Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

The report examined grid conditions in the Northwest Power Pool, which covers Idaho, Montana, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, Washington and Wyoming; many of them home to abundant wind resources and wind energy projects. GW could be provided by the electric vehicles. Click to enlarge. kW) compared to Level 1 charging (1.7

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Green Car Congress

MAY 20, 2013

Researchers at the Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) and Bonneville Power Administration (BPA) have identified two compressed air energy storage methods for the temporary storage of the Northwest’s excess wind power and two eastern Washington locations to put them into practice.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 23, 2018

Spending on electricity distribution systems by major US electric utilities—representing about 70% of total US electric load—has risen 54% over the past two decades, from $31 billion to $51 billion annually, according to the US Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Green Car Congress

JULY 10, 2019

Extension of Core Restrain Design Code NUBOW-3D to Lead Cooled Fast Reactor Systems, $75,000 Westinghouse Electric Company, Cranberry Township, Pa. Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Groundwork Renewables Inc.,

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Puget Sound Energy (PSE) will work closely with Nissan and ECOtality as a member of The Electric Vehicle (EV) Project in western Washington state. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Thousands of Washington insiders and climate activists have had a hand in these legislative breakthroughs. Jesse Jenkins, Princeton University When I entered the field, commercial wind was starting to scale up and the questions were about engineering feasibility. and “Is your electricity bill reasonably affordable?”

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2012

UniEnergy Technologies LLC has signed a license agreement with Battelle to further develop and commercialize a vanadium redox flow battery developed at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) that holds promise for storing large amounts of renewable energy and providing greater stability to the energy grid. Earlier post.).

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Cars That Think

APRIL 21, 2022

Sebastian Gollnow/Getty Images Blowin' in the Wind. University of Washington has designed tiny sensors that mimic the shape and aerodynamic capability of the dandelion’s fuzzy, seed-bearing spores. Mark Stone/University of Washington AI on the Fusion Menu. Hooray for robot labor! A team of researchers at the.

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Cars That Think

APRIL 11, 2023

Finding ways to deal with the impact on the grid caused by incorporating renewable energy has been the focus of Vijay Vittal ’s research for nearly 20 years. Vijay Vittal Employer Arizona State University, in Tempe Title Regents professor of electrical, computer, and energy engineering Member grade Life Fellow Alma mater B.M.S.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 9, 2014

A production line for carbon fiber takes the PAN precursor through two stages (stabilization/oxidation and carbonization) and then to winding. Accordingly, decisive factors for the set up of the carbon fiber plant in Moses Lake included the availability of renewable hydropower as well as competitive energy costs in Washington State.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2014

The greatest hydropower potential was found in western US states, including Alaska, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Oregon and Washington. Hydropower makes up 7% of total US electricity generation and continues to be the US’ largest source of renewable electricity.

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Blink Charging

APRIL 21, 2022

According to Forbes , studies have found that solar and wind power is often cheaper than power from fossil fuels, even without financial assistance, and their daily operations undercut even the most cost-effective coal plants. Creating chargers for electric vehicles is our way of contributing to green tech.

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Driivz

MARCH 1, 2022

For the transportation sector, electrification means replacing fossil fuels with electricity as the means of powering light-duty vehicles, medium- and heavy-duty trucks, and buses. Sounds simple, but it’s more complicated than just replacing internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles with electric vehicles (EVs).

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Blink Charging

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Enter electric vehicles: a practical step toward reducing carbon emissions and reinforcing sustainable practices. The collective count of electric vehicles, encompassing cars, buses, vans, and large trucks, is anticipated to reach a remarkable 145 million by 2030. EVs are game changers in the reduction of vehicle emissions.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 8, 2010

With ultimate research targets ranging from off-shore wind power and coral reef ecology to electrochemical energy storage, quantum physics and nanotechnology, the 12 projects will launch more than $250 million in new laboratory construction projects beginning early this year. Fort Lauderdale-Davis, Fla.)

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 27, 2017

Researchers at George Washington University led by Dr. Stuart Licht ( earlier post ) have developed a new process that transforms CO 2 into a controlled selection of nanotubes (CNTs) via molten electrolysis; they call the process C2CNT (CO2 into carbon nanotubes). Licht (2017). Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2009

” “ Some have even suggested that coal state representatives in Washington should block any advancement of national health care reform legislation until the coal industry’s demands are met by the EPA, ”, wrote Byrd.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 14, 2012

These consortia—led in theUS by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), the University of Florida, and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL)—will bring together experts from national laboratories, universities, and industry in both the US and India. MEMC Corporation; and Solarmer Energy Inc. Moser Baer India Ltd.;

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2021

2021 was a big year for energy-related news, what with the ongoing hunt for new forms of energy storage and cleaner if not carbon-free electricity and events and research that spotlighted the weak links in our power grid. This article, by researchers at PARC and the University of Washington, is one possible answer. Well, let's think.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Stationary Fuel Cells and Hybrid Transit Buses Incremental Costs: The purchase of diesel-electric hybrid transit buses and stationary fuel cells for use in the statewide bus system in Connecticut. Composite body electric buses: Replace conventional diesel transit buses with 35-ft composite body electric transit buses.

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Green Car Congress

JANUARY 26, 2010

The ability to convert electrical energy into hydrogen reducing equivalents is fundamental to an enormous number of processes. Earlier post.). Earlier post.). To date, most approaches to this vital task have shown poor efficiencies or relied on expensive, rare and easily-poisoned catalysts.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 8, 2011

” In the 1970s Volkswagen had put two electric cars on the market, but sales figures were in the two-digit numbers, Leohold said. Meaning that either with fossil fuels you go to biofuels, but that potential is limited as I mentioned already, or we go to renewable resources.with the electric drivetrain.This is not enough.

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Creative Greenius

DECEMBER 7, 2009

Because what’s bad news for the legacy “Burn To Earn&# industries who are responsible for overheating our planet is exactly the great news that our new, renewable and sustainable business model needs to take off like a rocket and change our world for the better economically and environmentally. Good thing you wear those hardhats.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2014

Vermont and Washington, DC are not included in this rule because they do not have fossil fuel-fired power plants. EPA is using four “building blocks” to determine state-specific goals: Reducing the carbon intensity of generation at individual affected electric generating units (EGUs) through heat-rate improvements. Economic impact.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 26, 2021

Enhancement of PyARC for Westinghouse Electric Company’s Lead Fast Reactor design and modeling, $450,000. Westinghouse Electric Company (Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania). MASTERRI: Modeling and Simulation for Targeted Electrical Resilience and Reliability Improvements, $125,000. National Renewable Energy Laboratory.

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Plug In Partners

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

"S ustaining our early twenty-first century global civilization now depends on shifting to a renewable energy-based, reuse/recycle economy with a diversified transport system. So writes Lester Brown , President of the Washington-based Earth Policy Institute , a member of the Plug in Partners Coalition. This could cut U.S.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

PRLog (Press Release) – Feb 06, 2009 – The "Spirit of DC's" on the road again on its Sun Belt Grand Finale from San Francisco to Washington, DC. Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle All Around America (PHEV3A) tour with "EVJerry" Asher driving started last year on Earth Day, in front of the Nation’s Capitol.

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Plugs and Cars

JULY 31, 2008

Coming on the heels of the Google/Brookings event in Washington, D.C., One week earlier, former Vice President Al Gore issued his well-received challenge to make the American grid 100% renewable in ten years. Automaker announcements keep coming, feeding hope that your next car will be a plug-in hybrid or more likely all-electric car.

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Plugs and Cars

DECEMBER 18, 2007

The reality, however, is no removal of tax breaks for Big Oil; no 15% renewables standard for utilities; no plug-in hybrid incentives. Incentives for wind and solar were stripped out, as well, according to Sen. The best stuff in the bill is energy efficiency standards, including phasing out the incandescent light bulb.

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Plug In Partners

JANUARY 11, 2008

announces in his new book called Freedom from Oil : How the Next President Can End Our Oil Addiction By Chuck Squatriglia WN : You place tremendous emphasis on converting our transportation fleet to electric plug-in hybrids. Oil provides 96 percent of the energy for our vehicles but only 3 percent of the energy for electric power generation.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

GENI: Green Electricity Network Integration ($36.4 Solar ADEPT: Solar Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology ($14.7 contains no rare earths, in a prototype electric motor. National Renewable. for High Power Wind Generators The University of Houston will develop a new, low-cost. Lead organization. properties.

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Spirit of DC - PHEV3A

APRIL 2, 2009

From: Leslie A Grossman [mailto:leslieann@lesliegrossman.com] Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 2:47 PM Subject: News Conference Monday - Electric Vehicle Spirit of DC here in Knoxville The Future of transportation is here, and is visiting Knoxville on Monday March 30th. Convert a car to electric today, or buy an electric EV next year.

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Green Car Congress

APRIL 30, 2010

ARPA-E’s first solicitation awarded $151 million to 37 projects aimed at transformational innovations in energy storage, biofuels, carbon capture, renewable power, building efficiency, vehicles, and other areas. Electrofuels: Biofuels from Electricity. of Washington). Earlier post.) The grants will go to projects in 17 states.

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 2, 2012

This latest round of ARPA-E projects seek to address the remaining challenges in energy storage technologies, which could revolutionize the way Americans store and use energy in electric vehicles, the grid and beyond, while also potentially improving the access to energy for the US. measurement capabilities and lowering the cost of electric.

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Plug in America

MARCH 25, 2022

Plug In America watchers know that Drive Electric Earth Day (DEED), celebrated for the entire month of April, is an extension of September’s National Drive Electric Week (NDEW). Gavin Newsom (then San Francisco’s mayor), Washington Gov. National Drive Electric Week, as we have since renamed it, was born.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 2, 2010

At the inaugural ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit in Washington this week, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu announced that $100 million in Recovery Act funding will be made available for ARPA-E’s third round of funding opportunity. Agile Delivery of Electrical Power Technology (ADEPT). Earlier post.) Earlier post.) Earlier post.).

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 28, 2012

Methane Converter to Electricity and Fuel. In contrast, this reactor produces electricity as a byproduct of fuel production. provide not only liquid fuel but also electricity, increasing the. electricity production (5 quadrillion. The increased energy. density of these terpene-based fuels could outperform existing.

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