Arizona’s largest battery will help feed your Google habit
Electrek
MARCH 15, 2024
Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters.
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CleanTechnica EVs
JANUARY 10, 2023
A group of heavy hitters, including Ford, General Motors, Google Nest, OhmConnect, Olivine, SPAN, SunPower, Sunrun, SwitchDin, and Virtual Peaker, has formed a coalition that aims to scale up the market for virtual power plants in a bid to increase the resiliency of the grid and help decarbonize the electric sector.
Baua Electric
APRIL 17, 2024
Map: Google Google’s new Maps features help EV drivers find exact information about EV chargers’ locations, plan charging stops for road trips, and more. This update will roll out globally in “the coming months,” starting with EVs with Google built in, such as those built by Volvo, Polestar, and GMC. Get started here. –ad*
Baua Electric
MARCH 15, 2024
Photo: Salt River Project Arizona’s largest battery storage system is now online and, along with solar and wind, will help power a new Google data center – here’s why that matters. The $600 million solar + battery storage project sits on 3,000 acres south of Buckeye. million in tax revenue over 35 years.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 11, 2023
RMI, a leading nonprofit dedicated to accelerating the global energy transformation, announced the formation of the Virtual Power Plant Partnership (VP3). Initial funding of the VP3 effort was made possible by General Motors and Google Nest. In a VPP, decentralized distributed energy resources (DERs) are aggregated into a portfolio.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 5, 2018
Combining solar power and lithium ion batteries, the Zephyr aircraft holds world records for endurance as well as altitude, flying at 70,000 feet or higher. The Zephyr platform is a new class of unmanned air vehicle that operates as a high-altitude pseudo-satellite (HAPS) enabling affordable, persistent, local satellite-like services.
Creative Greenius
JULY 27, 2013
One of the houses Power House Productions is transforming in Detroit – and none too soon. No this is a job for the company I’ve long been a stockholder of – Google. Because Google is smart enough to not only see the opportunity and have the wherewithal to seize it, they also know what to do with it.
Green Car Congress
JULY 28, 2014
Google and the IEEE have launched the Littlebox Challenge—an open competition to design and build a small kW-scale inverter with the highest power density (of at least 50 W/in 3 , or 3.05 Google and IEEE are emphasizing size reduction in their challenge, without targeting a specific application area such as automotive.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2021
Wallbox has launched Eco-Smart and Power Boost, the company’s first home energy management features available for EV drivers in the US. Eco-Smart and Power Boost come standard with Pulsar Plus, the smallest available smart home EV charger in North America, capable of 48Amp (11.5kW) charging.
Baua Electric
MARCH 25, 2024
Photo: Gravity Google-backed Gravity’s new curbside DC fast charger is no bigger than a Level 2 charger, but it’s 30 times faster. Gravity’s power cabinets can be installed up to 500 feet away.) Google Ventures led a successful seed funding round for an undisclosed amount for Gravity in November 2023. So is people’s time.
Green Car Congress
SEPTEMBER 10, 2023
He looked at three different resources that forecast the future composition of the US electrical power grid. As a part of the study, Ansell assumed the adoption of one of the NREL zero emissions electric grids—one that has heavy concentrations of solar, wind, and other renewable energy sources.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 4, 2022
As well as enabling EV owners to charge and discharge their electric vehicle to power their home or the grid, Wallbox’s latest innovation is designed to give EV drivers the ability to isolate their home from the grid and use their EV for backup power during a blackout. Providing up to 11.5
Baua Electric
MARCH 20, 2024
The US battery storage sector saw 4,235 megawatts (MW) installed in Q4 2023, according to Wood Mackenzie and the American Clean Power Association’s (ACP) latest “ US Energy Storage Monitor” report. Your personalized solar quotes are easy to compare online and you’ll get access to unbiased Energy Advisers to help you every step of the way.
Creative Greenius
MAY 15, 2009
Dency charges his plug-in electric car using the clean, renewable energy he produces from the solar panels on the roof of his Hermosa Beach house. Dency’s house is just one of 7 houses you can tour on tomorrow’s EPN Solar Homes Tour which you can check out on the EPN’s fabulous new web site.
Green Car Congress
JANUARY 18, 2020
At the sites in Brussels, Ingolstadt, and Neckarsulm, charging infrastructure with a total power input of 21 megawatts is already available. This corresponds to the power consumption of a small town with 14,000 inhabitants. Audi’s largest individual charging park with a power input of 2.1 megawatts is connected to the grid here.
Baua Electric
APRIL 4, 2024
The car-buying website doesn’t say exactly where in Greater New York, but a quick Google search confirmed that this deal does indeed exist: However, when I click on Toyota’s “Greater New York” link, it’s not on the lease deals list. These figures are based on an MSRP of $47,734 and an allowance of 10,000 miles per year. Get started here. –
Cars That Think
MARCH 23, 2024
These all factor into the energy used for data transfer, loading, and processing, consuming a lot of power on users’ devices. Companies like Salesforce have launched their own software sustainability initiatives , while the Green Software Foundation now comprises 64 member organizations, including tech giants Google , Intel , and Microsoft.
Green Car Congress
JULY 10, 2019
Industry-Informed Physics-Based Monitoring for Asset Management and Maintenance Optimization, $500,000 Electric Power Research Institute, Palo Alto, Calif. Integrated Power Block Heat Exchanger/Thermal Energy Storage System for CSP Plants, $348,000 CFOAM LLC, Triadelphia, W. Austin, Texas First Solar Inc., Madison, Wis.
Green Car Congress
JULY 18, 2013
With the establishment of this joint venture, SoftBank will add distributed baseload power from Bloom Energy and further encourages the domestic use of clean energy complementing its existing portfolio of renewable energy sources such as solar and wind.
Teslarati
MARCH 15, 2022
The charging stations, powered by ChargePoint, will be installed at up to 15 stores along a 1,350-miles corridor from Seattle to Denver. Volvo Recharge models with Google embedded can use the ChargePoint app to locate and access the Starbucks-located charging stations along the route. locations beginning this Summer.
Green Car Congress
JUNE 22, 2015
Transphorm Inc, an early stage power conversion semiconductor company, announced a $70-million investment round led by global investment firm KKR. Similarly, when applied to power conversion, GaN components enable significantly more efficient, compact, and cost-effective products.
Baua Electric
JANUARY 23, 2024
The company has expanded its payment options to Shop Pay by Shopify, Paypal, GPay by Google, and Venmo. J+ BOOSTER 2 review The BOOSTER 2’s power input options cover all supply current variants, either 120V or 240V and from 6 to 40 amps. The unit delivers a charging power ranging from 720 W to 9.6 Get started here. –ad*
Green Car Congress
JUNE 24, 2011
GaN (gallium nitride) power electronics provider Transphorm Inc. a private investment fund managed by Soros Fund Management LLC, and existing investors Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Google Ventures, Foundation Capital and Lux Capital. This brings the total capital raised from all rounds to $63 million.
Green Car Congress
OCTOBER 1, 2012
GaN (Gallium nitride) power conversion company Transphorm Inc. Today’s strategic financing, coupled with the earlier investments, enables scaling of this disruptive technology and helps eliminate energy waste in multiple markets from servers to solar panels, from HVACs to hybrids. —Umesh Mishra, CEO of Transphorm.
Creative Greenius
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
The images will be displayed across the Internet and on Google Earth, as well as distributed to mainstream media outlets around the world. Secondly I’d like to invite you to participate in the huge public art piece, “Solar Eagle Taking Flight , that will be created in downtown Los Angeles on November 21. Spring St.,
Baua Electric
JUNE 18, 2023
The Rafale’s drivetrain options probably the most {powerful} model of Renault’s E-Tech hybrid device. Debuting at the Rafale is an all-wheel-drive 300 hp model – the most-powerful E-Tech hybrid providing — which provides some other motor to the rear axle. The bottom front-wheel force style produces 200 hp from a 1.2
Blink Charging
NOVEMBER 4, 2022
There are several levels of DC fast charging stations , each with different levels of power for different vehicles. More importantly, can your vehicle’s battery receive this much power? When it comes to EV charging stations, there are three levels of power. The power delivered by each charging system is similar.
Charged EVs
DECEMBER 13, 2022
By cutting red tape and avoiding costs for construction and electrical work, combined with free solar energy, Beam Global says its EV ARC systems can offer customers a lower total cost of ownership compared to grid-tied charging stations. This may well be the case with the EV ARC, a solar-powered off-grid charging station made by Beam Global.
Cars That Think
JULY 21, 2021
That's why Amazon , Google , and Microsoft maintain massive data centers all around the world. Bloomberg reckons that, globally, we might exit the 2020s needing as much as 8 percent of all electricity to power the future cloud. Software and hardware engineering will no doubt reorient their design practices around power efficiency.
Electric Auto Association
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Members of Mid-America Electric Auto Association (MAEAA) , straddling KansasCity and stretching into Missouri, Kansas, and Oklahoma, have been active in challenging two pieces of legislation in the Kansas State Legislature, including a 2019 ordinance to level a demand charge on the state’s solar-powered homes.
Green Car Congress
DECEMBER 20, 2010
The specifics of the testing program, testing vehicles, and solar-powered charging stations made their public debut in Japan. Solar-powered charging station for the test vehicles. In the US program, the city of Torrance, California along with Stanford University and Google Inc., Honda Motor Co., Earlier post.)
Green Car Congress
JULY 12, 2011
NASA: Expanding Frontiers with Radioisotope Power Systems. Google Tech Talk: Save the Uranium-233 to Save Solar System Exploration (January 2011). For the last 50 years, DOE has created RTGs for NASA and the Department of Defense (DOD). DOE: RTG—History and New Horizons.
Cars That Think
JANUARY 21, 2022
Because we’re slowly accelerating the system, we can keep the power demands relatively low,” David Wrenn , vice president for technology, tells IEEE Spectrum. Among the backers are the investment arms of Airbus and Google and the Defense Innovation Unit , part of the U.S. SpinLaunch. www.youtube.com. Department of Defense.
Clean Fleet Report
APRIL 9, 2021
Plentiful Power. The Launch Edition features two motors, one up front and one in the rear, powered by a 78-kilowatt-hour battery. As the setup was done already, all I did was say, “Hey, Google, play Bluegrass,” and the friendly female voice said, “I’m choosing Indie Bluegrass from Spotify,” and that was that. Google in the car.
Plug In Partners
JUNE 26, 2007
Google.org to to Accelerate Plug-In Hybrid and Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Google.org , the philanthropic arm of Google Inc. In addition, Google Inc. announced that it has switched on the solar panel installation at its Mountain View, Calif. G oogle proved it is serious about Plug Ins with its new Recharge IT initiative.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 17, 2010
When the Fit EV production model is introduced, it will be powered by a lithium-ion battery and coaxial electric motor. A special meter display advises the driver when to shut off air conditioning and other accessories to conserve battery power. An onboard generator adds to the battery powering the electric motor.
Green Car Congress
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Bloom Energy Corporation staged a high-profile event announcing the availability of the Bloom Energy Server, a patented solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) technology for distributed power generation. For more power, customers deploy multiple Energy Servers side by side. The event was hosted at eBay Inc., Diagram of a solid oxide fuel cell.
Plugs and Cars
AUGUST 18, 2007
Out in the desert as part of Burning Man , our encampment, Snow Koan Solar, is setting up a solar photovoltaic EV Charging Station (at 7:30 and Desert) for electric scooters, golf carts, sofas and barstools. We'll also be taking Burning Man art projects off petroleum generators by switching them to solar electricity.
Clean Fleet Report
JANUARY 4, 2023
But unlike traditional gas-powered cars, electric vehicle batteries do not last as long in extremely cold weather. One way to do this is to park your car in a sunny spot while it’s not in use – solar heat helps maintain your battery and warm up the interior at the same time. Keep an Emergency Kit in your Electric Vehicle.
Green Car Congress
APRIL 17, 2010
Clean Energy : solar/PV, wind, geothermal, hydro, tidal, biofuels. Space Transportation : beamed power propulsion, hypersonic point to point, solar power satellite. The current open prize in this area is the Google Lunar X PRIZE (GLXP). Water Resource Management : watershed, sewage, conservation, desalination.
Electric Auto Association
APRIL 5, 2022
Electricity is ubiquitous, EVs refuelable by wind, hydro, geothermal, solar, or traditional energy sources. Installation costs will be impacted by the charger’s distance from an available power supply and electrical panel, as well as by the age of the facility involved. not internet-connected) and networked (internet-connected).
Baua Electric
DECEMBER 30, 2023
Renewable Energy Integration HEMS can integrate with renewable energy sources such as solar panels or wind turbines, allowing users to maximize the use of clean energy. Because they usually sit for a long period of time, their charging can be shifted to periods when either solar generation is high or electricity prices are low.
Green Car Congress
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
The G-Code is powered by two individually controlled drive cores: a compact, turbocharged hydrogen-fueled combustion engine which solely drives the front wheels, and an electric motor which drives the rear axle and transmits its power selectively to the two wheels via a dual multi-disc clutch. Mercedes-Benz G-Code. Click to enlarge.
Creative Greenius
MARCH 31, 2009
Our group was an interesting and friendly mix of unemployed construction workers looking for new careers; electricians, iron workers and other licensed contractors looking to expand into solar installation; and three or four guys who were there to learn how to do a self install of solar for their home, shop or cabin.
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