Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Since its inception, the US electric grid has mostly operated smoothly as one synchronous machine with a one-directional flow of electricity to meet the nation’s predictable power needs. US power outages are up 64% this decade compared to the previous decade. The US electric grid is experiencing something of a mid-life crisis.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 3, 2021

The battery energy storage systems store power when electricity costs are low and supplement power during high points of consumption, minimizing impact on the electrical grid and mitigating demand surges to help Electrify America maintain consistent pricing.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

The signatories Elli, Elia and re.alto say that the batteries of electric vehicles can help stabilize grids as the share of volatile, renewable energies increases. Market design: exploration of how to give consumers the freedom to choose their energy supplier, no matter where they have travelled.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The project is supported by DOE’s Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Technologies Office within the Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy. The project partners will generate zero-carbon hydrogen onsite via electrolysis with solar and wind power and reformation of renewable natural gas from a Texas landfill.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 26, 2023

Raven SR, a renewable fuels company ( earlier post ), and Cap Clean Energy, a clean energy development company headquartered in Calgary, Alberta, signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to co-develop biofuels facilities in Canada to produce sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and renewable diesel (RD) for the heavy duty transport sector.

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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

APRIL 11, 2020

Researchers at the Fraunhofer IFF in Germany are designing the distributed and modular production and distribution of green hydrogen for industry, business and transportation throughout the value chain—a hydrogen factory of the future. KG in the HyPerFerMent I project to produce renewable hydrogen from biomass. © Fraunhofer IFF.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 24, 2023

TAE Technologies , the world’s largest private fusion energy company, has spun-out a new subsidiary, TAE Power Solutions. 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.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 18, 2021

UK-based battery manufacturer AMTE Power and Faradion Ltd. , a leader in non-aqueous sodium-ion battery technolog ( earlier post ), announced a collaboration which combines Faradion’s IP with AMTE Power’s design and manufacturing capabilities. Safety and Transportation.

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Teslarati

APRIL 27, 2024

Rivian has announced plans to open its charging network to other electric vehicle (EV) brands, and the company this week debuted a new charger design to do so. In a press release on Friday, Rivian shared the charger design it will use to make the Rivian Adventure Network (RAN) available to all compatible EVs later this year.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 16, 2020

HOMER Energy by UL, a global developer of energy modeling software, announced that HOMER Grid , software for designing grid-tied distributed energy projects, can now model how hybrid systems power electric vehicle (EV) charging stations. The solution is to co-locate renewables and storage with charging infrastructure.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 1, 2022

The technologies will initially support transitioning of existing fossil assets to low carbon energy systems, with the long-term potential to support a fully decarbonized electricity grid by 2035. DOE’s National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) will manage the projects: Sand Thermal Energy Storage (SandTES) Pilot Design.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 3, 2021

Arcadia’s technology matches home energy consumption with renewable energy sources from a variety of US wind and solar projects using renewable energy certificates, all without any installation or disruptions to their utility service. seconds and a top track speed of 124 mph.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 13, 2022

The objective of this agreement is to develop a project to repower and put into service 400 switcher and line-haul freight locomotives, all 100% powered by compressed natural gas (CNG) and/or renewable natural gas (RNG) with low or zero emissions, in line with the Argentina’s decarbonization goals.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2023

HVDC transmission systems are more efficient than traditional alternating current (AC) transmission systems for transmitting electricity over long distances while minimizing power losses. Many renewable resources are in remote locations on land, or planned far from shore (e.g.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2022

Honda plans to install a stationary fuel cell power station on its corporate campus in Torrance, Calif. A unique advantage of the four-quad design is the flexibility to change the layout of the four individual fuel cell units to suit the installation environment, accommodating a cuboid, L-shape, Z shape or other packaging requirements.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 20, 2022

HYDROTEC projects, which are currently in development, from heavy-duty trucks to aerospace and locomotives, are being planned for use beyond vehicles for power generation. A palletized MPG to power military camps and installations quietly and efficiently. Mobile Power Generator.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 29, 2018

The energy control stations at BMW Group Plants Dingolfing and Landshut are stepping up their activities in the balancing-power market in Germany. Together with other highly-flexible controllable systems in the BMW Group production network, they will contribute to the stability of the public grid outside of the plant. Source: neon.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) has licensed its high-power wireless charging technology for electric vehicles to HEVO. The system provides the world’s highest power levels in the smallest package and could one day enable electric vehicles to be charged as they are driven at highway speeds.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2023

The other projects include efforts to bring a microreactor design closer to deployment, tackle nuclear regulatory hurdles, improve operations of existing reactors, and facilitate new advanced reactor developments. The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded $22.1 This funding opportunity is administered by DOE’s Office of Nuclear Energy (NE).

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 1, 2021

The projects in the AMPED Program seek to develop advanced sensing, control, and power management technologies that redefine the way we think about battery management. CHARGES (Cycling Hardware to Analyze and Ready Grid-Scale Electricity Storage). GRIDS (Grid-Scale Rampable Intermittent Dispatchable Storage).

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Two studies—led by a team from Seattle City Light, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), and Sandia National Laboratories—are exploring the potential of shifting from fossil fuel to clean hydrogen as fuel to power medium-and heavy-duty vehicles. million DOE award, $150,000 City Light = $1.5 million project total).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

million) ammonia cracker prototype designed to produce green hydrogen at industrial scale. The prototype will use ammonia to deliver 200kg of hydrogen a day—enough to power around 5-10 hydrogen fuel cell-electric buses. We have just 13 years to deliver a net-zero electricity grid for the UK. million (US$4.24 Source: CSIRO.

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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). Optimizing charging against renewable energy was the primary focus of the second phase.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 11, 2022

The loan guarantee will help finance construction of the largest clean hydrogen storage facility in the world, capable of providing long-term low-cost, seasonal energy storage, furthering grid stability. ACES Delta is a joint venture between Mitsubishi Power Americas and Magnum Development.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 5, 2019

The Volkswagen Group Components brand will be showcasing the near-series design study of its flexible quick charging station at the Geneva Motor Show. Connected to the grid or even off-grid, the station can charge up to four electric cars simultaneously, based on the principle of a ‘power bank’, two with DC quick charging.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 9, 2017

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) announced a trial for a new type of electrolyzer which could see excess renewable energy stored in the gas grid and used to decarbonize Australia’s gas supply. In the future, there will be increasing amounts of surplus renewable energy when it is sunny or windy.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2021

These opportunities could drive the production of valuable fuels, chemicals, and products, provide greater cost savings, increase grid flexibility, and enhance environmental performance across a range of DOE-funded technologies. They can vary in terms of their subcomponents, linkages (e.g., customer-sited or utility-scale).

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 9, 2020

Volkswagen Group Components and the start-up Shanghai DU-POWER New Energy Technical Co., The planned joint venture with DU-POWER therefore represents a significant milestone as we continue to make progress along the path to electric mobility. —Yong Kang, CEO of Shanghai DU-POWER New Energy Technical.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 1, 2022

As the number of electric vehicles on the world’s roads explodes, electric utilities are grappling with increasing demand while simultaneously having to stabilize their grids where more intermittent renewable-energy sources like wind and solar are coming online. That’s the promise of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology.

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Baua Electric

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) and Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) are two-way communication technologies that involve the flow of electricity between electric vehicles (EVs) and the power grid. Let’s explore each in detail: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) Technology: 1. Grid-to-Vehicle (G2V) Technology: 1.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

SHARKS teams will develop new economically competitive Hydrokinetic Turbines (HKT) designs for tidal and riverine currents. Hydrokinetic energy is an abundant renewable resource that can boost grid resiliency and reduce infrastructure vulnerability, but it is currently a cost prohibitive option compared to other energy generating sources.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

The US Department of Energy (DOE) announced up to $64 million in federal funding for cost-shared research and development (R&D) projects under the funding opportunity announcement ( DE-FOA-0002057 ), “Critical Components for Coal FIRST Power Plants of the Future.”. AOI 2: Indirect Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Plant System.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 7, 2014

The aim of charge@work is to design a micro smart grid (MSG) capable of supplying the EV fleet with electricity produced exclusively from renewable sources. The MSG can be run in island mode in parallel to the grid operated by the local energy provider. The MSG is designed as a direct current (DC) grid.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 13, 2013

ITM Power has won a competitive tender process, based on both price and performance, to supply a hydrogen production unit to a 360kW Power-to-Gas (Strom zu Gas) energy storage plant Thüga Group project. The unit produces 125 kg/day of hydrogen gas and incorporates AEG power electronics.

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Baua Electric

JANUARY 26, 2024

Turbo Power Systems, Magnetic Systems Technology and Fuuse were partners in the project. This would allow it to provide the grid with a daily flexible power capacity of about 200 MW. Veolia says it intends to expand the trial to a real-world pilot program using Westminster Council waste collection vehicles.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

This agreement is part of a strategic equipment renewal process developed by Escondida. The 798 AC is powered by the Cat C175-16 diesel engine with the Cat AC electric drive; the 798 AC has a payload of 372t. A dual bearing design enables service without removing the engine and eliminates time-consuming shimming procedures.

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