Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 8, 2019

In addition to having access to Québec’s vast water resources to generate green, renewable power at competitive prices, Hydro-Québec has everything it needs to support the development of green hydrogen. Renewable natural gas. The company’s energy reserves are stored in its 28 large reservoirs, which can accumulate 176 TWh.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2017

million investment in 2015) in Carbon Recycling International ( CRI ), an Icelandic company which produces renewable methanol using recycled CO 2 emissions sourced from a local thermal power plant and hydrogen made by splitting water with electrolysis (Power-to-Methanol). Geely is a shareholder ($45.5-million Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. Move In Pure uses the random share of CNR’s production to store electricity in the vehicles via a remote controlled system.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 29, 2020

An open-access paper on their work appears in the Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy , from AIP Publishing. In 2015, Zhang et al. Before use, Al and the LM alloys were stored separately to prevent passivation. The hydrogen is then used in a PEM fuel cell. Credit: Jing Liu.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

The new grants—part of DOE’s Computational Materials Sciences (CMS) program launched in 2015 as part of the US Materials Genome Initiative—reflect the enormous recent growth in computing power and the increasing capability of high-performance computers to model and simulate the behavior of matter at the atomic and molecular scales.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 2, 2016

In the event of increasing fluctuations in electricity feed-in from renewable energies such as wind and solar energy, such storage facilities help to ensure optimum settling of a mains frequency that has to be kept constant. enercity is responsible for marketing the storage facility on the primary balancing power market.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

With increasing EV sales—97,687 EVs were sold in Europe in 2015, up 48% on 2014—so is the requirement in energy to charge them. This can be used, for example, to store energy generated from on-site renewable generation resources such as solar panels and wind turbines, and then release it as needed at a later time.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2016

Renewable Energy Group, Inc. REG) announced that its Danville , Illinois operation now has more than 14 million gallons of tank capacity to store both biodiesel and feedstocks. REG Danville, LLC recently purchased the tank complex at the adjacent Bunge Milling, Inc. facility for approximately $1.5

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Four companies—Pathfinder Renewable Wind Energy, Magnum Energy, Dresser-Rand and Duke-American Transmission—have proposed a first-in-the-US, $8-billion green energy initiative that would bring large amounts of clean electricity to the Los Angeles area by 2023. million megawatt-hours per year vs. 3.9 million megawatt-hours.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 19, 2015

The project will run from 2015 to 2020 in a redevelopment area of the Methil Docks in Methil, Fife, Scotland’s third largest council area. The hydrogen will be stored and used as a fuel source for hybrid commercial vehicles (HCV) powered by fuel cells and diesel engines.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

. “Megapack is quieter and supports the local electric grid with energy shifting and stabilizing services and seamless integration with more renewable sources,” Tesla said in its video. With the 40 Tesla Megapacks now installed, the Deux-Acren plant can store up to 100MH of energy and up to 50MW of power.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 23, 2015

The syngas is stored and finally converted into jet fuel via the FT process. The production of solar thermochemical fuels presents only a viable option over conventional fuels if the CO 2 is captured from renewable sources such as the atmosphere and not from flue gases of a fossil power plant. Click to enlarge. —Falter et al.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 25, 2019

If electricity for driving during the use phase is obtained exclusively from renewable sources, CO 2 emissions of 62 g CO 2 /km in today’s EU electricity mix will drop to just 2 g CO 2 /km. In 2015, the figure was 43.6 Recycling the vehicle offers further opportunities to reduce CO 2 emissions through the circular economy.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2013

to bolster its grid capacity amid rapid growth in power generation using renewable energy. Delivery of the battery, which has about a 20-year lifespan, is planned for 2015. Renewable power sources such as solar and wind fluctuate sharply with the weather, creating concerns over the possible impact on grid voltage and frequency.

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Teslarati

MAY 3, 2021

The Powerwall stores excess energy that is captured by solar panels or from the grid and keeps it reserved for power outages, nighttime hours, or peak rate times to save money. The Powerwall was first introduced by Tesla in 2015, with its Powerwall 2 sibling being announced in October 2016.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 7, 2018

Among other enhancements, buses will be equipped with Cummins-Westport Near-Zero engines and fueled by Renewable Natural Gas, to further reduce NO x vehicle emissions by more than 90% by December 2018. In 2015, Big Blue Bus became one of the country’s first municipal transit agencies to convert its entire fleet to renewable natural gas (RNG).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 13, 2012

The Audi e-gas plant, which can convert six megawatts of input power, will utilize renewable electricity for electrolysis, producing oxygen and hydrogen, the latter which could one day power fuel-cell vehicles. Audi plans to launch a second TCNG model, based on the A4, in 2015. Ground was broken in September 2012.

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NOVEMBER 12, 2014

The Administration said the United States will submit its 2025 target to the Framework Convention on Climate Change as an “Intended Nationally Determined Contribution” no later than the first quarter of 2015. launching a new track on the interaction of energy and water (the energy/water ‘nexus’). million cubic meters of freshwater per year.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 27, 2015

Aerial view of plant, facing east (August 2015). DuPont broke ground on this facility in 2012, although preparation for the building of this advanced biorefinery started in the early 2000s when it began working with DOE’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on biofuels technology. DuPont Cellulosic Ethanol Facility.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2018

Crude palm oil is one of the more than ten renewable raw materials that Neste uses to produce a range of renewable products, including renewable diesel. Palm oil represents approximately 20% of Neste’s renewable raw material usage annually.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2012

The target is to have a network of quick charge stations across Europe with thousands of units in place by the end of 2015. Among the applications to be explored, the Zero Emission Centre of Excellence will focus on solutions to store the energy produced from renewable sources.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 25, 2015

The system first generates renewable hydrogen from water splitting using sustainable electrical and/or solar input and biocompatible inorganic catalysts. Carbohydrates are biomolecules that store the chemical energy used by living cells. Chang (2015) “Hybrid bioinorganic approach to solar-to-chemical conversion”. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2015

The multi-stage process uses renewable power to produce hydrogen using a proton exchange membrane (PEM) electrolyzer. Liquid hydrocarbons are considered an option to store renewable energy while decoupling supply and demand. Hydrogen is stored if excess power is available and used when the hydrogen demand exceeds its generation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

These vehicles are the green machines that will provide a critical part of the renewable and sustainable society that we need for the future. [ That is, PHEVLERs can store electricity whenever sun and wind-generated electricity is plentiful, and then can send stored power back into the smart grid at times when more electric power is needed.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

By giving Nissan electric vehicle owners the ability to plug their vehicles into the V2G system, owners will have the flexibility and power to sell stored energy from their vehicle battery back to the National Grid. Earlier post.) A trial comprising 40 V2G units began in Denmark in January 2016.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Underhood inverters convert the DC power stored in hybrid, plug-in hybrid, or all-electric vehicle battery packs to three-phase AC power that can be used to energize one or more electrical loads, and traditionally employ industry standard silicon semiconductors. —John Palmour, Wolfspeed’s chief technology officer.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 2, 2016

In his January 2015 inaugural address, California Governor Jerry Brown identified five key climate change strategy “pillars,” which recognize that several major areas of the California economy will need to reduce their emissions to meet California’s ambitious climate change goals. Source: 2030 Target Scoping Plan Discussion Draft.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 21, 2016

The remarkable advantage for BMW customers in using BMW i3 batteries as a plug and play storage application is the ability to tap into an alternative resource for residential and commercial backup power, thus using renewable energy much more efficiently, and enabling additional revenues from the energy market.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

As with the earlier assessment, this study consists of two separate, but related, analyses: greenhouse gas emissions from 2015-2050, and air quality impacts in 2030. In the Lower GHG scenario, in 2050, total emissions for the electricity and transportation sectors could be reduced by 2610 million metric tons relative to 2015 levels.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

While renewable energy has made promising gains in just the last few years—the cost of solar dropped by about two-thirds from 2009 to 2014—new drilling and extraction techniques have made fossil fuels cheaper and markedly increased the amount of oil and gas available. —Christopher Knittel.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Alternatively, black carbon can be stored away, using procedures that are much simpler, safer and cheaper than the storing of carbon dioxide. This idea was put to the test during a series of experimental campaigns that ran from late 2012 to the spring of 2015 in KIT’s KALLA (KArlsruhe Liquid Metal LAboratory).

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 22, 2010

These key goals are to develop hydrogen and fuel cell technologies for: Early markets such as stationary power (primary and backup), lift trucks, and portable power—in the 2010 to 2012 timeframe; Mid-term markets such as residential CHP systems, auxiliary power units, fleets and buses—in the 2012 to 2015 timeframe; and.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 15, 2015

The system, they suggest in a paper published in the Journal of the American Chemical Society , provides an alternative route to artificial photosynthesis for directly harvesting and storing solar energy in the form of chemical fuel. under visible light illumination (420–600 nm) without any other energy input. —Li et al. 5b03505.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 12, 2015

Scientists from the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) have discovered that a metabolic pathway previously only suggested to be functional in photosynthetic organisms is actually a major pathway and can enable efficient conversion of carbon dioxide to organic compounds. 2015.187.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 5, 2015

Improved grid utilization, resulting from EV charging management combined with a solar-powered “second-life” battery system, is expected to reduce stresses on the grid while supporting the integration of renewable energy. BMW will begin accepting applications at www.bmwichargeforward.com in January, and the program will kick off in July 2015.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 26, 2015

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have developed a new zinc-polyiodide redox flow battery offering more than two times the energy density of the next-best flow battery used to store renewable energy and support the power grid. Lab tests revealed the demonstration battery discharged 167 Wh l -1 of electrolyte.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2011

The cap-and-trade joins a suite of other major climate program measures including standards for ultra-clean cars (Advanced Clean Cars, earlier post ), low-carbon fuels (Low Carbon Fuel Standard, earlier post ) and renewable electricity. the second, starting in 2015, brings in distributors of transportation fuels, natural gas and other fuels.

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