen Suppes say that they have further developed and validated the “convection battery” or “convection cell” technology originally announced in 2011 and 2012 ( earlier post ). Lower mass often translates to lower costs. Click to enlarge.

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FEBRUARY 18, 2012

Schematic of a redox flow battery. Sandia researchers have developed a new family of electrochemically reversible, metal-based ionic liquid (MetILs) that could lead to non-aqueous redox (reducing-oxidizing) flow-battery energy storage systems ( earlier post ) able to cost-effectively store three times more energy than today’s batteries.

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JUNE 2, 2011

The project, to be initially located in New Jersey, will evaluate energy storage technology for large-scale frequency regulation projects, and is expected to be installed in late 2011. The ALTI-ESS and ALTI-ESS Advantage will both be offered for the electric grid market based upon application requirements.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2013

The US Department of Energy’s (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) and California Lithium Battery , Inc. CalBattery) have signed a licensing agreement for an Argonne-developed, silicon-graphene composite anode material for high-energy lithium batteries. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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MARCH 30, 2012

Lithium polymer battery packs from Corvus Energy were recently installed in Europe’s first hybrid tugboat, the RotorTug RT Adriaan of KOTUG, an international maritime service provider headquartered in The Netherlands. The conversion features Corvus’ AT6500 48 volt lithium polymer battery packs. Corvus uses Dow Kokam cells.

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MARCH 28, 2017

Vattenfall and the BMW Group have signed a contract for the delivery of up to 1,000 lithium-ion batteries this year. The batteries—each with a capacity of 33 kWh—are equipped with a BMW-owned battery management system and are also used by the car manufacturer in the BMW i3. With a capacity of 3.2 Earlier post.).

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JULY 10, 2018

The Chinese EV battery manufacturer Contemporary Amperex Technology Ltd. The focus of the 14 GWh plant is on the automated production and intelligent production of batteries. CATL develops battery systems for global customers in EV, HEV and PHEV applications; its sales of EV batteries amounted to 11.84

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

trafficThis scenario is highly desirable to automotive manufacturers, who harbor great concerns about battery warranty if vehicle-to-grid discharging is allowed. V2GFull varies not only the charging of the vehicle battery, but also can vary the discharging of the battery back into the power grid.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

has received an initial contract to produce prototypes to deliver complete electric vehicle battery systems for DongFeng Motors’ two electric vehicle platforms. It accounts for 20% of the Chinese market and as of 2011 it has more Sino-foreign joint ventures than any other Chinese automaker. Electrovaya Inc. Electrovaya Inc.

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