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AeroVironment licenses PNNL EV smart charger controller technology

Green Car Congress

has licensed smart charging controller technology developed at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) for incorporation into its charging station equipment. The commercial license agreement is between AeroVironment and Battelle, which operates PNNL. AeroVironment, Inc. Earlier post.)

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HOMER Grid software now models EV charging stations

Green Car Congress

The smart or deferrable charging station mode models the intelligent charging of a car or a fleet of cars to minimize the cost. The smart charger allows project developers to leverage HOMER Grid's capability to model demand charge reduction in any distributed renewable energy system and apply this to an EV charging station.

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What is Demand Response?

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There are many types of Demand Response programs, ranging from direct compensation-based programs for commercial and industrial customers to savings-based programs for consumer and retail customers. EV owners can install smart chargers at home and capture savings through participating in a utility’s Demand Response program for EV charging.

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How to Have a Greener Christmas?

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Sustainability, or “going green,” is the responsible use of environmental resources so that future generations will have enough to meet their needs. As the TV commercials like to remind us, ‘this the season for giving a new car to that special person in your life’. Smart electricity meters work in a similar way.

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ConnectDER and Siemens Partner to offer a simple and clever solution for Level 2 charging installations  

Charged EVs

The company says it has some 15,000 collars installed nationwide for solar applications. ConnectDER (pronounced kuh-nek-ter) is a young company that currently offers a solution to a similar problem that some homeowners face when installing solar panels. We recognized that, and started the company about 10 years ago. Is that the idea?

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The Role of Power Utilities in Turning EVs into a Grid Asset – Part 2

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This includes smart EV charging and energy management technologies that utilities can leverage to help manage charging, balance grid loads, and transform EVs from a grid liability to a grid asset. . Balancing the load with managed smart EV charging. Most cars are parked 95% of the time, making EVs ideal flexibility assets for the grid.

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Vacation Rental EV Charging: EVmatch Is Here to Help!

EV Match

With more and more EVs on the road every day, and no doubt many planning to travel with their EVs this summer, we’ve received a lot of requests from our EVmatch community to make vacation rental EV charging more accessible and available—we are in the business of increasing accessibility to this resource, after all! Ready to get started?