Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The Tri-gen system, owned and operated by FuelCell Energy, produces renewable electricity, renewable hydrogen, and water from directed biogas. FuelCell Energy has contracted with Toyota to supply the products of Tri-gen under a 20-year purchase agreement. Hydrogen production can be ramped up and down based on needs/requirements.

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JANUARY 10, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company; Chevron New Energies, a division of Chevron USA; and Hyzon Motors are collaborating to commercialize operations of a green waste-to-hydrogen production facility in Richmond intended to supply hydrogen fuel to transportation markets in Northern California.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 3, 2023

announced that its subsidiary SoCal Biomethane will supply renewable natural gas (RNG) as facilitated by renewable fuels marketer Anew Climate to FuelCell Energy’s Tri-gen system to produce carbon-negative hydrogen and electricity for Toyota Motor North America, Inc.’s Anaergia Inc. The fuel cells will also produce a net 2.3

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Electrify America is investing $2 million in solar-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging stations in rural California that are not tied to the electrical grid. The EV ARC 2020 is a transportable, solar-powered electric vehicle-charging infrastructure product. Each standalone station is equipped with a 4.28-kilowatt

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Green Car Congress

MAY 21, 2020

Energy company SGH2 is bringing the world’s biggest green hydrogen production facility to Lancaster, California. The City of Lancaster will host and co-own the green hydrogen production facility, according to a recent memorandum of understanding. That’s why our partnership with SGH2 is so important.

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Cars That Think

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The deficit is driving up electricity prices, reducing grid reliability, and hobbling renewable energy deployment. grids demands public scrutiny and accountability. Big Benefits One of the main values of connecting regional networks is that it enables, and is in fact critical for, incorporating renewable energy.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2023

More than two-thirds (68%) of lithium-ion battery production planned for Europe is at risk of being delayed, scaled down or cancelled, according to new analysis by the European NGO Transport & Environment. Battery production capacity equivalent to 18 million electric cars—1.2 Europe must act or risk losing it all.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

The first automaker to collaborate with dairy farms on renewable energy projects, BMW of North America and California Bioenergy (CalBio) announced an expanded partnership to include Bar 20 Dairy, a farm based in Kerman, CA. It will also result in critical methane reductions to help the state meet its short and long-term climate goals.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 30, 2018

In the initial phase of the project, ITM Power will undertake a techno-economic feasibility study for the large-scale centralized production of renewable hydrogen in the province of British Columbia (BC). This positions BC as a strong candidate for production of renewable hydrogen generated via electrolysis.

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Teslarati

APRIL 10, 2023

California is instituting a new pay structure for residential solar systems, which could dramatically damage demand for Tesla Solar products, but it isn’t all bad news. Luckily, Tesla Energy may come out unscathed thanks to a new incentive program for energy storage products. Shoot me an email at william@teslarati.com.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 14, 2023

The US Department of Energy is funding a demonstration of Sunvapor ’s solar steam and thermal battery technology to lower further the Carbon Intensity (CI) of the renewable dimethyl ether (DME) produced by Oberon Fuels at its Maverick Innovation Center in Brawley, California. —Philip Gleckman, PhD, CEO at Sunvapor

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JANUARY 8, 2015

The California Independent System Operator (ISO), the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) and the California Energy Commission (CEC) unveiled a comprehensive roadmap to assess the current market environment and regulatory policies for connecting new energy storage technology to the state’s power grid.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

Bloom Energy, a developer of solid oxide fuel cell power generators, announced the ability of its Energy Servers to operate on renewable hydrogen. At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 23, 2021

The BMW Group and Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E) announced an expanded partnership that further leverages renewable energy to sustainably power electric vehicles (EVs). ChargeForward is the first smart charging program to offer customers incentives for maximizing the integration of renewable energy while optimizing their EV charging.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

The California Fuel Cell Partnership (CaFCP) released its 2030 vision for California, The California Fuel Cell Revolution. The vision document describes a self-sustaining market in 2030 for fuel cell electric vehicles and renewably hydrogen, and the strategic priorities necessary for realizing it.

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Cars That Think

MARCH 11, 2023

They wanted to see whether an electric vehicle could feed electricity back to the grid. The company’s president, Tom Gage , dubbed the system “vehicle to grid” or V2G. And EV owners would become entrepreneurs, selling electricity back to the grid. And indeed, that’s how promoters of vehicle-to-grid technology perceive the EV.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Altair Paramount, LLC (Altair) has applied for California LCFS fuel pathways for renewable diesel, renewable naphtha and renewable jet fuels derived from rendered animal fat feedstock and processed at their facility in Paramount, California. Process energy used includes grid electricity and natural gas.

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OCTOBER 7, 2021

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) and GKN Powder Metallurgy will validate and demonstrate the dynamic operation of a 520 kg hydrogen metal hydride storage subsystem integrated with the ARIES megawatt-scale hydrogen capabilities. NREL, Renewable Innovations, Inc., Award amount: $1,722,089). Award amount: $500,000).

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OCTOBER 19, 2021

The vehicle manufacturing cycle includes impacts of raw material extraction, vehicle parts production, assembly, as well as its disposal and related materials recycling processes. C2G emissions are a sum of WTW emissions and emissions associated with vehicle manufacturing. Key assumptions for these two scenarios (e.g.,

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JUNE 30, 2022

GKN Hydrogen and Southern California Gas Co. SoCalGas) will work with the US Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) on an innovative green hydrogen storage solution. The electrolyzer will use renewable sources and produce green hydrogen to be stored in the HY2MEGA. Supported by $1.7

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2010

The California Air Resources Board adopted unanimously a regulation establishing a 33% renewable electricity standard. Under the regulation, one-third of the electricity sold in the state in 2020 must come from renewable sources of energy. The new regulation will be one of AB 32’s largest emission-reduction strategies.

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OCTOBER 25, 2017

through its US subsidiary EnerNOC, has acquired California-based eMotorWerks, a North American supplier of electric vehicle (EV) charging stations, called JuiceBox, and owner and operator of JuiceNet, an Internet of Things (IoT) platform for the smart management of EV charging and other distributed energy storage facilities. Enel S.p.A.,

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DECEMBER 11, 2014

The California Energy Commission approved its first $10 million to fund Electric Program Investment Charge (EPIC) research and development (R&D) projects during its monthly business meeting today. Southern California Edison, and San Diego Gas & Electric Co. First NorCal Retail H 2 Refueling Station Open. Alternative Fuel and Vehicles.

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MARCH 15, 2022

This new initiative will leverage Honda’s fuel cell technology expertise as part of the company’s global goal to achieve carbon neutrality for all products and corporate activities by 2050. Plant, Cooling Tower, Grid Inverter. NFPA 853, IEC 62282, NFPA 55, UL 1741 (grid inverter). Ventilation. IEC 62282-3. Safety Monitor.

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JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE Power Solutions intends to deliver a novel technology to improve fundamentally the reliability, efficiency, longevity, and affordability of electric-powered products, from vehicles to renewable energy storage. Background. The path to Power Solutions began with TAE solving a power problem for fusion.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 20, 2013

California Air Resources Board (ARB) staff has posted four new Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) pathways to the LCFS web site. Among the new pathways to be considered is the production of renewable diesel from Australian tallow at Neste Oil’s Singapore plant. Neste Oil renewable diesel: 33.46 Earlier post.) g CO 2 e/MJ.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 18, 2023

ITOCHU is one of several strategic investors in privately held Raven SR, and the two companies maintain a strong partnership, including plans for commercial production and sales of renewable fuels worldwide. Raven SR’s use of waste as feedstock for its SAF production is expected to stabilize both the supply and pricing of SAF.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Foresight Renewable Solutions has selected Imergy’s ESP30 series vanadium-based flow batteries ( earlier post ) for a Smart Microgrid project sponsored by the California Energy Commission (CEC) and hosted by the US Navy. The Navy currently produces 12% of its total annual energy needs from renewable sources.

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Teslarati

JUNE 7, 2023

Eneco, an energy producer in the Netherlands, is relying on Tesla to power its biggest battery project to date, which will be used to “more efficiently balance Belgium’s electricity grid” and is expected to be operational in 2024. The project will be built in Ville-sur-Haine and be the largest project Eneco builds to date.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The case for using Power-to-Gas solutions to store renewable energy is compelling for a number of important use cases, according to a new white paper released by the California Hydrogen Business Council (CHBC). Among the paper’s conclusions is that a robust P2G RD&D program should be a priority for the state of California.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) has released a comprehensive vision for deeply decarbonizing transportation. Optimally integrating transportation with buildings, the grid, and renewables to realize system-wide benefits. —Chris Gearhart, director of NREL’s Center for Integrated Mobility Sciences.

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JANUARY 3, 2020

The California Energy Commission (CEC) has released a solicitation (GFO-19-305) to fund innovative, non-Li-ion energy storage research projects, including green electrolytic hydrogen systems.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2013

The California Energy Commission has awarded Electricore, Inc. Other projects receiving funding include: Foresight Renewable Solutions of San Francisco will receive $1.7 million to demonstrate renewable energy management using a compressed air energy storage system.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2021

As the first of the 10 models, the mass-production model based on the Honda SUV e:prototype is scheduled to go on sale in spring 2022. For the procurement of batteries, Honda will strive to realize a “local production and local procurement” approach in Japan, which also will contribute to the growth of domestic industries in Japan.

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Teslarati

MARCH 19, 2024

Credit: TagEnergy “Battery energy storage systems are vital for unlocking the full potential of renewable energy in the UK,” said Peter Kavanagh, Harmony Energy CEO. “We love working with trusted, expert partners who share our passion for a renewables-led energy future,” wrote TagEnergy in a post on LinkedIn.

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Cars That Think

JUNE 27, 2022

Unlike those you may have grown accustomed to seeing, many of these stations don’t just charge electric cars—they can also send power from vehicle batteries to the local utility grid for use by homes and businesses. Debates over the feasibility and value of such vehicle-to-grid technology go back decades. This is good for the grid.

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JANUARY 22, 2015

Eos’s standard Aurora 1000|4000 product, a containerized 1 MW DC battery system providing four continuous hours of discharge, offers a cost-effective energy storage solution competitive with gas peaking generation and utility distribution infrastructure. The Aurora 1000|4000 will be sold at a price of $160/kWh in volume.

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