Green Car Congress

JUNE 1, 2020

The implementation of this project, the first industrial-scale power-to-X-to-power demonstrator with an advanced hydrogen turbine, will be launched at Smurfit Kappa PRF’s site—a company specialized in manufacturing recycled paper—in Saillat-sur-Vienne, France. In this case, the “X” will be hydrogen.

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Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 7, 2014

Both groups will combine their expertise in order to design and propose energy storage solutions that guarantee the reliability of electrical grids for isolated sites and areas where access to power is limited. AREVA will provide the Greenergy Box , an energy storage solution made with an electrolyzer and fuel cell. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The falling cost of batteries is set to drive a boom in the installation of energy storage systems around the world in the years from now to 2040, according to the latest annual forecast from research company Bloomberg NEF (BNEF). China, the US, India, Japan, Germany, France, Australia, South Korea and the UK will be the leading countries.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Ballard Power Systems has signed a product development agreement with Hydrogene de France ( HDF Energy ), an independent power producer dedicated to renewable power generation, for the development and integration of a multi-megawatt (MW) scale fuel cell system into HDF Energy’s Renewstable power plant designed for stationary power applications.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 12, 2017

Even further savings could be achieved by providing grid balancing services through a Vehicle to Grid (V2G) system. This fleet will provide grid balancing services through short charging and discharging1 cycles, again carried out in line with mobility needs. DTU will provide academic support and testing systems.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As part of a research project into e-mobility and Vehicle to Grid (V2G) charging in Slovakia, a Tritium Veefil-RT 50kW DC fast charger has been installed at the Slovak Academy of Sciences in Bratislava. All the Veefil-RT chargers are positioned along the Belgium motorway system, linking the country’s major cities.

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Teslarati

DECEMBER 9, 2022

The system now has 50 MW of power and 100 MWh of capacity and supports the local grid. Tesla noted that the Deux-Acren project, which installed the Megapacks, is now one of the largest storage systems in Europe. With the 40 Tesla Megapacks now installed, the Deux-Acren plant can store up to 100MH of energy and up to 50MW of power.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 8, 2015

GE Energy Management has signed a contract with French electrical engineering company Cegelec in Brittany, France to supply a complete static power solution for the French Navy. Modular design allows a smaller footprint and is therefore highly flexible during installation and also allows for future power upgrades.

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 30, 2019

At peak times, some US states and countries already have more renewable power than their grids can handle. The ability to operate on renewable hydrogen means Bloom Energy Servers installed today to run on natural gas can be readily upgraded in situ to use renewable hydrogen in future.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Jean-Louis Borloo, France’s Minister for Ecology, Energy, Sustainable Development and the Sea, presented a national 14-point plan designed to accelerate the development and subsequent commercialization of electric vehicles and plug-in hybrids in France. Supporting the installation of charging systems in condominiums.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 10, 2016

Nissan and multinational power company Enel will launch the first major vehicle-to-grid (V2G) trial carried out in the UK. The partners will install and connect 100 V2G units at locations agreed upon by private and fleet owners of the Nissan LEAF and e-NV200 electric van. Earlier post.)

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Green Car Congress

JUNE 2, 2013

Although they are targeting an initial implementation France, they see it as broadly applicable. The hydrogen is combined with CO 2 to produce methane, which is pumped into and stored in the existing natural gas grid and used like natural gas for use in power generation, transportation, or other thermal and industrial uses.

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Green Car Reports

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Renault announced on Tuesday that it will install used (and some new) electric car batteries in three locations: two Renault factories in France, and the site of a former coal-fired power plant in.

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Green Car Congress

MAY 16, 2018

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. However, today’s production grids are powered by alternating current—which has to be converted.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 7, 2011

The Compagnie Nationale du Rhône (CNR), France’s leading producer of 100% renewable electricity, and Renault signed a partnership agreement at the Lyon International Motor Show. CNR is France’s second largest electricity producer and its foremost producer of exclusively renewable energy.

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Driivz

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A Charge Point Operator (CPO) is an eMobility industry player that builds EV charging sites, installs hardware from a variety of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) vendors, and ensures optimal ongoing EV charging operations. Scalability Scalability is critical to keep up with the rapidly expanding growth of the EV market.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 31, 2023

The machines are already generating electricity at scores of installations, and the company’s backers include some of the biggest names in tech investing, including Bill Gates and Vinod Khosla. NASA Battery Tech to Deliver for the Grid EnerVenue’s nickel-hydrogen battery cells are 1.8 consumer,” reported Prachi Patel.

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AUGUST 11, 2022

With the number of electric vehicles on European roads likely to reach 130 million by 2035, according to a recent report by the European Electricity Industry Alliance, governments and utilities need to develop ambitious plans to reduce the red tape required to install car chargers. According to the report, there are currently 3.3

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Green Car Congress

AUGUST 31, 2020

Thanks to that savvy M&A move, Total is not only currently developing the largest energy storage facility in France, but it is also providing batteries for diverse industries including electric vehicles, military vehicles, medical applications, and even to the oil and gas sectors. 3 ENI SpA.

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Cars That Think

OCTOBER 4, 2022

When it’s installed, it will catch light reflected through a triplet of mirrors, built separately. With the lens cap removed, the detectors are visible as a silver-and-blue grid, the different colors being a consequence of the camera having two different suppliers. There are a few components that remain to be installed.

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Baua Electric

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

The firm recently surveyed homeowners in the US, the UK, France and Germany, and discovered that myths and misinformation about EVs (and heat pumps) have penetrated deep into the public consciousness in all four countries. Electrify Research has put some numbers to the nonsense. Again, there’s a grain of truth here, but only a grain.

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Green Car Congress

SEPTEMBER 19, 2011

Both companies intend to create an EV Customer Experience Center in France that will promote the implementation of projects to demonstrate the economic, commercial and technological challenges at stake. GE Capital is a leading leaser of vehicles, with a customer fleet of approximately 250,000 vehicles in Europe, and 1.6 million globally.

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Cars That Think

AUGUST 19, 2023

In France, for example, the hydrogen producer Lhyfe is operating a pilot project called SEM-REV off the coast of Saint-Nazaire, which has been producing small amounts of hydrogen since September 2022. Today, a typical offshore wind farm has about 1 GW of installed capacity; future farms will offer about 2 GW each.)

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 30, 2022

The station, called Fengning and located about 200 kilometers north of Beijing, will store up to 40 gigawatt-hours of energy, and help keep the grid on clean energy when the wind isn’t blowing or the sun’s not shining. The components are for startup NuScale , whose design promises to drastically reduce cost and installation time.

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Cars That Think

DECEMBER 25, 2022

The 124-megawatt solar plant adjacent to Korea Zinc’s Townsville refinery, completed in 2018, cut a quarter of the coal-heavy grid power it had been using to run its power-intensive electrolytic process. 150 GW of wind and solar generation—more than the total installed generating capacity of France. Why a hydrogen truck?

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 29, 2011

Italy is the first country to achieve grid parity, or cost-competitiveness, for solar energy. Germany accounts for nearly half the total, followed by Japan, France, Italy and the United States. Italy attracted $13.9 billion in clean energy financing last year, improving its global standing to fourth, from eighth in 2009.

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Green Car Congress

JULY 28, 2010

Earlier this year, Nissan Nissan North America (NNA) selected AeroVironment to supply electric vehicle home-charging stations and installation services supporting the introduction of the LEAF. The parking block is installed on the ground at the front of the parking spot and self-aligns with the vehicle adapter. Click to enlarge.

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Green Car Congress

MARCH 15, 2009

In Europe, Britain’s industry has called on the British government to shell out £625 million (€675 million, US$872 million) for renewables support, and the latest data show that EU Member States France and Germany have committed large sums of green stimulus money, especially for renewables.

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Green Car Congress

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The KTSi proprietary flywheel design has already been used to provide clean traction power to subway trains in several of the world’s leading metropolitan transit authorities, including NYC Transit, London Underground and Lyon Metro, France.

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EV Info

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

With the demise of the North Sea production as the fields empty we are increasingly reliant on the pipe that winds its way across Europe pumping Russian gas into Germany, France and other on route. Billions of pounds are being spent on installing ‘smart’ energy reading meters in homes that will leave householders out of pocket.

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Cars That Think

JULY 15, 2023

The largest by far is Iter , a collaborative international effort to build a massive tokamak in Cadarache, France. Technicians install filters in a clean room at Commonwealth Fusion Systems’ “magnet factory,” the large building where the company is constructing the Sparc reactor’s magnets.

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Cars That Think

JANUARY 26, 2023

The solutions Rahman outlined were the use of proven methods that reduce electricity usage, making coal plants more efficient, using hydrogen and other storage solutions, promoting more renewables, installing new types of nuclear reactors, and encouraging cross-border power transfers. The whole world is one grid.

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 6, 2021

OPG and GE Hitachi will collaborate on the SMR engineering, design, planning, preparing the licencing and permitting materials, and performing site preparation activities, with the mutual goal of constructing Canada’s first commercial, grid-scale SMR, projected to be completed as early as 2028. GEH SMR Technologies Canada, Ltd.,

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Driivz

MAY 1, 2022

Vehicle to Grid (V2G) is one approach being taken, where stored energy from the electric vehicles is used to power the grid during peak hours, and then the vehicles are recharged during non-peak times. E.ON, a German power company; EDF, based in France; and Italy’s Enel are partnering with Nissan to build V2G networks.

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Push EVs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

On June 9, the EU assembly voted in Strasbourg, France to require automakers to cut carbon-dioxide emissions by 100 percent by the middle of the next decade. Compared with ordinary grid charging, solar charging has many advantages for EV charging in home scenarios. In most cases, solar EV charging costs less than grid charging.

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Charged EVs

MARCH 1, 2024

Q&A with AMPECO CEO Orlin Radev Large hardware installations need complex software to keep them running, and EV charging infrastructure projects are no exception. Some companies specialize in procuring and installing charging stations, while others offer a turnkey service that includes ongoing management and maintenance.

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Baua Electric

MARCH 1, 2024

Large hardware installations need complex software to keep them running, and EV charging infrastructure projects are no exception. Some companies specialize in procuring and installing charging stations, while others offer a turnkey service that includes ongoing management and maintenance. Some of them are our customers.

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