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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. Two megawatt-hours of battery energy storage. Three-and-a-half megawatts will be at UC Riverside’s main campus. Solar carport. Click to enlarge.

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NSF awards UCSD team $39M to improve integration of distributed energy resources into grid; EV batteries also

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DERConnect will address an outstanding national need for large-scale testing capabilities across universities, national labs, industry, utility companies and Independent System Operators to validate future technologies for autonomous energy grids in real-word scenarios.

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IBM and ZSE team on Central European e-mobility project; “green highway”

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An average combustion engine on an everyday commute between Vienna and Bratislava produces about 45 kg of CO 2 per year. VIBRATe also marks the first joint project between the Austrian and Slovakian energy companies. —Guido Bartels, General Manager of IBM's Global Energy and Utilities Industry.

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EnerG2 nano-structured hard carbon boosts Li-ion anode capacity by >50% compared to standard graphite

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EnerG2, a manufacturer of advanced carbons for next-generation energy storage ( earlier post ), has begun production of nano-structured hard carbon for Li-ion battery anodes that it says can boost anode capacity by more than 50% over standard graphite. Aaron Feaver.

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

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New plants in Germany and Europe are planned with a CO 2 -neutral energy supply from the start: Already, the entire electricity demand of the smart plant in Hambach (France) is obtained from renewable energy sources. 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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BMW, Ford, Honda to Form New EV Charging Company

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While EV charging companies owned by vehicle manufacturers are hardly new, ChargeScape is hoping to set itself apart by focusing on sharing the energy stored in their EV batteries with the electric grid — especially during periods of peak demand. Though whether that theory plays out as advertised remains to be seen.

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