Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2015

Fortunately, abundant renewable power is getting cheaper, while gasoline from finite fossil fuels may get more expensive. Even though not all renewables are created equal, power purchase agreements (PPAs) for PV projects with utilities in the US Southwest are now coming in under seven cents per kWh for a twenty year period.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 13, 2010

Ford, Detroit Edison and Xtreme Power are teaming up to establish one of Michigan’s largest solar power generation systems and electric vehicle charging stations at Ford’s Michigan Assembly Plant in Wayne, Mich. Ford will work with Detroit Edison to install a 500 kW solar photovoltaic panel system at Michigan Assembly.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Denver, Colo. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Groundwork Renewables Inc., Flexible perovskite-perovskite PV for mobile power applications, $745,500 Swift Solar, Redwood City, Calif. The Solar Foundation, Washington, D.C.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 24, 2012

s smart grid research project in Austin’s Mueller community, the Pecan Street Demonstration. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc. More than a third of the homes in Mueller have rooftop solar collectors, and Pecan Street will evaluate how solar and electric vehicle charging interact.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

As power grids everywhere increasingly rely on intermittent renewable energy, batteries and other forms of energy storage that can even out the bumps in supply and demand are taking on a crucial role. Solar-to-Hydrogen Tech Sees "Remarkable" Efficiency Jump Another big development in the energy sector is the return of the hydrogen economy.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The 19 launch markets also include Atlanta; Austin and Houston, Texas; Boston; Chicago; Denver; Detroit; Los Angeles; San Francisco; San Diego; New York; Orlando, Fla.; Renewable energy collected by the solar panels directly feeds the energy-efficient microgrid, helping power the plant. Phoenix and Tucson, Ariz.; Portland, Ore.;

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 15, 2013

Outside of a few Western States, utility-scale geothermal may be considered a more limited energy source than some other renewable technologies, but that is changing. In 2012, Enel Green Power’s Stillwater Geothermal Power Plant was commissioned in the Silver State, becoming the country’s first hybrid solar-geothermal project.

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Electric Auto Association

JULY 5, 2021

Perhaps most importantly, a significant level of Houston’s energy portfolio now comes from renewables. We encourage our members to contact their representatives in Austin,” said HEAA President Dave Hanson, explaining that recent activity has centered around several bills intended to greatly increase EV registration fees.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 29, 2014

Phase II of the project expanded the use of this network to schedule charge times based on the needs of the driver and preferred rate structures, including the use of renewable energy sources for charging. Earlier post.) Earlier post.). Earlier post.). Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Improved energy storage technologies will allow for expanded integration of renewable energy resources like wind and photovoltaic systems and will improve frequency regulation and peak energy management. This project will develop and implement an Energy Internet microgrid, located in a large mixed-use infill development site in Austin, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

City of Austin, Austin. Austin and San Antonio region; and hold training seminars regarding multifamily housing and workplace electric vehicle charging. compressed natural gas (CNG) cylinder tracking system and Renewable. Carolina Solar Center. . $500,000. Natural Gas Vehicle and Propane Partnerships. 500,000.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

By allowing utility operators to pump water up to a dam or impoundment during periods of low electricity demand and release water during times of peak electricity demand, pumped storage hydropower improves the reliability of electric grids and helps increase the use of variable renewable energy resources such as wind and solar power.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 7, 2009

Solar Energy Conversion in Complex Materials (SECCM). Study complex material structures on the nanoscale to identify key features for their potential use as materials to convert solar energy and heat to electricity. Solar Fuels and Next Generation Photovoltaics. Polymer-Based Materials for Harvesting Solar Energy. $16.

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Plug In Partners

APRIL 3, 2007

Fialka Wall Street Journal March 26, 2007 AUSTIN, Texas -- Of all the plans cooked up by cities to combat pollution and global warming, the one hatched here is among the most ambitious -- and, some say, one of the more quixotic. Some utilities will buy extra power that their customers produce by home solar panels.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Tesla’s Megapack power storage systems are being deployed around much of the world, effectively offering massive batteries for storing energy from renewable sources such as solar or wind energy. The company also has Megapacks in use at many of its own facilities, including its Gigafactory in Austin, Texas.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

To date, the TCF has funded more than 380 projects by unlocking more than $170 million in funding from more than 300 private sector partners, including automotive manufacturers, energy storage companies, utilities, bioenergy companies, solar providers, and aerospace companies. NovaCentrix (Austin, Texas). First Solar Inc.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 24, 2014

Ten of these projects are new while the rest received renewed funding based both on their achievements to date and the quality of their proposals for future research. National Renewable Energy Laboratory. Argonne-Northwestern Solar Energy Research (ANSER) Center. Solid-State Solar-Thermal Energy Conversion Center (S3TEC).

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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 National Renewable.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 26, 2009

The vehicles and infrastructure being funded include the use of natural and renewable gas, propane, ethanol, biodiesel, electricity, and hybrid technologies. The project will convert local landfill gas (LFG), a renewable fuel source, to compressed natural gas and develop five CNG fueling stations throughout the metro-Atlanta area.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 19, 2023

The structured catalyst consists of a supported active metal and provides the ability to utilize low-carbon renewable electricity to supply the endothermic heat required for methane pyrolysis.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

The PHEV3A mission is to educate America one town (or in this case one school) at a time on getting its own energy independence back by moving away from imported oil to using home grown electrons preferably from renewable energy sources like solar, wind and hydro-power.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 17, 2022

Hydrogen produced from renewable energy or nuclear power, with minimal greenhouse-gas emissions, could be piped or transported pretty much anywhere, using mostly existing infrastructure. It could power trucks, cars, planes, and ships and generate electricity, either in fuel cells or combustion turbines. There’s just so much activity.”

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 21, 2009

Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy. She spent the previous year as a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University, and before that she was the Southwest correspondent for The Economist based in Austin, Tex. Posts | Profile Kate Galbraith Reporter Ms. Follow the money.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

The Next ‘Better Place’ Is Australia New Subsidies for Electric Cars in Britain Tesla Motors to Build Battery Packs for Other Car Makers Previous post Group Says European Cap-and-Trade System Reduced Emissions Next post Cutting Costs With Solar Walls From 1 to 25 of 29 Comments 1 2 Next » 1. but not all of it.

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CleanTechnica EVs

MAY 12, 2021

By David Lapp Jost Joe Biden’s proposed $2.3 trillion-over-8-years “once in a generation” infrastructure spending bill has launched a flurry of conversation. Infrastructure spending, job creation in the post-Corona economy, and a national response to climate change are on the table.

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EV Match

AUGUST 29, 2022

on a path to reducing emissions more than 40% below 2005 levels, per a Princeton University analysis of the measure’s impacts : expanded tax credits for EVs, batteries, solar panels and wind turbines. Utility-scale photovoltaic solar array. Tesla just opened its new Austin, Texas factory in April .

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If you charge with solar, is way less. The small electric will be king and batteries a valuable commodity, so valuable in fact, they will have to be wielded in to prevent theft by the Solar, Wind, Wave, Tidal, folks for their home installations! Galbraith joined The New York Times in June 2008 to write about renewable energy.

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Tony Karrer Delicious EVdriven

APRIL 16, 2009

If our country is going to spend money like a drunk sailor we should have spent it on building renewable energy power plants like Wind and Geothermal. Posted by: Pete Austin | Apr 14, 2009 9:46:22 AM @ Joe I am one of the first to say end the income tax and property tax on houses and cars (not land).

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