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

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This year’s Energy Efficiency Summit will take place at the Mercedes-Benz Sindelfingen plant. The event will be accompanied by an exhibition with examples of sustainable and green projects in the global production organization of Mercedes-Benz Cars. The measures are supported by efficient control of the electrical power supply.

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New E3SM exascale modeling system for earth simulation released to scientific community

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This conversion to open code will allow collaboration with more groups and centers. The goal of the E3SM project is to simulate reliably aspects of earth system variability and to project decadal changes that will critically impact the US energy sector in the near future.

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AMSC Power Electronics Support Nearly 10% of Global Wind-Generated Electricity

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With nations around the world seeking to derive a greater percentage of their energy needs from renewable energy sources, we believe we have only begun to scratch the surface of the renewable energy grid interconnection market’s potential. Full-scale conversion drivetrain. SuperGEAR drive train.

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ARPA-E awards $35M to 12 new projects to support medium-voltage devices for grid, industry and transportation

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Combined with a novel transient commutation current injector, this switch will transfer power to a separate solid-state device, interrupting the current in event of a fault. GE Global Research, Inline Gas Discharge Tube Breaker for Meshed MVDC Grids – $4,350,686.

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Greenlings: Benefits of charging stations vs. battery swaps vs. home charging

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↓ ↑ report 6 jzj 3:24PM (4/15/2009) Polo, First, there will indeed be need for such fast charging at home because the future of a renewable energy grid will depend upon V2G energy storage, and that will require fast in-out charging. Second, the statement "the rest of your claims" are unanswerably indistinct.