Green Car Congress

JANUARY 12, 2021

In 2017, Russelectric installed a renewable, hybrid microgrid at its Hingham location, consisting of grid power, a solar photovoltaic power generation system, an energy storage system, and a diesel generator.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2018

California’s grid is facing an era of rapid change. Framework of Electric Mobility - Infrastructure - Charging - Grid Nexus. Only about one% of total Uber and Lyft trip miles in California are made in electric vehicles (as of Q3 2017). Gopal and Julia Szinai of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. Distributed Energy Resources.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 19, 2018

We see $548 billion being invested in battery capacity by 2050, two thirds of that at the grid level and one third installed behind-the-meter by households and businesses. trillion of that going to wind and solar and a further $1.5 Coal’s share in primary energy in 2017 fell to 27.6%, the lowest since 2004. NEO 2018 sees $11.5

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2016

Renault, Europe’s leading electric vehicles manufacturer, and its Dutch economic partners Utrecht City Council, ElaadNL and LomboXnet signed a letter of intent in Paris to develop a Franco-Dutch framework of smart solar charging solutions for electric vehicles. Renault would supply a fleet of 150 Renault ZOE models through 2017 to the city.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 15, 2024

A Tesla Model Y owner decided to build his own solar roof that can add over 20 miles of range to the electric SUV per day. Tesla, like many other automakers, had previously explored adding solar to electric vehicles, but it has never pulled the trigger on the feature. It led to a surprise announcement.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 27, 2016

These high-efficiency PV cells and modules will be used to produce solar panels in the non-solar roof products. When production of the solar roof begins, Tesla will also incorporate Panasonic’s cells into the many kinds of solar glass tile roofs that Tesla will be manufacturing.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

The partnership enables sodium-ion battery technology to be incorporated in a range of renewable energy applications including residential energy storage, commercial micro-grids, wind turbine and tidal energy storage.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 13, 2018

Construction on the methanation plant began in July 2017. While the current facility feeds pure hydrogen (“WindGas”) directly into the gas grid, the new methanation plant provides for the generation of “green” methane. This stored energy is then available as backup whenever there is an insufficient supply of solar and wind power.

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CleanTechnica EVs

JANUARY 4, 2023

In 7 years of electrification and deployment of wind and solar, the US barely budged the needle, in fact declining slightly to more wasted energy in 2016 and 2017 before improving again in 2018 and onward.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 22, 2022

A November 2021 assessment of Diablo Canyon by a team from Stanford and MIT concluded that delaying the retirement of Diablo Canyon to 2035 would reduce California power sector carbon emissions by more than 10% from 2017 levels and reduce reliance on gas; save $2.6

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

New investment in wind, solar, and other clean energy projects in developing nations dropped sharply in 2018, largely due to a slowdown in China. This is due to wind and solar projects generating only when natural resources are available while oil, coal, and gas plants can potentially produce around the clock. thousand in 2017.

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Electrek

MAY 24, 2021

In today’s Electrek Green Energy Brief (EGEB): The decline in natural gas generation in the first four months of 2021 is the first year-over-year decline since 2017. Here are 5 things US households can do this summer to ease stress on the grid and save money.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 25, 2016

Climate & Renewables North America, LLC (E.ON) signed an agreement with Tucson Electric Power (TEP) to provide frequency response and voltage control from a grid-scale, 10 megawatt (MW) battery energy storage facility with a 2 MW solar array. The project is expected to be completed in the first half of 2017.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2017

The technology installation in Germany follows the debut of the domestic Honda Power Manager Concept at the 2017 Frankfurt Motor Show in September. Through bi-directional energy transfer, electricity is drawn from the grid or is generated by photovoltaic solar panels, and is used to charge EVs plugged in to the system.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

The Nissan/Eaton partnership offers xStorage Home, xStorage Buildings and xStorage Grid-scale products. kWh option coming at the end of 2017. The xStorage Home unit also has the capability to provide energy back to the grid in countries where the conditions enable customers to do so. Storage capacities are 4.2

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 5, 2017

Powervault is placing 50 trial units, powered by second-life batteries provided by Renault, in the homes of customers who already have solar panels installed. Powervault is an innovative home battery system, which enables homeowners to increase their ability to store and use the solar energy freely-generated from their own solar panels.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 9, 2020

Also, they typically charge during the day, when a greater quantity of solar energy is powering the grid. The study drew from Uber and Lyft data on travel behavior and public charging use in California between early 2017 through late 2018, a time of rapid growth for ride-hailing services.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 8, 2024

Kitty Hawk Wind’s power grid interconnection would bring in $275 million in cumulative property tax revenue for its host, the City of Virginia Beach. The US Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) awarded Kitty Hawk Wind the 122,405-acre lease in 2017 to develop an offshore wind project off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2020

A separate project team has therefore been preparing and structuring the concept for the implementation since the middle of 2017. megawatts is connected to the grid here. The company already offers expansive charging capacities at the training centers at Munich Airport. Audi’s largest individual charging park with a power input of 2.1

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Green Car Congress

JULY 20, 2017

The existing grid infrastructure sometimes proves inadequate to support faster charging. This architecture helps overcome the slow charge issue by acting as a buffer between the grid and the vehicle and allowing EVs to be charged rapidly from the advanced lithium ion batteries instead of directly but more slowly from the grid.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 16, 2018

The European H2FUTURE project consortium, comprising voestalpine, Siemens, VERBUND, and Austrian Power Grid, together with the research partners K1-MET and ECN, officially gave the green light to the construction of a 6 MW “green” hydrogen pilot production plant—the world’s largest—at a voestalpine Linz steel plant.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 14, 2017

The system operates under visible light, is stable beyond six days and is even able to reform unprocessed lignocellulose, such as wood and paper, under solar irradiation at room temperature, presenting an inexpensive route to drive aqueous proton reduction to H 2 through waste biomass oxidation. Wakerley et al. Click to enlarge. 2017.21.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 7, 2014

The city of Beijing will invest more than $160 billion to improve air quality and deliver on its target of reducing harmful fine Particulate Matter (PM 2.5 ) particles by 25% by 2017. The Chinese government recently announced increased investment in solar, wind, hydro and biomass energy in a bid to decrease its dependency on fossil fuels.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 17, 2016

Romeo Power’s EV and consumer lines will launch in early 2017; the company also plans an industrial line. In addition to its EV line, Romeo Power designs and manufactures consumer and industrial battery inverters that empower developing communities without reliable grid access to transform solar or kinetic energy to electricity.

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My Energi

AUGUST 19, 2021

Charging at home is even more affordable if a homeowner has solar panels, a smart energy tariff and a genuinely intelligent EV charger ; allowing them them to harness energy when it is at its cheapest and greenest. zappi is the worlds first solar compatible electric vehicle charger invented in 2017 by British manufacturer myenergi.

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

As the technology improves, we see it enabling solar panels that work at night as well as day, powering remote sensors. Consider solar radiation, which carries heat from the sun to Earth’s surface. During the daytime, solar radiation comes into the equation.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 22, 2016

At present, the company’s partners include the energy service provider Energie Baden-Württemberg (EnBW), the solar technology specialist SMA, as well as a number of wholesale traders. Households with their own photovoltaic systems can therefore buffer surplus solar power with virtually no losses. Further projects are already planned.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 8, 2016

Kokam has successfully deployed two Lithium Nickel Manganese Cobalt (NMC) Oxide Energy Storage Systems (ESSs)—a 24-megawatt (MW) system / 9-megawatt hour (MWh) and a 16 MW / 6 MWh system—for frequency regulation on the South Korean electricity grid.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 11, 2017

The high reliability, low emission rates, low noise levels and dramatically reduced footprint make fuel cells a suitable choice for micro-grids within data centers. The novel concept of a “hydrogen-based” carbon-free data center utilizes hydrogen fuel cells, electrolyzers, storage, solar (photovoltaic) cells and wind turbines.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

From 1996 to 2017, annual capital investment by these utilities for electric distribution systems nearly doubled, which was similar to increases in transmission investment over the same time period. This increase has been largely driven by increases in capital investment.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The regulation ramps up the amount of electricity from wind, solar, geothermal and other renewable sources of energy while preserving the existing authorities of the energy agencies and the grid operator.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 11, 2012

In line with the government’s plan to develop a national e-vehicle industry, the project will support the establishment of an e-vehicle parts industry, battery supply chain, and charging stations, including five off-grid solar charging stations. The project will run for five years, with an estimated completion date of December 2017.

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Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

In September 2017 , Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico. A microgrid is like a miniaturized, tightly controlled version of a power grid. Several factors combine to make Puerto Rico an ideal place for solar power and microgrids. Maria destroyed infrastructure and crops and initially claimed 64 lives.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2018

The Association was established in October 2017 to promote the commercialization of a low-carbon hydrogen supply chain and to bridge entities including industry, academia, and government throughout the prefecture in order to achieve this. Background. Hydrogen is a useful energy source for realizing a low-carbon society.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 9, 2015

These batteries make smartphones, laptops, tablets, electric cars and even solar energy practical.”. Even more than hybrid cars, grid storage and the “powerwall” will drive lithium demand through the roof. Annual growth in the battery space could be around 20 percent, which means that demand could double every five years.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

In conjunction with the annual Solar Power International conference, the US Department of Energy (DOE) released new research showing that the solar industry has achieved the 2020 utility-scale solar cost target set by the SunShot Initiative. NREL PV system cost benchmark summary (inflation adjusted), 2010–2017.

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Creative Greenius

JANUARY 11, 2010

org, GRID Alternatives, Greenpeace, Environmental Priorities Network, Malibu City Council – they all got chunks of my volunteer time in ‘09. By 2020 Torrance, having closed down the ExxonMobil refinery in 2017 will proudly declare it has reached carbon neutral status. And I worked my ass off.

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