Affordable, San Diego and Solar

Electrify America increases access to solar-powered EV charging for rural Californians with 30 stations

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Electrify America, the nation’s largest public ultra-fast charging network, has added 30 solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations with two Level 2 chargers each to its network in the state of California. Twenty of the 30 solar-powered charging stations are located at health care centers.

Solar

Solar America San Diego Charging

California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2019

From rebates for electric and plug-in vehicles to energy efficiency and solar installations that are reducing home energy costs, more than 125,000 individual projects were completed in 2018. To date, $9.3 billion in cap-and-trade proceeds has been appropriated to 20 state agencies that have distributed $3.4 billion from other sources.

Affordable

Affordable 2018 California San Diego

CPUC proposes revising Net Energy Metering rules to push customers to install storage with rooftop solar

Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2021

For more than 20 years, California has aggressively supported the rooftop solar market through its Net Energy Metering (NEM) program in Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E), Southern California Edison (SCE), and San Diego Gas & Electric Company (SDG&E) territories. NEM has enabled 1.3

Solar

Solar Installation Energy Grid

Next 10-UC Berkeley study suggests additional tax revenue or income-based rate structure to make electricity more affordable for Californians

Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

These costs cover much of the generation, transmission and distribution fixed costs, as well as energy efficiency programs, subsidies for houses with rooftop solar and low-income customers, and increasing wildfire mitigation costs. Overall average residential rates, including those on low-income rates (CARE).

Affordable

Affordable Tax San Diego California

A Stand for Solar: How a united movement helped pause CA’s solar tax proposal — at least for now

Teslarati

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

shocked climate advocates due to its proposed changes to the state’s rules on residential solar solutions. would charge solar users with a “grid participation charge” of $8/kWh of installed solar. Tesla estimated that an $8/kWh charge could add between $50-$80/month to a solar customer’s power bill.

Solar

Solar Tax California Climate

EVgo launches grid-tied public fast charging system with second-life batteries

Green Car Congress

JULY 11, 2018

Following a pilot program at University of California San Diego (UCSD), this second-life battery system has been unveiled at an operational EVgo fast charging station located in Union City, CA at 3960 Smith Street.

Grid

Grid Charging Battery Batteries

CA’s solar tax supporters are trying to run a “wealthy vs disadvantaged” narrative: It doesn’t have to be

Teslarati

JANUARY 13, 2022

In the document, the commission argued that the existing net energy metering tariff “negatively impacts non-participating customers; is not cost-effective; and disproportionately harms low-income ratepayers” since homeowners without solar are being shouldered with the price of maintaining the grid. requires your leadership.

Solar

Solar Tax San Diego California

DOE selects 4 more algae technology projects for up to $8.8M in funding; > $16M total

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2017

The Colorado School of Mines, in partnership with Global Algae Innovations, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, and Colorado State University, will improve the productivity of robust wild algal strains using advanced directed evolution approaches in combination with high-performance, custom-built, solar simulation bioreactors.

San Diego

San Diego Colorado North Carolina Montana

Powering up apartment dwellers across the Golden State with 120 new EV chargers

EV Match

JULY 15, 2021

We at EVmatch know that in order to make an EV lifestyle possible for more people, we have to create convenient, practical, affordable ways for people – regardless of where they live or work – to fit EV charging into their daily lives. The Game Plan and Timeline.

San Diego

San Diego Los Angeles Grant Power

This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

Cars That Think

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Tushar Sharma Employer Renesas Electronics, San Diego. Building a thriving semiconductor industry At the meeting with Modi, Sharma presented the prime minister with a cutting-edge 5G millimeter-wave and sub-6-gigahertz chipset designed by Renesas’s R&D teams in Bengaluru and San Diego.

India

India Engine Global San Diego

NREL and partners to investigate secondary uses for electric drive vehicle batteries

Green Car Congress

APRIL 6, 2011

The cost of Li-ion batteries currently affects the affordability of plug-in hybrid and electric vehicles (PHEV/EV) for consumers. While these PHEV/EV batteries degraded to 70%-80% of their original power/capacity are insufficient for automotive use, these aged batteries may still be useful and could be reused in other applications.

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Li-ion San Diego Battery Batteries

Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

Green Car Congress

APRIL 24, 2013

will create the Honda Smart Home US, a showcase that demonstrates Honda’s vision for sustainable, zero-carbon living and personal mobility, including the use of solar power to charge a Honda Fit EV battery electric vehicle. Among the technologies that will be applied to the Honda Smart Home US: Solar Power System. ZeroHouse 2.0

Honda

Honda Ford Davis Grid

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

The TCF was created by the Energy Policy Act of 2005 to help catalyze the agency’s research, development, demonstration, and deployment efforts into affordable, market-ready energy solutions, by strengthening partnerships between DOE’s National Labs and American entrepreneurs. Oberon Fuels (San Diego, California).

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Commercial Energy Albuquerque New York

ARPA-E awards $2.1M to Marine BioEnergy for open ocean farming of kelp for hydrocarbon biofuels

Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Leichter at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California at San Diego, and a team led by Douglas C. The open ocean is an immense untapped region for collecting solar energy. The kelp will be processed into biocrude and further to hydrocarbons ready for commercial refineries.

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Mariner San Diego Water 2015

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

Cars That Think

JANUARY 28, 2023

Another expectation is that homeowners and businesses will become “ fully electrified ” by replacing oil, propane and gas furnaces with heat pumps along with gas fired stoves as well as installing solar power and battery systems. The San Diego backlash over a mileage tax may be just the beginning.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate San Diego Emissions

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

The new ARPA-E selections focus on accelerating innovations in clean technology while increasing US competitiveness in rare earth alternatives and breakthroughs in biofuels, thermal storage, grid controls, and solar power electronics. Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 Abengoa Solar Inc.

Energy

Energy Clean Cleaning Grid

More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Charged EVs

MAY 8, 2023

The case that I made for the Senate is that bidirectional capabilities, with the right V2G business model, can reduce the total cost of ownership of an EV, and therefore make EVs more affordable. Many including San Diego Unified, LA Unified. We are in the process of commissioning those charging stations right now.

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Charging Grid DC Denmark

Coming Soon – The Electric City

Revenge of the Electric Car

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

In cities like San Francisco, Portland, Ore., and San Diego, a combination of green consciousness and enthusiasm for new technology seems to be stirring public interest in the cars. The employees pull into carports that are covered with solar panels and plug their cars into the 100 available charging stations.

San Francisco

San Francisco Neighborhood Electrical Electric

EV Driven

Electrify America increases access to solar-powered EV charging for rural Californians with 30 stations

California cap-and-trade spending doubles to $1.4 billion in 2018; xEV rebates, affordable housing, wildfire prevention, public transit

CPUC proposes revising Net Energy Metering rules to push customers to install storage with rooftop solar

Next 10-UC Berkeley study suggests additional tax revenue or income-based rate structure to make electricity more affordable for Californians

A Stand for Solar: How a united movement helped pause CA’s solar tax proposal — at least for now

EVgo launches grid-tied public fast charging system with second-life batteries

CA’s solar tax supporters are trying to run a “wealthy vs disadvantaged” narrative: It doesn’t have to be

DOE selects 4 more algae technology projects for up to $8.8M in funding; > $16M total

Powering up apartment dwellers across the Golden State with 120 new EV chargers

This Engineer Is Helping to Make India a Global Semiconductor Hub

NREL and partners to investigate secondary uses for electric drive vehicle batteries

Honda and Ford separately launching smart home demos

DOE announces more than $65M in public and private funding to commercialize promising energy technologies

ARPA-E awards $2.1M to Marine BioEnergy for open ocean farming of kelp for hydrocarbon biofuels

Why EVs Aren't a Climate Change Panacea

DOE ARPA-E awards $156M to projects to 60 projects to accelerate innovation in clean energy technologies

More details about California’s proposal requiring bidirectional charging capabilities for all EVs

Coming Soon – The Electric City

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