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CEO Mary Barra & General Motors Make Sure The Greenius Is Rewarded For His Many Years Of EV Advocacy

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It’s rare when consumer karma actually works out for any buyer of any product made today, but then again, your friendly neighborhood Greenius is not your usual consumer. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. Learning to install solar with GRID Alternatives in 2009. kW solar PV system on our own house in 2015.

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NAATBatt Coalition recommends deployment of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage systems by 2022

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A coalition of 13 leading industrial companies and electric utilities, including General Motors Company, The Dow Chemical Company and Duke Energy, issued a white paper recommending the installation of up to 300 GWh of distributed energy storage (DES) systems around the country by 2022. value proposition.

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GM and OnStar sign on as official Pecan Street partners; studying EV services and smart grid interaction

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OnStar and General Motors are partnering in the Pecan Street Inc.’s When Austin closed the Mueller municipal airport in 1999, community leaders committed to redeveloping the site into a ground-breaking mix-used, sustainable urban neighborhood. Headquartered at The University of Texas at Austin, Pecan Street Inc.

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GM and ABB demonstrate community energy storage system built from 5 used Volt batteries; Duke Energy testing

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During a symposium for the media on GM’s electrification efforts, including a preview of the Spark EV to be unveiled at the LA Auto Show in two weeks, General Motors and ABB showed and demonstrated a new grid distributed micro-storage (at grid scale) system—i.e., Click to enlarge. Duke supports about 4.2

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ARPA-E Awards $151M to 37 Projects for Transformative Energy Research

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Direct Solar Fuels (5 projects). Renewable Power (4 projects). Planar Na-beta Batteries for Renewable Integration and Grid Applications. Electronville: High-Amperage Energy Storage Device-Energy Storage for the Neighborhood. DIRECT SOLAR FUELS. Biomass Energy (5 projects). Carbon Capture (5 projects).

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