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UC Riverside opening Sustainable Integrated Grid Initiative; integration of solar energy, battery storage and electric and hybrid vehicles

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The testbed, which is located at UC Riverside’s Bourns College of Engineering Center for Environmental Research and Technology (CE-CERT), includes: Four megawatts of solar photovoltaic panels. Construction of the initial testbed platform was also supported by an additional $10 million in contributions from UC Riverside and private partners.

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How EVs Charge Your Sustainability Strategy

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This is why it’s a good idea to switch your fleet from internal combustion engine vehicles to EVs. The source of the electricity – whether renewable sources like wind, solar, or water, or nonrenewable sources like coal – is also important. However, emissions are about more than just the tailpipe.

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Mercedes-Benz Cars plants in Germany to be supplied with CO2-neutral energy from 2022

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Thereby, we completely forego coal-based electricity and obtain our electrical energy from only renewable sources. Today, new plants in Europe are already planned with a CO2-neutral energy supply from the start. In Jawor (Poland), a new CO 2 -neutral engine plant is being built. The plant will start operating in 2019.

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IBM Research launches 10y project to support China in transforming national energy systems; “Green Horizon”

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In China, where cities have been the engines of much of the country’s economic growth over the past decade, the government has launched the “Airborne Pollution Prevention and Control Action Plan” as it moves to safeguard the health of approximately 700 million people living in urban areas. Urban air quality management.

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IEEE Discusses 6 Simple Solutions to Climate Change at COP27

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That’s according to 2023 IEEE President Saifur Rahman , who was among the speakers from engineering organizations at the COP27 event held in Egypt in November. Rahman, a power expert and professor of electrical and computer engineering at Virginia Tech , is the former chair of the IEEE ad hoc committee on climate change.